but they have been marketing it.  not a lot but they put up that youtube video and they showed it off on the tonight show.  but they are leaving a lot unsaid and allowing people to fill the gaps with rumors and their dreams and own interpritations of what little info nintendo offered.

i think that is dangerous and leads to people feeling let down by the full reveal.

i mean,. you could be right and people will love the full reveal.  neigher of us will know until the 12th but i still think they are setting themselve up for failure they way they are hiding the details until just before the console's launch.  i mean c'mon,.. we're like 2 months from launch now and know just about nothing about it.

The Switch would benefit if it had the games people wanted to play. That could make some late PS360 adopters jump ship. Not having the previous entries is irrelevant. It's not like all Mass Effect games are playable on the PS4. It also doesn't have all GTA games. MGSV was on X1 even if the previous games tended to be PS only (MGS4 was).

IPs like Bayonetta and Xenoblade are great. But Wii U had both and it didn't helped when the competition had GTA and CoD. I'm not saying that those are better, but they sell better. So they move more hardware.

Not having 3rd party support isn't the end of the world. But it surely is a problem and impacts sales. Because people must chose if they want to play Mario and Zelda or GTA, Mass Effect, RDR and Battlefield. 3rd party games far exceed the amount of titles Nintendo can release in a year by themselves. So people either miss all those games or buy two consoles. If all 3rd parties were on NX, people wouldn't have to make a trade-off.

It's also a utter loss in marketing. Nintendo has a budget. Sony and MS have their own budget plus the free advertising provided by all 3rd parties talking about their new games. When a new CoD is about to launch, there will be plenty of trailers and TV ads ending with a PS or XB logo.

Like i said before. The library will really depend on 2nd party this time. Don't expect alot of big 3rd party crossplatform titles. They'll probably be similar to the wii-u situation. Lots of publishers dipping their toes with no commitment. . With the exception of 3ds 3rd parties. They will probably be down with the switch.

I played ME3 on WiiU. I skipped ME 1&2. The in-game comic did do a good job getting you invested in decisions and plot points of the first two games. Maybe not ideal - but good enough for someone like me who wanted to simply try out the series for the first time.

The 2nd screen features were the real winner though. Very interesting and well-implemented. Gives a welcome extra dimension of strategy, combat, and exploration. I'd like to see these same features reimplemented in ME1&2 and even Andromeda if possible.

Tantalus could probably do the port if given enough time, but if they can't find a way to get Andromeda to work - it's probably not worth doing at all.

Not to mention - there's probably some higher-potential projects Tantalus should do on Switch.

Like I said, the marketing they have done thus far (preview trailer & Jimmy Fallon) both had a strong focus on the "switching" aspect, the ability to function as a handheld or home console. Nothing suggests that once they start fully marketing it, they will focus on it being mostly a console. There is literally one single quote of it being more of a console and that was likely done so people would continue to buy 3DS over the holidays.

Alot of people said the same thing about Breath of the Wild, that it was a mistake to go so long without showing it and hyping it up and guess what? Once they did show it, the hype went through the roof and people not think Nintendo made the roght choice in how they handled the big reveal. I feel like a very similar situation will happen with Switch.

You are literally pulling all of that out of your ass! You know nothing more than the rest of us, only baseless rumors. Nintendo still hasn't revealed any of the information.

who is this directed at????

@Zorg 

Not you, another earlier in the post (my replies don't work correctly lol)

Unfortunately you are pretty much right. Not really a handheld, not even close to a home console. For the record I own mass effect wiiu and really liked it.

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