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specialk on 01 March 2017
Snoopy said:

Dang Nintendo, you needed to lower the price of this thing. Not everyone is going to want to spend $300+ just for Zelda.

I understand that pricing is important because it influences people's purchasing choices, but I can't help but to wonder why when we're talking about something like video game hardware.

I can't think of a major console that I'd consider "overpriced" in hindsight. Even the PS3 with it's hefty $600. In hindsight, you got what you paid for. It was the only system available at the time with a built in Blu Ray player, HDMI out, and a hard drive with a reasonable capacity. All three things ended up being a big deal throughout 2006-2013.

If you bought a Deluxe Wii U at launch for $350 and you're understandable disappointed with it four years later, even up to the eve of Switch launch, you could unload it and recoup around $150. Even those most let down by the Wii U would probably agree that they got $200 worth of enjoyment out of it.

I think people should just buy what they think they'll like and not worry about the price. Is the fact that the Switch was $300 instead of $250 really going to matter four years and many many games from now? 



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Nautilus on 01 March 2017
pokoko said:
Nautilus said:
I always had a love-hate relationship with IGN reviews.In one hand, I think that the written part of the reviews are great.They detail what needs to be detailed and are very through.The score, on the other hand, are very much a hit-and-miss.Sometimes it fits in with what they have written, other times they feel like they are going to give a 9 in the review, just to score it a 7.5.

In this review in particular, I feel like he listed some very dumb negatives."The most glaring is that there is no way to lay the system on its side while docked, which is particularly irritating given that the game card slot, headphone jack, headphone volume controls, and power button are all along the top of the system."Really?Thats a complain?Especially since the system is so small compared to the other home systems?

Other thing that he complains is that he compairs the power to the other systems, but dosent stress out the fact that the Switch does one thing that the others dont:Be portable.And with that, that point seems more negative than it should have been.

Another that he complains is the power.While the 3 hour battery is not excellent by any means, he keeps saying as if the system only handles that much in any condition, failing to acknoledge that it will vary greatly to the game you are playing(and also when not playing anything at all), so it feels like an unnecessary stab at Nintendo.

Having said that, its not a bad review per se, but it feels lacking in my opinion.

Actually, good for him to mention something like that.  That's what a console review should do, list issues and potential issues so consumers have all the information they need.  Hardware reviews that just dwell on the obvious positives are doing their readers a disservice.  This isn't going to bother everyone, or even most people, but it might be meaningful to some.  Personally, my TV is on a stand with shelf space underneath.  I have no idea where I would put the console if it can't go there.  I guess it would be like old school consoles where I'd have to pull it out when I want to play.

... that last line sounds wrong.

Seriously, reviews like this should list every single possible annoyance or problem the writer can find so that readers can make up their own minds.  This isn't an advertisement.

Well, yes and no.I agree that reviewers should point out everything they feel that could be negative/positive, but they also need to say how good and bad a thing is in relation to everything, and he made that sound like it was a major flaw, when its more a matter of preference than anything.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Flilix on 01 March 2017

I don't care about console reviews. He told us nothing we didn't know already. And whether or not it is 'good', is very personal. It completely depends on what you want from a console. For example, the reviewer calls the Switch in handheld mode oversized, but that would be perfect for me and my big hands.



Soundwave on 01 March 2017
Goodnightmoon said:
Soundwave said:

It's "new" but it still has to function as a home console and a handheld. If it doesn't do either in the reviewers mind satisfactorily, that's a fair critique. 

That's like shitting about laptops because the are not as portable as a mobiles or as powerful as a PC, yet people buy more laptops than PCs, this guy is unable to see beyond what he already knows.

People don't buy laptops for gaming generally though. 



Mummelmann on 01 March 2017

Too much water?



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Goodnightmoon on 01 March 2017
Soundwave said:
Goodnightmoon said:

That's like shitting about laptops because the are not as portable as a mobiles or as powerful as a PC, yet people buy more laptops than PCs, this guy is unable to see beyond what he already knows.

People don't buy laptops for gaming generally though. 

You are losing the point of what I'm saying



KLAMarine on 01 March 2017

No need to get worked up over IGN not liking it. Just shrug your shoulders and move on with your lives.



potato_hamster on 01 March 2017
Goodnightmoon said:
Soundwave said:

People don't buy laptops for gaming generally though. 

You are losing the point of what I'm saying

I haven't. The crux of your argument is that you don't like how he's looking about it from a perpective different than yours, and you feel that perspective is wrong. 



Goodnightmoon on 01 March 2017
potato_hamster said:
Goodnightmoon said:

You are losing the point of what I'm saying

I haven't. The crux of your argument is that you don't like how he's looking about it from a perpective different than yours, and you feel that perspective is wrong. 

Yes, he is looking it from what I think is a very a narrow minded perspective, the same as those that thought tablets were gonna fail because it didn't fair well when comparing some of its qualities with what we already have, the problem in both cases is similar, being unable to look beyond what you already know and valuing more what it hasn't/doesn't instead of what it has/does.



Lawlight on 01 March 2017
Goodnightmoon said:
potato_hamster said:

I haven't. The crux of your argument is that you don't like how he's looking about it from a perpective different than yours, and you feel that perspective is wrong. 

Yes, he is looking it from what I think is a very a narrow minded perspective, the same as those that thought tablets were gonna fail because it didn't fair well when comparing some of its qualities with what we already have, the problem in both cases is similar, being unable to look beyond what you already know and valuing more what it hasn't/doesn't instead of what it has/does.

Except tablet sales show that people don't really want them.