Subj : Nintendo Swich.. Bait and Switch?!
To   : All
From : Night Stalker
Date : Sun Nov 20 2016 11:04:00

Bait and Switch: Nintendo's new console is everything wrong with gaming hype

Gamers love to see the potential in things, and Nintendo's new "hybrid"
console, the Switch, has plenty of it. A single system that handles both
at-home and on-the-go gaming is a dream machine. Plus, with more traditional
controls and fewer unnecessary gimmicks, the Switch hardware might help
Nintendo's stellar first-party games shine.

But gamers should know better than to get this excited about Nintendo's next
console so quickly. The company's recent track record isn't stellar. The Wii
was popular beyond hardcore gamers, but its motion controls didn't support
great game experiences. The Wii U was even more disappointing to many of
Nintendo's core fans, and the Virtual Console has totally failed to live up
to expectations for digital retro releases. Meanwhile, the company has
botched recent entries in important franchises, like Metroid and Star Fox.

These failings raise too many questions for Nintendo to simply show us a
concept and leave the rest to faith.

Is what you see what you get?

Based on the Switch trailer, Nintendo has learned from its experiences with
the Wii and Wii U. The Switch has several things going for it that its
predecessor's lacked, namely conventional, modern controls that existing
gamers will immediately feel comfortable using.

Nintendo's recent home consoles relied entirely on gimmicks - try playing any
shooter on Wii, or the Wii U's totally crippled Star Fox game - but the
Switch's features are comparatively simple. Dock it when you're on the couch
and reattach the controllers to take it with you - easy, or so it seems. Yet
many details are missing, and those details are exactly what sunk the Wii U.

Will the Switch have online features appropriate for 2017? Has Nintendo
figured out yet how to design a decent console interface? How long will the
system's battery last when you unplug it from its dock and play on the go?
Will the console be easy for developers to port to? Besides Zelda: Breath of
the Wild, are any of the games Nintendo showed in that trailer actual
Nintendo Switch games?

Yes, the video is "just" a teaser. This is how Nintendo likes to reveal its
big hardware releases. The company showed off the Wii's controllers in fall
2005, six months before it revealed the name. And I recall walking away from
Nintendo's Wii U reveal with way more questions than anything else. The
reveal didn't even make clear if the tablet controller was the console. This
time around the company at least clarified that point, in statements given to
IGN.
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I wonder if it's even worth wasting money on .. probably best off to wait a
year to see how they deal with all the feedback and crap they are seeing

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