Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Pizoi said:

Does anyone buy Nintendo consoles for anything besides 1st party titles? I know I don't. As long as the new Zelda and Mario titles are appealing, it'll probably be enough for me to buy one... especially since I skipped the Wii U.

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Well, had Nintendo not strong armed 3rd party publishers with outrageous license fees with the Nintendo 64, it would be a valid point had that been the direction they wanted to take it. It wasn't always like this for Nintendo. But they fucked their 3rd party publishers and it wasn't by design. Thy got greedy.

They know that to survive they need 3rd party support. As we saw with the Wii U, they take their sweet time developing titles and without software to drive hardware they obviously sucked a duck. Without a hardware install base they can't reaffirm 3rd party support which is obviously what they are wanting people to recognize with this latest console (and huge PR push for 3rd party) while consolidating development across mobile and home console.

Not to mention their first party development has been stagnant as fuck anyway from a game design stand point. Platform Mario games and reused assets with Mario cart and smash bros are not going to sustain them next gen, just as it didn't this gen with Wii U.

It will sell because they will discontinue the 3DS and people will want the next portable. So it's a viable strategy on that front, while also unifying their account games system as a result by consolidating the platform. But to be successful, along with that consolidation and phasing out 3DS, and 3DS's large dependence on 3rd party, they better and anyone buying this console better worry about it.

Malkav said:

I don't even know why they are crippling it in docked mode.

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Probably a result of its "portable" design not being able to handle the heat output if fully clocked.

Also goodluck with 3rd party support with that being powered by an ARM processor. Library is going to be nothing but Nintendo and shitty mobile games.

I would expect a price of $249.99 with Zelda pack in.

If they do not do that, it better be $199 stand alone. But they would be VERY wise to get adoption early with the first rather than the latter.

meStevo said:

Zelda isn't even out for several months.

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Oh that's right. It isn't even shipping with the console. Ha. Never mind. Nintendo is completely fucking clueless.

I honestly think I hate Nintendo

Probably cant dissipate the heat due to form factor/design.

I think that they market this will determine if it is a success or not. They really need to say that this is either a console or a handled device. To me from everything that I have read it is a handheld device (a 3DS replacement) that can also be broadcasted to a TV and that is something I am not really interested in.

While I'm thinking of Nintendo, and how fucking stupid they are just consider this - in the last month, they rereleased Nintendo Classic, and shipped so few units, that if you wanted one today you'd have to scour EBAY looking for one priced in the hundreds of dollars. It shipped with a cord 6 inches shorter than my dick (yup, that's right boys). Mario Go or whatever the fuck released last week - to continue to play past the 3rd level it's $10. $10! It's a decent mobile game, but games like P&D, FF, etc shit all over it and are completely free (though I've spent HUNDREDS of dollars on P&D over the years... gg me). They can't even get mobile/microtrans games right, and have had almost a decade to work on a big mobile release.

It's a company run by complete and utter dumb fucks, who still think it's 1992