Meet the Nintendo Switch, It's favorite food is Wallets

[Bard The 5th LW]

Dunno if I'm intent on getting it right away, cause I was also a bit burnt on the Wii U, but I'm curious. I'll wait and see how it stacks up to the PS4, which I already own.

[Hatake Kakashi]

No thanks.

I remember my naivete, jumping on the WiiU platform. I couldn't wait to see what people did with the tablet controller, and I couldn't wait to see how Nintendo might court the 3rd party support.

A few years later, I see the WiiU as the biggest waste of my video game budget ever. And this is coming from a guy who's paid for subscriptions and microtransations on MMOs.

I think the worst was seeing them not even attempting to court 3rd party support. Sure, the games would be a little more difficult to develop, given the gimmicky nature of their controller, but at least working with Natsume, or Marvelous after Natsume lost the Harvest Moon franchise (oddly enough, they kept the name) would have been nice.

At $350 for the system (close to $500 after buying everything to make it run well), having no Harvest Moon was a slap in the face. I'll pass until they get their act together.

[shiney]

The lineup of 3rd party developers that will be making games is impressive enough, at least. It has potential.

I'm buying it strictly for Zelda. If other games come along then great. I got significant mileage out of the Wii U and I do not regret that purchase. I'm in the minority there perhaps but I don't mind buying a console if I know I'm getting hundreds of hours of gaming out of it.

[Tev]

The controller looks so awkward to me.....at least in console mode. Maybe I'm just spoiled from years of Wiimote and DS ownership. This new controller looks like an N64 controller had angry violent cathartic relations with a Dreamcast controller and this was the result.

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by shiney

The lineup of 3rd party developers that will be making games is impressive enough, at least. It has potential.

I'm buying it strictly for Zelda. If other games come along then great. I got significant mileage out of the Wii U and I do not regret that purchase. I'm in the minority there perhaps but I don't mind buying a console if I know I'm getting hundreds of hours of gaming out of it.

Sign me up to the "loved his WiiU purchase" club. Got a ton of value out of it. Granted I bought it about two and half years ago with the intention of playing specific exclusives and not on the premise of hype or what it could have been. I knew what I was getting, and what I was going to use it for, and it lived up to those expectations spectacularly (and even exceeded them since I bought more games than I had originally planned over the past ~2 years).

Originally Posted by Tev

The controller looks so awkward to me.....at least in console mode. Maybe I'm just spoiled from years of Wiimote and DS ownership. This new controller looks like an N64 controller had angry violent cathartic relations with a Dreamcast controller and this was the result.

If you're talking about what seems like the default one then yeah I'm not too sure about it, mainly because the sticks and buttons are perfectly aligned. I'd have to get my hands on it before I come to an actual conclusion though.

Fortunately they already showed us another controller that looks normal so if the default one is terrible it's not the end of the world.


Anyway I have no plans on getting the Switch. I like the idea of it, but I'm planning on getting a PS4 some time in the next few months, and then my next big video game related purchase in the next couple years will be upgrades to my PC.

After that I'll see what kind of exclusives the Switch has and come to a decision on it, same thing I did with the WiiU and PS4.

It also helps that Breath of the Wild is coming out on WiiU.

[greed]

Originally Posted by Madam-Empress-Lady-Duchess-Elect Mauve Miraculous Marvelous Magician Maiden of Mad Mountain

Nintendo already burned me with the Wii and Wii-U. With the relatively small number of actual good titles (and even smaller number of non-Nintendo-IP titles) and focus on gimmics (screw you Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival) the last two consoles had, I remain hesitant to throw more money their way.

I kinda agree, on the other hand this also seems to be their 3DS successor as well and that definitely delivered.

.... I'll probably get it cause well fuck it this is my way of spending disposable income.