Like most Nintendo consoles, I’ll wait until Mario comes out and the price drops.
Yeah, that was an awkward presentation, but the console looks really cool and some of those games look fantastic! So… I guess the presentation did what it was supposed to?
I think they may have un-sold me on it, which I wouldn’t have thought was possible. Lots of interesting things, but I’m finding it hard to justify - everything seems to have little issues, especially since we have a Wii U.
- Zelda looks amazing, but I could just pick up the U version.
- Mario Kart sounds like basically a perfected version, but we have the U version, and would have to buy extra controllers.
- Splatoon is not named Spla2n for some reason.
- Arms might be fun, but it seems two-player focused, so we’d have to buy an extra set of joy-cons.
- 1 2 Switch might be great in a Warioware way, but I’m kind of amazed it’s not a pack-in.
- The online stuff sounds … iffy
- An extra dock is $90? A dock and 2 joy-cons would run you $170, and here I was hoping that the whole system would only be $250 :dubious:
These presentations always have parts that seem inexplicable. Why not take 15 seconds to mention Kart explicitly? Bomberman too.
Anyway, I have other stuff to play, so probably the prudent thing is to just buy nothing and then at Christmas either get a Switch with Zelda and Mario or just pick up Zelda for Wii U. Having said that, I did put in a Switch preorder this morning 
I have no particular intention of buying the Switch but that Zelda trailer was stunning. I am a big fan of Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke and this is probably the closest any game has come to matching the look and mood of that film. I hope it comes eventually to some platform I own which I suppose is more likely if the Switch fails.
True, but not likely to look as good on the WiiU. Whether that matters to you is another question :D.
Is there a reason you want an additional dock?
Just to hook up to our other TV. It would be nice to be able to drop the Switch into whatever room we wanted. My understanding is that the dock is just power & HDMI passthrough, plus a fan for cooling. I expected it to cost, well, not $90.
To try to make the online subscription more palatable, they were going to include games with it monthly like Xbox/PS have been doing for a while. But they blundered that - it’s only available during the one month it’s the special game, not as long as you subscribe. And these are 25 year old games, not AAA titles from a few years back. Pretty weak.
I read up the condensed reporting, not being interested in a public song and dance, but… same here. I don’t have a Nintendo console, yet love the idea and concept in the hardware, portability, and all. Don’t think there’s any way I’d buy this until I see how it develops.
The games list through 2017 is anemic at best. The online functionality could make up for that but it sounds like a terrible, expensive implementation with no upside for the user. (Seriously? Need to pay just to have a friends list, Nintendo?) And Nintendo doesn’t really roll out online stuff very quickly, and their prices for 20-year old games sounds like it will be really high.
Yeah, I’m going to have to see the full details about this smart phone app thing, because it sounds literally crazy to me. It would make sense to have a companion app - actually that’s a great idea. A friend invites me to a Mario Kart race, and I get notified on my phone? Great! But for all that stuff to only be in the app, and it’s only available as part of their subscription?
They show Breath of the Wild as a launch title for the Switch but does the WiiU version have the same release date?
Yes, March 3 for both versions.
Personally, I love it. I’m getting a Nintendo Switch. Sometimes my roommates get on my nerves, and I’d love to be able to take the Switch out of the house and play for a few hours alone. I can take it to work and play on my lunch break.
Definately a plus for myself and other WiiU owners but I think a missed opportunity for Nintendo. If they released BOTW with the launch as a Switch exclusive and delayed the WiiU version till fall I think a lot of Zelda die-hards like myself would have been convinced to buy a Switch upon release. With a March3 WiiU release I really have no reason to get a Switch.
Yep Nintendo botches another launch . Two games at launch ? Wtf. And yeah they’ve made their controllers more expensive with the fancy HD rumble and camera sensing hand movements, a gimmick that will get used in a handful of first party games and that everyone will get sick of after two months.
Good concept, but weak launch. My prediction it will end up another wii U with a poor library.
I want Breath of the Wild so much now…I never did buy a WiiU. Can’t say I’m really blown away by any of the other titles, though a few of the RPGs sound interesting. I’ve also heard that Stardew Valley will be ported to the Switch.
I’m sort of “meh” about the online services right now. I’m also not clear about what’s being done for Virtual Console games. Will they continue to be part of the eShop – which, according to Nintendo’s website, will still be available even if you don’t have an online services subscription – or will these games be part of the exclusive online services?
The thing is, Nintendo has a nice catalog of first party games that people want to play, Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, and now Splatoon. But they insist on tying it to shit hardware thats 3-5 years behind the times.
Imagine if Nintendo did a deal with Sony, to be exclusive on Sony hardware platforms for five years, and they can also sell whatever custom controllers they want for their own first party games if they want more than the standard PS4 controller. Considering that the PS4 is already winning this round of the console wars, that would pretty much be a game changer. The Xbox one would be trashed and Sony / Nintendo would crush them.
But instead Nintendo wants to keep trying to recreate the fluke success of the Wii, yeah the novelty of motion controls sold a shit load of Wii units. No it won’t happen again, get over it.
Fuck that, come to PC and rake it in.
Wow. I’m both impressed and sadly disappointed.
There’s a lot to like, but there are NO games for this thing.
I’m impressed with “HD Rumble”. Imagine how dope it would be playing a Zelda fishing game using that, (assuming it works the way I’d like it to)? I don’t mind motion controls and don’t think Wii was “a fluke”. I do however worry about ports of 3rd party games I’d like to play, but anyone with a PS4 or XB1 would get the slickest version, so they won’t be successful on the Switch.
I agree that hardware matters. It matters so much that I’m thinking about waiting on Zelda altogether, until I see if the Switch has legs, because I don’t want to play the “shitty” Wii U version.
I could see it having a rocky start, but growing in popularity, if deals with 3rd parties are made to have exclusive content.
Glad to see FIFA will be on the system. If I get it, I’ll definitely pick that up.
Anyway… There’s no reason to rush out and get one besides Zelda, imho… so, I won’t be preordering.
The Wii U version could be the definitive one. Nintendo has a lot of experience with the PowerPC chipset. Not so much with the Tegra. BOTW was originally just for the Wii U. Who knows what what kind of issues they’ve had porting it to the Switch. I’ve heard rumours of a inconsistent 30 fps.
Everytime I see BOTW i get confused 'cause it’s Zelda: Call of the wild in my head.
And yes, numerous outlets are calling out poor performance on the new Zelda, but they’ve still got a month for that day one performance patch.
My only hope here is that since the WiiU emulator is progressing along nicely, my investment in playing the new Zelda may just be $60 and not $460 (or more realistically, waiting until it’s something less than that).