BabyfartsMcgeezaks said:
It's not as much about the components power as it is about the price for me. I can't justify it for myself, components worse than the components in consoles released over 3 years ago yet it's +100$ dollar more expensive. It's why I rarely bought games for my Wii, they cost about the same as new 360/PS3 games but they looked worse and relied almost exclusively on gameplay. So why did they cost so much when they were cheaper to produce? That's how I feel about the Switch and probably its games too.
Well that's part of my argument. If you don't like playing Nintendo games, then you shouldn't buy a Switch. Plain and simple. It's like paying more for an Apple device, you can't justify the cost unless you really enjoy the things found exclusively on Apple's products. Nintendo even said themselves, they're competing with the phone market more than the console market. App games on phones are the single biggest threat to Nintendo.
Proof here: http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/26/nintendo_president_says_apple_a_bigger_threat_than_microsoft_in_games
008Zulu said:
Nintendo has never been about power. Here's the thing; They have to start being about power if they want to be anything other than a "niche" developer. If a console has more power, then you can do more stuff with it. Right now 3rd party devs are looking at the specs, and trying to figure out what could be done with it. That's never a good sign. The Switch might sell, but it will never come close to touching PS4 or Xbone numbers. High sales puts dollar signs in front of your stocks, with the hits their stock prices have been taking, they need a high selling system. Which the Switch won't be.
The only thing Nintendo has to meet are 2 requirements:
1. Be more powerful than other handhelds.
2. Be more powerful than their last console.
They make bank selling old technology for $300 a pop. The 3DS XL sold for $250 during the same time period the Wii was selling for $200. They dominate the handheld market because there, they literally ARE the most powerful console by far. They have the highest third party support, and all they need to do is make sure things stay that way. They even pulled a "Xbox Scorpio/PS4 Pro" move with the NEW 3DS XL release, the same console but more power. It pains me how people don't see how obvious this is. Nintendo's main console is the handheld 3DS line, and now their home console is a handheld too. Because the Switch meets the 2 listed requirements, Nintendo is fine making that choice. If people are willing to spend $250 on a 3DS XL, spending $300 on a Switch is a no brainer since you get a console level of quality on your handheld now. With that you should now understand how the Switch will be one of the best selling consoles ever. By casually migrating the vast handheld support they have to their home console, they are suddenly going to have more support than Microsoft/Sony combined. This is gonna be the biggest blindside the industry has ever seen. And yes there will be shovelware like "1 2 Switch" which plagued the Wii, but at least this time the shovelware is portable which justifies it. There was nothing more awkward than playing a game with the depth of Wii Sports on your couch. It's makes much more sense on a phone or something portable, because the mental bias is there. "I play pong on my phone, not my home console."
RaikuFA said:
I used to be a PC gamer. Had to quit when my PC broke and I was told to "figure it out myself".
I'm sorry to inform you: You were never a PC gamer. Any PC gamer could tell you what the specs are on their machine and what brands they used to build their rig. If you bought an Alienware and then "quit" because it cost too much to service, you were in the wrong neighborhood friend.
Schadrach said:
Long story short: You wanted a next-genconsole that could be made mobile, they made a next gen mobile system you can dock to your TV.
That argument makes no sense considering it has console level power. It is a console that can be made mobile, not the other way around like you are trying to suggest.
