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Nintendo Switch: How has your hype changed post-reveal? [poll]
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More Hyped! (21/37 votes) |
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Less Hyped... (1/37 vote) |
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No Change. (15/37 votes) |
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The reveal pretty much just confirmed the most believable rumors, so No Change. Though I do like the hardware design, it looks real nice.
My hype level is (and was) Cautiously Optimistic. Nintendo is doing the un-Nintendo thing and by doing what "everybody" thinks it should: drop the interface and control gimmicks, merge its handheld and console libraries, and just concentrate on making Good Games instead of ones with complicated hardware gimmicks. Now, that doesn't guarantee success, but it does look like it'll provide a market test of what the masses (or the most vocal) seem to want from Nintendo / think it should do. And in that regard I find it pretty fascinating.
Personally, I think Nintendo is at its very best when it's pushing innovative new games and controls while also providing cool traditional game options. But it's been a looooooong time since Nintendo's hardware innovations actually mattered, to the market as a whole or to me personally. The entire Wii U and 3DS generation has been a parade of samey, traditional games (mostly 2D platformers...sigh), hardly any using the systems' "innovative" features. Maybe this is Nintendo recognizing that they couldn't do their own hardware gimmicks justice and giving up on innovation, at least for a generation. |
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Far, far more hyped. I was expecting I would have to manufacture enthusiasm, like I currently do with the Wii U. Nope. Nintendo made me feel like a kid again, the night I stood in line for a GameCube with friends for 8 hours. I can't WAIT for this! Best part is we're already lining up some friends to go find a place doing a midnight launch in March, lol. Oddly, it's a totally different group than the Cube, even though many of my friends are still around from those days! Kal-El814 said:
Anyway, the more I watch the commercial, the weirder I think it is that they decided that a port of a game that came out in 2011, that Bethesda has not committed to releasing on the platform, took up a decent amount of the screen time. Strange.
I think that bit was brilliant. It literally sold a friend of mine on the system alone, he will buy one because of that part of the video. Even if Skyrim doesn't come out (which I think it will, Bethesda just doesn't want to cannibalize sales of the upcoming release next week) he will now be there on launch night with us because of that clip. So... A+ effort, Nintendo. Good choice. |
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@deathly_hallowsThis is me. I'm primarily a PC gamer now, but since then, 3DS has become my #2 platform because I can use it in a way that I can't use my PC. I have a PS4 and XB1, but other than watching blurays or occasionally laying on the couch and playing a Xbox Play Anywhere game, I rarely turn them on. I play the Wii U occasionally too, but that's because of how much I enjoy Nintendo's franchises. All that to say that for me, as a PC gamer, this is exactly what I want from a console. @Kal-El814Yes, it is basically a Shield tablet, but instead of being one of the more expensive Android tablets that just plays Android games and streams PC games OK, it's a tablet that plays Nintendo games and other console-quality games. That ups the value and interest for me. |
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Kal-El814 said: @deathly_hallowsTo play devil's advocate... If we're going to call the Bone and the PS4 watered down PCs (which is generally true even if that's a little reductive), I don't know why we shouldn't be treating this as a forked Shield Tablet. Nobody really cares about those, the market is pretty niche.
The difference is that the PS4 and Xbox One play the exact same games as the PC, like literally the same games, The Witcher 3, Fallout 4, Doom, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, Gears of War 4, Battlefield One, etc. etc. The NX will not play Android mobile games, it has the full might of one of the world's biggest publishers and developers behind it. |
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