The presentation was kind of a buzzkill. I'm not exactly rushing out to throw down a pre-order.
Firstly, preorders are a cluster **** as per usual. GG, Nintendo...I actually don't care about this because I'm simply not surprised. It's Nintendo and this is what they do, I didn't need 20/20 vision to see this coming.
$300? Well, whatever. I think we were all expecting a little cheaper for various reasons, but $300 is pretty much standard...The price of the peripherals are a joke though. Must be trying to recoup for the Wii U.
Region free? Good, about time. I refuse to praise them for this because it's something they should have done a long time ago.
The online? Well, its a shame Nintendo has finally decided to take a plunge into our wallets for something they really shouldn't be charging us for...Still blame Microsoft for introducing that awful idea...
I don't know whether or not I'm surprised that Nintendo's subscription model sounds like by far the worst of the 3 main consoles though. From the sounds of it, you get one free 'retro' game for one month...It's literally a rental service you're forced to use to play online...Just, wow...This actually makes PSN+ and XBL look fantastic by comparison.
Way to go, Nintendo. They have over a decade to see how other consoles handle paid online and still manage to screw it up and be behind the times...Good grief...
This 'HD rumble' they're talking about? I pretty much guarantee that it will be 100% less impressive than they're making it out to be. The name alone sounds like a marketing buzzword.
Regardless, it's kinda sad they're still chasing the rainbow with the motion control stuff. Just leave it, the Wii was lightning in a bottle.
The handheld has 2-6 hours battery life depending on the game...That's kinda trash, especially since I'm going to guess a majority of games will end up causing it to last for the lower end of that timeframe...I just hope the 3DS ain't going anywhere in that case, which Nintendo says it isn't, but c'mon, the 3DS is dead if the Switch is a success.
Games?
- Breath of the Wild. That's a thing. It has a release date now. It's not exactly like they hadn't shown us this before.
- Super Mario Odyssey just, well, looks like a 3D Mario game. Nothing wrong with that. I couldn't exactly see anything that was 'reinventing the wheel', but I kinda don't care if it does...I hated the look of that part with real people/cars/buildings though. It just looked like a Steam Greenlight asset flip in the sense that it didn't look like the things I was seeing should aesthetically be in the same game.
- Fire Emblem Warriors announced. I wasn't surprised since I kinda assumed this was the confirmed new Nintendo/Warriors game, though I look forward to this one.
- Xenoblade 2 is Xenoblade. That's enough for me to assume it's at least 'good'.
- Splatoon 2 looks like 'more of the same'. That's not exactly a bad thing, but I mean, it literally just looks like a Splatoon addon rather than an actual sequel.
- Mario Kart 8 with a bit of new stuff. Not a system seller in my eyes.
- Arms looks like a throwaway tech demo.
- 1 2 Switch is barely even a video game. Actually, I'm going to go as far to say it literally isn't. It's a game, sure, but it's as much of a video game as Buckaroo or Simon...I also have a feeling Nintendo is hoping this will be another Wii Sports that will sell systems...I highly doubt that.
- A bunch of multiplatform games which regardless of quality I simply don't view as a system seller...Because they're multiplatform.
I mean, it's just a Nintendo console that I want for Nintendo games. I'll buy it eventually, but I don't think I would if I wasn't already a Nintendo fan, and that presentation wouldn't have done much to change that.
They said you have it for free during that month but you can purchase the games and have them forever. So some type of VC is happening.
So what you're saying is you get a demo of an old game and after a month you decide if you want to buy it? Wowzeroonie, take all my money!!!...
