I gave the ad a watch, and I thought the presentation was pleasant. Those quickfire showcases made a good job on succinctly describing its games worth slipping under a Christmas tree.
The fact that they thrown an icon representative of the Animal Crossing franchise made it clear it's one of the company's blockbusters. Even though its Switch game isn't announced at all, it might as well be likely to happen, given on how insanely popular the Switch is.
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Oh well how about gifting us free multiplayer instead (like, yeah one more good reason to not get a Switch if you have to pay for online **** man next year...)
As in, local multiplayer? You'd be wrong in that case, since they include two different Joy-Cons for every Switch console. Each Joy-Con can act as an entirely functional controller, allowing for two players fun right out of the box.
As for paid online multiplayer, a yearly subscription to Nintendo Switch Online will be about 1/3 of the price of a PlayStation Plus/Xbox Live Gold membership. If you can afford a Switch, then coughing up $30 USD a year is chump change, even for a seemingly scummy business practice. By opting for the service, you'll also gain access to a library of select NES games (with SNES coming as well at a later date) with online functionalities added and benefit from exclusive discounts.
Yeah I prefer handhelds so much more, even PC at this points beats having a clunky battery draining thing man. (Don't forget power-save mode guys!)
And switches are overpriced af here anyways.
If you can handle the equally short battery life of any 3DS model, then I'm sure you'll be fine with Switch. I mean, you could get between 2 and 5.5 hours of gaming out of the device already, depending on how resource-hungry the game is. And that's with max brightness and every wireless function activated. By doing the opposite way, you could expect a playtime of anywhere between 3 and 8 hours. And if you do almost run out of battery juice and you're close to home, you could plop the portable unit in its dock and you continue playing with the TV, or even just plug the AC adapter in the device and play while recharging.
It's worth mentioning that Switch is being sold as console first, handheld second. And of course, the price ends up being about what you'd expect for an average modern premium home console. Here, you'll pay not just to play games, but also for a more consistent high quality experience that's way easier to set up and cost significantly less than pretty much any gaming-dedicated PC hardware.
I'm against the dumb money-grab called "pay for even going online and play" when you buy the console, game, and also already pay for the internet. Kinda hypocrite in those Net Neutrality days... And while it may not be that costy those random sub fees are just dumb.
I guess you'll be stopping buying the cutting-edge gaming consoles and be stuck with PC and Smartphone gaming for the rest of your life, because the inconsequential inconvenient mainstream business practice don't seem to be going anywhere.
OK, I might have exaggerated a bit here, but do you seriously need to be able to play your games online in order to enjoy any given game? Given that there's plentiful of fun content in Switch's library that don't rely on Internet, not having any form online multiplayer is a small price to pay. Simply avoid games that are heavily centered on online capabilities and you're good to go.
My beef with the posts of yours in this thread is that they made you look like you're more intent on finding valid points against the hardware for the sake of not obtaining it, and less about taking your lifestyle into consideration. Those shortcomings that you mention are more like personal preferences to me at best and shouldn't hold much influence towards your decision. I'm not asking you buy a Switch, nor do I know anything about your play style, but I feel you hold some rather high expectations to the dedicated consoles.