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[SEGA_2012]

I would love to have a Switch but is too expensive here

 

[Silvawuff]

I think my experience is the opposite. I was heavy critical of the Switch for the first year or so, then finally got one and I love it. It's been a stellar indie machine between all the first-party goodies. I think I play it more than any other console.

I'm glad you were able to figure out it wasn't working for you, OP. Do what you must to declutter and make room for whatever is next!

 

[30yearsofhurt]

Seriously only bought ten games for the thing and half of them were disappointing.

 

[Vawn]

Imagine a powerful Nintendo console that actually competed with Sony/Microsoft and had a proper Online infrastructure.
The sheer amount of IP they are sitting on is crazy and is practically a money printing machine.

I don't think so. They are in a much better position since they stopped trying to compete with PlayStation directly.

The last time they tried what you're suggesting they created the GameCube. I personally loved the GameCube, but it sold 22 million units and PS2 sold 155 million.

 

[n0razi]

I play mainly PS2 ports on my Switch lol (ie its the only way to play FF12 on the go)... The 1st party games do nothing for me

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

Nintendo needs to move their asses and give us a New Star Fox, Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3.

 

[-MD-]

I completely sat out through the Wii and WiiU eras and I bought a Switch day 1 and have been playing tons of it.

Feels nice wanting to play a Nintendo product again.

 

[GreetingsMortal]

I came to this realization today. My last like 5 Nintendo consoles have just been Smash Bros machines. I guess I just don’t like Nintendo as much as my life as a nerd has lead me to believe.

 

[jaysius]

I loved playing Mario Odyssey on my Switch, but that's almost it. I had Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU so I wasn't about to rebuy it. I played with Mario Maker 2 for a short while but the levels people make in that are just Youtube bait "hard as balls" very few levels are actually inspired and genuine fun.

My Switch gathers dust too. I'm just holding out hope that we'll get Metroid Prime 4 THIS Nintendo gen.

 

[Esca]

My Switch gathers dust too. I'm just holding out hope that we'll get Metroid Prime 4 THIS Nintendo gen.

I am expecting it on their next system, and I'm a huge metroid fan so this pains me a lot

 

[OuterLimits]

I'm kind of the opposite to be honest. Switch is the first Nintendo console since the Super Nintendo that gets the majority of my gaming time.(Also own PS4 Pro this gen).

I probably own over 100 games on the system, with the majority of them being rpg/strategy rpg games. Having so many quality srpg games on a portable in fantastic. Not only Fire Emblem/Valkyria Chronicles/Disgaea, but also indie games like Fell Seal, Banner of the Maid, Mercenaries Saga, etc...

While I'm not a fan of Pokemon or Animal Crossing, I love Zelda, Mario Odyssey, Luigi Mansion 3, Xenoblade, and especially Splatoon 2.

I do miss the Atlus production that existed on the 3DS and is largely absent on the Switch. While I'm looking forward to SMT V, it sucks that things like Etrian Odyssey and Devil Survivor are no shows on the system.

 

[TexMex]

I sold my Switch, today

to see if I still feel

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Good on you. Im putting mine up for sale tomorrow as well. I barely play it next to my PS4 even tho I got a ton of games on it.

 

[Goro Majima]

If you don’t have any need whatsoever for a portable console then I can imagine being able to find plenty to play on PS4/XB1/PC (especially PC).

I love taking mine on vacation, visiting relatives, or just using it while sitting next to my wife watching TV. Such a fantastic and versatile piece of hardware.

Although it absolutely needs a nice grip like the one from Satisfye if you’re going to mostly use it as a portable device.

 

[Knightime_X]

I have 175 digital games for nintendo switch.
No chance I would ever sell my switch.
honestly don't have any reason to either

 

[Nikodemos]

I'm somewhat in the opposite camp.

I really wanted a super-portable console (I missed the Vita train about 2 years ago when the second gen was still cheaply available) so I was looking at the Switch Lite (don't use my TV, don't care about docked functionality).
However, the notoriously awful quality of the sticks (and you can't replace them on the Lite if they break) kept me away. An idiotic design flaw, that was never corrected, because correcting it would mean admission that it was a design flaw in the first place.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I have 175 digital games for nintendo switch.
No chance I would ever sell my switch.
honestly don't have any reason to either

Has Jooxed met his match?

 

[YoodlePro]

Are you me? I can totally relate but I have always felt remorse after selling consoles.

BROOOTHEEEER!!!

I know what you mean, I remember selling my PSP. I knew hadn't used it in ages but just letting go felt like betrayal of all the good times I had with it!

 

[Guilhermegrg]

My experience has been quite the opposite. PC gamer for decades, started playing on the switch and now due to real life, have only time to play on it, at night or when I put my daughter to sleep on the afternoon.


Long go the times for hours on battlefields, unreal tournaments, tribes, half life's and all of that. Played a bit of doom ascend and was quite disappointed.

That was about a month or two back.

Most likely going to sell my PC as it's gathering dust.

Have plenty of games on the switch right now. Still on Xenoblade chronicles definite edition - 80+ hours - finished the story but want to kill some bosses and the additional story before moving on to another game.

The switch is just so handy to have, boot up and use whenever you can that I seriously don't see myself going back to another form of playing.

 

[00_Zer0]

I sold my Switch, today

to see if I still feel

I sold my Switch today
To see if I still feel
I focused on the games
The only thing that's real

Nintendo tears a hole
Their old familiar sting
Always release their Mario
Always release the same thing

What have I become
My nerdy friend
Every game I know
Is all the same in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
Nintendo will let you down
Nintendo will make you hurt

Condolences to TexMex, NIN and Johnny Cash.

Btw op I stopped being butt hurt over Nintendo years ago when I realized I couldn't force them to make Metroid a main franchise. Or make them how I wanted them to be. I no longer focus only on their console or their games. I love most of their games even as they iterate on tried and true formulas, but I like to get the best out of all the platforms, even PC now. I am not made of money either, but I obtained a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X cheap within this last year. So now I enjoy the games I want to without worrying about which platform makes teh bestest video games evar.

 

[GreatnessRD]

Thought about selling mine around Christmas. They still going for absurd amounts? How much should the jail breakable version collect?

 

[Tiamat2san]

If my wife was not playing animal crossing every fucking day, I would sell it too.
I don’t like Nintendo games anymore (I didn’t love a Nintendo game since GameCube) and I don’t play handheld, games are fucking ugly on a big 4K screen.

 

[Darko]

About to sell mine And it’s modded...but I still have a switch lite just incase something does come out that i want to play

 

[Nico_D]

Happy with my two which are at the moment used more by my kids. Personally the bigger problem is Nintendo's quietness about upcoming games - it has been getting progressively worse in the last two years. Maybe since Reggie left and the new boss stepped in?

Anyway, it is something they would really need to improve on.

 

[Petopia]

I have, I still adore Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Only cause its personax decaffinated

 

[_Justinian_]

I am only keeping mine for RingFit Adventure at this point.

 

[Zog]

tbh i think it may be the last nintendo console i purchase until i feel compelled to do so again. I have purchased every nintendo system since im a kid and my love and nostalgia for the company is hard to describe. But when i found myself completely unimpressed by odyssey, botw, pokemon, luigis mansion, and paper mario i came to the sad conclusion that my taste may have changed. I feel like the inner child in me has died just a little today. The company has always been geared towards children but never have i felt less challenged by their games and that makes me think maybe ive outgrown them. And how many times will they recycle the same ideas ? As long as they sell so that wont change considering the success. New ip’s maybe ? Probably not. Loved astral chain though thought it was wonderful(third party game). But all in all love you nintendo thanks for the memories ❤ (Maybe once i see prime 4 i throw all this out the window and re buy the switch who knows)

I have found the Switch offerings mediocre as well. It's not that my tastes have changed though, it's that Nintendo just isn't making them like they used to. Proof of this is that I still play the older games from the Super Nintendo to the Gamecube and from the GBC to the 3DS.

 

[Zog]

Sure, some of these games are multiplatform, but the appeal of the Switch is to have some of these games in a portable fashion.

Multi platform games are usually downgrades from other platforms and playing portable isn't really a big deal to some.

 

[mr.dilya]

Opposite here. Switch is my primary console for games after PC.

 

[Neil Young]

Same boat, won't sell it though but this WILL be my last Nintendo console after owning all of them.

Nintendo LOVES money more than their customers. Perfect business model. They treat their customers like garbage and they come back for more, creaming their jeans at a fucking RUMOR of having the chance to rebuy Zelda or Mario for the 5th time.

I feel like all their games are made with their bottom line in mind, NEVER with "Let's knock our fans out!!" Yes, make money, but I play the Last of Us or Ghost of T, even the Jedi game and I see the money and effort on the screen. I play BOTW, I see short cuts, lack of music, voice acting, dungeons etc. BOTW was a lazy game..but was propped up by the fans as remarkable. Odyssey was the same...a tad more effort but still lazy. They felt like they weren't finished. Empty worlds with 900 collectables to pad out the lack of content.

Their bottom line is so important that we KNOW they're going to release the next Mario, Zelda, Metroid for both the Switch AND the next version. Fuck em. Enjoy your money.

 

[M_A_C]

So what I'm getting from this is that Switch emulators on PC are really good now?

 

[gamerguywashere]

So what I'm getting from this is that Switch emulators on PC are really good now?

All the best Switch games are already on PC, so that would be a silly exercise.

Honestly, it's a pretty affordable platform if you like the mobility. Even at home, I'd rather lay on my couch and farm badabooms with suspend/resumes for real life

I have all these games on PC already. Think I'm just getting old or something, but the thought of firing it up and hunching over a keyboard surrounded by mountain dew cans, isolated....alone, sad.

 

[hariseldon]

Same boat, won't sell it though but this WILL be my last Nintendo console after owning all of them.

Nintendo LOVES money more than their customers. Perfect business model. They treat their customers like garbage and they come back for more, creaming their jeans at a fucking RUMOR of having the chance to rebuy Zelda or Mario for the 5th time.

I feel like all their games are made with their bottom line in mind, NEVER with "Let's knock our fans out!!" Yes, make money, but I play the Last of Us or Ghost of T, even the Jedi game and I see the money and effort on the screen. I play BOTW, I see short cuts, lack of music, voice acting, dungeons etc. BOTW was a lazy game..but was propped up by the fans as remarkable. Odyssey was the same...a tad more effort but still lazy. They felt like they weren't finished. Empty worlds with 900 collectables to pad out the lack of content.

Their bottom line is so important that we KNOW they're going to release the next Mario, Zelda, Metroid for both the Switch AND the next version. Fuck em. Enjoy your money.

Money: Sony make most of their money through microtransactions. Nintendo don't really bother with them. Instead you get a full game, maybe with an expansion pack later on. It's far closer to the old model of buy game get game. Personally I find the Nintendo approach more honest than relying on whales to fund things. That business model also changes the incentives away from "how can we make the game shit without microtransactions".

Re BOTW music, voice acting.. so the music is lovely, no fucking idea what you're on about there, as for voice acting, honestly I think part of it is that Nintendo doesn't want to make interactive movies, and when you have a load of cut-scenes with full motion capture and voice acting, that's what you're getting. Personally it doesn't particularly bother me to have partial voice acting, and it's in keeping with standard JRPG approach as far as I can tell to have a few key lines acted - it may well be a cultural thing that some can break through and some can't.

Empty worlds with 900 collectables and no content.. ok. You're welcome to that view but Odyssey has some of the best platforming you'll find anywhere in bright lively vibrant worlds. Maybe you just got stuck on the first tutorial level and didn't get to see the more fun bits. For what it's worth the first level does suck, but after that it's tonnes of fun. Sorry you missed out.

So it's bad to release a game cross-gen then. Soooo.. you presumably have the same view when it happens with games on the new Xbox and PS consoles then. I look forward to seeing that consistency.

So what I'm getting from this is that Switch emulators on PC are really good now?

They're a bit fucking slow tbh unless you're running a monster PC. Now that monster PC isn't going to be in your living room, and if it's a gaming laptop you're likely now sterile. On the other hand my Switch is nice and cool and I can play it anywhere without having to lug around a heavy laptop or be chained to a big desktop. I like gaming PCs, I have two, been a PC gamer for years, but emulation in this case misses much of the point.

 

[jaysius]

I got something to say, I sold my switch today and it
Doesn't matter much to me, as long as it's gone
I got something to say, I gave someone my dock today
Doesn't matter much to me, it looks like a place to put bread

 

[Alebrije]

I Sold my Twich today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real....

 

[hariseldon]

I loved playing Mario Odyssey on my Switch, but that's almost it. I had Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU so I wasn't about to rebuy it. I played with Mario Maker 2 for a short while but the levels people make in that are just Youtube bait "hard as balls" very few levels are actually inspired and genuine fun.

My Switch gathers dust too. I'm just holding out hope that we'll get Metroid Prime 4 THIS Nintendo gen.

Mario Maker didn't really do it for me either - as you say the level designs people put out aren't much cop - I prefer Nintendo's own hand-crafted output. In that regard I felt even that was a bit short on MM2. Thank fuck for odyssey and Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Penis. It may well be a less useful proposition to those who had a Wii U but as so few people had one it's kinda useful to bring the really good games that came out for it onto a popular system. Now if we could have 3d World on the Switch I'd be delighted.

 

[jigglet]

If you treat Switch as your main console it might be hard.

Don't do that. It's a secondary console. I love mine for what it is.

 

[jaysius]

If you treat Switch as your main console it might be hard.

Don't do that. It's a secondary console. I love mine for what it is.

Tertiary at best.

Potato PC beats a Switch because the indies that need diddly to run will always be cheaper.

 

[Calhoun]

Primary console or not, it depends a lot on the age group. I know several kids who only play on a Switch. Gaming means only Switch for them and they are not into the mature games.

 

[jaysius]

Mario Maker didn't really do it for me either - as you say the level designs people put out aren't much cop - I prefer Nintendo's own hand-crafted output. In that regard I felt even that was a bit short on MM2. Thank fuck for odyssey and Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Penis. It may well be a less useful proposition to those who had a Wii U but as so few people had one it's kinda useful to bring the really good games that came out for it onto a popular system. Now if we could have 3d World on the Switch I'd be delighted.

I've never played that one.

I did have all the WiiU games they've ported for higher prices on the WiiU though, so that took all those games out of the running for additions to my Switch library.

 

[carlosrox]

Tertiary at best.

Potato PC beats a Switch because the indies that need diddly to run will always be cheaper.

Is your PC portable?

 

[hariseldon]

Mario Maker didn't really do it for me either - as you say the level designs people put out aren't much cop - I prefer Nintendo's own hand-crafted output. In that regard I felt even that was a bit short on MM2. Thank fuck for odyssey and Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Penis. It may well be a less useful proposition to those who had a Wii U but as so few people had one it's kinda useful to bring the really good games that came out for it onto a popular system. Now if we could have 3d World on the Switch I'd be delighted.

I've never played that one.

I did have all the WiiU games they've ported for higher prices on the WiiU though, so that took all those games out of the running for additions to my Switch library.

Yeah your use case is a little trickier to justify. Obviously there's a tonne of lovely stuff out there on the Switch like Astral Chain and the Bayonetta games, and playing FF7 original on the Switch is awesome (picked it up cheap) with the ability to play on my big TV or portable, Streets Of Rage 4 is amazing for similar reasons, but that benefit is one that didn't really occur to me when I bought it - I mean I knew about it but I didn't think it would be important. It turns out it really is.

Since getting the Switch my PC gaming has definitely cut down heavily, and that convenience factor is huge. I'm enjoying the amazing first party stuff but also finding wonderful convenience makes those 3rd party games more attractive.

Btw if you haven't played 3D world, do so. I've only been able to play it on the emulator - I enjoyed it so much that I ended up buying a Switch to get the full Nintendo experience (my first ever console). It'll blow your socks off.

 

[jaysius]

...

You didn't pick up on the typo you made?

 

[hariseldon]

You didn't pick up on the typo you made?

No I call it that because the name is so ridiculously long. I'm hoping to shame Nintendo into shortening it (the name, not the penis).

 

[sixamp]

I'm the opposite, I sold my ps4 because other than God of War and the first hour of spiderman i disliked all of their exclusives plus I have a PC. My switch has 40 games and I play it every night.

 

[mr.dilya]

Primary console or not, it depends a lot on the age group. I know several kids who only play on a Switch. Gaming means only Switch for them and they are not into the mature games.

No games are mature. That’s just a myth gamers came up with to make their hobby more palatable to their egos.

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Primary console or not, it depends a lot on the age group. I know several kids who only play on a Switch. Gaming means only Switch for them and they are not into the mature games.

The switch actually has some "mature games" the problem is Nintendo has become known as a console for "kids" and they just can't shake that image which funny enough its the main reason their games and systems sell so well.

 

[_Justinian_]

No games are mature. That’s just a myth gamers came up with to make their hobby more palatable to their egos.

Gotta love those myths.

 

[Danjin44]

Maybe people should stop obsessing over what game is "mature" and whats not and just enjoy the games, who are they try to impress?

Just enjoy the games, doesn't matter if they are ratted "E" or ratted "M".

 

[Amory]

I like the Switch but I get what OP's saying. Their first party games seem like they miss more than they hit for me these days. But stuff like Odyssey, Zelda BOTW, Fire Emblem, Mario Kart, Mario Maker, Ring Fit Adventure...they still have the magic. They're just making games for a very wide demographic these days.

Switch is probably my most played console, warts and all