The thing is, i said it, the concept is cool, and seducing. First thing i thought when i saw the trailer was "there is something there, that is urban, modern, that can relate to people more than the WiiU could".
But people finding the concept cool won't make them buy it yet. The software will decides that, and we know nothing about it yet.
I think my biggest frustration is that there is a HUGE misunderstanding about something here. Back when Iwata made the comments about unified os, android etc.. everyone (not right away but soon enough) embraced the idea of one only Nintendo console. And now, they have that .. hybrid home/portable console, so everyone think, this is what we get. And as such it can be awesome.
Except.. we have ABSOLUTELY NEVER heard anything from Nintendo about that. Everyone is thinking right now, on gaf, Hey Switch is awesome i'll play monster hunter and pokemon on it" but none of what Nintendo said goes in that direction. If anything, them insisting on the console being a home console means they don't want to cross the streams at all.
That's what i'm saying by being confused about its identity. Cause that's two entirely different things here. A console that will legitimately have the kind of generosity Nintendo portables have, in term of games, or a WiiU repeat with selected games, and Nintendo still having to output games for an other system, and we all know how that ends.
Maybe it will be both, with the Switch being marketed differently in Japan, but both benig the same hardware and playing the same games in the end. I could see that and that would be nice.
But what i mean is, there are so many unknowns right now about what the fuck is that console, and i'm speaking in term of games. We don't know if triple AAA will be on it (for those who want them), we don't know if usual portable games will be on it.. You know what i'm saying. This is a virgin box for now.
Nobody talk about anything. Nobody talks about the obvious irrefutable fact that if the screen is a touch screen, you won't be able to play.. say, phoenix wright, if such a game is on the switch, on your tv, cause there is no physical way to play a touch screen game with the dock on. This kind of thing..
The more i talk and the more i think we could have two different product based on the Switch. With a more portable friendly, dockless version for japan (also available here hopefully).
But to summarize my tough and my confusion, not knowing if the Switch will have a portable library, nor if it'll be, for example, available without the dock, makes it something completely unpredictable and unidentifiable for me. Those are HUGE matters. They change everything
Nintendo tells you this is a home console, things like no touch on the home pad tells you some big portable gameplay won't work with it. But everyone is like "naaaahh come on, this is just talk, they don't mean it it's just to not kill the 3ds!" It's like everyone is ignoring the signs!
