Breath of the wild , Mario Odyssey , Fire Emblem Three Houses, Smash bros Ultimate, & Animal crossing. What are you smoking.
I never thought of that, you may be right.no virtual console because they obviously want to create a gap to resell everything again at full price
~~Warning, Nintendo Rant incoming, Warning ~~
I think this will definitely be the last Nintendo console I buy. Absolutely was not worth the money. From a competitive standpoint, Nintendo doesn't have much to offer me anymore save for its first-party titles and even the offerings in those are always limited to the niche they offer and little else. The vast majority of their games are inferior ports of old AAA games, and Indies that exist on every other platform, again usually better than Switch. I dont quite understand the "Nintendo loves indies!" thing either. I assume Nintendo raves on and on about how successful Indies do on their platform because there's literally nothing else to buy and very few modern ports for visual contrast, so there's less competition.
But worst of all is the SEVERE lack of attention to ANY FORM of modern innovation that Nintendo themselves can't credit themselves for coming up with.
example -- I bought Smash, but had to buy a Pro Controller ($60) because the joycons are trash, and then order a 3rd party Ethernet Adapter ($20) because the console has no built-in ethernet port.....what the FUCK. This shit released in 2018 are you fucking serious? I gotta go shopping for an ethernet port like it's 2003 and im playing Gamecube???? Why do i have to do this???
But the additional ethernet port doesn't help anyway, because every nintendo game has complete shit netplay.
Competitive games? Don't waste your time, Nintendo doesn't care for things like netcode, matchmaking, or any kind of UI that allows for ease of connectivity or even something as simplistic as adding someone you've fucking played with. And don't even get me started on their Voice Chat solution. ...At least they stopped trying to literally shut down competitive smash events, though that's nothing to say of how they murder fan projects.
And whomever thought games loading from cartridges would make them faster, SIKE this shit doesn't help at all. Anyone who denies the importance of XSX/PS5 SecretSauce SSD for next gen MUST not own a Switch.
Try playing Smash Bros Ultimate's World of Light mode....literally every action you make sets you back with between 5 - 10 seconds of annoying loading screens (BOTH ways) for the most trivial things. Animal Crossing looks like a nicely polished Wii-U title, but you couldn't tell from the sheer amount of slow loading you have to deal with. You're in these tiny ass 150-275 Sq.ft Chicago Apartment ass houses that require entire loading screens between rooms. And don't even get me started on how much of a fucking ordeal netplay is.
I understand most of that is probably just the developers ignoring modern common gaming standards, but these kinds of annoying ass problems seem to completely fly under the radar for Nintendo titles for some reason.
I also cannot understand why they refused to just brand the system as a handheld. I think the Switch would probably be worth it if it could access the 3DS library, but nope. They still expect me to spend money on a 3DS to play Metroid Returns...who the fuck needs a 3DS when they have a Switch???
And this is all before we get to the shitshow that is the way Nintendo nickle and dime the shit out of their fans when it comes to content creation. Fangamers get attacked relentlessly and content creators have to literally pay them to avoid legal action.
Amiibos are literally paid DLC except with plastic so they waste your money as well as your physical space
And the last straw, the thing that gets me tight about Modern Nintendo the most....its vaunted "First-Party Titles".
Spoiler alert, they aren't nearly as good as they're made out to be. Breath of the Wild and MAYYYYBE Mario Odyssey is about the only game worthy of being called a masterpiece, the rest are medicore in their own, very specifically nintendo kind of way.
Mario Kart 8 is still inferior to Double Dash (opinion, but its true, don't @ me). Animal Crossing is wonderful (GF is in love with it) but its UI is dreadfully slow for absolutely no reason. Smash Ultimate's netplay is horseshit and its single player mode is just about the laziest shit i've seen in an AAA big title since Metal Gear Solid 5. Splatoon 2 was glorified DLC. Pokemon is just as old-fashioned as it was 15 years ag.......wait a second.
Yo, lemme get on Pokemon for a second. Yall really gonna tell me that in 2019, Nintendo is able to get away scotch free by COPY+PASTING a $60 GAME into two different box arts and telling you to buy them both? This is the U L T I M A T E version of "day 1 DLC". They CLEARLY didn't spend all that time cramming Pokemon or Animations into the game, so what on earth warrants a split in content when choosing a side could have just as easily been a pre-campaign choice tied to your save file?????????
~~ok im done ~~
Honestly, the concept of the Switch is great, and it's an impressive console on its own merits.....but as a veteran gamer.......dude, Nintendo's consoles are just not worth owning anymore.
Owning a Switch feels no different in 2020 than owning a Gamecube did in 2003. I was a Nintendo Loyalist for that generation back then and only owned one console, so the year i finally just got a PS2 was the most eye opening shit ever.
Honestly, the concept of the Switch is great, and it's an impressive console on its own merits.....but as a veteran gamer.......dude, Nintendo's consoles are just not worth owning anymore.
Yeah, I don't know why they continually suffer from such an incredibly narrow vision when designing a platform (hardware & software). It's all self-inflicted suffering, though. And then we self-inflict when we continue to buy their stuff, of course.
Nintendo is a terrible company. I have no clue why so many people love them so much.
Honestly, the gripes about Switch are only 40% of my issues with Nintendo. The thing that pisses me off about them the most is just how shameless they are when it comes to PR and image, while in plain sight they stomp all over gamers each and every single fucking chance they get.
Who though. If anything I'm seeing more of them Nintendo fans being objective than others.I don't like how the fanboys are behaving like the switch is the second coming of Christ
Nintendo is a terrible company. I have no clue why so many people love them so much.
This is exactly what I meant when I say Nintendo fans act like the switch is the second coming of Christ.It's like people go out of their way to find a reason to praise Nintendo. For example, people acting like this is the first time they were able to play games on the go even though they have likely owned atleast one Gameboy, DS, 3DS, PSP or Vita. People just have a soft spot for Nintendo and Nintendo takes advantage of this.
Yeah, people are coming to their senses now but in the beginning it was really crazy how people acted towards the Switch. People acting like the Switch made them feel like a kid again and stuff like that and the port begging was out of control. People thought every game was 'perfect' for the Switch. Remember all of that?Who though. If anything I'm seeing more of them Nintendo fans being objective than others.
absolutely love the switch
Honestly, got me back into gaming because it allowed me to game in my current state of life and how my life has been and will be moving forward
I don't have the time or ability to get through more than a handful of games on home console per year these days
The switch however lets me chip away at games on commutes or in bed briefly in my downtime in hotels or on airplanes, or importantly at work.
Doom and Witcher may not look the best on it, but I'm at least able to play through them
Hmm says who, quite childish for a jab lol.Botw invented open world games btw.
Well that's how most people really feel about playing BOTW during launch, there's nothing that could negate the hype they feel even if you couldn't experience it yourself.Yeah, people are coming to their senses now but in the beginning it was really crazy how people acted towards the Switch. People acting like the Switch made them feel like a kid again and stuff like that and the port begging was out of control. People thought every game was 'perfect' for the Switch. Remember all of that?
...an example of someone pretending that gaming handhelds didn't exist before the Switch.
I love my Switch, I don't love Nintendo tax on games.
What? Excuse yourself here buddy
That's quite presumptive. Also shows lack of insight On multiple levels into how the switch is not the same as the DS or Vita.
No handheld before the switch, has been like the switch. Did Vita or 3DS or GBA have console games on the go? Where's my Doom or Witcher, Metro or bulletstorm? Where's a game like breath of the wild on the go?
I also wasn't an extremely busy person in the work force when those other handhelds were in the limelight and I had Much more time to game On my tv at home
This whole "but all these switch players acting like other handhelds didn't exist" bs is exactly that - it's bs. I don't know where this narrative is coming from and why you're pushing it like you know more than all these "dumb ignorant switch fanboys"
I still played Mario Kart on DS and God of War on PSP but those were always secondary systems for me
The switch is a very different system vs those other handhelds, If you want it to be it offers console level gaming on the go and, unlike those systems, has the ability to replace your home console experience if you so choose
I could never replace my DS with my Wii because I still had Metroid Prime 3 and twilight princess, or Vita with PS3 because I needed uncharted 3 and TLoU
No need for that with the switch
This is not a concept that requires significant brain power to grasp
That game was also released on the Wii U. Was it the game that made them feel like a kid again (a Wii U game) or was it the console?Well that's how most people really feel about playing BOTW during launch