At the end of the day, no matter how many times this question gets asked or how many times it's accused of being another Wii U. We just have to wait and see honestly it's just way too early to assume things cause we're all just flooding ourselves with negativity and doubt before this thing even has a chance to rise the occasion.

I know it's tempting to make all these early calls and spell gloom and doom for Nintendo and compare it to every other handheld or console but at the moment Nintendo has a platform that's a bit underpowered but still maybe able to get support based on how easy it is to work with according to devs, which was a problem the Wii U had.

As a gamer I support all things gaming and wish Nintendo the best, i'll buy a Switch day 1, enjoy the heck out of Zelda and any other great titles that come out on it, as I have with all my consoles and handhelds. No matter what Nintendo does, I only hope they learn from their mistakes and whatever missteps they're doing now can hopefully be resolved before launch.

basically what this is a portable Wii U with a screen but less powerful.

to much of a hype train to jump on board
more likely going to be a flop of 2017

look at the hype with the wii u and that died with in two year
and people spent good money and buying this product just to see it die and no more games for it

Yes

Switch tries to chase after the diminished Wii market like the Wii U

Wow, didn't realize N4g was still fanboy clickbait. Now I see why I don't bother with this site anymore. (it's because it sucks)

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau