Yes, Nintendo is so greedy, they slashed $80 off the 3DS only a few months after it's release and gave early adopters 20 free games. They're so greedy that they had to sell the Wii U at a loss just to get the price down to $300. Seriously, the Switch is doing just fine at $300, and if Nintendo can continue to supply it with major games (Mario Oddysey, ARMS, Splatoon 2, etc.) and add features in the future, then they probably won't need to drop the price until at least another year...
I see you still want Nintendo to be a "me too" company that just blindly follows what market research wants. I'm not going to say the Switch shouldn't have some essential features, but you should give up this pie in the sky dream of a return to this imaginary "Hardcore gamer" Nintendo that never existed in the first place. Underpowered doesn't necessarily mean bad. The Switch looks like a promising device for what it is.
Nintendo does in fact have some of the most creative talent in the industry. Cel-shading is nothing new, but Nintendo has used it in creative way with both Wind Waker, and Breath of the Wild. Also if they didn't have some creative talent, why would they make a game about squids who can turn into humanoids and shoot ink? Or a game about fighters with springy arms who fight each-other?
You don't need an external hard-drive for storage. Any mircoSD card you have lying around will work. And the Switch can last up to 6.5 hours. It's not amazing battery life, but it's not terrible either, considering that's around the standard of most mobile devices these days.
For what is essentially, a glorified tablet that plugs into your TV with detachable controllers, the Switch should be fine at $250.
Oh joy, I can hear the Nintendrones crying now. "BUH, BUH, BUH, I WANTZ A SUPWR HARDCOREZ BOX WITH 3RD PARTY GAMZ FO MACHOR GAMERZ LIK MYSLF!!!!!" If you expecting Nintendo to be a generic clone of Sony and Microsoft, then you either don't understand the company's core philosophies, or just not really a Nintendo fan. Nintendo might be done with the Wii brand, but the principles it brought still remain within the company. Now I am not saying Nintendo needs to make another vas...
Yeah, a hybrid would br stupid. Nintendo really needs is their own "Windows 10" so to speak. One platform, that's used across every device they put out. Same Is, same features, and largely the same software.
@superchiller One of Nintendo's values has always been 'lateral thinking with withered technology'. The philosophy of taking older tech, but using it in new ways. It led to breakout successes of the GameBoy, DS, and the Wii. I'm not saying they need to be a generation behind the competition in hardware archecture again, but simply making a PS4 killer isn't the answer.
You don't speak for the vast majority of people. Maybe the egotistical "hardc...
If you're expecting Nintendo to give up hardware experimentation just to appease a vocal minority like you, then you're missing the point of the company in the first place. Nintendo's core values have always been simplicity with novel concepts and lots of polish. Nearly every piece of hardware and software they've made have is built on these principles. If you're expecting them to toss them out and conform to being a generic blank-slate company like Sony and Microsoft, the...
I think the biggest problem with the Gamepad was that it was trying to be way more than it really should've been. Instead of taking the screen concept, and running with it and polishing and definition the concept, Nintendo instead decided to bloat the device with too many useless features. Camera, sensor bar, needlessly large size, IR port, external port. If they had just stuck with the screen, mic, speaker, gyro, and a smaller size, the Gamepad would've been a much cheaper, not to me...
The Wii was in no way a bad system. You may not have liked the vision Nintendo had for it, but that doesn't mean it was a bad idea. Plus, most Wii games DID have classic controller and GameCube controller support, and there were games that used the Wii remote very well.
The second Miyamoto quote is important, and it illustrates why innovation through software alone isn't enough. People keep making the argument that Nintendo should just make "regular" controller and leave innovation to software. The problem with that is some software ideas would benefit from new inputs as well. Software Innovation and Hardware innovation go hand in hand.
I doubt it. It looks too safe, and generic to be an official Nintendo product. Whatever the NX controller will end up like, I can tell you it won't be that conventional considering they stated that it'll be a brand new concept.
While I never thought the "leaked" images of the NX controller where what we were going to see, I still feel an all screen, no face button controller is still in the picture. And here's why. Remember Tactus? That technology company that showcased their transforming touch screens which can create physical, tactile buttons on the fly using micro fluidics way back in 2012? Well in late 2013, Nintendo made a mysterious $100 million acquisition of a non-gaming, non-japanese technolog...
Ah yes. Basless Nintendooom. A true staple of N4G
To use cartoons as my favorite example, why do you think Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, and even My Little Pony of all things gained such large fanbase with older audiences? Because the people behind those shows make them based on what THEY want to make, not what they THINK kids want to see.
That's what Nintendo should be doing. Making the games THEY want to play, not what focus groups and demogr...
Funny thing is, the Wii U doesn't even have Friend Codes.
To be honest, Nintendo needs to keep it's brand as far away from the NX's final name as possible. Not only does "The Nintendo [Insert lame attempt to be hip and cool]" sound incredibly tacky, but shows that Nintendo is just trying to cash-in on nostalgia and hipsters who want them to return to their NES/SENS days, instead of actually letting the platform stand on it's own.
And more than anything, that's what the NX needs, an identity it can call i...
The NX is in a tough position. I think we can all agree that nobody is asking for a Wii U 2.0. But, I don't just want a PS4 with Mario games. That's not only a lazy cop-out, but shows me that Nintendo isn't confident enough to make the NX stand on its own merits, and must instead leech off the success others.
The NX needs to catch up to industry standard features, yes. But it also needs it's own identity with its own unique features. There's much needed ...
"Nobody cares about portable gaming"
Considering the Switch is breaking sales records for Nintendo, I'm inclined to say you're wrong.