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Not a hater but... (future prediction)
ShyGuy:
UK has always been a week market for Nintendo. The chavs just want their GTA and their FIFA footy, bruv! ;)
Miyamoto:
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Ha, fair enough. It would appear that some people have maybe taken some of my comments perhaps a little too seriously and are getting a bit worked up by them, so I would like to genuinely and sincerely apologise for the offence or outrage I may have potentially inadvertently caused. It was never my intention to upset anyone, honest. We're talking about video games on the internet. I often forget that people take this more seriously than I do.
That being said, I'll try in future to keep to the topic of the thread, that being the success (or lack there, of) of the Nintendo Switch with as little sass as I can manage. And if anyone would like to have the more fruitful and positive discussion on how Nintendo can turn it all around, I'll be happy to have that too!
Phil:
Apology accepted (at least by me). Good show! ;D
Sarail:
Not a hater, but...
Switch will be awesome. It's going to kick so much ass — especially once word gets out to the mass market of casual gamers outside of the core. If my boyfriend, who loves his Xbox more than anything, and doesn't necessarily care for Nintendo all that much, can get super excited for Nintendo's new console (I mean, seriously, he's stoked for this thing...maybe more than my little fangirl ass is), then that means Nintendo have a hit on their hands once again.
Now, more than ever, it's up to third-parties to seriously deliver the goods.
Miyamoto:
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Now, more than ever, it's up to third-parties to seriously deliver the goods.
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Third-party support is one of the bigger problems facing the Switch. It's one thing for the unbreakable Kimi Shima and co to point out that the Switch is compatible with Unity and Unreal but that doesn't count for much if developers aren't going to bring their bigger titles to the Switch. Final Fantasy XV, RE VII, Mass Effect Andromeda etc. Where are they? Even Ubi aren't supporting the Switch in the same way they did the Wii and Wii U. EA only offering the legacy edition of FIFA? They offered more support to the Wii U. Nintendo need to be aggressive with their courting of third-parties, just like Microsoft did over ten years ago with the 360.
You talk about how excited your Xbox-loving boyf is for the Switch and that is great, but what is he going to play after Breath of the Wild? Is he going to wait two months to play a three year old game like Mario Kart 8? And even if Nintendo had that third party support, the games would still run better on the Xbone (or PS 4), so why is he so excited for the Switch? So he can play on a system with a significantly smaller library that plays at a lower frame rate/resolution? Outside of first-party software, the Switch is all but redundant, just like the Wii U. Oh, and let's not forget that you have to pay a premium price for the Switch. How many of us here are wii U owners paying well in excess of $400 to play Zelda and then Mario Kart 8 a couple of months later?
The best Nintendo could do, would be if at E3 they had a huge third-party presentation featuring all the biggest publishers/developers and all the big games that are coming to Xbone/PS4 were also announced for Switch. That is the best they could hope for. To have the same as the competition with noticeably less performance. But they won't even achieve that.