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« on: October 21, 2016, 02:22:56 AM »
For my entire conscious life, I've been very interested in buying the next new machine that allows me to play the new games made by Nintendo. The Switch is the next new machine, and I will happily buy it. New Tokyo EAD (or whatever that team is called these days) Mario is coming for it. I am hype.
I will probably use the Switch as a traditional home console at least 95% of the time that I use it. Portable mode, detachable controllers, I won't use those features outside of trips. I do almost all of my 3DS playing at home on my couch. And that's fine. Nintendo's not forcing me to do any of that stuff and that Pro controller looks great.
Getting outside of my own POV, that trailer was a home run, even if most of the scenarios shown were laughable. The messaging of the system is clear, that Switch noise is genius and should become as iconic as the Mario coin noise if Nintendo does it right, the trick of switching from dock mode to portable mode is almost magic, and there appears (for now) to be third party support. I'm also shocked the Switch looks like it really pulled off being at least on par with the Wii U on a mobile processor.
Nintendo learned all the right lessons from the failure of the Wii U. This is what the Wii U should have been. I think it has a real good chance of being a mainstream success which means Nintendo might wait a little longer before switching entirely to mobile development. And that's all I want.