Everyone's talking about Khush. I feel left out.
I wonder what this Khush fellow actually has to say...
Good thing the Switch is backwards compati...... oh.
Yep. It's another reason why I'm surprised the Switch is selling so well right now and why I'm content waiting for awhile. 6 months from now should hopefully be a different story but for now your selection is limited.
Have you stopped playing Zelda already? Seriously, the average consumer who bought Breath of the Wild at launch probably isn't even half way through with it yet. That's the advantage to having a huge open world game as their flagship. Unlike something like Luigi's Mansion of NSMB U, Breath of the Wild has well over 100 hours of gameplay and when studies even show the average gamer plays less then 10 hours a week, Nintendo can literally get by with just this one game for over a month.
And by the time more people are done with it, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be out.
No, I'm not done playing Zelda yet but I'm pretty sure by the end of April I will be. If I had a Switch that would pretty much be it for awhile. Not interested in the MK8 double dip although I'm sure other people who didn't own a Wii U will be which is fine. I'm not upset if that is part of the selling point for some people in the launch cycle for the Switch so far. It just wouldn't be for me. Even when a Mario Kart is brand new, it is not as hugely anticipated game as it used to be for me. It's not a game I'll play for a long period of time. Maybe I'll do a cup or two but I get tired of racing after awhile. That to me is the main thing I'm referring to when I sympathize or agree with others who have a Switch and are disappointed in the current launch line-up. Many of the games coming out now are ones that to me are designed for shorter play sessions. 1, 2, Switch, Puyo Pop Tetris, Mario Kart 8, Arms or Splatoon 2. Obviously some people will disagree and spend a lot more time playing these games in long play sessions over many days and weeks. However, in my gaming habits, I find my interest in playing them wanes after a bit and I want a break.
Whereas something like an RPG or platformer I am more likely to keep playing for a long period. Things like Xenoblade 2 or Mario Odyssey are games I'm interested in because I know I'll sink a lot of time into playing them and will want to keep playing them to completion. Right now, I've been buying a lot of games (more than I need) for Wii U and 3DS. So, I'm more than stocked when it comes to games to play right now without needing a Switch or having to wait for the coming trickle of games and can wait until the right offer comes along for me to buy a Switch. However, consumers who bought a Switch and skipped Wii U and/or 3DS don't have that option. If they own another console or Steam, they may turn their attention back to those other devices and Nintendo could also lose some of its early momentum as the Switch gets replaced by those other devices instead of feeding their current Switch enthusiasm with more content. But this is going off into other directions. I'm glad the Switch is selling well right now but I am still surprised at the demand given how much software it has and what has been announced for these first 6 months which isn't much. And while BotW definitely lets Nintendo get away with it for awhile, BotW will only carry the console so long before other gamers start to get restless which you are starting to see some grumblings of already. Maybe MK8, Splatoon 2 and ARMS do carry the console for awhile as people get into their multiplayer but that has a caveat of Nintendo needing to figure out and outline the online game plan as well.
Khush is playing BotW on Wii U and I'll be blunt, he's not missing anything with Switch right now. You even say it right here:
Aw, thanks! Here. Have a free beer.
... Breath of the Wild has well over 100 hours of gameplay and when studies even show the average gamer plays less then 10 hours a week, Nintendo can literally get by with just this one game for over a month.
That's pretty much the reason the few third party publishers that bothered to support the Switch at launch did so with pretty weak efforts. Squeenix with the digital only Setsuna, Activision and Ubisoft with ports of games released in fall 2016. WB Games just now releasing a port of a 2013 LEGO game. Freaking Konami has done more for Nintendo than anyone else. I don't begrudge anyone who's complaining about the lack of games to play on the system right now, specially when it's contrasted by the really strong lineup from PS4 (I personally have Horizon Zero Dawn and Nier Automata waiting for me after I finish BotW)
Part of that could be companies hedging their bets again with Nintendo after the Wii U failed to take off which plays into the eternal cycle of weak 3rd party offerings not selling on Nintendo consoles so why support it? Maybe they bowed out from Zelda but what major significant 3rd party games would you say have been announced after the Zelda period of March and April with a bit of May? That's when they shouldn't have to worry so much about competing with this giant hype machine of a game.
And when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe comes out, Khush will still have access to 90% of the game's content on his Wii U.
It's true. Thanks again. Although, listen. Would you happen to have $6.00 you could loan me? It turns out the beer here isn't that free....
Khush is missing out on taking these games on the go, which is one of the strongest arguments for the Switch's existence. If that doesn't matter to a specific person, in this case Khush, then Switch isn't a compelling product for him.
Yeah, I guess having played the DS and 3DS so much, seeing people go on about the portability as a selling point seems a bit weird to me. I understand that's never been so easy to play games between your TV and on the go and really this is more a factor of being Nintendo's most powerful handheld that they've ever released but I don't have that much down time when I'm out and about. I don't ride a bus or subway. I'm driving myself around so my time is occupied handling the vehicle. I live about 3 minutes from my work so I don't really need to take a gaming device into it. Nor is there a problem with playing games on my TV since I live alone. (So sad. Awww.) Moreover, if I do want to watch a TV show or movie then I'm not going to play a game at the same time. I'm not into dividing my attention like that. About the only time I'll do that is if it is a sporting event since there can be a lot of downtime in between plays and the action. Take away that selling feature along with a limited software line-up and the case to buy a Switch is probably harder to make with me.
That's why I'm glad Nintendo still went a bit crazy with their controllers as that interests me a bit more. Plus, the fact that it plays Nintendo games is basically a sale for me anyways. However, I'm content to wait until there are 5 games I definitely want to buy that have been or are about to be released. Odyssey is one of those games. BotW would have been one if I didn't have a Wii U copy. Xenoblade 2 almost is but my experience comes from X as I still have yet to play the first. It's a game I know I'll most likely buy and add to my own library but not quite a system seller yet unlike X which wowed me from the initial trailer. So, I'm definitely hoping for a good Nintendo showing at E3 to fully put me into Switch hype mode and "justify" my purchase of one.
Having access to 90% of the games on already-existing hardware is just the way things are nowadays. It's getting pretty rare for a brand new console to launch with a killer exclusive game. But BotW is pretty damn close since Wii U is about impossible to buy brand new. And it's also basically a given that brand new consoles don't have very many games for the first few months. PS4 was in the same boat even months after launch. We're just one month into the life of this system.
Good points although I've always been surprised at how well PS4 has done from its launch for the same reason that it never had much compelling software for its first 6 months or so if I recall correctly. I remember a lot of chatter about the lack of worthwhile titles through its launch and yet it just kept selling anyways on the promise of titles to come in the future. Frankly, the PS4 launch success seemed to have come mainly from that one silly video of how easy it is to loan or sell a used game for the system when one guy handed a game over to another person. It just seemed to put Microsoft in such a bad light that they never recovered any momentum they may have had leading up to the XBone release and it left the console tainted from the beginning causing a large majority to choose PS4 over XB1. Nintendo's been fortunate to avoid such a situation with the Switch though their January press release did seem to come close to causing an issue of, let's say, gamer fury.
Hammer Time, you sound like a friggin' troll.
Just stop! Hammer Time!
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