Are you getting a Nintendo SWITCH?

Greg_Dickson 2017-02-22 05:16:29 UTC #11

Hey, I don't expect you to read it, but I'm not trying to convince others to not buy it. I'm just stating my own personal reasons for not buying it as the thread asked. Bottom line, I've been a fan of Nintendo for most of my life. I'm just put off by a lot of Nintendo's recent decisions lately, and their new console doesn't appeal to me this time around.

TheKawaiiGarden 2017-02-22 05:16:53 UTC #12

Way too poor to get one for myself buuut I will get one at some point, just gonna watch other people play it on youtube

Chronitis 2017-02-22 05:20:07 UTC #13

okay since this is very long I'll reply to each section as I get around to reading it. As for your price section. You do have pay for online, same with Xbox. Also, you could get the knock off brands if you want extra controllers. When you get the switch it comes with 2 controllers already, and if the joy con are uncomfortable, you can just detach them and play them apart from one another.

Chronitis 2017-02-22 05:21:22 UTC #14

#TheStruggleisReal!!

Chronitis 2017-02-22 05:22:41 UTC #15

Well, hopefully, the next DS will appeal to you more?

Greg_Dickson 2017-02-22 05:22:55 UTC #16

I have heard about the joy cons becoming two separate controllers, but I do have to wonder if every game will use them as such, or if many games will require each player to use a combination of both joy cons. I've never had much luck with knock off brands, as I've had a lot of 3rd party controllers crap out on me. I'm not sure if that's down to personal bad luck, or if it's a pretty common thing to expect. Thanks for letting me know about PS4's online, but fortunately for me, I don't really play games online. I mostly just shop for single player or local multiplayer titles online.

I don't think there will be a next DS, since Nintendo is merging their handheld and console markets together with the Switch.

Kura 2017-02-22 05:23:27 UTC #17

To address not knowing if you can't play online via the PS4, yeah you do have to pay for that now by getting the PSN+ subscription, though they also give you 4 free games every month, most smaller indi titles, but they'll also through some of their bigger games in there as well like Little Big Planet, God of War and Uncharted types. They also give you discounts to titles from time to time, as well as even more of a discount on top of their sales, their flash sales are hard to stay away from sometimes.

As for the switch, the issues for me are pretty similar, especially the cost of it up here in Canada, the biggest thing keeping me from wanting would be how poorly they treated the WiiU. It really didn't get very many games on it, and 3rd party support started avoiding the system pretty early on. So now that the WiiU is done with it's day in the sun it just really feels like I wasted my money on they system. There really only being 3 games that I would regularly play on it, Bayonetta 2, Smash Brothers and Hyrule Warriors (which kinda felt like wasted time once Hyrule Warriors Legends was introduced to the 3Ds with more everything)

Also that annoying habit to force motion or tablet controls to the point they actually make the game worse or make it pretty much unplayable (like in starfox's case)

Shanny8 2017-02-22 05:30:59 UTC #18

NOPE. Getting a PS4 this weekend...

I would love to still play games like Zelda or Mario, but it seems with each new console they seem to get away from a lot of the elements that made those games fun for me.

VermillionWorks 2017-02-22 05:33:01 UTC #19

Yeah, I don't care about games like Zelda and No More Heroes enough to get another Nintendo system, and the mobile features aren't important enough to me either. If they put a more vast array of games on one of them for a change, then I might consider it.

MST3KFan 2017-02-22 07:23:47 UTC #20

Sadly, no. I used to be a HUGE Nintendo fan...back in the NES and SNES days. Then the N64 hit...along with the original Playstation...and given all the amazing games on the PSX, I jumped ship.

Pretty much after the SNES days, Nintendo systems have been mostly reliant on first party games to keep afloat because Nintendo keeps trying to be 'different' or 'innovative' over its competition, but it ultimately makes third party companies go to the other systems, and while when the Wii came out, they did hit pay dirt for a while, Nintendo has sadly been clinging to that ONE thing that made them noticed again. Motion control.

They had a lot of peoples' interest in the Switch in early presentations as it looked like they were actually trying to do something interesting with the whole home console that converts into a handheld...and then the press conference in Japan revealing motion controls...again... That killed a lot of interest for a number of people I know.

Then the other details started coming out like the costs of the Pro Controller, some games like Skyrim ($60 for the regular version when the special edition is out on other systems and PC!?), the subscription service. Also, how Nintendo expects people to rebuy Virtual Console games they had on the Wii U, which is sad.
Oh! And that whole getting ONE NES or SNES game for a short time as a download before Nintendo takes it back thing...

Not to mention Nintendo's inability to put out enough systems for launches. (How many people got the NES Mini this last holiday season that wanted it?) The Switch pre-orders are already long sold out.

I don't like to knock on Nintendo, but I think this one video I watched said it best: "Nintendo thinks of themselves as a toy company. Toy companies limit production of things because they don't want a lot of excessive stock." Heck, look at the whole Amiibo fiasco.

Put it this way... If Nintendo would ditch the idea of 'being innovative' and just make great games and do a system third party would WANT to put games onto... Maybe look at their old franchises that haven't had games in ages like StarTropics. Or do more classic versions of games like Metroid, Kid Icarus, Pikmin, Paper Mario... Just stop with the gimmicks (It killed StarFox probably for good.)

But whatever. I'm not trying to dissuade others from buying it if they're interested, I'm just throwing my two cents out there about my disinterest in Nintendo's Switch.

Pandastrophic 2017-02-22 09:08:48 UTC #21

No, it's just that the WiiU was such a huge disappointment, I felt like we spent a lot and bought it and there was hardly any games to play! They promised us more non-nintendo games and uhh..idk I didn't see that much?? all the games are the usual zelda, mario, pokemon, etc and I only played smash and splatoon honestly. I feel like the nintendo Switch will turn out the same, too expensive, only nintendo games, etc.

Chronitis 2017-02-22 10:50:08 UTC #22

motion controls are only used in 1,2 SWITCH other games don't really use them.

Chronitis 2017-02-22 11:00:23 UTC #23

Really? You stated it in your argument that the switch had paid online, but whatever. I hope you enjoy your PS4, and I don't know your taste, but may I recommend Horrozon: Zero Dawn Just think if Nintendo and Sony actually collaborated all those years ago...

Chronitis 2017-02-22 11:01:47 UTC #24

Woah...Not one of you getting the switch...

PartyofOne

Silerna 2017-02-22 11:13:09 UTC #25

Nah. Still happy with my Wii.

Greg_Dickson 2017-02-22 11:47:23 UTC #26

It wasn't paid online that wasn't selling it to me. I was just mentioning all of the combined prices that eventually add up, and paid online is just a small part of that. Not to say that I would never use paid online if I had one though. Since I mentioned Splatoon 2 was one of the only 2 games I was interested in, that is paid online. So hypothetically, if I did get a Switch, I would be incurring that cost too. Anyway, I'm not really upset about paid online. Everyone has it. But Nintendo isn't offering good rewards with their subscription service, unlike their competitors.

Greg_Dickson 2017-02-22 11:55:28 UTC #27

Oh, other games they'll develop in the future will definitely use them. Nintendo put a LOT of time and money into those joy con controllers for them to be used eventually.

hushicho 2017-02-22 12:00:04 UTC #28

I'll happily get it if I have the money to. I'm interested in and excited for it. It's also worth noting that Nintendo are basically the only ones in the business with real, desirable exclusives. The fact that they've also at long last discarded region locking makes it even more something I see myself as enjoying; in past, the region lock made things so much more difficult for anyone and everyone to really have the freedom of choice in games.

Nintendo generally do an excellent job on their exclusives, they make good, durable consoles, and I trust them a lot more than Microsoft or Sony, both of whom I've had major problems with that were either not dealt with, not dealt with well, or shouldn't have existed in the first place.

The Switch seems to take everything I like and put it into one system, so I find it attractive and the concept an agreeable one. As I said before though, I'll have to have the money spare to do it, and I never get anything at launch anymore. Give it a few months and wait for the inevitable bugs to be worked out.

Louistrations 2017-02-22 12:38:38 UTC #29

I want one sooo badly but I'm super-broke at the moment, so hopefully by the end of the year I'll have one in my hands. It's going to be tough seeing everybody post photos to twitter on launch day, hehe. They're bound to release a Splatoon2 bundle later in the year, right?!

indagold 2017-02-22 13:51:49 UTC #30

Maybe in year if there's more releases and I save up enough. Right now not at all worth it. All I want is zelda, all the other games look stupid. Sorry nintendo fanboys but nintendo is pretty sucky as of late.