CaitSeith said:Well, we'll see how well it plays (and how much it costs).
Yeah, that's pretty much my reaction. I mean, does anyone remember the launch of the WiiU? Everyone got hyped, everyone thought this was the new big thing, a bunch of third-party developers said they were going to support it and all loved the system (you know, the usual PR bullshit), and then it sold about as well as aged toe cheese. The running joke of the industry the Vita has sold more units than the WiiU, and I think the same is going to happen here. There might be more of a spike in sales at the start and Nintendo might drag in more non-gamers than last time if they market the thing right, but with the media decidedly anti-gaming instead of saying the Wii cures cancer and people like Oprah handing out consoles to her cultists (I mean audience) and the ubiquity of smart phones, the Switch is going to end up abandoned by both developers and gamers because it's going to be underpowered and probably filled with touch-screen or some other dumb gimmickery. Plus if gamers are bitching about resolution and not having the shiniest graphics and the smoothest framerates possible on the PS4 and Xbone (and their upgrades), then I can't wait to see the number of torches and pitchforks brought out against the Switch. But then again, I suppose it IS Nintendo, which means no matter how lackluster the system is or how big of bastards they are, there's a fairly large group of people who will defend them to the death.