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OT: There is a popular program/interstitial in Japan called Pythagoras Switch[0]. I wonder if the name is a partial reference to that. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0B1hgP1tlE
Since the initial reveal, I have been utterly underwhelmed by this product. I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures. No touch screen? Not a single camera for AR content and/or social communication? The controllers look miniscule in the actor's tin…
Why shouldn't it? You're not able to use the Switch when it's docked, and the screen is disabled, so why show the screen?
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> rehashing the same game titles over and over again (the Switch is getting a Zelda title and a Mario title? What a shocker!) You say that like this is a bad thing. Nintendo isn't just making the same games over and over again. Every new Mario game, and every new Zelda game, brings something new to the genre. For example, Super Mario Galaxy was a very innovative and award-winning game that had a very unique and well-…
> Typically the best games on the whole platform. Also perhaps the only worthwhiles games on Nintendo's consoles.
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Could you elaborate on what you consider to be Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy? I mean, I get that they've often tried to be first movers with e.g. motion control, is that what you're referring to?
Specifically, it's that they do stuff qualitatively that their competitors don't , to the point where they're not so much competing as they are the sole player in a brand new market. I remember when the seventh generation came out, Microsoft did Nintendo's PR work for them by telling people that they can buy both a 360 and a Wii for the price of a PS3. That's right, they got Microsoft of all people to tell consumers…
Sounds like me. I don't buy a gaming system to play games generally, I buy one to play the kind of games Nintendo makes and attracts to its hardware. That's why I still pull my Gamecube out to play SSBM from time to time, but have never owned a Playstation or X-Box, and have barely touched either of them. I haven't had a new system since GBA and Gamecube, but I think I'd enjoy the newer Nintendo systems more than the systems they were released next to.
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You kinda have access to USB power on a flight. It should suffice I think.
Is this a first/business class thing? I've never been on a plane with USB power outlets (though it has been about 6 months since I few last).
The flights that didn't have USB outlets were shorter anyway, so the battery would hold.
I will buy this if it has sports games.. and I don't mean Wii Sports like games... I mean... EA, 2k and so on.
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The different game modes introduced through the hardware, namely the gamepad, seem quite revolutionary to me. Who else has been doing that (other than Nintendo with DS to some extent)?
I think what he meant to say was that the Wii U has been mostly underutilized.
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The two elder people at the end that play with Mario are about the same proportion as Mario. So what do you mean? But for a second you see that the New York level is really just a few city blocks. And all the skyscrappers are just a background skybox. So the city level is Mario level kind of small, not a complete city like in Lego City Undercover. Overall the new Super Mario finally returns to the Mario 64 and Galaxy…
Did you play Mario 3D World on Wii U? That wasn't simplified isometric 2.5D!
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>But part of me can't help but wish Nintendo would just straight up compete with Sony and Microsoft. // Surely though if you want that experience you can buy a PS4/Xbone/PC. Personally I'm really happy that Nintendo continues to give a different twist to their consoles and provide some texture to the market.
But will you still be happy if Nintendo bows out of the market altogether? It's no coincidence they are exploring mobile games. They aren't exactly killing it these days. If the Switch doesn't do well, I wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo go completely 3rd party.
Surely the next step would be VR, though it's probably right to enter that arena partnered with an established player.
If smart-watches/wearables push on then people may move away from using a smart-phone form factor and instead have a paired device trailer more towards gaming and media.
I wonder if Switch can (in theory) run Android, whether it'll have Skype or other video calling (I didn't notice a camera?).