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Its going to be a big challenge.
Are you my FIL, by chance?
I'm sure if the price is right you can have it.
Pretty sure they're making Xenoblade Chronicles X for the Switch as we speak. I believe I watched the release trailer for it the other week. Rejoice!
Took them long enough. It’s a very good game, a lot of people skipped it because of being WiiU only.
I almost bought it but didn't because I don't have time to get into a massive RPG like that. Kind of regret that but I'm glad they're porting it forward. Not a whole lot of games are Wii U exclusive these days. As much as we love ours there isn't a whole lot of reason to hold onto it anymore.
I still keep it since it natively plays GC and Wii.
Breath of the Wild was released on the WiiU... at the same time as it was released for the Switch. Nintendo has done this multiple times which is why there are Zelda games for multiple Nintendo consoles. Zelda games are usually released between console cycles. The WiiU did have good games from Nintendo, but this should also emphasize the need for 3rd party games to be ported, and probably why the WiiU failed. You're not going to buy a WiiU that's slightly faster than the PS3, but also much slower than the soon to be released PS4. You can't tell me that the WiiU games were better than the exclusives on the PS4. The WiiU and the PS4 were released one year apart. This is similar to the situation where Atari released their Jaguar console which was better than the SNES and Genesis, but was a year away from the Playstation release.DukenukemX we'll have to disagree on Nintendo. lol
Nintendo needs to wake up and port their games to other platforms. Morality goes out the window when you force people to play these games on old outdated hardware and can't be played on any machine you'd like.
This has already happened with Dolphin.
No they wouldn't. The Steam Deck does allow you to run games that aren't from Steam. The Steam Deck even allows you to run it as a desktop PC. Valve doesn't even stop people from pirating Steam games on the Deck, let alone Nintendo games.
Don't care, because Sega does port their games to PC. Remember, not long ago Nintendo was in a much worse situation than Sega. They almost Sega'd themselves.
Rampant cheating, what exactly is this about? So are people cheating here too, why can't they play the game normally?
Nintendo has been smart with their Zelda release timing your right. The Zelda games have been some of their most expensive games to develop. The advantage of aiming at the middle and releasing on old and new hardware is, you get a launch title with out loosing pre installed base of customers. This is one of the problems for third party developers supporting any console including Sony and MS. It is a big part of the reason Sony and MS have been forced to buy studios. No one wants to produce a game with a 100m+ budget... and release it on a brand new console with ZERO install base, that the console MFG is going to only be able to ship a few million of in the first few months even if the console is a hit. This makes the marketing budget mostly a waste of money. You can't sell millions copies of a game in the first few months to break even if there are only a few million consoles in the world that can run your game. If we go back further to before Sony and MS would just buy studios they used to do things like cover marketing budgets... and year post launch marketing for third parties.
Yes, they should solve that online then. While I was playing Battlefield 1 PC it was always ok and good, despite my bad and very slow internet, but you always choose and play where you are, European servers in my case.
Unless them guys are assembling them in China on the conyer belt it's out of Nintendo's control.
I’ve used the shit out of my Switch OLED to play smaller indie titles like Dredge, and honestly it’s the console of choice for JRPG fans. IMO Nintendo doesn’t really need big 3rd party support to be successful. No one is buying a switch to play COD anyways.Nintendo has been smart with their Zelda release timing your right. The Zelda games have been some of their most expensive games to develop. The advantage of aiming at the middle and releasing on old and new hardware is, you get a launch title with out loosing pre installed base of customers. This is one of the problems for third party developers supporting any console including Sony and MS. It is a big part of the reason Sony and MS have been forced to buy studios. No one wants to produce a game with a 100m+ budget... and release it on a brand new console with ZERO install base, that the console MFG is going to only be able to ship a few million of in the first few months even if the console is a hit. This makes the marketing budget mostly a waste of money. You can't sell millions copies of a game in the first few months to break even if there are only a few million consoles in the world that can run your game. If we go back further to before Sony and MS would just buy studios they used to do things like cover marketing budgets... and year post launch marketing for third parties.
This is the problem with third party Nintendo, and every other consoles next gen hardware. No one is going to want to make Switch2 exclusives until their are enough switch2s in the world for them to have a shot to break even. Its the same issue PC VR has. No one is going to invest a 100m+ AAA budget into making a VR game... even if every single VR hardware owner buys a copy you still loose money. Anything that comes to switch2 out of the gate is going to also have to run on Switch 1 and the 140m install base switch 1 has. Same is true for Sony... when they release a PS6, third party studios are not going to release that generations far cry style game that won't run on a PS5. You can't sell enough copies to break even. The solution for Sony and MS has been to buy game studios and release games for their new consoles anyway. They are doing the same exact thing Nintendo is doing. No one says hey Sony needs to attract more games from studios they don't own. Sony game studios, and exclusive titles that brings is seen as a strength?
Nintendo can't rely on external game studios to sell their units. If Nintendo wants to move switch units they need to produce more games. Themselves. Or buy studios, just like Sony and MS do.
Again the Steam Deck isn't the same product at all. Steam Deck is a Linux PC in a handheld format. It’s not a console. It isn't competition for Nintendo. You can argue its competition for PS and Xbox a little more as the PC games the deck runs are mostly the same games. Emulation also does not count it isn't legal, I mean the argument that you can break the law isn't a good one. You can make the same argument about the other guys consoles. You can build a PC and run the software you want as well... you can warez some games if you like. Heck you don't even need to use emulators you can just illegally download PC games. Even easier. Wait you can illegally download PC games... on your Deck. So I guess the Deck is just the perfect console killer.
One would think through an adapter, if at all. Bear in mind the 2 joycons are physically bigger than the switch, so you'd have them overhanging the console body. I suspect it'd look aesthetically displeasing enough that Nintendo just doesn't make it possible.
145 million Switches disagree with you.
Yeah. Nintendo isn't in competition with anyone but themselves.
It is not the console of choice for JRPGs. That is the PS5. I agree 3rd party support is pointless for the Switch. The biggest 3rd party games only sell a couple hundred thousand units for the switch.
I fly to Japan like monthly and pickup my switch games. All the games are Switch are mobile that I care about. Maybe for English localized games you might be right, but I really don’t see it. Reality is both platforms get both but I personally like the switch exclusives better. Besides, PS5 isn’t portable.
Yeah, they would have been better skipping the game pad and just making it a cheaper console. However, the lack of solid first party titles is truly what killed it. Not giving WiiU owners BOTW earlier, a solid Mario, a Metroid, etc really hurt it. Had WiiU had BOTW within the first year of launch I think the WiiU would have sold a whole hell of a lot better.
My argument against the Switch 2 is that it offers nothing else but playing Switch1/2 games. When the original Switch was announced I thought it was gonna run Android and be able to run Android games. The stupid thing can't even run Netflix. It doesn't even have Roblox. I've been able to get these running on my Switch because I modded it. Sony sold more Playstation 2's and 3's because of the use of the DVD/Blu-Ray formats. If you wanna sell more hardware then give people other reasons to buy your hardware.
But why? Cause you say so? You can play Doom 2016 on both the Switch and Steam Deck. You can play a number of games on both platforms. Because Nintendo has Mario and Zelda? You know how many games you can't ever get on the Switch or Switch 2? Like it or not these two machines are competing. Not just those two, because you have many other machines. Even Linus from LTT mentioned that Steam Deck and it's clones are now competition for the Switch.
If you're the person who wants to play the games, do you think they really care if it's legal? What if you wanna play Baldur's Gate 3 and Mario Odyssey on your trip to Tahiti? You're not going to carry both a Switch and a Steam Deck. What if you legally own the game? It's not peoples fault that Nintendo won't port their games to other platforms.Emulation also does not count it isn't legal, I mean the argument that you can break the law isn't a good one. You can make the same argument about the other guys consoles. You can build a PC and run the software you want as well... you can warez some games if you like. Heck you don't even need to use emulators you can just illegally download PC games. Even easier. Wait you can illegally download PC games... on your Deck. So I guess the Deck is just the perfect console killer.
Nintendo didn't try and fail to shut down two Switch emulators just because Nintendo realized that Switch emulation exists. You could play Mario Odyssey on your PC back in 2019 and you mean to tell me that Nintendo five years later has realized that Switch emulation exists? Nintendo needs the Switch 2 to be successful, or become another studio that sells their games on the Steam store, like Microsoft and Sony. They don't want their games running on Steam Deck or clones.
That is all Nintendo sells the switch as correct. As a handheld that plays Nintendo games. Not sure what your looking for. Its a Nintendo, it plays Nintendo games. If you want a device that does something else buy that. Nintendo doesn't care if you buy a Deck or a PC or a Playstation. Not sure why you believe a switch should do a bunch of other things. I mean but why? Cause you want it to?
I think Nintendo knows what they are doing. Despite your assurance that the switch sucks cause it can't be used to watch netflix or run emulators or install software like it was a PC... that isn't what people are looking for. People keep pointing it out to you but I'll do it again. The Playstation 2 is the best selling console of all time for about 6 more months. By mid '25 the Switch 1 will be the highest selling console of ALL time. It will pass Nintendos own 3D handheld probably next month... and then it is only a few million more consoles from passing PS2. Everyone disagrees with you. The switch clearly does everything it needs to do. It doesn't need to play blu rays or let you install your free Epic game store games (I joke --- but you can do that on a deck lol).
I mean, mismanagement of first party titles, dwindling relevance in the market, Microsoft is perfectly following the 'Sega' strategy and going to software only.
Nintendo is in far better shape than Sony or Microsoft right now.
I don't know what shape they are in, but I believe they are all in good shape. The point is that Nvidia, Intel and AMD hold all the chips and Nintendo can't do anything without them regarding their new Switch 2 console. That could only mean that the worst situation will happen in Europe again, in the US the Switch 2 will be $350, in Europe it will be 500 euros.And Microsoft is switching to software only and will distribute its games through PS and Nintendo. On the other hand, they have the Xbox Series S and X, which are still good consoles but never became as popular as PS or Nintendo (obviously because of the games, i.e. exclusives that PS and Nintendo have)
PlayStation is doomed to eventually die just like Xbox. The first party titles aren’t that great anymore, and they all eventually come to PC anyways. Further, the PC is just better for cross platform games these days. Nintendo is smart with the switch and has entrenched themselves in a good position.
Consoles will not fail, many have grown up on them and will always buy them even if they also have a PC. And they are ideal for poorer countries. Xbox series S is a fairly affordable and good console.
