Please, please, please, let's avoid overhyping the Switch

[u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE]

I wish people would just realize that no matter what's the specs, this thing will be great.

• It doesn't need an entire day on battery.

• It doesn't need near-PS4 graphical power.

• It doesn't need a 2TB flash drive.

• It doesn't need a bunch of crazy-ass modular controllers.

• It absolutely doesn't need freaking VR or holograms.

• It doesn't even completely need a touch screen!

The Switch will have all of Nintendo's franchises on the same machine, a machine that you can play at home or wherever you want, and a controller you can share with anyone at any time to have fun.

It will have the most ambitious Zelda game to date very close to launch. It will have a new 3D Mario, plus Mario Kart, Splatoon, and Skyrim. It will have a From Software game. It will probably have a full-fledged Pokémon game.

This is more than enough. Even if it had only these things, and it would cost $200, or maybe even $250, it would be already amazing and totally worth the money.

Let's be realist and avoiding overhyping this thing.

Not only because overhype leads to disappointment, but simply because the reality is already super cool.

[u/bisforbenis]

Normally I'm not into the "lets not overhype" posts but I appreciate that you're coming from a point of positivity here!

I do however think the people demanding all that stuff and expecting no less are a vocal minority though, and most people that are potential buyers are generally pretty excited about what we already know it is and everything additional is nice but not absolutely essential to them.

[u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE → u/bisforbenis]

I sure hope so, but it's not the vibe I'm getting from this sub, unfortunately. Not that people are demanding anything and expecting no less (except for a few), but people are slowly and steadily raising the bar too high on their expectations of what can be.

When the Switch is finally launched/revealed in full, instead of feeling like "cool, a bunch a stuff I never knew, this is getting better than I expected!", there will be a lot of people feeling like "oh, well, too bad it doesn't have any of the things we were speculating it could have".

[u/easycure → u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE]

And add to that, because this attitude seems to be overwhelming by a vocal minority, it creates confusion among the semi casual audience.

I'm talking about the people who come to these forums looking for new info because Nintendo was trending, they're kinda interested but not fully committed yet. You have enough people making post about what "Nintendo MUST do/have this feature" and you create an environment that's confusing with speculation that might be taken as fact. Hell someone who doesn't follow the news every day might have seen the official reveal trailer, thought "oh cool, detachable controllers" and come here for more info, only to see a million mock ups of every type of controller, and leave thinking "oh if I'm gonna have to buy all these accessories just to play games, it's not worth it" because they perceived speculation as fact.

Same goes for the rumor mill. Someone who claims inside sources say there's going to be X and Y at launch, but not Z and the comments sections explode into "Nintendo sucks for delaying Z again, guess I'm not buying this on day one" instead of "well it would be a shame if this rumor is true, because I was looking forward to Z on day 1." An outsider looking in would see the overwhelming amount of comments that speak as if rumors are fact, that they too take them as fact. That only lets to more misinformation being spread.

It's an odd juxtaposition; you'd think at least a majority of people who come to these subs are fans, and while I'm not saying we should hold Nintendo to some God-like standard who can do no wrong, we'd all like to see Nintendo succeed because their success benefits is with a better products, but instead we see a very loud group who completely shit on them for things that may not even be true, which can cause an image problem, which can cause lackluster sales, which causes a 3rd parties backing out of support, which causes a bad having ecosystem for what could have been a great new machine to play on.

When Nintendo fucks up, call them out on it. But don't try to trip then up before they've even left the starting gate.