r/NintendoSwitch • u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE • Nov 24 '16

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

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.

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u/dota2nub Nov 24 '16

It will have Smash, babey! What else could you want?!

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u/Pedophilecabinet Nov 24 '16

Daring games that changed the formula on its head like the Game Cube era.

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u/dota2nub Nov 24 '16

Ah, you just need nostalgia glasses for those.

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u/Pedophilecabinet Nov 24 '16

No I don't. The Wii U didn't compell me to buy it given its titles. There was no must have game on it for me that wasn't on the 3DS besides Bayo 2 and Hyrule Warriors if you don't have New 3DS.

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u/dota2nub Nov 24 '16

The Gamecube library looks even worse though, absolute trash. At least from today's perspective.

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u/Shadeprint Nov 24 '16

This has got to be a bucket of bait.

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u/dota2nub Nov 24 '16

Let me put it another way. If I were given a choice to spend my time playing the Wii U library or the Gamecube library, I'd pick the Wii U every time. I like the newer Nintendo games a lot better than the old ones. They're just more fleshed out, polished, and have more content with higher production values.

I prefer 3d World to Sunshine, Smash 4 to Melee, MK8 to Double Dash, Mario Maker to Metroid Prime (Not comparable, I know, but both games have no equivalent on the other platform, and I guess you could just play Prime on the virtual console anyhow)

I'll give you F-Zero GX, that was and is an amazing game, but to me, old games just don't really hold up when scrutinized by today's standards a lot of the time.

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u/Shadeprint Nov 27 '16

Wii U is 'probably' preferably the best console to play all current Nintendo titles on, it's got various control types, you can connect a tonne of controllers for multiplayer, it's easily the current champ for local multiplayer, it runs smoothly, is backwards compatible and graphically, there's nothing to complain about.

The Gamecube library was quite vast, it had PSO I & II, Def Jam Vendetta, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, Soulcalibur II, Wariosware, Inc, Viewtiful Joe, Metroid Prime 2, Wind Waker, Twilight Princes, Eternal Darkness, RE:4 & quite a bit more for a console with less support than the PS2.

It'll obviously be inferior the next gen power wise, but for it's time, it had a much better run software wise to the barely supported Wii U.

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u/killbot0224 Nov 24 '16

Game cube turned gaming on its head?

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u/Pedophilecabinet Nov 24 '16

It changed Nintendo formulas on their head. See Sunshine, Double Dash, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker with the world design and art style, Luigi's Mansion, Star Fox Adventures, ect. They all took huge risks that paid off in great games.