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Only if you're ok with killing millions of people's childhoods, you monster.
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- Thread starter The NES Zapper
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yes i am.
now, the switch has a gimmick that's actually pretty decent this time, but they manage to fuck things up with faulty controllers and a terrible internet service (that you have to pay for this time mind you) and it just baffles me
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Too bad it has a serious problem with overheating. The PS4 has the same problem (those fucking fans) but sometimes I feel like the Switch is genuinely going to melt. They must be pushing that little piece of shit too far with some games.
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There are maaany issues with Nintendo's games regarding wireless. The new "free to start" Kirby game is a good example of this since it has really bad netcode, meaning that connections drop all the time with random lag. For $20 a year, Nintendo needs to really fix their online services urgently. The Wii U had better connections and most people just know it for "the console that had smash bros and 2 other games".
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There are three good Zapper games: Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and Wild Gunman. The rest are all utterly trash. Seriously, the fourth best Zapper game is an unremarkable LJN title. The rest are either very boring, or nearly unplayable.
Considering you got to the kill screen of Duck Hunt, you'd really like Wild Gunman's Gang mode:
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As someone that has played portable mode Xenoblade 2 for an autistic amount of hours in a row, that little tablet can take it somehow. I've had my switch for nearly two years and it has been running just fine. It is a little unsettling to feel your console just heat up like that, but I've never had major issues with it, such as I've never had it overheat so much that it just turns off.
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People stopped caring about Trials of Mana once it was announced that it's not a Switch exclusive.
These people are going to cause the Mana series to be locked away again for decades.
These people are going to cause the Mana series to be locked away again for decades.
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It's sad how horrendously rushed the Switch turned out to be. Bad hardware quality, somehow even worse online than its failed predecessor, and lawsuits getting flung left and right as a result. The thing should've had an extra year or two in the cooker but with the Wii U already dead they had no choice. They're lucky all this shit didn't happen until after everyone who wanted the system got it already, otherwise I doubt it would've flown off the shelves as prolifically as it has.
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there aren't enough fucking optimistic ratings in the world for this post
at least their online is competent though I guess
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As someone who hasn't turned on his ps4 for over a year, I don't know anything about this, how are they woke?
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That was when Nintendo started to lose me as well, but Mario Odyssey and Breath of The Wild were phenomenal.
Keep in mind, it had been well over a decade each since I had played a new entry to completion in the respective Mario and Zelda franchises, so finally returning to them after so long and having them be as good as I remember, it was wonderful.
Mario Odyssey made me feel like a kid again and Breath of The Wild, despite not being a graphical powerhouse, speaks to the power of good sound design as playing it with headphones, the sound of the wind and other ambient noise at times made me feel like I was really there, in fact at one point an owl hooted and thanks to the surround sound of my headphones I instinctively looked to the corner of my room as it really did sound like it came from within in my room, so immersed was I in the experience.
So yeah, Nintendo definitely still has some of the magic left, but it's a shame they have to rely on some central gimmick to "sell it" when great game design should be enough.
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Guess I’m that one person. I think the Wii U had some great exclusives like Mario 3D World and DKC Tropical Freeze, but they were doomed by being released on such a poorly-marketed console.
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What on earth do you play on your Switch that is going to make it melt? Open a window or turn on a ceiling fan.
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Games were honestly not the Wii U's core issue. Yeah no 3rd party but that was par for the course with Nintendo at that point in time.
No, what really killed it was their utter abysmal marketing strategy, easily the worst they ever did for a system. Even the NAME was awful because it sounded like a Wii add-on right off the bat, with laughably little effort to clear up public confusion. Strike one. Strike two was trying to court the blue ocean audience that bought the Wii, except that crowd was swallowed by mobile years ago. Finally, strike three was them trying way too hard to maintain the kiddy sensibilities right down to the ads featuring grade schoolers and little else (which is why the Switch reveal trailer consisted almost entirely of hipster millennials instead).
No, what really killed it was their utter abysmal marketing strategy, easily the worst they ever did for a system. Even the NAME was awful because it sounded like a Wii add-on right off the bat, with laughably little effort to clear up public confusion. Strike one. Strike two was trying to court the blue ocean audience that bought the Wii, except that crowd was swallowed by mobile years ago. Finally, strike three was them trying way too hard to maintain the kiddy sensibilities right down to the ads featuring grade schoolers and little else (which is why the Switch reveal trailer consisted almost entirely of hipster millennials instead).
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I remember during its announcement being a little confused, considering they just showed the Gamepad and what it could do, and I don't think I ever actually saw a picture of the console itself until I saw its box. I really couldn't blame anyone for just thinking it was some kind of tablet accessory for the Wii.
You also couldn't buy a replacement Gamepad. If yours broke, you had to call Nintendo to get a replacement for something like $100-150.
At least online support was still free, but they did that thing where your download purchases were tied to your actual Wii U, so if you sell yours off or get robbed, your games and DLC go with it. The Switch is seriously the only Nintendo platform to finally tie purchases to your account like everyone else. How Nintendo never figured that out until fucking 2017, I'll never know.
The console also had terrible loading times in even its menus, and they never improved after updates. Games could take a while to load, too, considering how dense Blu-ray discs are and how the system only had 8 or 32gb of space, with no option to install discs on USB drives.
Everything about that system was just so poorly thought out. Even the Virtual Console library was reset and slowly trickled out again, with many games that were on Wii never getting released on Wii U. Even though the U was fully backwards compatible with the Wii, you could transfer your old purchases over, and play them on your U by way of going through the virtual Wii. But if that was too much trouble, you could pay a dollar or two and upgrade to a Wii U version of the same game you could already play. Two bucks so you can launch your ROMs without clicking through extra menus. What a ripoff.
I forgot how much of a hassle the entire Wii U experience was. It's the only home console Nintendo ever released that was just unpleasant to use.
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I remember there was talk early on of being able to use two Gamepads which never came to fruition, which makes it even more baffling that you could never just buy another pad on its own. Speaking of the Gamepad itself though, what a stupid design. The public image of Nintendo being a kid-only company was bad enough, then they had to go and make the main controller of their new system look like a toddler's toy with its massive bulky shape. Comparing it to the Switch is like looking at those "Doctors hate him!" weight loss ads.
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My eyes would have gone wide at this comment but I lost my eyesight years ago and have relied on text-to-speech for most of my internet dealings.
On a completely unrelated topic, I really loved the Virtual Boy. Any VB fans here?