I haven’t played my Nintendo Switch in almost two years.

[Marissa Moira]

Same. I bought two because I was excited for the prospects of a bustling homebrew scene. Not very interested in first-party Nintendo titles, and everything I’ve played on the Switch in great detail was a game I already owned on PC or something. I should get rid of them before the inevitable console refresh occurs.

I think the Switch Lite is probably the last full console revision we're getting. PS5 launches this year and the switch already has issues with ports of shit from the PS4, and with the SSD thrown into the mix now, and being standard for Xbox, PC, and PS4 this will further hamper any and all switch ports unless you like 8 minute loading times. They're going to need to make a whole new system for 2021 because I don't see the switch lasting beyond that in any fruitful manner.

They're kind of in a corner right now because The Switch has been a success, but it also can't keep up with it's competition especially if all the third parties are making even higher production shit. So do they make a whole new system or are they going to have to make a new system that also has Switch support bolted onto it? Those cards are not a wide spread media format like blu-rays and that's also another thing that can box them in. Because this would put the Switch's sucessor being the only console without backwards compatibility for a situation where not only does their competition have it, the switch is also too new to be fully replaced out of all of the consoles. People would feel ripped off by having to shell out another $400 for another nintendo system so soon.

Mind you we've had multiple systems coast along on nintendo's first party software, that's what kept the wii-u going but nobody thought the wii-u was good in spite of that.

 

[Red Hood]

You buy a Nintendo console for Nintendo's games and everything else is gravy, it's been that way for so long I don't see the point in complaining about it anymore.

I just wish they would drop the idea of some central gimmick (motion controls, portability) at the cost of hardware power, it's been almost 20 fucking years since a Nintendo console wasn't a step behind everything else (I guess the Wii U was mostly on par... for a single year)

The Switch is going to be as embarrassingly dated once the PS5 and the Xbox Series X release as the Wii was when compared to the PS3 and 360, that's really bad considering this is only the Switch's third year.

Pretty much, and if you're not into Nintendo's core franchises (with the exception of Metroid, which they treat as the black sheep, I don't like ANY Nintendo franchises, just a few disparate games like Mario 3 and World). I'm fine with missing those, I'm just always amused by the people whose brains shut down when you tell them Zelda or Pokemon isn't your thing.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I think the Switch Lite is probably the last full console revision we're getting. PS5 launches this year and the switch already has issues with ports of shit from the PS4, and with the SSD thrown into the mix now, and being standard for Xbox, PC, and PS4 this will further hamper any and all switch ports unless you like 8 minute loading times. They're going to need to make a whole new system for 2021 because I don't see the switch lasting beyond that in any fruitful manner.

They're kind of in a corner right now because The Switch has been a success, but it also can't keep up with it's competition especially if all the third parties are making even higher production shit. So do they make a whole new system or are they going to have to make a new system that also has Switch support bolted onto it? Those cards are not a wide spread media format like blu-rays and that's also another thing that can box them in. Because this would put the Switch's sucessor being the only console without backwards compatibility for a situation where not only does their competition have it, the switch is also too new to be fully replaced out of all of the consoles. People would feel ripped off by having to shell out another $400 for another nintendo system so soon.

Mind you we've had multiple systems coast along on nintendo's first party software, that's what kept the wii-u going but nobody thought the wii-u was good in spite of that.

The Switch will only be 4 years old in 2021, I feel like a console's lifespan should be at least 5 years, like the Gamecube, N64 and SNES's lifespans were.

 

[BananaSplit]

Switch is a great replacement for the Vita, for all twelve of us who owned one.

I personally disagree on that statement although I can understand that english support is in general much better on the Switch than during the entire Vita's lifespan. The Vita still shines brighter as a portable retro & niche "hiden jems" games machine and the hacking scene isnt a mess unlike what I remember about the Switch's a while back.

I'm just always amused by the people whose brains shut down when you tell them Zelda or Pokemon isn't your thing.

Something about the modern Nintendo games dont click me at all unlike what the SNES, Gamecube, Gameboy & DS titles still can to this day but I am unable to exactly pinpoint it myself.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Something about the modern Nintendo games dont click me at all unlike what the SNES, Gamecube, Gameboy & DS titles still can to this day but I am unable to exactly pinpoint it myself.

They started to phone shit in. Look at NSMB for the prime example. They no longer made things with care and also married them to stupid controllers as the main selling point and not the game itself, which drove the gameplay quality down because shit like motion controls hampered shit.

Nintendo also ceased working with other companies like Rare which also drove people to their systems with exclusives and to this day there's a huge ass gap of having next to zero western studios who routinely make top quality exclusives for them. Nintendo used to actively compete for the best thing in a genre ever with stuff like SM64, but then they became too retarded with gimmick controls and never improved gameplay.

 

[H&K Hates You]

Blah

The New 3DS released about 3.5 years after the original, a new revision announcement wouldn't be out of the ordinary. The current Switch hardware can't run Grid Autosport, a 360/PS3 game at 60 FPS without shadows being turned off and with more than 2 cars on the screen. Feral Interactive did that port and they've noted that 2019 cell phones outspec the Switch completely. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason EA is avoiding the Switch is because they can't get Frostbite and Apex's Source to run well enough on it and they want to save face and avoid a 2K WWE situation.

They started to phone shit in. Look at NSMB for the prime example. They no longer made things with care and also married them to stupid controllers as the main selling point and not the game itself, which drove the gameplay quality down because shit like motion controls hampered shit.

Nintendo also ceased working with other companies like Rare which also drove people to their systems with exclusives and to this day there's a huge ass gap of having next to zero western studios who routinely make top quality exclusives for them. Nintendo used to actively compete for the best thing in a genre ever with stuff like SM64, but then they became too exceptional with gimmick controls and never improved gameplay.

NSMB1 was the first original 2d mario platformer since Mario Land 2. It didn't use the 2nd screen for much other than a hud. It sold extremely well compared to Mario64DS that tried to shoehorn the touchscreen in as an analog stick. All other NSMB games after that though, fuck em.
Rare was a tire fire by the time Nintendo let them go. Whether or not it was Nintendo meddling ala Argonaut Software or big dick infighting at Rare, I don't know. Rare pissed away a lot of work during the Gamecube's life.

 

[Fatrick Hamlinson]

I haven't played it in a few weeks. I'm waiting for Animal Crossing and the Friends of Mineral Town remake.

 

[InfamyBrah]

2017 was madness, it's been a shitshow since then.

One big release a year and some low-effort bullshit to fill the blank.

 

[Niggernerd]

I don't own a switch as i have normal testosterone levels.