No not really. Again my Switch has mostly been a dust magnet since last year.
While I do think the Switch 2 is too expensive, I still think it's going to sell 70-80 million units. It's not going to be anywhere the monumental failure Wii U was. It'll be more of a DS -> 3DS thing in terms of sales.
I feel like Switch has a lot of utility if you know how to buy games. I have a pretty big collection of games I already had for other systems like Red Dead Redemption, Titan quest, Skyrim and Borderlands. A lot of these third party games get marked down after a year or so and you can get them used for like $20. I think buying any of those games brand new when they launched would have been retarded, but for $20 it's kind of worth it because sometimes you just want to play Skyrim in bed.
I guess I'm not really focusing on how it sells, but more of who will buy the ports? I know die hard nintendo fans will, but so far Nintendo is making the mistake of relying on years old 3rd party ports. Bringing Wii U games to the Switch made sense as it introduced those games to a wider audience, but they can't pull that same trick twice. Even the Switch 2 games we've received have obviously been Switch 1 games that were delayed and shelved until the Switch 2 was released, with maybe the exception of Kirby Air Riders. Eventually people will question why they have it in the first place. I know some people who did that even with the Switch. The real money is in the games, not the consoles, it's the razor and blades business model. And if all you're seeing is old games that run worse, that you're being asked to buy again, I don't see the appeal
Toddslop notwithstanding, most of these ports are way more recent (1-2 years old) than the ones you'd typically get only a single year ago in the switch era (5-6 years old). A good chunk of them, capcom especially, are launching day 1 on switch 2. Some of the ports, most notably the Digimon one, actually run BETTER than the ps5 version, 60fps on switch 2 while it's locked to 30fps on ps5. Most of these things are pretty inconsequential, but taken together paint a picture of a paradigm shift going on right now.
I use mine to play Skyrim when I take the train to and from work. It's perfect for public transit commute for older game replays, and is about the only free time I have to play games anymore.
The PS5 version of Time Stranger is getting a patch for 60fps too. It was buried in the news following the direct so it's not exactly widespread information.
Yes. He's built his story up as "the chess club guy took over a game company with his epic brain" and by god everybody's gonna fuckin' hear it.
I wonder how many Nintendo "classics" already presently available on one or more of the existing virtual consoles will mysteriously disappear from those stores only to reappear on this new one with fresh coats of paint (or an extra word or two in the title) for $9.99 plus tax once this new virtual console is available?
Virtual console doesn't exist anymore. You literally cannot buy old Nintendo games from Nintendo. They are only available via subscription.
This isn't a storefront nor handled by Nintendo. People comparing it to the Virtual Console are embellishing a bit.
I'm all for complaining about nso, and especially the absolute drip feed of games, but come the fuck on.
I'm not saying I'd personally buy Mario World for $10 at this point. I'm saying I would rather drop a one time $50-60 one and done to buy a handful of games I want to play in perpetuity than have an annual subscription. I think virtual console was a better system than NSO for old games. I bought virtual console games on 3DS well over a decade ago, and I can still pick up my 3DS and play them anytime with no active subscription, no Internet connection, etc. They're just there on my system ready to play until it breaks.
This is flawed too. If you own nothing, then companies can sell you what basically amounts to a subscription fee, in perpetuity, for the rest of your life. Please buy these decade-old games again. Please buy them over, and over, and over. Don’t archive it yourself. Don’t make your own copies. Buy ours! Give US money! Which would be fine....if you couldn't get the same experience, if not an infinitely better one, elsewhere. If you haven't built up a physical gaming collection, or lack the physical space, or the money, the solution is obvious--what platform can give you everything, ALL the games, ALL the rare stuff, and ONLY what you want?
I don't disagree. I don't even have an online account on my personal Switch and if it doesn't come out on a physical cart I just don't play it. However, in terms of official options to play old games, I think being able to buy a perpetual one-time license to be able to play Mario World is better than having to have some kind of active subscription to play Mario World.
