So I got a Switch in 2018; it is my first Nintendo console. Although I had seen mario as a child at friends and played a few games on my cousins GBA as far as what I had actually owned, it was dreamcast, sony, microsoft, pc, for some reason never Nintendo. And I gotta say as a relatively new Nintendo consumer I am feeling pretty.......pretty uhm, I'm confused
love/hating something is not something I usually do. I love to love/love, and sometimes I certainly hate/hate, but NINTENDO??!?!! This company got me all crossed up. As someone who plays mostly indies anyways and who has been really impressed by the insane amounts of polish in their first parties I've been a pretty happy Switch owner at times. It has been the perfect platform for some of my favorite games (hollowknight, Celeste), retro games are cool and games like zelda botw, mario and smash have incredible mechanical polish on top of an art style that makes them feel timeless, well justifying the 60 dollar price tag. I really love the form factor of handheld, play more games then ever, and also with the current discussion going on feel pretty great about not supporting crunch. It's like cruelty free gaming pretty admireable. There are just some decisions that seem kind of baffling not only when looking at their competitions standards but really their own. Like dude
Did I just watch a direct that told me to use an app on my phone to talk with my friends? Did they really consider not including online with friends in mario maker 2? And while Sony and Microsoft are adding backwards compatibility Nintendo is literally just like...
...I'm good dudes, lets actually remove the option to buy classic titles and just repackage them with like one new feature and sell it for way more sound cool? Cool. Oh ports from the Wii U, 60 dollars cool? Cool. (I mean I'm pretty cool with it but people that owned Wii U?). Oh so that online we said we were gonna improve well actually nope cool? Oh Nintendo you silly dogs, sure guys
And I'm like no no no, not cool guys c'mon, but the general audience for Nintendo outside of these forums and many on just don't really care that much or like me are being wrestled by their love into doing stupid things that they kinda sorta hate. So much so that third party companies like Capcom have decided to do the same with things like DmC instead of collection and handling of REseries. They've seen opportunity to apply a switch tax even when it feels really unjustifiable, and it just seems like they have managed to completely detach from the race to the bottom that you see on PC, Playstation and Xbox. That is another thing I love/hate because good games should be rewarded, things like gamepass and PSnow make me wonder if indies and more middling but still good titles loose value in the eyes of many because they assume those services will have them eventually. At the end of the day though dude, don't charge people 30 for RE4, 50 for FFX, it's ridiculous. Also it is worth noting that even when games do go on sale for Switch, compared to the frequency and quality of the sales on other consoles it is super underwhelming
At the end of the day though I have never, ever owned and beaten a 3d platformer that plays as well as Mario Odyssey, Zelda botw is an intimately laid out classic that I <3, even the series of theirs that I am not into Nintendo is clearly giving it 110% this generation. Mario Tennis, Yoshi, Kirby, they are not for me but it is clear that over at Nintendo they care about pleasing the fans and they care about the medium, that just feels good. Indies are releasing some of the best games period and playing them in handheld has been super fun. Never expected full AAA experiences on my Switch, have my ps4 for that, and honestly outside of earlier this year have played my Switch consistently more. Overall although Nintendo deserves a swift kick to the shin for some super tone def decisions regarding online, infrastructure and pricing I really love them still, and maybe that is y they will never ever, change -_-
Anyway that is my little Nintendo rant about how I feel as a new Nintendo consumer, love for the most part I think maybe but definite tantrums when they've dragged me along with some pretty outrageous business practices please stop Nintendo please.
Anyone else hop on for the First time for the Switch? How do you guys feel? How do long term Nintendo fans feel about how they have handled things so far? Help me be less confused
love/hating something is not something I usually do. I love to love/love, and sometimes I certainly hate/hate, but NINTENDO??!?!! This company got me all crossed up. As someone who plays mostly indies anyways and who has been really impressed by the insane amounts of polish in their first parties I've been a pretty happy Switch owner at times. It has been the perfect platform for some of my favorite games (hollowknight, Celeste), retro games are cool and games like zelda botw, mario and smash have incredible mechanical polish on top of an art style that makes them feel timeless, well justifying the 60 dollar price tag. I really love the form factor of handheld, play more games then ever, and also with the current discussion going on feel pretty great about not supporting crunch. It's like cruelty free gaming pretty admireable. There are just some decisions that seem kind of baffling not only when looking at their competitions standards but really their own. Like dude
Did I just watch a direct that told me to use an app on my phone to talk with my friends? Did they really consider not including online with friends in mario maker 2? And while Sony and Microsoft are adding backwards compatibility Nintendo is literally just like...
...I'm good dudes, lets actually remove the option to buy classic titles and just repackage them with like one new feature and sell it for way more sound cool? Cool. Oh ports from the Wii U, 60 dollars cool? Cool. (I mean I'm pretty cool with it but people that owned Wii U?). Oh so that online we said we were gonna improve well actually nope cool? Oh Nintendo you silly dogs, sure guys
And I'm like no no no, not cool guys c'mon, but the general audience for Nintendo outside of these forums and many on just don't really care that much or like me are being wrestled by their love into doing stupid things that they kinda sorta hate. So much so that third party companies like Capcom have decided to do the same with things like DmC instead of collection and handling of REseries. They've seen opportunity to apply a switch tax even when it feels really unjustifiable, and it just seems like they have managed to completely detach from the race to the bottom that you see on PC, Playstation and Xbox. That is another thing I love/hate because good games should be rewarded, things like gamepass and PSnow make me wonder if indies and more middling but still good titles loose value in the eyes of many because they assume those services will have them eventually. At the end of the day though dude, don't charge people 30 for RE4, 50 for FFX, it's ridiculous. Also it is worth noting that even when games do go on sale for Switch, compared to the frequency and quality of the sales on other consoles it is super underwhelming
At the end of the day though I have never, ever owned and beaten a 3d platformer that plays as well as Mario Odyssey, Zelda botw is an intimately laid out classic that I <3, even the series of theirs that I am not into Nintendo is clearly giving it 110% this generation. Mario Tennis, Yoshi, Kirby, they are not for me but it is clear that over at Nintendo they care about pleasing the fans and they care about the medium, that just feels good. Indies are releasing some of the best games period and playing them in handheld has been super fun. Never expected full AAA experiences on my Switch, have my ps4 for that, and honestly outside of earlier this year have played my Switch consistently more. Overall although Nintendo deserves a swift kick to the shin for some super tone def decisions regarding online, infrastructure and pricing I really love them still, and maybe that is y they will never ever, change -_-
Anyway that is my little Nintendo rant about how I feel as a new Nintendo consumer, love for the most part I think maybe but definite tantrums when they've dragged me along with some pretty outrageous business practices please stop Nintendo please.
Anyone else hop on for the First time for the Switch? How do you guys feel? How do long term Nintendo fans feel about how they have handled things so far? Help me be less confused
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