Nintendo Switch: Reveal Trailer and All the New Details

@Sound_Demon: Thank you! Obviously, I see what you're getting at, but I haven't always been Nintendo "hater." I loved the NES, in fact, I still have one that works. I also have an N64 which I loved, and I had a GameCube which I liked too! Plus not to mention countless amounts of different GameBoy's and what not. Its just when they started doing this whole thing with changing the way games are played, I lost interest. Ever since the original Wii launched, I have not been a Nintendo fan.

@Gomtor: It's not like PSVR isn't a gimmick.

@Kos1c: Frankly I always get a Nintendo console for the kids, and I'm a huge Metroid fan, so my household usually ends up with the latest Nintendo console, but even I skipped Wii U, because I saw no interesting games.

This Switch thing looks interesting to me, but it all depends on the games. Also as a parent, this thing is nothing like their past consoles, doesn't look "angry" kid safe at all, with those detachable controllers and actual hardware in the "tablet" portion. This seems like a big swing in a different direction for Nintendo, targeted more towards late teens and up.

@Kos1c: Very similar experience. I bought mine on Day 1 with ZombiU and the Pro controller for £349. Aside from being home to the best version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, that machine was a complete bust, for me (not that that stopped me buying over a hundred games from the Virtual Console... tosser).

Still, I wonder whether my reserve will hold. Right now I'm thinking, 'the WiiU was a let-down, and I'm not gonna buy-into the Switch until I know for a fact that it's worth it' - but when March 2017 comes around, let's be honest, I'll probably fold...

[sigh]

... being a Nintendo-lover isn't easy, y'know?

@Kos1c: Played 5 exclusives on it. FIVE! Nothing else, because nothing worth playing.

@F-Minus: I know you don't miss them, but those who do will find it harder to justify buying one.

Let's say someone who doesn't like Sony or MS first party games but do care about third party, they'd have to buy two consoles instead of one. And if publishers don't support the Switch*, it will be left to Nintendo alone to carry it, and the first party fanbase isn't bigger than 20 million. The Wii U sold only 13 million so it might be even less than that.

*Yes I know the big publishers have pledged their support. But they pledged it for Wii U also. Which meant porting one game to the system and then bailing. Who can be sure it won't happen again?

@groowagon: iPads serve a different purpose.

I can't see someone bringing a Switch around purely for gaming.

Also, iPad is thin not like a switch.

@groowagon: I think a huge portion of the population would have been happy to substitute a Nintendo tablet for an Android/iPad tablet. But it would still need to have tablet features for mass-market appeal. 3rd-party apps like Netflix, IMDB, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. combined with basic smart device OS utility apps. But sadly I think Nintendo will just produce a proprietary gaming device with extremely limited 3rd-party app support.

@lostn: That too, even if I was going to play mobile, I wouldn't want to drag around a tablet with me. That's why I never bought a tablet in the first place. I don't know how they made this move, and I'm curious to see if it will last more than the initial hype (like with Wii).

@groowagon: Big publishers like EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc, have never been big on handheld games. I don't know how much support they're going to get outside of some ports that are a few years too late. I can't see this thing being able to handle GTA6, BF5 or ME4. If it gets any of these games at all they will be scaled back drastically.

I'm just sad that Nintendo is killing off one of their pillars. They used to make a handheld and a console. Now they're killing off the console. They're just making the handheld able to play on the TV, and then pretending that is a console. It's not. Nintendo will now forever be the 'second' console. You play all your third party games on your PS4, and you buy an NX, sorry, Switch, as a secondary console just to play your Nintendo games. Is Nintendo happy being nothing more than a secondary console for Mario and Zelda? Do they not aspire to be anything more than that?