There was no limits on preorders, people maxed out the queue estimates which basically counts as "sold out". And there were no scalper bots for the first 48 hours or so, which was long after the delivery dates extended past the next year. The only scalpers that got it, are the actual scalpers who had active Steam accounts.
Probably depends if you value gameplay or pretty graphics.
What is with this weird obsession with trying to pigeonhole the console in one or the other? It's designed to be both a handheld and a home console. Saying it "Just has a HDMI out" is an over simplifcation. It comes with a dock that does more than just HDMI out. It also allows the Switch to use more power. The controller is specifically designed so that it can be used both as a handheld or a controller to be used on a TV (It sucks as both but that's another discussion entirely).
Well it kind of fudges it doesn’t it? Almost everyone I know uses it exclusively as a handheld.
Well, steam decks finished thanks for jinxing it.
As much as I agree with the consolewarring being an idiotic waste of time and effort, this is factually wrong. "Home console" is a specific term defined for game consoles that fit into the "consumer electronics" subdivision of "home appliances", aka "home electronics". That is, devices with a specifically defined role or set of roles, for everyday use primarily in private homes. A piece of home electronics can be portable insofar as it can be carried place to place, but it does not, except under special circumstances, perform its functions outside of the home, for various reasons. For most appliances, those reasons are dedicated shelf/storage space, and access to the power grid. For a typical "home console", that reason is often also access to a normally stationary TV to serve as the output. But the primary point for the definition of "home console" is "it's not designed for use outside of the home". Personal electronics, like smartphones and portable gaming consoles, are "consumer electronics", but they're not "home electronics", as they function perfectly well as long as they are provided some form of power, and are not tied down to any specific part of private home infrastructure. As such, the definition of "home console" is perfectly valid.
The correct response to this thread:
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Triangle Strategy is first party outside Japan as it is published by Nintendo. But you could replace it with something like No More Heroes 3 or Rune Factory 5.
If you expect SteamDeck to have any discernable impact on Switch anytime soon you are going to be in for a shock. It won't be produced in enough quantities and it won't play Nintendo games.
It's reached 100 million faster than any other platform apart from the DS. I'd say that's at least somewhat impressive.
The real reason is it's software lineup. People don't buy a platform because it's portable, or because it can be played on a TV. They buy it for its games.
The impact of a PlayStation portable or Xbox portable would depend almost entirely on their lineup. Something like the Vita would not have taken a huge portion of buyers from the Switch.
I admire your energy and perseverance...
They actually need a very specific form of power, to the specifications of the domestic power grid. And you've missed the part where I said that the primary defining point is that the device is not designed for use outside of the home. Just because you can take a regular vacuum cleaner to the great outdoors and use it to clean your favorite footpath thanks to a portable generator, a wheelbarrow, and boundless ingenuity, it does not mean that the vacuum cleaner has stopped being a home appliance.
And you, I believe, missed the part where I wasn't talking about the Switch in that post, but about the 'home console' term itself, which the other user alleged to be pointless. I'm a PC gamer, of a sort, so I don't particularly care what or how the consoles are, but I do believe that proper terminology is to be observed if you're going to have a fight over it.
Well.. it prints money for Nintendo, so...It also uses cartridges, therefore it must be a printer!
Yeah, this is what I’ve been saying for three generations now. You see everywhere how the average PS/XBox user sees any game with lower production values than the latest big AAA release. And this is why I still think if Nintendo went third party, their top sellers wouldn’t sell 2/3s of what they do on Nintendo-exclusive hardware.
“We”?
17 million Switch Lite's have been sold. The Switch Lite might be a handheld but it's just as much a Switch as anything else, I don't understand your argument here. The Switch has sold over 100 million, a portion of that is the handheld revision, which is also a Switch.
I would perhaps like for you to step back and remember that Daggerfall, the game that encompassed most of a continent and had dungeons perhaps more interesting than BotW ones in the hundreds, was a DOS game from 1996. Sure it was limited, and legendarily buggy, but the point is that the absolute level of technology does not define the scope of games that are possible as much as most people seem to think it does.
Sony and Microsoft are not in an entirely different market, there is plenty of crossover. Handhelds are difficult because you have to know how to make games that play well on such a device without feeling like a home console downgrade, Nintendo has specialized in this ever since the Game Boy, it's not easy, it's just that they are just absolutely incredible at it.
well, definitely not this year. maybe next, probably not.
Yeah but the way you made levels back then is completely different from today, there is a reason why they could spew out so many dungeons, by the time it takes to make one dungeon in Zelda, 3 people could make a 100 in Daggerfall. And Daggerfall plays like shit today, the gameplay got outdated quickly.
I would say the minority of people had both Wii and Nintendo DS. Same applies to 3DS and Wii U.
The Switch is a name. Not a console definition.
Numbers compatible with a hybrid approach? what exactly are you comparing it to?
What games are you thinking about from the AAA space that doesn't focus on gameplay?
“We”?
NeoGAF:
Danjin44
for saying "we" but immediately go on to speak on behalf of NeoGAF?
Switch was selling like crazy before that too. And I doubt anyone is buying a Switch because they can’t find a PS5. XSS, maybe.
I remember when the DS was going to be the 3rd “pillar” for Nintendo. We would have a regular console and two portables in the DS and next Game Boy, obviously that never happened. Now we just have one pillar.
I never mentioned anything about a Switch without a screen.
If Mars wasn’t rotating around the Sun at the speed it’s doing it, the Switch wouldn’t have been so successful. So Nintendo just got lucky, really.Positive Nintendo news?!
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Not disagreeing with you, but it's also extremely important to get big publishers to push their marketing, marketing sells too. For example, PES was better than FIFA for a while, but EA's massive brand and marketing ensured that FIFA stayed on top. Having big publishers sell their games on your console is just as important as great games, because they are usually the ones who reach the casual markets.
