Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

ehhhhhhh strange alright

That game is a tech demo and should have been a pack in with the console. I won't be getting it at launch either.

On the plus side, it'll be €20 (or less) by June.

Didn't even know there was browser on the Wii U.

you can tell who hasn't got a daughter or niece by who thinks that Baby game is weird.

Mr E wrote: »

Didn't even know there was browser on the Wii U.

As far as console browsers go it was great. They're usually awful.

Mr E wrote: »

Didn't even know there was browser on the Wii U.

I use it all the time and think it's great.

Star Lord wrote: »

All I'll say is that from you, I can understand this reaction, as you're the only person I know that uses the browser on the Wii U. I think that you're very much in the minority on that though, most people would just use the browser on their phone/tablet/laptop over any browser built into a console.

I also use it. But you don't know me. We streetpassed once and I think it meant more to me than it did to you

I don't understand this forums single minded focus on eschewing any non-gaming features. "I've got a phone for those things" - well you have a phone for gaming too, should you choose it. How big are your pockets? How deep is your bag? How old are your kids? God damn it, Ninty are competing in what is suddenly a very crowded market, and anywhere you can broaden your appeal without negatively affecting your core selling point you should. Narrow appeal means lower sales means lower install base means less return on Software investment means less investment means falling 3rd party support and christ at a buffet I am sick of living in a software ghetto...

Mammy is in Marks n Spencers. It's saturday night and I ain't eatin' no Lidl curry!
Scenario 1 :
"Daddy! We wanna watch a moooveeee!"
Result :
Kids watch phone, I play Zelda. Everyone wins.

Scenario 2 :
"Daddy! We wanna play a game!"
"But I only have 1 3DS and there are 3 of you! And there's the 1 of me that you keep forgetting about - what do I do?"
"Silly daddy, it's March the 4th! Gimme gimme joycons!"
Result :
Kids play bomberman in the back, I put some time in on Future Fight or Fire Emblem Heroes.

Scenario 3 :
"Daddy! I have just murdered my sister with a Joycon because you only bought 2 and there are 3 of us and Bomberman has negatively influenced our ability to manage our rages or frustrations!"
"But I only have 4 minutes to beat this FE:Heroes map to unlock Lucina.... Don't worry, this is a hypothetical scenario where I have the power to raise the dead and Nintendo put a Netflix app on the Switch. Let's stream, bitches!"
Result :
Mammy never finds out about the fratricide. And I have to explain to the kids that it's just me talkin' street, I wasn't directly calling them anything.

Scenario 4:
Something where I end up browsing the web on the switch. No one has time for this ****.

So as you can see, options are very useful and are not to be discarded so flippantly.

Other than LOZ which I can get on my Wii U, I'm still not seeing anything about the switch that can make me justify a purchase pre Xmas 2017.

Dont get me wrong, it looks nice, I like the form factor, the joy cons look nice in particular for small hands if you have kids for example but there's just no killer app/game right now for me anyway.

I genuinely hope it sells well though.

I don't think I'll pick it up in release either. Might wait until the summer, only because I want Nintendo not just to have an intial blow out but also to sustain sales, so I think my summer should keep them afloat.

i said months ago im not getting the NX, as it was known at the time, at launch cause i've been burned by being a earlier adopter of too many consoles, not just nintendo ones. i said at least i can still get zelda on the wii u.

then the video package that first announced it came along and i was sold. now i justify it by being able to play a superior looking version of zelda on the go that also has far better loading times, 12 seconds from clicking on the game to having a game save loaded vs 36 seconds. i know its not much but it will probably add it. well thats what i say to myself anyway

i can get peoples points in waiting til xmas but for me theres enough for me in zelda, snipperclips, bomberman, mario kart, splatoon 2 to keep me going til later in the year especially zelda with the rumoured 200 hours of gameplay. i imagine theres also a load of indie games and other games to come that i will also get in that time like hoping yooka-laylee comes to the switch in the summer at some point.

Fieldog wrote: »

A good chunk of the reason I want the Switch is that I never bought into the tablet fad so I hoped to use it for browsing the web out and about if I was inclined...

Of course we have browsers on most devices these days but it's kind of annoying there won't be one on my "tablet device"

there will be one just not at launch, the browser was a weak point the wii u system that was exploited by hacks, nintendo havent figured out that and dont wish to have the same thing on the switch so will release the browser in time when its stable maybe your summer version will have it

I think with the browser it's possibly just a case that they just want to get the message out there what the system is without people thinking it's just a 'normal' tablet. In all of the media and ads how about the Switch I don't recall one single time someone was holding the tablet part without the Joy-Cons, besides docking and undocking. I think they want to focus on the gaming and every media has shown that, I think is also perhaps why they have been lacking in info about the UI as well. I think Nintendo should address the unknowns in the system of course, but I think the media like a browser, maybe Netflix etc will come, maybe just not now at the risk of muddying the point of the system and also having full grunt for games at launch.

The interesting bit for me is how they'll get around playing portable in wi-fi hotspots, which require a browser to sign in etc. They could have some from of Webkit I guess built in to get around this.