|
I agree but meet you half way with my personal experience and hopes. Your use for the Switch echoes that of my Wii U and Wii. However, up till the GameCube, Nintendo consoles had been on and off, or at times, my main consoles to play on. Since the SNES, N64 and GameCube had a health of good first and third party support in those times, most notably the SNES of course.
But I will counter your personal experience @Apsilon, and say that for many gamers now, the Switch is their main console, simply due to it's portability factor for the gain of work-life balance, and or plus for it now being the King indie darling gaming machine. Myself, I have not played my Switch in about 4 months, and am not a big gamer anymore. So, I fall in line with your use of it and perspective. That said, my preference is the reverse of yours, as I also have the same approach to Microsoft and Sony's consoles - I only play exclusives on them, yet I would rather in fact prefer to purchase multi-plats for the Switch, for various reasons. One is ease of play and the portability factor. I also get a kick out of playing any game in hand-held, portably, especially bigger third party and first party games. This is something that stretches back to my fascination and love for my first ever gaming machine, the Game Boy. It has the exact same feeling and experience for me. And lastly, I gain in being part of the support for the machine, to help drive more third party support. Optimal performance and graphics are less important to me in respect of these factors. And after all, it was a very long time coming for Nintendo do have the robustness it does again have now. I hope it continues to improve and remains.
@Rookies, bear in mind that the Switch is getting a revision model next year. Not yet knowing Nintendo's intentions for the new model, we can speculate that it will either be a cheaper entry model, for example if stripped down inside the box. Or, the existing model will see a price drop, with the new one gaining a boost in hardware and or software.
Personally, as I said in my first post, I just can't sell my launch day Switch, no matter what. I've had no problem selling any other of my launch day consoles, even recent Nintendo ones. But there is something inherently special about my Switch, even if I don't use it often at all.
@Rookies, did you arrive to a decision? |
|