The Nintendo Switch reveal Confrence is out! Gamers now know the date, the
price, and the lack of release titles for the Switch. Reactions towards
this confrence has been mixed at the best. Some gamers see this as Nintendo
still not getting the point. Many see The Switch as the Wii U all over
again. Is this the Wii U 2.0 or can the Switch come around and be something
great? But, with games like Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario
Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8, how can this conference be bad?...How?
Initial investigations will weigh the significance of any data theft.
— hack may have uncovered future product details
China/Russia plain and simple. Chinese are producing their own chips and to catch up they do what they have always done……steal it. When you can’t innovate, stealing is your best friend.
It's a sad, disappointing story that could have been so much better.
Admirable for persisting but after PSVR is it any surprise?
Half baked PC release feels more like an effort to shift dead stock then anything else.
Not enough people buying the hardware. The strategy from the get-go should have been these hybrid releases and as mentioned in the article, some form of wizardry like Praydog's UEVR mod for older Playstation titles converted into VR with very little effort once the software is sorted.
Basically a lack of vision from the corporate side.
Ummm, they’re releasing at least 4 high profile games for the headset in 2024 alone:
1) Metro VR
2) Behemoth
3) Aliens
4) War Thunder
That’s more games than SOME platforms release in an entire gen…. So how can you say Sony doesn’t care about their latest headset?
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it is ending the Sony Rewards program on December 31, 2024, and as a result that date will be the last time possible to redeem points and access your account.
This is a shame. I've been using it since the start. It had a few problems and issues but overall I did end up saving a little bit over 60 dollars using this program. There was probably not enough people using it.
I've gotten so many free games throughout the years w this program, this sucks. I've been with it since the beginning.
I just run a majority of my needed purchases through it and pay it off immediately instead of using cash or debit. The most recent was on Tuesday I got a $10 dlc free. It was great as long you're not borrowing out large amounts of money that you don't have.
i remember getting Assassin creed black flag for free with Redeeming my Points for 10 dollars when it was on sale this is very sad news.
What did proved Nintendo gets it prior to this event?
The average non Nintendo gamer expectation going into the event.
-- Expected western multiplats to be announced at a Japanese Event
Your loss not Nintendo.
Anyone who thought Nintendo was going to have a bunch of western games announced don't know Nintendo, past system library of games or understand Japanese Developers.
If you don't like Nintendo or Japanese games. Stop talking about the Switch or Nintendo. Because you're never gonna get what you want nor will you even buy it even if Nintendo did get em.
Stop lying to yourself. Wake up and face reality. Nintendo isn't gonna westernize themselves for your sake. They don't care about you nor do the Japanese developers do.
Now i understand JRPG are too complex for some of you to handle. Too much reading and strategy for your taste.
You rather have hand holding games that put you at the nearest check point, with guns, gore, blood and realistic visuals with no sense of creativity.
If you don't like Nintendo of Japanese Games or Indie games for the matter. Stay your PS4(Even though it has Japanese games too but because it's Sony it okay) and Xbo---PC or Steam.
One feature I'd love to see with the Switch are handles with different analog positions. As I'm a PlayStation gamer I'd love to be able to buy a left Switch handle where the analog stick is below the D-Pad.
Nintendo struggle to sell their home machines, or at least keep the software sales running, and have done ever since GameCube. Even when the Wii sold loads to the casual market, the third party developers didn't stick around, and Nintendo didn't give the machine expected features that the other machines we getting and this is still happening to this day. The modern gamer in 2017, expects a robust online infrastructure. Third party support from ALL big name developers and to get their AAA games at launch, and they also expects the machine to be spec-wise at least similar to the competition, for this to happen. Nintendo refuse to move with the times, and also refuse to be transparent in and day and age, where gamers want to know the details of the system they are trying to be sold, especially when there is strife competition on the market.
The problem with the Switch unveil to me, was the information. They had an hour with all eyes on them to tell us what gamers wanted to know, and what they really did was cater that show to the same Nintendo fans (See: OtakuDJK1NG-Rory) , that will buy that machine regardless of how weak the showing is, because they love Nintendo and they appreciate the brand and have strong trust in the IPs. (Zelda, Mario, Splatoon etc) and while I Wont knock then games, (I like Zelda) I will say, this has proved countless times to not be sufficient in the current home console gaming market. The other problem, was the transparency of the event. There was so much they didn't tell us. Yet so much padding they didn't need. There was no reason to spend excessive time on '1-2 Switch' (a game that should be a pack-in and not a full priced title) and they spent a lot of time on 'Arms' which looks nice graphically, but at heart is just a Wii game... The same sort of shovelware that did not sell after the allure of the Wii on the casual market wore off... Plus its being sold as a fully fledged priced title.
The info people needed to hear, such as how are Nintendo going to bring their online service up to the expected level, that their competition has been doing for two gens now, was told to us in 30 seconds and skimmed over with no details. This communication is what hurts their brand and kills interest. During the conference, they showed 2 games that were confirmed to be at launch, they didn't give European price, they told us 'we have third party support' but just like the WiiU conference, just showed us a jpeg of developer logos but barley any substance. What this says to me is, 'We have a bunch of developers who aren't fully committed to Switch", they are going to port over 5 year old games, but if they don't sell, you can bet they are pulling support, the same way they did with WiiU, And this is EXACTLY what I see Skyrim as on Switch. (and in the case of clarity, there was NO details on Skyrim, is it vanilla 2011? Is it the remastered version?) We live in an age, like it or not, of the modern western AAA high budget blockbuster. And the large base of 'core' gamers, want that experience. You care argue all you want that 'Nintendo makes better games' and that "JRPGS more clever though" you are more than welcome to your opinion, but genuinely quite frankly I don't think the general home console market agrees with that statement any more, because if it was true. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One wouldn't have outsold the WiiU so brutally. Nintendo does not have a single block buster western AAA IP to compete in the largest market in gaming right now. And there lack of ability to see see this, and adapt to it, really hurts them on top of everything else.
We find out (Afterwards again) Europe doesn't get online play at launch. How mad is that?? Can you imagine Xbone One or PlayStation 4 not launching with online play? In 2017? It should be a standard feature at this point. So much for 'being committed to online'