Nintendo Switch: A Deep Dive with Reggie Fils-Aimé

Gamespot:

We sat down with the Nintendo exec to talk about the Switch's pack-in games, online functionality, smartphone app, and a whole lot more.

[fenome]

Finally!

[EddieNX]

Please, I'm a Nintendo fan but I'm well aware of their flaws. I upgraded from XB1 to Xb1s recently and it was just a matter of resetting the old console and signing in on the new one. Nintendo has no excuse...

[ninsigma]

You're "aware" if a lot Reggie but nothing seems to have been done about it. If all those consumer desires you're aware of are on the way then great, but the full reveal of the switch should have been the time to prove that. Instead we got a great concept for a console that incorporates some very strange decisions. I'm pretty sure no one in those boards you've been looking at have said they want to use their phone to communicate on their console. That just isn't "compelling", as you say.

[Quicksand]

So you sync a Bluetooth headset up to your phone instead of plugging a headset into your controller... big deal. I'll give it a shot. Who knows. Might be better. Can set up games with buddies on my way home from work and be ready as soon as I get in the door.

[Goldby]

We can already do that, a friend and i chat all day through psn messenger, and if we need to use our voice. We move over to doscord. A free app

[PhoenixUp]

Welcome to 2005 Nintendo

[fenome]

Seriously, ffs.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Should we be mad that they did it, or overly critical because of how long it took?
FFS, if no one appreciated it when I did what they wanted, I wouldn't want to cater to them either...

[Goldby]

definitly overly critical.

if they claim to listen to the gamers, abnd want to bring more people under the nintendo umbrella, they need to cater to all gamers, not just the nintendo fans, who were completely fine have the weirdest and restrictive system.

Nintendo fans might not care, but that is one reason that some people chose not to game on nintendo.

guess what, i made water into ice today, should i be applauded for it even tho 100s of millions of people have done it before me? absolutely not. they (nintendo) are the ones who chose to stay behind the times not the gamers,

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

@goldby
That's the kind of attitude taken by people who are only looking for reasons to complain.

The bottom line is that this is a good thing; being critical of AN IMPROVEMENT is just asinine.
People need to let the damned past go and be glad they've taken this step at all; it's a far sight better than having never taken it because a vocal minority of ungrateful assholes kept whining no matter what was done.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I'm sorry but people need to take into perspective how slow and incompetent this company is.

You would have to question any Burger restaurant chain in regards to fast food for not having drive-thrus despite building new restaurants every year.

The technology industry moves extremely fast! If Nintendo were to do something like this in the fast-food industry they would most likely be bankrupt because of loss of competition simply because their Rivals would have been catering to their consumers needs over time you're just going to continue to lose market share.

So it is very clear that they've probably lost an Untold amount of market share because of the pure stupidity of their decisions over the last 12 years or so.

Somebody needed to tell them they needed an account system?

That's extremely alarming that they had several platforms that released after the wii that did not include these.

So I guess we're going to wait another 10 years for them to start including third parties into the development of their Hardware so that way all the third party is on board?

Doesn't that make you question all the other mistakes that they're currently making that could have been changed or been amended 10 years ago?

You might be jumping for joy but I have to worry about any fast food restaurant finally adding a drive-thru.

OK

So let's wait another 10 to 15 years to add a dollar menu?

Have you not considered that maybe it might be too late? Some consumers may have already moved on and could care less about adding an account system they might have already permanently left the market.

Ie I'm already addicted to Burger King and McDonald's and checkers and those are my favorites I don't have room for a fourth favorite.

That is what they need to fear because they might have made way too many mistakes to even recruit those consumers.

[_-EDMIX-_]

"That's the kind of attitude taken by people who are only looking for reasons to complain"

???

So do you believe that's the response that Nintendo should give to their consumers?

[fenome]

@wonderfulmonkeyman

Yes, I am choosing to be overly critical about it because back when I had a Wii I spent hundreds of dollars on games for the virtual console and my ex's kids broke it when they pulled the microphone chord too far and it fell off the entertainment system.

I went out and bought a new one and all my games were gone so I called them and they said that there was nothing they could do about it because they were tied to the hardware and not my account. Never bought another one of their products since and haven't regretted it one bit.

[2pacalypsenow]

2002*

[conanlifts]

So just to ask a question. I owned a wii u, it broke and i threw it in the bin. On the wii u i had purchased wii u games and a handful of virtual console games. Is there any way any of these ( virtual console) will work on switch?

[GuruStarr78]

If what he's saying is true, then yes. I wouldn't hold my breath, though. Reggie always seems to give "political" answers or statements.

He seems to say what people want to hear, but spins it so it can go either way, in case Nintendo ends up going the other way. Don't get me wrong, I like Reggie. He's a real Nintendo fan at heart. I want this to be true as much as you do, since I owned a launch Wii U and downloaded games to and I'd love to be able to download them on Switch.

Heck, there's a lot of stuff left to be desired from what we know about the Switch. The Online, for one, is laughable from what we know so far. Being paid, and not getting to keep the one NES or Snes game they let you download is crazy. Also, the seemingly dumb idea to have to use a smartphone app to connect with friends for chat is really getting to me too.

Only time will tell..

[conanlifts]

Thanks, hopefully that is true. I remember on wii u games were tied to the console when i had it. Hopefully that doesnt affect it, i wouldnt mind access to my digital games again.
The online needs to be very low cost unless they have something great planned. The smart device idea is ridiculous. Nintendo are supposedly family focused, i don't see parents handing over their mobiles etc so their kids can voice chat. The idea is ridiculous. I wonder if it is because when docked switch doesnt support headphones, wirelessly or otherwise.

[superchiller]

Not likely. You can call Nintendo and beg them to restore your games, but without the old console in hand, there are no guarantees that Nintendo will do it. And VC games may not work on the Switch anyway, Nintendo is very slow to port them over.

[conanlifts]

That's my concern. The console died after 2 years. I sold the gamepad and threw the console away. The ridiculous thing is they surely still have my purchase history. But yes i remember them being a pain and it not being straight forward even if i had bought a new wii u.

At the time they offered to look at my wii u if i sent it to them. It was $50au just to check it out without doing in any repairs.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@sd- damn that really sucks.

Yeah I'm almost positive they're not going to give you those games back. That's one of the reasons why I never understood them not having a proper account system.

[Ristul]

About damn time, now I want to know about trophies.

[Lionalliance]

Oh thank god! I took them this long to fix this?!

[_-EDMIX-_]

So common sense?

It is very sad that in 2017 this is an announcement that a company has to make. this is how behind they are and how out of touch they are with reality.

[Nodoze]

Wow only 16 years late on this feature! Congrats.

[WickedLester]

Welcome to 2005 Nintendo! Jesus!

[Tankbusta40]

Someone fire this clown please!!!

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Look, I get it; some of you here are mad that it took this long, but seriously, stop being so petty over it! It's done and over with, and this happening is a GOOD THING!
Stop treating it as if doing this was a mistake, for goodness' sake!

[Goldby]

throwing water on a fire is a GOOD THING
waiting for the city to be burned down before throwing the water isn't.

why should we applaud firefighter who show up too late to a scene and dont really prevent the damage that was done by the fire.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

No.
A better example of what's going on here, is heartless spectators throwing oil onto the fire before the firemen can even arrive, because they didn't like the paint job of the house that's going up in flames and want it to burn faster, who then BEAT THE FIREFIGHTERS for trying to stop it once they arrive!

All of the negativity here is just a load of anti-Nintendo bullshit from haters, and you KNOW it.

So what if it's f***ing late?! It's still AN IMPROVEMENT!
Yeah, it doesn't merit a medal, but it doesn't merit the pitch forks and bitch-fits on this page, either.

If they had come out and said that they weren't doing this, THEN the negativity would be justified.

At the worst, this deserves an indifferent reaction.
NOT the insults and entitled high-nosed ribbing that's being accepted.

Using timeframe as an excuse to toss oil instead of water, is quite literally nothing more than flame baiting. That bullshit needs to stop faster than Nintendo's insistence on charging for online multiplayer.

[Goldby]

Hey wonderful,

Your brought oil into this, not i.

i understadn that yes they are imporiovements, but how many years late are they, and why are they using these very late improvements as selling features when the majority of gamers are already use to that being standard.

Features are meant to be new and exciting things, liek the share option it has that is similar to the share button on ps4 controllers. a feature at this time and age isn't online play, that should be standard as of last generation. Party chat, a last gen feature. not stuff you brag about for a brand new system in 2017.