Yeah, that's what Sony thought about the PSVita until poor sales slapped them in the face and they pulled a PS TV out of their ass to cut their losses. Nothing is set in stone, it's entirely possible if the system tanks badly, but in my mind a home console version of the Switch also seems unlikely. Nintendo doesn't like to step off of the decks of their sinking ships, they prefer to go down with them, against all odds. Case in point, they kept bundling the Wii U with Game Pads to the bitter end, even though most games could be played on a Pro controller just fine and at a $150 RRP the console would fly off the shelves (assuming that the Game Pad actually did cost over a $100 to make). Harsh reality can change the product significantly - a big part of XBO's success can be attributed to cutting the Kinect 2.0 from the bundles, allowing for a significant price reduction.
Nintendo was really stubborn with the WiiU GamePads as no one could buy them directly from Nintendo without buying the whole bundle. There's a good considerable amount of WiiU games that can use the Pro Controller but then you come across roadblocks like the Settings, accessing the Wii Mode and WiiU games that require the WiiU GamePad.
Roadblocks? Those things could've been easily patched. The pad weighed the system down when it could've been a cheap, accessible system like the Wii - it needed that pad-less SKU that could be later expanded into the "complete" set. At $150 it would've been a perfect stocking stuffing for every grandpa and grandma, soccer mums would be all over it. Nintendo's Wii U sales operation was ass-backwards and retarded from the very beginning, I'm not surprised it bombed, I said as much before it was even released.
Well, a lot of people bought the BC-less one and a few enough people did buy the wifi-less one, that they came out with a bit more afterwards, but that besides the point.
Again, successful or not, all the companies comes out with a different version. They could have very well came out with PS TV, even if the Vita sold better.
Sure. They planned to release a touchscreen-less, stationary version of their touchscreen-heavy, portable system. Sounds like a plan.
They totally could have patched it and it'd have worked with a normal controller but Nintendo never did that.
Pat the NES Punk podcasts without Ian (who is actually seriously sick) just aren't as good. Still watchable.
This is just one of many reasons why I think the company is a long-term experiment - it's actually ran by monkeys that simply got lucky a few times. They operate by banging their fists at keyboards as input, with actual experts on the output end, looking at the final printouts to see if any make some kind of sense. I have lots of evidence to support that theory, for instance Nintendo's weird fascination with bananas (used as weapons or points across numerous games) or the whole DK crew. This is srs bznis.
So what you're saying is...Nintendo's coconut gun fires in spurts.This is just one of many reasons why I think the company is a long-term experiment - it's actually ran by monkeys that simply got lucky a few times. They operate by banging their fists at keyboards as input, with actual experts on the output end, looking at the final printouts to see if any make some kind of sense. I have lots of evidence to support that theory, for instance Nintendo's weird fascination with bananas (used as weapons, or points across numerous games) or the whole DK crew. This is srs bznis.
I would say that it fires non-stop and some ideas coincidentally hit targets.
I'm genuinely curious about this, and believe the comfort of control sticks/d-pads are also partly due to the size of your hand/fingers. This may seem like an odd question, but do you have huge hands/thicker fingers? I have some thick fingers that make some controllers uncomfortable, I would like to know ahead of time.
My hands are pretty normal sized for a westerner, thing is, Nintendo has always the Japanese in mind first so it was aimed at them than at us.
The problem with having an SKU without a gamepad is that it would have removed one of the biggest features they were pushing for, and it might have divided developers since the gamepad couldn't be assumed. With Switch however, I could definitely see them doing dockless version with the Joy-Cons built-in, depending on how reception ends up being with games that utilize the multiplayer aspect of Joy-Cons. It's weird because the Switch can easily replace their home console divison, but 3DS is still successful and selling right now so there's no telling if they'll end up tuning the Switch more to one side or the other later on.
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