The issue here is Nintendo could have kept things simple and gimmick free and kept the costs down too. I am sure even with the gimmicks everything could have been 20% cheaper easily and they could easily have made a profit still. But what excited me about the switch originally was apart from the concept of the unit being in a dock and the two halved independent controllers it looked relatively gimmick free. The two obvious gimmicks were simple and were things devs could easily work with or not even consider. The unit being portable makes no difference, devs knowing the potential for two player gaming is always an option just adds a simple option to the equation.
But no, here we go again, gimmicks for gimmicks sake and this time in an impractical form factor considering the scope of the console. Are you going to use the waggle on the go ever? Chances are no you wont. When I see waggle and other gimmicks I get that same sinking feeling I have been getting with Nintendo over the past few years and generations. What games will be sacrificed and ruined just for the sake of trying to prove a point and justifying a gimmick? Zelda's on the DS anyone? How did Starfox Zero grab you? Or will the gimmicks just end up barely utilized and something that just adds extra cost to us for little gain like a motion plus or a Wii U tablet screen?
Nintendo expects us to trust them and invest a hefty premium once again in gimmicks that will more than likely amount to nothing. At this point their track record has been more miss than hit for the past few generations, I do not have that faith in them to deliver. This is why most people do not care about waggle controls and do not trust them. And when I say most people I am not talking to the people here that are reading this, you are the minority, the extreme minority. Sometimes I think that a lot of you do not realise that. When I say nobody cares about these gimmicks I mean average gamers, the vast majority that went out and got XBOXs and PS4's. If Nintendo kept things simple and invested the costs in simple thing both gamers and developers could widely appreciate, more powerful hardware, a better screen, better battery etc there would not be a problem here.
But no let's drink the Nintendo koolaid once again and empty out our pockets once again and pray that these gimmicks pay off and lead to an interesting game or two. Then we can smugly point at the two games that might actually benefit from all this and proclaim Nintendo innovative geniuses while the rest of the world doesn't care and plays on its xboxes and PS4's that have 10x more users and 10x more games in their libraries to play on.
when i saw the nintendo director,Tatsumi Kimishima, that this dude calls the team and goes like this:
hey you (developer team, designers etc) nintendo profits are not that good, do a new thing.
team briefs him in ideas "we can do blablabla etc etc etc"
tatsumi goes with: "kids like toys right?, put a bunch of them in the new console, they will love it."
ok, i don't even know if this guy actually cares or is related to the console development, this guy can be just the one that checks the bills and signs papers, maybe it's his employers who are in the charge of the system development and this guy is just there to give them budgets and bureaucratic stuff
but looking at his face, i just see an old gramps who barely knows what is a video game, and even despises videogames
when i look at him, i see my granlpa yelling at me cuz i waste time in theese vidya games toys and how i should be ashamed to be an adult playing with kids toys and games..
ok, maybe i am just judging a book by his cover, and i don't know him etc.. but he has that "i am a big and rich business man" face
maybe he is very good with burycracy papers and numbers, but i believe that the "boss" should know and is interested on what his company sells\creates.. not just about if the company makes money or not...
