Meh, Steam Deck library is enormous and has most of the games I want to play. Switch will have maybe 1-3 games I would actually play at this stage, mostly being Zelda. But, the rest will be available on Steam Deck. As much as I like Nintendo, their formula of releasing a new console and then releasing a new refresh title to each one of their IPs is a little stale. Mario Kart is Mario Kart. I guess the point is they hook a new generation of kids with each console release, but if you’ve been around too long, the shine wears off. So, I’m left needing to decide whether I want to buy a console to play just a few games. The answer is increasingly no or, at best, maybe in a few years when I can pick it up cheap. I feel the same way about PS5. There isn’t a single title on there that I want and can’t play on PC. GTA 6 will be the only maybe. I might be too impatient to wait til the PC release.
That, and the bloom has certainly been off the rose with most big name Nintendo properties over the last couple of cycles. Tears of the Kingdom was just a retread of Breath of the Wild but without the benefit of the formula being fresh and arguably worse in quite a few respects. Pokémon has been an archaic frustrating insult to the player’s time and intelligence since the 3DS era, arguably before. Echoes of Wisdom should have been a $15 eShop title. Super Mario Wonder managed to simultaneously be underwhelming, rather grating, possess zero replay value, and pales in comparison to Odyssey. Etc, etc.
It seems Nintendo is getting paranoid and conservative. Creativity is dead over there, and mostly the only moves they’re making are safe and samey cash-grabs, which is a strategy that I don’t think has much long term potential. This is really the first time ever I have no interest in a new Nintendo console nor any of its games, and Nintendo’s continued fan- and customer-hostile behavior that’s really ramped up over the last several years also pitches in to make this an easy no sell for me.
Or you pick up a steam deck 2 and emulate the switch 2 🤣. Recently I started working through a few switch games on my deck that I don’t own on my switch.
They do reuse their franchises but I feel the games (at least in some instances) are very different, for instance BotW is not same as Oot, they are same franchise, so share some lore, but practically speaking they are their own games.
As for Mario Kart, racing and fighting games work like that, unless a franchise flops or something, we keep getting more games every generation or so.
They did release couple of new IPs, like Astral Chain and Arms (and Ring fit and Labo, if we count those), but I do agree that there should be some new IPs.
Meh, Steam Deck library is enormous and has most of the games I want to play. Switch will have maybe 1-3 games I would actually play at this stage, mostly being Zelda. But, the rest will be available on Steam Deck. As much as I like Nintendo, their formula of releasing a new console and then releasing a new refresh title to each one of their IPs is a little stale. Mario Kart is Mario Kart. I guess the point is they hook a new generation of kids with each console release, but if you’ve been around too long, the shine wears off. So, I’m left needing to decide whether I want to buy a console to play just a few games. The answer is increasingly no or, at best, maybe in a few years when I can pick it up cheap. I feel the same way about PS5. There isn’t a single title on there that I want and can’t play on PC. GTA 6 will be the only maybe. I might be too impatient to wait til the PC release.
That, and the bloom has certainly been off the rose with most big name Nintendo properties over the last couple of cycles. Tears of the Kingdom was just a retread of Breath of the Wild but without the benefit of the formula being fresh and arguably worse in quite a few respects. Pokémon has been an archaic frustrating insult to the player’s time and intelligence since the 3DS era, arguably before. Echoes of Wisdom should have been a $15 eShop title. Super Mario Wonder managed to simultaneously be underwhelming, rather grating, possess zero replay value, and pales in comparison to Odyssey. Etc, etc.
It seems Nintendo is getting paranoid and conservative. Creativity is dead over there, and mostly the only moves they’re making are safe and samey cash-grabs, which is a strategy that I don’t think has much long term potential. This is really the first time ever I have no interest in a new Nintendo console nor any of its games, and Nintendo’s continued fan- and customer-hostile behavior that’s really ramped up over the last several years also pitches in to make this an easy no sell for me.
Or you pick up a steam deck 2 and emulate the switch 2 🤣. Recently I started working through a few switch games on my deck that I don’t own on my switch.
They do reuse their franchises but I feel the games (at least in some instances) are very different, for instance BotW is not same as Oot, they are same franchise, so share some lore, but practically speaking they are their own games.
As for Mario Kart, racing and fighting games work like that, unless a franchise flops or something, we keep getting more games every generation or so.
They did release couple of new IPs, like Astral Chain and Arms (and Ring fit and Labo, if we count those), but I do agree that there should be some new IPs.