Re:Nintendo Switch
by garethsaxby on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:33AM
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Just an FYI, it is a touch screen, according to the presentation at the 41m50s mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuC4YLLkqME&feature=youtu.be...
"I could go on with the horrible design choices"
You can create hundreds of speculatively horrible design choices, but not one of them would mean a thing until you try the product and check if they apply right?
It's easy to analyze in a frictionless vacuum.
Re:Nintendo Switch
by TarpitCarnivore on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:08AM
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It has a touch screen and there is a camera in the joycon
> I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures.
It is a portable console that I can take on business trips. That's a use-case :)
No touch screen? Not a single camera for AR content and/or social communication? The controllers look miniscule in the actor's tiny hands. The dock HAD to cover the screen of the device? I foresee the controller sliding and locking mechanism wearing down over time, leading to sloppy interconnection between the controllers and the device.
I could go on with the horrible design choices, but I cannot think of a single redeeming quality. It looks like the market is 6-12 year olds.