01-14-2017, 04:44 AM
(01-14-2017, 03:45 AM)Colossus Wrote: We just had a discussion about this on the Barrel-Cat Gaming Podcast (pst, check out the thread on it for the link).
I have my system pre-ordered right away this morning. Apparently the public isn't too hyped about it.
Being in a podcast must be nice. I'm more the journalist type, as has been made more clear to me since the Switch conference and my absolute love of covering anything and everything I've seen of it all over the place. I like report on things, give me my opinion, ask others to do theirs, and get back to researching the next story. Journalism is my passion as much as gaming itself is.
To the public, I can't understand why they aren't happy honestly. The Lineup of what's coming looks great even if they won't have a lot at launch, the idea is cool, but most people sit on a chair or couch and play their systems a lot while their plugged into TV's and I doubt most casual gamers who will by the system for games like Arms or 1, 2 Switch are going to care about battery life, they probably won't even play the system long enough to have it run out. Gaming isn't really a mobile thing when it comes to consoles, that's what the handheld and mobile market are for. There's of course the argument of, "Well if it's going to have that feature, it should last" but that not really the point of consoles. If that's the reason why people have an issue with the system, I don't really get it, and if the issue is the games or the price point, that seems kind of weak as well. We've known about this for longer than it will take for some of it's better games to release. I don't see the harm in waiting a little longer, especially since the Fire Emblem Direct is this Wednesday, we may not have to wait that long for Fire Emblem Warriors, which will make the system that much more worth it. I think it's really worth buying at launch.