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What-- because it uses hardware you can find in other things, it's not unique? * It's packaged dramatically differently from its primary Sony and Microsoft com
by mlyle 5y ago
What-- because it uses hardware you can find in other things, it's not unique?
* It's packaged dramatically differently from its primary Sony and Microsoft competitors. It aims squarely between handheld gaming and the console space and finds success there rather than being a watered down version of btoh.
* It supports a wide variety of use cases-- single player portable, multiple players around the small screen, TV.
* The controllers support a greater degree of motion tracking and are reconfigurable (snap on the sides, use sideways, etc.
* It chooses a different microarchitecture from everyone else in the console gaming space. (No, the Shield and Google Pixel don't count).
- PaulHoule 5y agoNintendo has brand power, IP and software. Sony and Microsoft are giving up on exclusives, but Nintendo always is making strong games in some of the series such as Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Pokemon, Fire Emblem, etc. People frequently play the Switch in the same configuration as the PSP/PS Vita/Steam Deck so I think the trick hardware is overrated, but it is a solid platform that attracts various third party software, for instance almost all the JRPG that came out for PS 4 and the Vita now come out for the Switch.
- mlyle 5y ago> Nintendo has brand power, IP and software. Oh, sure. I'm not saying someone other than one of the biggest gaming companies could have been successful with this. > People frequently play the Switch in the same configuration as the PSP/PS Vita/Steam Deck so I think the trick hardware is overrated We (adults) play it on the TV mostly, but it travels with us on trips. Kids play theirs handheld. Very often play 2 player with a kickstand. I was a big Vita fan; it feels like a better Vita but isn't completely worthless for TV gaming.
- PaulHoule 5y agoSony released a TV version of the Vita but never a version with both a screen and a video output. I looked at the Vita TV but kept buying parts to field-repair my handheld instead.
- salamandersauce 5y agoNintendo has previously stated that play time is split 50/50 across docked and handheld mode. How that holds up in the years since and with the introduction of the Switch Lite I don't know but it seems a pretty solid indication that it's more than just a trick. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/nintendo-docked-and-undocked-play-time-for-switch-is-about-even/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/nintendo-docked-and-u...