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Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That's not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't the switch itself just an iteration on the GameGear, or close to 'home', the GBA?

It's not the first chunky, horizontal handheld. The only thing that was new about it was the joycons, and they ditched those immediately for the Lite.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.

This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think that calling BOtW similar to other full-scale console games of 2017 like Sniper Elite 4, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Nier Automata, Prey, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, RE7, or AssCreed Origins, is a biiiiiiig stretch.

It was a huge jump for Nintendo (it was basically putting GameCube-level games on a handheld), but it was still far behind other consoles. Witcher 3 (2015) even eventually released on the Switch in 2019, and it was massively graphically gimped compared to *ahem* real consoles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think that discounting the 5th best selling game of the year (plus all the awards) because you like games on other platforms is a mistake.

Graphics aren’t everything!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I didn't say it's not good, I said it's not equivalent to console releases of that year. Graphics isn't everything, and I still enjoy playing Pax Imperia and Nox, but that doesn't change that it was a handheld game, not a console game. Pokemon Red/Blue were also some of the best selling games the year they released, but that doesn't make the Gameboy equivalent as a console to PSX or N64 either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

What makes you think it’s a handheld game? It was originally designed for and did release on the Wii U, a console

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

BotW was originally developed for the WiiU, which it also released on. It is not a "handheld game", and tbh I'd take it's gameplay loop over Nier Automata or Shadow of War any day of the week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The Switch design is an evolution of the Wii U controller, which itself was evolved from the the lower screen design of the DS, which itself was modelled on the old Vertical Multi Screen Game and Watches from the 1980s.

Have a look through all of Nintendo’s consoles and you’ll see the lines of inspiration drawn from generation to generation.