Nintendo!

[Astonished]

Last console I bought was a SNES. Now I'm exclusively into PC gaming, and have been since 1995 or thereabouts. I remember one of the first games I bought for PC was Command & Conquer. The difference in quality and gaming experience made me never look back.

I could never get used to playing a game on a keyboard, so PC gaming would never work out for me. But from what I hear about emulators you can get just about anything on there so that must be cool. Probably not Wii games though, just because of how motion controls are required so much of the time.

I am a bit disappointed at the lack of variety from Nintendo's N64 library on the Virtual Console. Mother 3 being one of them that was never released stateside as far as I'm aware, would have been nice (like their recent US release of the SNES Star Fox 2 or so I've been seeing on the My Nintendo website, and their dragging their feet after taking down all the Donkey Kong Country/64 games for the longest time before putting them up again or at all, was extremely irksome. But I've got all of them now and they're never going away. It's a strange lack of overlap between the original Wii Shop Channel and the current eShop because several games from the former are not also available on the latter. A few titles I might have wanted to pick up before the recent closure of the Wii Shop Channel, like the classic Zombies Ate My Neighbors, would have been nice (and being able to create restore points, very helpful), or being able to switch the titles you buy on there to the Wii U without still having to pay that small fee, like Super Bonk or Super Adventure Island II.

So Nintendo does still have time to turn things around. From what I understand, the Switch hardware is still basically the same idea as the Wii U (mobile touch-screen game pad) with a bit more, so they can still create the same kind of games for it and not lose the opportunity for a few really choice games that would thrive on a system like that (Pikmin games that utilize the touch-screen, for example, would seem far more user-friendly than any other control schema, or a Pokemon Snap sequel that uses the game pad like an actual camera). They never let the Wii U live up to its full potential but its hybrid offspring, the Switch, certainly could, and I do hope that they don't yet again piss away all the great opportunities it presents.

BTW, for anyone who does own a Switch, I am aware it uses cartridges for the games which I'm not so keen on since I highly doubt the NEXT console they release is going to have backward compatibility with them, but since they don't even have their eShop up and running on it, are there at least options for downloading Switch-exclusive games on it?