Nintendo Switch

[Astonished]

I think the Kinect and Playstation Move proved to be failures so they abandoned them. Nintendo downplayed that with the Wii U except with some games using the gamepad as an aiming mechanism but I think the Switch is going back to the more active roots like the Wii.

My bold.

Bollocks!... it was a nice dream while it lasted

I'm just really fed up with Sony right now, so even though there are a few PS4-exclusive games I wish I could get on my Xbox One (I'm also a tad irked with Microsoft for buying Rare and keeping it from being bought out by Nintendo like it should have been, and creating huge issues with the rights to games like Donkey Kong Country). But all the problems I have with the PS4 hardware are directly related to how they're actively screwing over the players and trying to milk as much ill-gotten money out of them as possible, and I'm having none of that. Let's hope this delay in making the Switch a viable online system is worth it and Nintendo doesn't make these huge mistakes.

Right... so reading between the lines, that's another thing about the new way; that many games are platform independent these days, except for a few exclusives? To me that sounds pretty cool... but obviously not if you're looking out for exclusives on a system you don't have (I rarely do exclusives in anything on principle... so don't watch netflix originals etc on principle)... because it means you can focus on the games rather than the systems that run them. Against exclusivity I'm basically all for 'open source' stuff and actively go against anything that looks like it's trying to lock you in to a particular ecosystem as it were... so I wouldn't get an iPhone if you paid me etc. So if that open source principle is generally in operation with these new consoles, I'm all for that, and fully understand your frustration when that's not the case... hope it works out for you

Some things being exclusives are worth it (the Netflix Marvel shows, for example), while others not so much (WB making the third season of Young Justice only available on their limited and exclusive streaming service? May they hang for such assholery.) But since I wanted Rare Replay, I had no choice but to get the Xbox One, and to my chagrin a few games that I do have my eye on are only on PS4, so if we're talking pure volume, PS4 does have more games I would like to be able to play but I can't bring myself to buy one because of how awful the rest of what they're doing with it is. Zero backward compatibility, no ability to play the downloaded games from my PS3, and the fact that you can't buy the older games they're offering in their online arcade, you just have to pay a monthly service charge for access to them, now that's some bullshit. Fuck Sony. It wasn't bad enough they're being dickholes about the Spider-Man movies, now they have to make gaming a chore.