Nintendo!

[chimp3]

I played Pong and Pacman once or twice in the 70's. Have never played a video game since. I am a weirdo.

[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?

[downbeatplumb]

Nintendo seem to be constantly competing with the last generation of everyone elses console.


The switch now as good as the Xbox 360.

[Astonished]

Nintendo seem to be constantly competing with the last generation of everyone elses console.


The switch now as good as the Xbox 360.

In what way? Elaborate, please. I'm not familiar with the X360, I skipped it and went with an XB1 since Sony is doing too much to piss me off to motivate me to get a PS4 even though that console has a few exclusives that I regret not being able to snag. But the XB1 has Rare Replay, their own exclusive, and that was a must-have for me too.

[ScienceAf]

I played Pong and Pacman once or twice in the 70's. Have never played a video game since. I am a weirdo.

Damn

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Nintendo seem to be constantly competing with the last generation of everyone elses console.


The switch now as good as the Xbox 360.

Not at all, the switch is just as able to compete with the PS4 and Xbox One

PS4: Tank, specs wise, game exclusive wise

Xbox One: good specs, much more capablities than both consoles

Nintendo: Insanely known exclusives, portable, great specs for a portable, can become a home console

[Astonished]

My complaint about what Sony's latest console is all about it mainly that it's got no backward compatibility with any previous incarnations, anything you've downloaded on your PS3 can't transfer over, the way they previously structured their shop, you don't have the same purchase options, now you have to pay a monthly fee to access retro PS games instead of downloading to own. The very opposite of catering to the users. Nintendo does ignore fans but primarily about how they make their games, at least with these other logistics they're not quite that greedy and cynical.

[downbeatplumb]

My complaint about what Sony's latest console is all about it mainly that it's got no backward compatibility with any previous incarnations, anything you've downloaded on your PS3 can't transfer over, the way they previously structured their shop, you don't have the same purchase options, now you have to pay a monthly fee to access retro PS games instead of downloading to own. The very opposite of catering to the users. Nintendo does ignore fans but primarily about how they make their games, at least with these other logistics they're not quite that greedy and cynical.

Yes most of my 360 games play on my one.

[Astonished]

My complaint about what Sony's latest console is all about it mainly that it's got no backward compatibility with any previous incarnations, anything you've downloaded on your PS3 can't transfer over, the way they previously structured their shop, you don't have the same purchase options, now you have to pay a monthly fee to access retro PS games instead of downloading to own. The very opposite of catering to the users. Nintendo does ignore fans but primarily about how they make their games, at least with these other logistics they're not quite that greedy and cynical.

Yes most of my 360 games play on my one.

Usually if it's available on PS3, I'll just get that version of a game that's also on the 360, but I'm irked that Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon is not backward compatible from 360 to XB1 (yet...but maybe never...) If they'd just put that and the first two into a HD collection for the newer systems, that would be amazing.