Nintendo Switch: Revolution or discount console? We’re talking about it!

Gaming News Nintendo Switch: Revolution or discount console? We’re talking about it!

The Nintendo Switch, a unique console.

The Nintendo console (codenamed Project NX at the time) irretrievably marked the history of the Japanese company, but also the history of video games in general. Announced in 2015, the Switch arrives worldwide in March 2017 and has stood out for having an atypical concept. The machine is a portable console that can be plugged into a box to connect to a TV, making it a home console. The Switch is therefore designed to be played anywhere, alone, with everyone, at home, with others, on the beach, in the park, in transport, etc. Nintendo’s strategy has worked this way since the creation of the Wii, which is to think of video games around a solo gaming experience with friends or family that’s very different from the competition. Nintendo has therefore never wanted to race for graphics or the most powerful console, preferring instead to focus on creating new play possibilities around motion gaming with accessories such as the Nintendo Labo or the Mario Kart Live : Home Circuit game. : Home Circuit. The Switch is a machine that innovates in gameplay while still offering classic gameplay across all consoles. Nintendo is therefore developing its catalog around its iconic licenses: Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon, Smash Bros, etc. In developing a catalog around multiplayer games such as Nintendo Switch Sports or Amrs. Indie games are also increasingly being honored by the mustachioed plumber’s company, which is using its console’s hybridity to power ports of games originally released on DS, eventually bringing them to the big screen like the first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon episode to adjust.

Hybridity becomes the watchword of the Nintendo Switch, which tries to offer an experience dedicated to the living room but with the machine in the hands. It’s this hybridity that seduces and works, Nintendo’s latest financial report shows it well: Since its launch, the Switch has sold almost 123,000,000 copies, overtaking the PS4 and more specifically the GameBoy, becoming the third best-selling console in history (it remains to surpass the DS and PS2). Some games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe haven’t left the top sellers for years. After the Wii U disaster, Nintendo managed to replicate the success of the Wii or its various handheld consoles. The company has capitalized on the two console shapes it developed to create a concept that is still a hit after nearly 6 years of operation.

Unique but not on par with the competition.

The Switch was born at the end of the 8th generation of consoles, it will have seen the end of the latter to be fully exploited during the 9th generation. She will also have observed the performance of the PC, which is constantly improving and much faster than its console cousins. In short, the Switch is standing KO against the opponent : a battery that does not last long in portable mode, the problems of Joy-Con Drift are still present, an unoptimized online mode, shaky communication from Nintendo, a machine that vents to the maximum while trying to play graphically demanding games to run (in portable mode, the console cooking while running The Witcher 3 or Breath Of The Wild), etc. In addition, the OLED and Lite models of the Switch did not help to fix the machine’s technical problems. The Nintendo Switch is the subject of this debate led by Fkz with, on the one hand, Antistar, who defends the Switch as a technical revolution in the world of gaming consoles, and, on the other hand, with Nagla, who defends the idea that the Japanese company’s machine cannot, given its performance compared be a revolution to the competition.

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