I am a little jealous of my friends with switches. They seem to "just work" 99% of the time.
What paid off for Nintendo was a willingness to bet on games and take risks on changing up their strategy.
Other gaming experiences, ironically, lack the playfulness of the Switch. The design language and marketing has been on point.
They are 7 years deep though and the suspected new console will have big shoes to fill. How can they farm revenue while not offending their current customers?
Backwards compatibility with the cartridges and transferring the digital downloads seamlessly would go a long way towards making most other owners and me happier about upgrading/replacing my Switch. I have only two pain points with Switch which I believe everyone has - the web/store is incredibly sluggish no matter your internet connection, and all official Nintendo controllers will eventually drift in the joysticks because they cheaped out on the construction.
>official Nintendo controllers will eventually drift in the joysticks because they cheaped out on the construction.
Oh for the days of nintendium. I got upset playing Sonic Advance 2 when I was little and overhand-hurled my GBA down an entire flight of stairs onto tile, ran down, picked it up then ran to the next door to throw it down the basement stairs to a concrete floor.
I was suddenly overcome with regret and ran to check my precious device. One small (4mm) stress fracture that did not change the surface of the plastic.
Their parental control system is not too good either. For a box with multiple users (some kids, some adults), its almost all or nothing in terms of game access. Tough to sub-list when the main page is all the games unfiltered. If they could somehow fix that it would be good.
> I am a little jealous of my friends with switches. They seem to "just work" 99% of the time.
I don't know what our household's problem is then. We've had nothing but problems with joycon connections across three devices. Repeatedly one of the two controllers would fail to pair with the switches despite being physically docked. I've got to the point where I told my girls I'm not trying to help fix it anymore and they should play games on one of the many other options they have. Mostly they play games on PC now.
If you're willing to give them a shot, 8bitdo makes wireless controllers that are Switch and PC (+ Apple and Android) compatible that work way better than the official Nintendo ones. I've never seen any weird connection behavior in contrast to our joycons and pro-controller, not even counting the tweezer surgery I had to do to replace Nintendo's drifty sticks.
What paid off for Nintendo was a willingness to bet on games and take risks on changing up their strategy.
Other gaming experiences, ironically, lack the playfulness of the Switch. The design language and marketing has been on point.
They are 7 years deep though and the suspected new console will have big shoes to fill. How can they farm revenue while not offending their current customers?