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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I wish they would focus more on making consoles that LOOK and FEEL good when you’re playing instead of trying to create the next new thing no one will care about in 5 years.

Isn't this basically what they did with the Switch? It's very low on gimmicks that never get used (infrared? Touchscreen?), its games on the whole look pretty good (Most first party titles), and people still play it over 6 years later. Also Nintendo has nothing to do with the development of Pokémon - so while shit, they hardly deserve the blame for that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's a hand held console with detachable joycons

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The “joycons” don’t bring me joy. They make my hands cramp and are only full of cons.

[–] kurosawaa 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the joy cons make it great for party games, it's really convenient to get a 4 player game of Mario Cart going with just two pairs of joy cons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah until someone gets one with drift

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You're supposed to drift in Mario Kart! /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Many technologies exist around the inconvenience of having small flimsy drifting controllers in a several player setting. For example: You could pair your phones via Bluetooth or internet for party games in a similar fashion to Jackbox or other party games as a controller/ data entry device.

We shouldn’t need to rely on third party applications or controllers to have a good experience with your platform, be it physically or digitally, especially when the technology has existed for many years.

And don’t even get me started on the software side experience.

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