The Switch
Okay so heres the Treehouse presentation from last night.
The short version is
- $300
- March 3rd
- Launch titles are...
- Super Bomberman R
- 1-2-Switch (a bunch of minigames)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Skylanders Imaginators (2016 port)
- Just Dance 2017
- ...and thats it. Five fucking games. Coming later will be...
- Fire Emblem Warriors
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Splatoon 2 (why in Earth it isnt called Splat2n is beyond me)
- ARMS. a funny-looking PvP fighter.
- Disgaea 5
- Has Been Heroes (Roguelike)
- Puyo Puyo Tetris
- Rayman Legends
- Steep
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Sonic Mania
- An undefined Shin Megami Tensei game
- Battery Life: 2.5-6 hours
- Time to charge the battery: 3 hours
- Ability to remove the battery: No.
- Ability to play it with a charging cable: Yes!
- Region: Free.
- Online: Free to start, but then theres a subscription fee coming Fall 2017.
- Free games each month with online subscription: Yes! (SNES or NES Virtual Console games.)
- Amount of time you get access to those games: Just that month! After that you have to buy them if you wanna play them! (Yes, seriously.)
So... lets watch the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey.
Hm. That doesnt look as awful as word of mouth on the Internet led me to believe. Its nice to see Nintendo doing something halfway ambitious. Remember when they were a technology leader? Those were the days.
So yeah, Id say last nights presentation did not... inspire much confidence in the gamer population as a whole. Or at least my Twitter feed today was full of stuff like this:
But it launches with a brand new Zelda,
and thats enough for some people.
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