madmaltese

Yeah cause Nintendo accessory costs are truly insane. Plus I don't think they want to drop the Switch price atm, still selling extremely well and profitability is far more important that simply having a lower price point. They will try to keep the same profit margins by reducing costs with a handheld only switch imo. We'll see I guess.

That $400 has given more AA+ exclusives last year alone than in Xbox One's entire history Astro Bot got more GOTY noms than Forza

Let's be honest though, that dock is worth like $20 lol They ain't doing any major price cut with selling it dockless.

Will be both imo. PSVR will work (cause PS5 will be BC) but there will defs be a PSVR2

lmfao, I fucking hope there is a new PSVR model next gen since the entirety of my point is that the tech is old and new models will be far more user friendly. Your point is stupid, it's like saying 'consoles are shit, you're gonna have to buy a new better one next gen', well fucking duh.

I 100% think it is more likely they make a handheld only Switch than a console only one. Their handheld market has always been much bigger than their console one and with Pokemon coming out (which has only ever been a handheld game) a handheld only Switch makes a lot of sense.

Oh shietttttttt Pachtar says it's gonna happen, SW Pachter says it isn't. How can they both be wrong?

I would see myself a hardcore gamer and even for me it's such a pain to setup and use in it's current iteration that I simply don't use it for that reason alone even though I'm dying to play all it's killer games this year. The amount of wires, the space required, the addition of needing the camera, using past gen tech in Move controllers, the launch units not having HDR pass through the set up box, the still low res screen, etc. We are so fucking early.

Narcos S3 is fn awesome. Think I'm jumping on the bandwagon of thinking this is better than the first 2 seasons.

Ugh, not happy, cause this is something I've also predicted so the odds of it happening have now tumbled. Imo though it makes a lot of sense. A cheaper handheld only version of the Switch before or alongside the core Pokemon games due for release in 2019 would be a very smart move imo. https://gamingbolt.com/nintendo-will-release-handheld-only-switch-model-in-2019-ps4-xbox-one-to-receive-price-cuts-predicts-pachter

VR isnt dead and VR most definitely isn't going to be included in the console. We are still so early in the lifespan for this tech. We're still at the weak af home computers with floppy disks stage of VR.

Nov 2020

You bring so much of this on yourself though. They did REmake, they are doing REmake 2, to know that and still say so clearly that they will 'NEVER' do REmake 3 is just silly.

Dayummm, huge move. As I said, this is the first true competitor to Steam. Shit's gonna get interesting.

It depends what MS considers as a success to. I know that from me as a customer I went from buying an Xbox and all major exclusives, to buying a X360 and all major exclusives plus all major 3rd party games on it, to Xbox One and buying their exclusives till their PC and gamepass announcement, to (as it stands) most definitely not buying the next xbox or any games and just paying $10 a month for GP on PC for their first party in the month they release. From me they are 100% getting a much smaller amount of money and I can see that being the case for many hardcore gamers. The questi

I'll be honest, I didn't own a Wii U but the Wii U ports being sent to Switch have all been excellent games so far, so from a first party perspective it seems they most def did support it as much as it makes sense to support a system that flopped so badly commerically. The only ever time I felt a proper 'fuck you' from buying a system is MS announcing every first party game is now also on PC. Made the system I bought completely and utterly useless to me from that very second.

Well obviously. The only reason to buy a Switch is for Nintendo first party, that's why I bought mine so I don't really care if I don't use it much outside of that. Although excellent indie games truly have found a home on that system too. That also means that is the only factor I really associate with as successful for a Nintendo system to me. Regardless of sales the Wii to me is one of Nintendo's worst ever systems for that reason. SMG franchise the main shining light.

That's all relative to taste. I'm not that interested in but many were in Pokemon Go, Mario Aces, Kirby Star Allies, Super Mario Party. Plus there was Octopath. All games that reviewed better than most MS first party titles (outside of forza) so regardless of personal taste they aren't bad games. I'd wait to see what Nintendo announce in their usual Jan (or early year) Direct before saying they got nothing. Nintendo always focuses all it's attention of their next major games before moving forward. Smash just came out and that had 100% of their focus. We'll find out what 2019 looks

Was feeling a little wild! I think there is enough fun in the core gameplay from the original game that hopefully the traversal is good enough to give it that 7.0

Point remains. Anyone can not purchase something. It means nothing about it's quality. You skipped the winner of most GOTYs this year but bought Sea of Thieves. Curious. You not buying Smash last month doesn't mean Switch had nothing last month.

You also don't own God of War, Spiderman and Horizon yet you have a PS4 so your purchase history isn't the best indicator of quality....

Why would I support them on the system that I'm complaining they abandoned for in favour of consoles lol Yeah, I'm a real PC Gamer

So Q1 2019 is stacked AF. So let's play a little game and try predict who the causalities will be (because there surely will be) and which games will reign supreme. Then we get to look back on the thread and laugh at the people that were wrong (is that the point of everything). Judge each on two SEPARATE factors. Critically and commercially. Meaning you get predict something gets critical praise but fails commercially. We will judge critical success as AA+ (be specific if you think AAA) The games are -(my prediction) Ace Combat 7 - (AA, com

That's fine but by doing this you're only setting yourself up to lose long term and for what? Wii U is ancient history on SW now. Why would sheep care about the Wii U sales now especially after the hit that the Switch is? That's like if the next Xbox destroys the PS5 next gen and all the cows start saying 'yeah but ps4 won gen 8'....um ok, so?

Or the entire concept of generations just doesn't exist in the same way anymore. MS and Sony went from iterative upgrades in the generation while Nintendo abandoned the hardware and made a new one. Nothing is going to align again between the 3 moving forward. The point is that now for the '9th Gen' as you put it, the Xbox has to best the best the fastest selling system in US history because by your own standard that is their direct comparison. Why would sheep care about the Wii U now lol