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This Week in Games - You Can't Keep Shigeru Miyamoto Down

Furthermore, when their next system is ready, they can basically get an entire generation's worth of ports that can be marketed as the "definitive edition" of titles with all the updates, DLC, etc as people will buy something (or even double dip) simply because of the portability, especially if it's at a discounted price. Titles like the RE remakes, DMC5, the Assassin's Creeds, Street Fighter, FFXV, Tekken, etc, 3rd parties have a big opportunity to get some extra profit for little expense with that considering how many people use the Switch as their primary console nowadays.Altogether, Nintendo's choice is seeming more like a boon than anything

My only hope for the next Nintendo console is backwards compatibility. It would be nice to use the old Switch cartridges in it like you could for DS to 3DS. I know digital copies are easier but at least one model with a card reader would be great.

Sometimes I wonder if there's really that big of a potential market for late ports on Nintendo consoles.

People buying Switches don't care that the console has the "worst" port of any given game, they just want Switches and a version of the game they can play on it. John Q. Publics don't spend hours comparing screenshots, hence why Nintendo has sold 132 million Switches.

The Switch doesn't have 4K resolution, but it has Super Mario Wonder, a game made by a team consisting of senior staff that didn't get laid off.

It's one thing when Nintendo doesn't give you what you personally want, but to just call that "lazy" is unfair. It's not someone else's fault when they don't follow the plan you made for them in your head.

Agreed with Across the Spider-verse and to a lesser extent TMNT: Mutant Mayhem being animated films that actually show how strong the medium can be. As opposed to the Mario movie which was handed off to Illumination who have stopped putting any effort into their scripts since Despicable Me 2.

The negative opinions are lazily dismissed with “Mario’s not supposed to be deep, bro!” but you don’t have to be deep to offer some creativity, good humor, and character arcs. It’s sad the Dungeons and Dragons movie came out right next to Mario, and D&D actually excelled in all those categories I mentioned while also having plenty of fanservice for fans of the IP. All Mario had was the fanservice (the animation was good though nothing remarkable).

He's a tech analyst who has a garbage track record with his predictions, like when he predicted a few years back that we'd get Mario Kart 9 (instead, we're still jamming with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Nintendo is still showing it a ton of support).

People have their heart set on Nintendo just making a Switch that isn't the Switch, for some reason. They're just so enamored with the idea of Nintendo "finally" making a console with "next-gen graphics" when that just has no economic incentive for Nintendo; it'd be too expensive to produce, and it'd be too expensive at retail. The Switch wouldn't have sold nearly as well if it had a $400 price point, and a lot of the millions of Switches sold were to John Q. Publics who don't care about HD graphics.

Nintendo is in a weird position with the Switch--not because of gamers, but because they need to give John Q. Public a reason to get an upgrade to the Switch when millions of John Q. Publics nationwide are perfectly happy with what they have now. Gamers™ can stamp their feet until their ankles break... but we're just a fraction of the audience.