I'm sniffling and coughing, but can't hold myself back! As you may have heard by now, Nintendo unveiled several details about their upcoming console, the Switch. And I must admit, I am interested. I should state that I'm really not big on Nintendo's first-party titles... They're never really done much for me. I tend to stick to the third-party titles, and will buy a system based on that metric. Hence why I didn't buy a Wii U...just their handheld stuff. But after watching the presentation, I am seriously mulling over a Switch purchase.
Nintendo showed several trailers, plus a sizzle reel of some seriously amazing games. Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Shin Megami Tensei, Octopath Traveler...these look right up my alley. And I gotta admit that my fangirl side is going full throttle with "It's got SMT! You gotta buy this!" But I am going to wait for more information at this point. I noticed that Square Enix is porting "I am Setsuna" to the Switch, and I am wondering how many other games are going to get ported? It's...kind of weird to me. I'm so used to Sony and Microsoft having (roughly) many of the same games on their system, so you just picked the platform that has the exclusives you want, since you can get basically everything else as multi-platform. Nintendo was its own creature with pretty much entirely exclusive games. But if they're going to get a lot of the games that the Playstation and X Box will...that's going to make things more complicated.
I suppose it's a good thing that the games that have intrigued me won't be available at launch...that way I have time to learn more about the system's game lineup, plus time for the game developers to release more about their plans.
Looks like 2017 is gonna be pretty busy! Miss Scarlett, signing off!
