Oh the “warchest” argument. Which is completely irrelevant to the discussion of them being successful or not. Nintendo is a publicly traded company. Publicly traded companies are successful or not depending on how much money they make for their shareholders which is based on profit, not money held by the company.…

I think you’re being disingenuous when you say that Nintendo will be lost among all the 3rd-party developers. They are a high quality and storied game company with consistently strong titles with genre defining design. They’ll be fine.

Because by lifetime sales, by the end of 2016 the PS4 sold 53 million units and the WiiU sold 13 million. Half of those PS4s playing Zelda is more than twice the revenue of every WiiU playing Zelda. This isn’t particularly complicated.

Gee, I dunno. Maybe they want to sell 4 times as many copies of Zelda without having to incur the cost of developing, producing, shipping, and supporting a console that is almost guaranteed to have anemic sales?

I’m not saying they should stop making Zelda. I’m saying they need to stop making their wonderful games dependent on crappy consoles. There’s no practical reason Breath of the Wild can’t be on Playstation or Steam or what have you.

Nintendo, please just bite the bullet and stop making hardware.

I’m sure you might take heat from the diehard fans but, indelicate phrasing aside, you’re right. As a tablet the Switch is underwhelming (would anyone buy a 720p tablet for $300 in 2017 if it didn’t have “Nintendo” printed on it?) and as a home console it’s downright pathetic compared to the competition.

Unless you are really gunning for Splatoon 2 or any of the indies coming this spring/summer, probably no harm in waiting till Mario comes to get a Switch, especially since there might be a better deal or pack-in by that point.

It’s not charming if you have to live next to it.

This will likely have a huge impact on dozens of shoppers.

gotta chime in here, i really disagree. i bought a wii u launch bundle, and doubt i’ve logged nearly 60-80 hours on the thing. i’ve played most of hyrule warriors, all the mario games, mario kart, bayonetta 2 and a few other odd titles, but only beat wind waker hd. one caveat is we are all older now and i don’t really…

AVP 2 is still one of the scariest games I’ve played to date. Obviously only when playing as the Marine, but still.

What on earth are you on about? I was defending the OP.

Go fuck yourself you shitty human.