That was Kotaku. And most of them were rumors. If you want official, then go to Nintendo. Nintendo only mentioned VC when they announced their paid online service, in that you’ll get a VC game rental of some sort. If they mentioned it elsewhere, they were just in passing. They never explicitly said it would be…

That doesn’t make it ok to whine about it though. Sony didn’t overpromise on the PS4 (actually on some aspects... but nothing big). Nintendo didn’t overpromise on this either.. I don’t see the point of the OP and you defending it. It just devolved into you saying you’re not buying it at launch. And... so?

It is, because you’re complaining about a thing that wasn’t even mentioned until now. And to what effect? VC won’t magically launch if you do that.

It is unreasonable to hope for VC at launch because it was never mentioned. Nintendo is not one for launching unannounced big features like VC. And besides, there will always be stocks for stores. They don’t put everything up for preorder. You seem to be missing the point of preordering. You do it because you want the…

Yes but you just kept droning on for no apparent reason. It’s as if you’re also telling people to not buy it because of your specific reasons. You think it will collect dust? Then don’t buy it. Those of us who preordered it don’t think that.

Hub is also proprietary. And starred, because Kotaku commenters are really stupid.

EVERYTHING has to have walk in units at launch. No sane company would put out every stock they have for preorders and preorders alone, because not everyone preorders, or are even aware of it.

Why do you love announcing that you don’t need a Switch? Nobody cares. Get the fuck out.

Nobody that stupid would preorder a system that doesn’t have the games they want. Everyone who preordered want Zelda and are ok with MK and Splatoon. Nobody preordered because of VC because VC wasn’t even mentioned as a launch feature.

Why did you even preorder when it wasn’t even clear that there would be VC at launch? Zelda is obviously the biggest reason to preorder, NOT VC. Only stupid people assumed that VC will be out by launch. Pretty much everyone smart enough have known that the launch won’t have a lot of games and they’d have to wait for…

And add to the fact that people think emulation is just copying the rom. It isn’t just emulation. They want VC games to feel native to the system and that’s not easy...

Every product in the last 10 years almost always looked rushed when it first launched. Even the iPhones. It’s either that it’s really lacking features on the software side, or the consumers have set their expectations too high.

It’s almost as if people forget that you rarely can play more than 1 game on a NEWLY LAUNCHED system. It’s almost as if BotW is the only launch game. Never bought a PS4 at launch, since I have nothing to play on it. Same goes for you this time for the Switch. So stop bitching and don’t buy it. It’s as if logic is that…

Software issues (or an update on their backend) is harder to solve than faulty hardware? Geez must have been so hard for Sony to have just added external HDD support...... through an update.... like Nintendo could do... for VC and their online infrastructure.

They never said you couldn’t. They just said it will not be available in March 3. For all we know VC could launch in April 3.

And I take it he didn’t even preorder so he wasn’t even promised a unit.

The Wii was kind of positive though. It means it’s popular and the system was not at fault, per se. And we can add “Switch, no VC and web browser at launch”.

They all think that emulation is just copying a rom on an SD card. The fact that they’re working on it and it will still exist should be enough.

It’s probably being redesigned for the Switch and if the rumor that it will have GC games, then that’s more work for them. Emulation isn’t as easy as it looks.

You’re all entitled for whining so loudly about it and you didn’t even preorder. JUST WAIT. Then buy it when you think it’s worth it. Geez. BotW is still the highlight. There’s MK8 and Splatoon 2, soon. Seriously, it’s fine. No VC at launch is kind of a bummer since we’re all entitled spoiled brats that want…