The Nintendo Switch's Biggest Missed Opportunities...
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Today let’s discuss just 10 of the Nintendo Switch’s biggest missed opportunities and why exactly I think that’s the case!
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Hd rumble is actually so good! You don't even notice it but it is utilized so much. For example, there is hd rumble when you swim in ink in Splatoon
Yeah!
It makes very good use in Just Dance. For beat Vibrations
I have it on in every game that supports it, they feel so empty and less immersive without it. Can't get used to having it off.
@@interstellar9145 Same!
hd rumble doesnt change anything in that tho
Back in the Wii U era, people COMPLAINED about the background music, the stupid mii’s, etc. Nintendo wanted the switch to feel more mature.
Those people are insane
@@Bakedbeans780 It’s very different now I always assume people that don’t know are young kids who don’t remember. No adults wanted to play the Wii U besides very very dedicated nintendo fans
Danganronpa
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@@TimDespairBear11 ikr it's such a good game series
the size of the switch makes sense considering it needs to be big enough to show large console games on the screen, where a game boy had games made for it that accommodated for the screen size, but the switch accommodates for large screen games
yeah. the switch also needs to handle big games, so the console needs to have some size to it.
As a person with big hands i would hate it being smaller
I think the Nintendo Switch lite could have dock support if Nintendo wanted and that might have resolved the issue.
All the points in the video were great! The next nintendo console NEEDS to have some more personality. I really hope at the very least it has menu music, as hearing all the different songs for the menus was actually one of my favorite things on the 3DS and the Wii U!
I think think the game box of the switch took up too much space and they should return to a more 3D look similar to Mac OS 11. Perhaps making a grid layout as it works the best on 3DS and Wii U. You should be able to have menu music and custom themes too.
i just need more themes
i don’t think i’ll ever have as much fun as i did with my 3DS walking around grocery stores and seeing how many coins i made to use in games, or seeing i walked by a stranger in the store and got a new character to battle with.
I agree with basically everything you said but I just want to say that in my opinion, the sideways joycons is my favorite addition to the Nintendo switch. Having 2 controllers attached to a console with good 1st party games that (almost) always have good multiplayer is awesome! I can just ask someone if they want to play smash bros with me without having to bring anything extra.
ACNH deserved a few more updates and I also wish they’d had more dlc for new Pokémon Snap.
ACNH also has a big problem with multiplayer though. Going to someone else’s island is soooo annoying if others are there too. I hate getting stopped every time someone comes or leaves
ACNH uses amiibos too but it’s the cards and not as much the figures. Still deserved a mention though.
Same here with the second point, it is so annoying that you cannot move while someone is coming to your Island.
The lack of legacy content is one of the switch’s biggest missed opportunities. This is the perfect console to port older games to due to being portable. I think the NES and SNES selections are good, but N64, Game Boy, and GBA games are lacking and we’re getting those games at a snails pace. The lack of GameCube and Wii games besides the once in a while remaster sucks
Surprised how he didn't talk about the disappearance of mii's
i mean i guess switch sports has customizable characters and people to customize for your account icon
I think we can all agree that the switch NEEDS to have to the charger output on the top instead of the bottom. Especially for the people that charge it and rest it on their stomach.
We need that
I think that the next system would evolve the switch as much as tears of the kingdom compared to breath of the wild, not removing the switch idea or be stuck with the same thing but more powerful. I think they will have it as a hybrid and be backward compatible but have a completely new branding unlike the Wii U, I proposed the name ‘Nintendo Attach & Switch’(It will make sense later), the switch part explaining it’s backward compatibility and hybrid. I think they can have a top slide rail for attaching accessories like an second screen or a camera. Best of all, it won’t increase the cost of the system by really much. I think the second screen can be attached when portable and detached when docked, creating an experience like an Wii or DS. They can also have a camera set including a front and two rear camera, also with an microphone, this allows for AR games or games that detect your body part. This can fill the missed opportunity of the switch like dual screen and AR.
Extra: Would be great also they did a smaller switch successor like a 5.5” all screen design with the complete functionality, the dual screen can be clamshell to protect your next generation system, I also think replaceable button is a great idea, offering GCN buttons and d-pad, they can have a lock in mechanisms like the slide rail
Yeah, like make a switch better in every way basicaly and not removing it's appealing things.
@@jumentoqueanima You are right, I think Nintendo is working on 2 system:
-A spiritual successor of the switch trying to appeal to the switch/majority audience: My ‘Nintendo Attach & Switch’ concept, it’s underpowered at 1.5 tflops portably and 1.8 tflops docked launching 2024, or something similar that evolve the switch to the next level
-A more powerful Switch that appeal to the gamers: It’s more of the secondary system and actually it’s what people called ‘Switch a pro/2’ using the leaked t239 chip, even dual chips to compete with PS5/Xbox series, expected to only sold 10-20 million units and focused on 3rd party games with the disc rather than cartridges. The system don’t have Nintendo games and you have a primitive sandbox to run ‘Nintendo Attach & Switch’ games, it can be released at around 2030 or cancelled.
@@QnjtGWonQNqVsbYyzjx4 Nah, I think they are working on a sucessor and Will keep releasing some smaller games for the switch that gen.
@@jumentoqueanima What do you mean, the first one or second one.
Folders are technically on the switch in the form of groups
i legit didnt even know the IR sensor was used in ANY game beyond the initial party game that focused on it. I actually recently remembered it even existed and thought "wait...did any game use that?"
HD Rumble at least gets used in Mario Party....ok not much better condition but it got used!
Super Mario Wonder was just announced. Your 2d Mario is set to come out this October!
in game builder garage, the ir camera nodon could say something like "you found a use for me?" so even nintendo knows.
3:51 - 3:54
Yes the Nintendo Switch has folders and there was going to be more colored themes and E shop music but I think Nintendo wanted to be modern
BTW here’s the Nintendo Switch E shop music: czcams.com/video/ivRsSeoEW_0/video.html
You know what I wished anyone did? For games that use split Joy-Cons, there should be uses for SL and SR. This could give us fully functioning Wiimote/Nunchuck controls on the Switch.
I really miss the streetwalk function from the 3DS and all the mini games in it. I really liked that army game and also that gardener with all those flowers. After walking a day with my 3DS, I was always excited to see how many people I got. Once, I remember seeing a couple who came in my shop, in my 3DS streetwalk !! I immediately recognised them and I kinda wish I could have seen them again to talk to them about video games ><
It really is sad to see all those functionalities disappear, having our own Mii interact with others, that poll thing.
Also, on my 3DS, I had bought some Zelda themes. If only they could make those things port over to Switch.
My only issue with it is the joycons getting drift and the battery time being short for a handheld (which makes it so you are more or less restricted from using it when travelling)
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
Fun fact: there was music planned and created for switch shop that was found in the files but was never used
Switch online subscription is the worse thing ever....the games alone are already hella expensive....and yet we need to pay to play online???
This is why I hate consoles and would much rather play on my pc, I don’t know WHY console companies are so greedy, wether its playstation, xbox or Nintendo which for some reason decided to copy them but just worse, cause atleast with ps plus and xbox game pass you can get ACTUALLY GOOD FREE GAMES
@@KillerFox971 agreed 💯
This was a very well done video. I had a blast watching this and Great job on the video editing. The editing on this video just flowed so well along side with the story telling.
#TheSwitchIsAPerfectlyReasonableSizeAndIHaveNoRightTooComplain
#TheSwitchIsAPerfectlyReasonableSkizeAndIHaveNoRightToComplain
But only to a certain degree, I definitely wouldn't mind a smaller switch, and even a much larger one. You have a right to that opinion for sure, just is I had to choose one, I'd choose the second option.
“The switch is by far the largest handheld gaming device”
The Wii U gamepad: 👁👄👁
oh wow you are at 175K! congrats, almost there. I think i mostly want themes on it, can't see why they dont add it
Games like splatoon and fortnite utilize the motion control mechanic, so those controls aren’t out of the picture, but the other 4 controls are a different story
The motion camera is also used to somehow measure heart rate in ring fit adventure, I think.
It activates at the very least.
Content after release is amazing. More reasons to keep playing
the part that you said I might disagree was the only part I did agree in this video, the HD Rumble is used more often than you think, maybe you could of mentioned the home button that has a light behind it. Also, it would be cool if the switch light had the 3ds circle pads so you would have to worry about stick drift when putting it in your bag without a case.
My biggest complaint about the switch. This is mostly due to it being somewhere between a handheld and a console… Games planning to release on multiple consoles including The switch have to heavily throttle their game in order for the game to run on the switch. As example the game developers for monster hunter rise have said that the switch placed a hard limit on what they could do. I love monster hunter and monster hunter and it breaks my heart to think what the game could have been if the switch never existed.
2D Mario is back with Super Mario Wonder
Some of this things (not that many) have been done already
1. 2D game: Mario wonder
2….
I used Nintendo Labo and didn’t even know the joy-con ir camera existed until I did that.
I couldn’t agree more with the portability, I would like the switch so much more if it was just pocketable.
Actually the hd rumble is pretty cool and can add to the experience. Just not enough games use it.
The lack of personality and customizability is the worst thing that ever happened to the Switch. All it's got is funny lock screen noises and the click/switch noise when you slide a joycon in.
I'm pretty sure the only reason they abandoned stuff like Miiverse and Streetpass is because it relied heavily on Miis, which Nintendo wants to forget about for some reason.
HD rumble makes good use to Beat Vibrations on Just Dance
You can actually change your background to white to black.And plus it’s still a game that you can put it on your tv and take it to go, and plus at least you can still make a mii. So I’m still happy that I got a Nintendo switch.
The thing about the size of the switch is that yes it is bigger then you would really want for a portable device but at the same time I don't do sit on my TV so I really wouldn't want it to be smaller because then it wouldn't look as good when playing the game so it's kind of one of those weird types of situations
Remember they ported games from the nes, snes and gba.
I have a steamdeck and I completely agree with you about the portability problem. Yes, you can take it with you, which I do daily, but it feels more like a 2. Laptop and bot like my 3Ds
Totally agree about the ickiness of Nintendo Online. I bought that dance game just to find the content was locked between an additional, subscription based, paywall. Totally feel scammed
I’m on team, the switch is too big. Finally bought myself a new 3DS, because that’s what I want in a portable console. A huge game library that I can fit in my pocket plus the ability to play older Console games helps. When I’m sitting on a subway, or an airplane, I don’t wanna be digging through my bag opening up cases and watching about dropping things on the ground. I want something I can pull right out of my pocket and put right back into my pocket quickly when things start getting crowded or moving.
That Homebrew Channel music hits hard
I personally think the size of the switch great because I have issues with small screens, and my phone gives me headaches because it’s tiny
Actually, split joycons to get 2 controllers is one of the most amazing things the switch propose. Play with family and friends is amazing (if you have them).
My main issue with the switch, (dunno if newer models fixes it) is the docking station. On random occasions you'll dock the switch and you'll get no sounds going to the tv. The switch easily overheats after a short while making you wonder why the docking station didn't have a cooling system or another way to hold the switch so the accumulated heat isn't trapped inside a switch-sized slot.
Sounds like you have a defect one, i've never had issues like this. And i've played games for 24h+ with no break. The sound issue can also be cable issue. Overheating could be cause of location you have it, or the vent/heatsinks is full of dust.
the heat also get pushed upwards from the switch. So if you have one that get heat stuck down in the dock i would be worried about the dock/switch.
yeah i havent had this
agreed. i need a kirby background on my switch
The switch has a little theme when building up, which is the switch click animation
i can fit the switch in my pocket, and they pretty much cant make it smaller because then they would have to make the controllers smaller too, and they are more than small enough already
One of the worst this they missed out on is they cloud make the swith blue tooth to a tv so u don’t have to use 3 cords for it to work
Sideways joy cons are like new nes + half snes controller.
I’m that kid I saved up for a year to get splatoon two and no joke I started crying when I couldn’t play with my friends.
I so miss having a stylus for the switch like how the DS and WiiU has one :/
Liked bc of that rewind moment
Lucky for you, your 2D Mario problem has been fixed as of the most recent Nintendo direct
the motion controls plays a major part of the feel in splatoon, without it, the games control would just feel unnatural
Hd rumble is actually utilized in a lot of the games atleast the ones which i played like dark souls the zelda games , monster hunter, mortal Kombat pretty much every game uses it especially if it's a first party title
the thing with "HD rumble" its hard for devs to add it when most people use different controllers like power a 8bitdo etc that don't have it just normal spinning rumble also the effect is only fully noticeable if your using the joy cons as Wii nunchucks and remote style! in handheld mode or docked in the grip it just feels like better then avg rumble even for first party games! also I really wish Nintendo did enough crazy calibration so that the motion controls where just as good as the Wii so we could have more Wii games ported! skyward sword keeps on messing up because it don't know where the center is (no Wii center bar) we could of had more rail shooters also sword fighting games!
i saved up for months to get splatoon 3 and dont have nintendo switch online
Great vid I completely agree
Captain N he's our hero. Going reduce pollution down to zero.
I miss the old good days why they shut down the Wii U🙁😞
8:52 well problem solved. New 2D Mario game
Dude how many people remember that 1 dungeon game on the DS where you go into that Menu or whatever and There's a clip of it in the community interactions on this video its very brief but you like have your custom meet and you could fight people like king boo into
bro that game was oddly addicting! It was so stinkin simple, yet still had a modicum of strategy to it where you were excited about what might happen after every move! I miss that game... lol
Yea its so nostalgic
The clip is at 6:28
Street pass is the biggest missed opportunity of the switch. I want it back so much
Really the only thing I want for the next console is being able to fold it on itself like the recent folding androids and iPhones
What ever the new consul looks like I hope they use the same cards for the Nintendo switch so that we can just put in our Nintendo switch games into it.
The biggest thing I hate is online thing cuz i have splatoon 2 and 3 is I can’t play turf war.
I think they fixed the drift because I got the blue and yellow joy cons like a year ago now and I have not gotten any sign of drift
At this point I'm pretty sure I just have absolutely massive pockets.
7:47 i broke my joy con after holding my switch in backpack for one day with out the case
I am hoping so badly they bring back nintendo land it was the one game everyone would agree on and was always be fun though I get that it would be hard as the games where you chase mario and hunt a ghost need two different screens so no one can cheat
1:50 That 3rd one was a REALLY big stretch for me, Smash Bros does in fact exsist, and it's pretty popular. But whatever, if you didn't think about that its fine also everyone has their own opinions
10:11 he complained about having no 3d mario in 6 years, then played bowsers fury music
The 1st reason for me is Opposite Splatoon camera sucks
So many people would come back to a switch if they added the old games like pokemon or mario, even for the online subscription
2:11 my earphones battery ran out
Breath of the wild was not a WiiU title to start. It came out simultaneously on both
I have a pair of dress pants that can fit the switch in its pocket with extra room
Not the acnh music in the back-
I literally saved up to buy splatoons. Then had the awkward talk with my parents asking if they could spend some more money on a video game, just so I can play it. 🤣😭
Some games I can’t even play and have no clue how to get my money back because of that god damn online paywall
Literally predicted Mario Wonder a month before it got announced
The sensor at the bottom should of been used for a knife feature
In the recent News survey, I suggested that they add music to the app. If they do, then I did that.
9:04 in the new direct they announced a new mario bros game
I love my switch but there is room for improvement I agree with you there
NOT THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL MUSIC
Growing up with a Wii and Wii U I thought the switch would be terrible without the Wii U before it
7:22. No The virtual boy is the biggest
I remember the wii u commercials i was in awe frome those videos. #switchtobig
Too big, wait until he hears a out the steam deck
POV: it’s June 27th and Super Mario Wonder is coming out soon
Breath of the wild launched alongside the switch and was also playable on the wii u.
Feel like I have to run down the list, here.
Joycon: I think the biggest missed opportunity here is stripping out pretty much every one of these features so the Joycon could not only be cheaper, but higher quality. HD rumble, while neat, is generally terrible. Incredibly noisy, uncomfortable in the hands, and not as satisfying as traditional rumble. IR camera was, as mentioned, only useful for Labo, which I'd be fine with not existing if it meant removing the IR camera entirely. While I used to like collecting Amiibo, "support" (if you can even call it that) has always been so lackluster it might as well not be present. Plus, with the flooding the market of an onslaught of different types of Amiibo, while simultaneously never manufacturing anywhere near enough for the average person to buy (unless you wanted a Charizard or something), made me personally lose interest in them, so I'd be fine without NFC functionality. Motion controls for aiming is, generally, pretty overrated. Even with the tiny crappy sticks on the Joycon, I still don't know how anyone likes it on the Switch. Wii U had decent gyro, so I understand wanting it there, but on Switch it's pretty poor. I wouldn't be against keeping it in, since I know a lot of people like it for some strange reason, but if offered cheaper Joycon without it, I'd take 'em. As for sideways Joycon, being uncomfortable isn't the half of it. Have you ever actually tried using the Joycon as wireless controllers? They have a range of like 5 feet before they start dropping connection super frequently, and regularly fail to register inputs. Forget being uncomfortable, if you're not using it in tabletop mode, huddled around the screen (which I've never had an occasion where it was warranted), it's almost entirely unusable. Replace some of the useless features with whatever's needed to make wireless controls work, or don't have it as a feature. I've had to have plenty of Joycons thanks to them all crapping out on me sooner or later, but this has always been a consistent problem.
Online: I'm not thrilled with any part of it, but I don't care a whole lot, since I rarely use online functionality in games, anyway. Occasionally, if a game comes out with an online feature I want to use, I might pay for it for a short time, but it's really just made me go from rarely using online, to only having used it a few times in the console's lifetime. I don't think it would've been any problem for them to provide it to players like me for free, but not only is it unreasonable to expect them to weigh an individual players gaming habits, but I think they know most people are just going to bite the bullet anyway and pay for it, even if they don't like it, so free money for Nintendo, I guess.
Themes: What is there to be said about Switch UI? Short answer: it sucks. Long answer: it suuuuuuuuucks. Seriously though, I don't mind a sleek and clean design, but they REALLY dropped the ball here. Themes were great on 3DS (for the most part), and the Switch being the following act makes it feel very devoid of charm and personality.
Game content: Frankly, there aren't many games on Switch that felt they were worth the asking price. I don't know if it's because of Iwata's passing resulting in new folks that just don't care, or if it's just a shift in tactics that was timed coincidentally to start around the time of projects from Iwata's era finishing releasing, but Nintendo has really half-assed most of the Switch library. Post-launch updates not only don't make a bad game good (frankly, a lot of the games that suffered from said update model are games that I'd be embarrassed to have my name tied to had I worked on them), but typically still result in a below average game. It's like the game releases 50% finished, has 30% added post launch, and the remainder is nowhere to be seen. Plus, I want a more-or-less complete game on my cartridge. Once the servers get taken down (which IS going to happen, sooner or later), I want to have a full version of the game. It's bad enough that DLC is a thing (I don't mind DLC, in fact, it's responsible for half of Mario Kart 8 on Wii U's tracks, I just want it available offline), but having a game chopped in half of physical release makes it feel like it's not even worth getting the games physically.
Community: Never really used Miiverse, but I hear other people liked it. I guess having more collectables added to games in the form of stamps or whatever was kind of neat, but it's not something that really interested me, since I'm the kind of person that doesn't even have a FB/Twitter/Instagram/whatever account. Social media, generally speaking, doesn't interest me so Miiverse never caught my attention, nor did the Streetpass stuff on 3ds. In fact, with 3ds, lots of games seemed to tie mechanics into it, which when you live in a rural area where you're one of only a handful of people that are very tech literate, is just a pain in the ass. I'm happy for no more Streetpass making games worse, but it sounds like people enjoyed Miiverse, so it's kind of sad that it's gone.
Portability: Honestly, don't care. I have enormous hands, so while its thin form factor makes it uncomfortable to hold, it's easier than things like the Vita. And worried about scratching the screen? Did you even own a 3ds? The raised ridges around the lower screen almost always put scratches and indentations in the top screen. It helps if it's a clamshell with raised edges around the outside, preventing anything on the inside from touching, but I've gotten fewer scratches on my Switch screen than any of my 3 3ds' that I've owned, and my Switch doesn't even have a screen protector or case. I also don't have much trouble fitting it in my pockets, and my workplace has a somewhat strict dress code, so it's not like it's in sweats or anything. It's pushing it a bit, but I never find it to be uncomfortably big, as though it's stretching the pocket. I do agree that I like a smaller handheld, but on the other hand, as games put more and more stuff on the screen, the harder it is to absorb visual information on a smaller screen, so I think it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Either allow games to fit more information on the screen, and make the screen bigger to accommodate, or make the screen smaller and put less on it. I don't think there's a good solution, unless every handheld game system is just a controller with the system built into it, with a jack for plugging in some AR glasses to play on, or something.
Missing games: Luckily for me, none of the missing games appealed to me much anyway, so I'm not missing out, although I do feel for the fans, as my missing games I've been wanting haven't showed their faces since the GCN/NDS eras. Never really liked Prime, never liked the level design much in the DK games, and while I love 2d Mario games, I never really go into the New Super Mario series (not from a lack of enjoyment, but from not having the opportunity to give them a shot, though I just got one on Wii U second hand, so that will change soon). That said, Nintendo, if you feel like bringing back Custom Robo, or talking Fromsoft into making a new Lost Kingdoms game (just please tell them to get their crap together first, so they know how to make something that plays well again for the first time in the past nearly twenty years), I'd really appreciate it, and buy it day one.
Conclusion: Yeah really agree on the lineup. Switch is really a console that I think only flourished by cannibalizing the Wii U. If not for the Wii U, I think that, in terms of software sales, Switch would've been an absolute disaster. Wii U was a great system held back by its marketing (as well as its hardware, to an extent, but not as much as many insinuate in my opinion), while Switch is a great system held back by a combination of over-design, under-implementation, poor hardware quality control, and bankrupt creativity. While I like my Switch, I think that if not for Nintendo's marketing being good enough to get lots of people to buy it, followed by Wii U era games being re-released for it, then it would've been one of the biggest crash and burns of Nintendo's history. They're just lucky that so few people bought the Wii U and played its games that they were able to pretend like old games were new ones in order to bolster the Switch's abysmal library.
TLDR; Switch, while having its upsides, has largely been an unrelenting shit-show that's mostly succeeded through good marketing and games they already made that few people played, rather than individual merit as a system.
The size is a bit annoying, but understandable. The designers tried to make it as big as possible so multi player games could be playable in tabletop mode. Imagine playing Mariokart with four people on a screen the size of a smartphone.
I do sometimes wish it was as convenient as a phone though. I tend to play games on my phone more often because I don't have to worry about completing a long level or going finding the next save point, plus I can easily slip my phone in my pocket when I'm done. With the Switch (at least the games I own) I need more than twenty minutes to feel like I'm making progress and I can't fit the Switch in my pocket when I'm done.
9:04 we are getting super mario wonder
honestly, Satoru Iwata knew what he was doing, he made nintendo an Amazing company. his death caused the company to sink and they never recover. all the people say they miss him but i doubt it because if they did they would have themes, customization, music etc