Looks good for those with tonnes of time to kill. I don't get enough flipping time to game at home, let alone on the move. My Vita is brilliant for holidays, but is idle most of the year!

I also suspect it will be too expensive to let the kids drag it around outdoors. I'd certainly worry about it getting stolen if they were sat out on a park bench. So it's a weird one; easy to justify for adults that enjoy a child's lifestyle/responsibilities if you see what I'm getting at? Much more an enthusiast device.

Unfortunately I don't have a rooftop garden to game and sip Coke ..

And I bet it will be pricey. With a PS4 Pro at £350, I wonder how they'll price this to go mainstream? Or perhaps they aren't worried about that. Love the way it looks to be engineered though. Very sleek.

March 2017 misses Xmas though, making it a definite "enthusiast" purchase at launch.

March is a perfect time to release as there is literally no competition ,releasing it Holiday season against the Playstation Pro wouldn't be advisable even though they are 2 different types of console.

I just hope its got a little more power than the underwhelming Nintendo Wii U,and notice the thing nobody has mentioned,Nintendo has gone back to using Carts.....

Edited by time2die (Fri 21-Oct-16 07:48:28)

No worries, people have more money than sense these days

Correct

Not me, unfortunately

Maybe so, but missing Christmas is either an admission it needs time to build up a head of steam, or that they just couldn't get it out in time.

Good points. It's good they are offering something different but I think it's a tough sell. Casual gaming covered by tablets/smartphones, more serious/hardcore gaming you have Xbox, Playstation and PC. Pricing is critical, I think it needs to be cheaper than the MS and Sony offering but probably won't.. sure I had a email the other day with a shop selling the PS4 Pro for £299.

The Wii did great because it had the motion controllers which were unique at the time, the new comparable thing would be VR IMO..

In reply to a post by time2die:

March is a perfect time to release as there is literally no competition ,releasing it Holiday season against the Playstation Pro wouldn't be advisable even though they are 2 different types of console

But huge amounts of money are spent at this time of year. They'd be mad to miss an xmas launch if they were ready for it in terms of production and marketing.

Like you say, it's not a direct competitor to the other consoles, so why let parents of Nintendo fans blow there xmas budget on something else?

Nice Pokemon pyjamas etc etc...

Their problem will be the same as in the past. That list of 3rd party developers "partnering" the Switch, will simply port under optimised console versions over (they have to as it doesn't have the beans to out perform them) and the rest is history. I'm looking at you, Wii U.

They are banking on portability being the hook, but I don't know if that's what the market wants, a giant Vita competitor. The Nvidia Shield tried it; in fact I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Shield spawned the inspiration for the (at the time) Nintendo NX. Does anyone know if the Shield sold well?

It's also a bit chilly this time of the year for rooftop garden get togethers.

It's a niche market I think but I could be wrong.