The Kid rolled up to the old Dixie Travel Plaza - a hundred and twenty five miles of lonely American interstate behind him, and twice that left in front.
@cmblasko: The Wii U port of MH3U had sensible controls, right? You say that but I'd rather play Monster Hunter on an N-Gage than attack with the right stick again like in the PS2 game.
@echoforge: With more and more people buying games digitally, I'd imagine it's a whole lot more appealing to put a cartridge reader on your console than a big damn blu-ray drive. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the next few years some disc sales vs. console sales graph hits a certain point and Sony/Microsoft kick themselves for not doing the same thing.
I want to make sure things like the online infrastructure and OS are sound, because this is Nintendo we're talking about. If that's all good and the price isn't crazy, I'd probably buy one within the launch month or so.
Discounting the Wii I modded to boot directly into Project M, I haven't owned a Nintendo console since the Gamecube. I'm kind of excited to be excited about Nintendo again, you guys.
@vargasprime: It's a super long shot, but I'd love to see the dock itself have an easily replaceable hard drive (like the PS4 has) to supplement the tablet part's probably-really-limited flash memory. I wouldn't mind loading just the one or two games I'd actually play on a train or something to the handheld if it meant I could have as much storage as I wanted on the part that doesn't leave my living room.
If the dock doesn't add any processing power, I'd be curious to know what's up with Zelda's framerate looking waaaay worse when they showed it in handheld mode in the video. Maybe that's just weird video production stuff?
Zelda in handheld mode looked framey as heck. It's probably way too early for a hot take on this thing's technical specs, but it's kind of worrying to see Nintendo's biggest first-party launch game run poorly on their own teaser video.
Also, can any Mario Kart experts confirm if that was MK8 or a new game? It'll be interesting to see how many Wii U games get straight-up Switch ports.
Just looking through my Steam library... have you played Bastion? At some point I think I assumed everyone who's made their way to this site had played it, but it does tick a few of your categories. It's isometric without being a complicated text-heavy RPG, and it does some neat weird indie things while still having fairly traditional (and tight) action. If you end up liking its style, Transistor might actually be a pretty accessible intro to turn-based stuff too, with its strategy-lite combat system.
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