Abacus wrote:Rax wrote:Ad7 hits the nail on the head at the top of the page and the misunderstanding continues so Ill try to be clear. This is for kids. It is designed to be used by children. The joy con are not part of the unit to reduce the chance of breakages. Kids do not care about HD rumble or hooking up to a TV so that functionality was also removed. This is not aimed at you, it is aimed at children. If it does not appeal to you then that is just fine, its not meant to.
£200 for a kid's toy so that they can drop it without breaking it, or not stick the joycon on the wrong way?
Yes.
If it's designed to be used by children, how will you play Labo on it? Or play simple 2 player with your friends without buying an extra controller? You know, like Mario Kart, Smash or...pretty much any first party co-op or competitive game. Perhaps it is for friendless children with no siblings or interested parents.
Or just for kids to share by passing it around as kids have done for decades now with handhelds.
Who says kids don't care about game enhancing things like rumble, or hooking it up to e.g. their bedroom TV? Or are you mainly talking about a Switch for toddlers?
I do. I have never once heard a kid mention missing rumble or wishing they could hook a DS or a phone up to a TV.
Also, suggesting that if you add these features back that it goes back to its original price suggests they haven't been able to cut costs in the 2 years since they made the original, which can't be true at all
Maybe they havent, maybe its a cash grab by Nintendo, I have no idea. Last I heard about any of that was the screen was still expensive cos its a weird size and resolution so its the only device using it, maybe the joycon functionality is expensive to add back in, new joycon certainly cost enough to suggest it might.
In fact, surely they'd be far better to just have a price cut on the original switch and sticking a picture of Bob the Builder on it.
Not gonna happen, they never cut the price off the Wii U and they couldnt barely give that away, not a chance will they cut the price of the console thats flying off shelves.