Re: Switch Lite | A party in your (cargo) pocket
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:12 pm
How do you do fellow switch owners
Pedz wrote:OrangeRKN wrote:gamerforever wrote:The people in the advert look like kids for sure...
Have you ever noticed how in adverts for kid's toys, the kids in the advert are almost always older than the target market?
Although I don't think that's quite what is happening here in fairness, the announcement video for new hardware is deliberately generic, and they're staying on-brand.
No. Most Kids toys ads tend to have young children, and I don't think any have 50-year-old dudes on skateboards.
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?
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.
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?
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
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.
Prototype wrote:Is it okay if I, a 32 year old male, buys a Switch lite because it's more affordable than the full console?
Mafro wrote:itt: grown adults getting themselves in a tizzy over hardware not aimed at them.
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.
twitter.com/kobunheat/status/1149013541678178304
Nintendo make lots of mistakes, there is a lot of gooseberry fool they do really badly, updating their hardware to be more kid friendly is not one of them. To reiterate one more time, this device is not aimed at you, it is for children to play and parents to have piece of mind.
Captain Kinopio 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.
twitter.com/kobunheat/status/1149013541678178304
Nintendo make lots of mistakes, there is a lot of gooseberry fool they do really badly, updating their hardware to be more kid friendly is not one of them. To reiterate one more time, this device is not aimed at you, it is for children to play and parents to have piece of mind.
Balladeer wrote:HD Rumble is one of those things like the Wii U dual-screen setup or Motion+ that seems really cool in practice but has had limited uses outside that marbles minigame in 1-2-Switch. Very occasionally I've used and gone, 'Huh, that's cool,' but it's a nice-to-have rather than a game-changer.
I wouldn't be so keen on gaming with no sort of vibration feedback though.
Prototype wrote:Is it okay if I, a 32 year old male, buys a Switch lite because it's more affordable than the full console?
OrangeRKN wrote:Pedz wrote:OrangeRKN wrote:gamerforever wrote:The people in the advert look like kids for sure...
Have you ever noticed how in adverts for kid's toys, the kids in the advert are almost always older than the target market?
Although I don't think that's quite what is happening here in fairness, the announcement video for new hardware is deliberately generic, and they're staying on-brand.
No. Most Kids toys ads tend to have young children, and I don't think any have 50-year-old dudes on skateboards.
Last time I was watching cartoons (very recently! ) the ads were full of 15 year old teenagers playing with fad toys for primary school kids. My point mainly though is that an advert not featuring 8 year old children doesn't necessarily mean the product isn't aimed at 8 year old children, so it's not a particularly incisive retort.
As I say though this specific Switch Lite announcement video is more generic and in-keeping with the overall Switch brand. Actual kid-targeting ads will follow I'm sure.