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There were a lot of things about the Wii U that I really liked, but the console still flopped for a reason (mainly the Gamepad's design and very limited third party support) and aside from the single player modes and the existence of the Master Core, there's not much Smash 4 has that I think Ultimate didn't do much better.
That’s like asking a fish not to swim.
I dunno, the Switch actually was legitimately innovative as a home console/portable system, and also a major improvement on the concept they tried with the Wii U first.
Some fish long ago decided not to swim anymore. At first they just died, but eventually they started growing legs and being able to breath air and walk on land and they became amphibians and lizards. They evolved. And what they used to be went extinct. Nintendo needs to evolve, or it's going to go extinct.
The real underrated gem is just Nintendo Land.
Dual Screens and touch screens. The thing even had motion controls built in. Anything that makes a system's games hard to just rom dump onto the eshop os a gimmick that they need to loose.
Oh, I see.
Would some of the games have been as impactful without some of these features?
I mean. The same is true no matter how they add these games to the switch's library. When they require hardware that the switch just doesn't have and is non-standard for the games industry, it's bad for the game's longetivity. Like, Microsoft and Sony don't have this problem. And the only reason third party companies have to deal with this in re-releases (Like the Mega Man ZX and Battle Network games) is because Nintendo refused to obey the standard.Oh, I see.
You’re just grumpy about certain games not being on Switch online, and you’re trying to justify with some grand statement on Nintendo’s (successful) business model.
Makes sense
I mean... I think so. If Nintendo had released a system that was as powerful as the DS but without the dual screens and maybe a slightly bigger screen to use the same amount of glass, I think most of it's games would have just been better. Touch controls are never better than buttons. And dual screens were really used for anything useful other than like... seeing the map or menu at the same time as the regular game. And people don't really care that you can't do that in normal games. Heck, they could have even kept the clamshell design with only one screen for the sake of protecting it.
Nah, you’re just kinda wrong about that.
But now they can't re-release these games without either remaking them, making sure the current hardware has the same gimmicks built in, or having some sort of cumbersome emulation interface in place. It might have been good for them back then but it's terrible for longevity.
How do they work around the two screens? huge empty space on both sides? side to side?
What about playing in handheld mode?
One screen has the top, the other has the bottom.
Have the Switch cast something to the TV ig. It may need some extra hardware but it's possible. Wii U and 3DS emulators can get both screens within seperate windows, it would be somthing similar here.
What if you're like... in the car or on a train? And have no tv.
Then that's how it's gonna have to be. Phones do it that way.
It just feels weird to have an official emulation do it that way.
Good thing Nintendo is not here.
In Super Nintendo World, a part of Universal Studios Epic Universe, opening in Orlando Florida in 2025.
Yeah it's really identifying for nintendo to come up with some strange ass gimmick that's almost immediately tossed for traditional controllers.
It's one of those weird things about the first X-Men issues when the series was still finding its footing - Xavier was also younger than Reed Richards back then, and Xavier was described as being the first mutant. (he became a mutant as a result of his parents working on the atomic bomb during World War 2 when his mother was pregnant, whereas Reed was a World War 2 veteran - Magneto's holocaust backstory wouldn't be established until roughly issue 150 of X-Men)