Only reason to buy switch on launch is because of zelda

>only reason to buy switch on launch is because of zelda
>zelda is not exclusive to switch and is also coming to wii u
Hol up...

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if the e3 build is anything to go by switch version will be definitive

You know damn well it won't be playable. Cemu is still lagging like fuck with xenoblade

Why does so much of the game seem to be covered in fog?

>comparing a 7 month old e3 build to current gameplay
Really makes you think

Wii U version is 720p 30fps
Switch version is 900p 30fps.

Is $300 (minimum, not counting all of the Switch's hidden costs that almost double the price) really worth it for 180 more pixels?

even in 1.7?

but who the hell has a wii u?

>180 more pixels

>pretending you don't know what I meant

I do applaud them for not massively delaying or even canceling the wii u version.

But yeah, mario odyssey is the only game that would make me interested, and that's 9 months away. Splatoon would be more appealing if it wasn't for the eventual paid online and the fact that e-liters can now store a charge

Actually it looks pretty good now. I must have been remembering gameplay off an old build.
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>tfw botw might be fully playable at release

Zelda being on Wii U only matters if you already have a Wii U. There is absolutely no reason to spend $200 on a Wii U now (because it's dead) when a Switch is $300.

there's only hidden costs if you need to buy more controllers. There's no reason to pay for online since Nintendo doesn't make online games.

>Zelda being on Wii U only matters if you already have a Wii U.
Most Nintendo fans already have a Wii U

just ordered the Wii U version so it definitely isn't cancelled

If that were true then the Wii U wouldn't be dead.

It's 180 more pixel verticaly, there is still more pixels added horizontaly user.

wew, hot, damn, gottem

other than the whole wiiu having games and its already hackable

I don't have any nintendo console to play zelda on so my options are:

>buy switch and zelda
>finish zelda quickly
>sell the switch and zelda for full price while the hype is still going

>buy second hand wii u
>buy zelda
>sell zelda for full price and wii u for even less then I payed for because switch is out

I'm going for the switch.

I play almost nothing but Splatoon on my Wii U and when not playing that it's Mario Kart so if I buy a Switch I'll have to pay for online. I can probably get by without a pro controller but I'd probably like a charging Grip

>Wii U has games
topkek

How hard is it to pirate shit for the WiiU? I'd rather not throw a ton of money on one and a bunch of games now that support for it's been dropped.

Console: $300
Normal controller: $80
Ethernet port: $30
200gb MicroSD card: $70
Online sub: $50
1 game: $60

Total: $590

I don't understand your logic, how can you claim "Nintendo doesn't make online games" (which also implies there are no games you'd ever, ever want to play online on the platform at all) when there are plenty of games with a major online element? Why do you think that with Nintendo only focusing on online more and more they won't include it in more of their titles? Splatoon released a few years ago and Splatoon 2 is upcoming, you couldn't properly enjoy that game offline.

>inb4 muh friends
Not an argument

Mario Kart and Splatoon are both coming out during the time when the online is going to be free. By the time you'll be asked to pay for it, those games will be dead, so there will be no reason to pay for online.

Yeah. Remember when they did the same thing for that disaster the Wii?

What were they thinking?

How many of those things do you need for Zelda? The Pro Controller is the only thing you might want for that, and it's $70, not $80. You've inflated all the prices by at least $10, except for the console itself. We also don't know what the actual price for the online service is going to be, though $50/yr is probably a good guess.

Dog piss easy. Basically if you can't do it you're retarded.

Thanks for the link

Splatoon is still alive to this day almost 2 years later and I'm still playing it. Unless the sequel is absolute shit I see it lasting as long or longer based on how long they support it.

I have a Wii U so I won't be buying Switch until Christmas time or even later depending on how much second hand versions are going for

They dlayed the Gamecube version a month to push the Wii version.

are you really going to buy a wiiu for zelda?

I was simply pasting what I read earlier.

So let's subtract $10 from everything. That's still $560, quite a lot more than $300.

For Zelda, yes, you're only going to spend $380 besides the game. $70 is still way too fucking much for one controller (don't argue "it has extra stuff" because the DS4 and Xbone controller also have "extra stuff" and while they're still expensive they're not THAT expensive, $50-60 tops.) But you're not going to buy a console for only one game and then never play more, never go online, never want to download games. At least it's really unlikely going by Wii U owners and my experience playing against them and hearing what they owned.

I myself can only speak for myself, I bought few games but I did buy a controller, did play online, and did buy a few games digitally. Would have done more were it supported for longer, and I can't imagine the Switch will have effectively a three year lifespan like the Wii U did.

No, I agree that the prices for the controllers are fucking retarded. There's absolutely no reason that Pro Controller should cost $70 when the Wii U Pro Controller is $40.

CEMU will probably be at a playable state when BotW launches.

No need to waste any money.

The Switch is basically a soft reboot of the WiiU, launching with a hell of a first year. It will be successful among those who didn't buy in to the WiiU.

Let's look at what you're getting in the first year with the Switch (so far, E3 and Directs to come yet) and the equivalents you see on WiiU.

>Zelda
WiiU didn't get a Zelda until WWHD - 14 months in, then it got Hyrule Warriors a year after that - Switch is launching with it
>Mario Kart
WiiU didn't get a Mario Kart until 22 months in, Switch is getting it a month after launch
>Splatoon
WiiU didn't get Splatoon, a fresh IP, until 30 months in, Switch is getting it within 3 months
>Xenoblade
WiiU didn't get ANY JRPG game until 3 years after release, Switch is getting Xenoblade by December (in Japan at least)
>ARMS
WiiU didn't get ANY big new Nintendo IP until Splatoon, Switch is getting ARMS in the first 3 months
>Street Fighter 2 HD
The only fighting games the WiiU got were a poor Tekken port and Smash after 2 years
>3D Mario
WiiU didn't get a 3D Mario, instead it got 3D World (a sequel to a 3DS game) at 14 months

So for someone that didn't buy a WiiU (like me) the first year of the Switch absolutely SHITS on the WiiU. SHITS ON IT. If Switch gets a 2D Mario and Pikmin, it already beats the entirety of the 4-5 years of the WiiU's library. If it gets Pokken's definite edition (pretty likely given they're adding to the arcade cabinet) it will surpass it bigly. Sad!

Not to mention in most countries the Switch version is more expensive too.

>Ethernet port: $30
Wtf? A regular Ethernet port will work fine

so wii u version will release along with switch or no?

Yeah they both release on the same day.

1. You're insane to think Xenoblade 2 won't get delayed. No Monolith Soft game in basically a decade has released without delays, at least ones on a large scale. X was delayed repeatedly, Xenoblade was delayed repeatedly, there's no reason to think Xenoblade 2 won't be delayed. It's not coming this year.

2. Ports don't really count. Of course they're getting it sooner. You can argue for BotW on both platforms though since it's a simultaneous release.

3. Smash isn't a fighting game.

4. 3D World is a 3D Mario game, you can't play no true Scotsman. If you said when it launched that it wasn't a real 3D Mario game you'd get called a shitposter and rightfully so.

You need to buy an ethernet adapter because Nintendo did not include one with the Swtich. Yes, that's right. The Switch, a console released in 2017, the current year, does not have an ethernet port when even the Dreamcast did in 1999.

True, but you can get those on Amazon for 10$, not 30$. But I guess some toddlers will pay 20$ for the switch/Nintendo logo on it

>X was delayed repeatedly
X was never delayed, it didn't have a date until late 2014 for japan.

I was under the assumption only designated Nintendo ones worked with Nintendo consoles.

No Ethernet port on the dock. A seperate dock costs 90$ and Nintendo didn't bother putting an Ethernet port on it.

>X was never delayed
engadget.com/2013/06/11/new-monolith-soft-game-x-marks-the-spot-on-wii-u-2014/
>inb4 that doesn't count!!

The dreamcast had an ethernet port?
lol
I own one and I never noticed

Yeah, it did. I could have sworn it did but it wasn't something I paid attention to, sure enough it does.

A regular adapter worked perfectly fine on the Wii and Wii U, I don't think Nintendo changed it

>1. You're insane to think Xenoblade 2 won't get delayed. No Monolith Soft game in basically a decade has released without delays, at least ones on a large scale. X was delayed repeatedly, Xenoblade was delayed repeatedly, there's no reason to think Xenoblade 2 won't be delayed. It's not coming this year.
Irrelevant. They've put a date forward. Also X wasn't delayed, it just didn't have a date.
>2. Ports don't really count. Of course they're getting it sooner. You can argue for BotW on both platforms though since it's a simultaneous release.
Did you miss this?
> It will be successful among those who didn't buy in to the WiiU.
Which was exactly why I included the ports. "Ports don't count" doesn't apply here when the 13.5 million install base of the WiiU is the only people who played them.
>3. Smash isn't a fighting game.
Nice shitpost.
>4. 3D World is a 3D Mario game, you can't play no true Scotsman. If you said when it launched that it wasn't a real 3D Mario game you'd get called a shitposter and rightfully so.
If you say so, but the community doesn't class 3D World as a true 3D Mario game akin to 64, Sunshine, Galaxy 1 and Galaxy 2. Given it was a sequel to a 3DS game as opposed to a new experience like the others, it will be interesting to see what Odyssey does for sales.

Where's the date user?

Nobody cares about the Wii U

>Video doesn't mention a date
>Journalist puts an unsourced 2014 on there
>Literally nowhere else does a 2014 date appear

user pls.

So funny how Nintendo turns you guys against each other so easily

> b-but this Zelda game is better than the last which was better than the last

Did you even watch the video

Also 900p still looks blurry on a 1080p native resolution screen so difference between 720p is negligible.

>Nice shitpost.
I'm not shitposting, not even Sakurai considers it a fighting game. Not claiming it's a bad game, I enjoy it, but it's at the very least "borderline".

>If you say so, but the community doesn't class 3D World as a true 3D Mario
So you're playing no true scotsman. It's certainly not a 2D Mario game.

Again, did you even watch the video? It's an unsourced comment you retard

>Inb4 "B-but this journalist said it so it must be true!"

Nintendo never had a date for X until late 2014.

>>Nice shitpost.
>I'm not shitposting, not even Sakurai considers it a fighting game. Not claiming it's a bad game, I enjoy it, but it's at the very least "borderline".
Do you fight opponents? Fighting game kid.
>>If you say so, but the community doesn't class 3D World as a true 3D Mario
>So you're playing no true scotsman. It's certainly not a 2D Mario game.
Actually sounds like you're playing No True Scotsman here. Going against the community.

Fucking this
Switch is GODLIKE compared to the Wii U

>Do you fight opponents? Fighting game kid.
So Kirby is a fighting game because you fight opponents in it?

Final Fantasy XV is a fighting game because you fight opponents in it?

Mega Man is a fighting game because you fight opponents in it?

DMC is a fighting game because you fight opponents in it?

This is as bad as saying "Zelda is an RPG because you assume the role of Link".

If Breath of The Wild is a Switch exclusive does that make The Last of Us a PS4 exclusive?

>It will be successful among those who didn't buy in to the WiiU.

Given the thing only sold 13 million units, I'd say there's plenty of room for growth 2bh. Plus you've got to assume that those 13 million sold were to the ever shrinking Nintendrone fanbase so you just know they're going to buy again.

Ah so you're playing the Strawman argument card here?`

Explain right now why Smash, a game where you fight opponents 1-1 with additional modes at your disposal, isn't a fighting game.

Go on, lad.

You act like that's saying much. ANYTHING is godlike compared to the wii u since nintendo just didn't give a fuck. There's still no reason to buy a switch right now because the games list is nothing but trash and ports you can get on other consoles until 2018 comes around and the good games start releasing.

>Super Smash Bros., known in Japan as Dairantō Smash Brothers (Japanese: 大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ Hepburn: Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu?, lit. "Great Melee Smash Brothers"), is a series of crossover fighting games published by Nintendo, that primarily features characters from franchises established on its systems.
>crossover fighting games

What did you mean by this

>You act like that's saying much
That the console is launching with installments in the game series that got the WiiU to 13.5 million units over 5 years in its launch year...?

Yes. I'd say that's significant.

>ethernet port
Just use the wifi you retard.

That's exactly the argument that is being made here. You "fight opponents" so it's a fighting game. It's not.

It shares nothing in common with fighting games other than being one on one (and this is but one way to play the game). Wii Sports has a boxing game, that's not a fighting game despite also being one on one. Same with Punch Out. I could go on. Explain to me how it is a fighting game.

This whole argument is irrelevant, because the creator of the series himself, who does play actual fighting games, says he does not consider it a fighting game. So let's put it in his words, as he is far more knowledgeable than you or I in the subject seeing as how he makes games.

>Nintendo Power: Why do you think Super Smash Bros. continues to be so popular even though interest in traditional fighting games has dwindled?

>Sakurai: I think it's because it is, in fact, not a fighting game. The nature of it is similar to a sports game in which the player shoots an opponent as if it were a ball. The results are different [every time you play], which, I think, is also a unique and attractive quality of the game.

Wikipedia isn't a source

>That's exactly the argument that is being made here. You "fight opponents" so it's a fighting game. It's not.
Strawman.

>bigly

It's "big league".

Also, yeah, just completely shitting on all WiiU purchasers has been a really good strategy for Nintendo here; the next step will very likely be a re-release of Smash with all the DLC characters included (not that anyone wants to play that horrible garbage).

The only good shit coming to switch in its launch year though is zelda, mario, and arms. THERE fucking games and you don't even need a switch for zelda. It's basically looking like a slightly better version of the wii u.

This is fine for certain titles but if you want to properly play fighting games--which the Switch is confirmed to get at least one of, USFII--you pretty much need it especially without GGPO.

Since it's not coming out until after the Switch is out, it's more like saying Persona 5 is a PS4 exclusive.

THREE* fucking games

>Zelda
>Mario Kart
>ARMS
>Splatoon
>Xenoblade
Likely more at E3.

What part of
>It will be successful among those who didn't buy in to the WiiU.
Do you not understand

I just hope they make an actual fucking Paper Mario game.

Never buy a console at launch. If I buy one this year its going to be because of a good holiday bundle deal.

>tfw I bought a Gamecube for WW, Wii for TP, 3DS for OOT3DS, and pre-ordered Switch with BotW

>Nintendo
>e3

Good one

E3 2013 they announced WWHD and SM3DW to launch in 2 months m8

>It's "big league".
>not recognizing the classic Donald Trump tweet format

>No date is ever shown

Do yourself a favor and look to your own evidence before doing something stupid.

2015 was the only year Nintendo shit the bed hard with E3. 2016 was more transitional.

Generally, you're going to get a few announcements.

Bottom line

If you own a Wii U and only care for Zelda then just buy it for Wii U unless you're a graphics whore

If you don't own a Wii U but like Zelda and Nintendo games in general you're better of buying a Switch

>pic unrelated

Anyone else starting to think that the remaining high price point of the WiiU (£210-250 in the UK) is so people don't go out and buy them when the Switch is £270?

>zelda doesn't count as a wii u game because switch has a better version
>zelda isn't a reason to buy a switch because there's a wii u version

make up your minds shitposters

Well one of those is a remaster

And? They still announced the games and dates a few months prior, of course they'll announce games in Directs and E3, as they always have.

has there been any wii U footage?

>a portable console doesn't have an ethernet port
wowzer! :O

Not since E3.

Probably get something closer to release, but this was the Switch event after all

Tfw cant wait to get comfy and watch the top streamers play the crap out of this game

I do want a Switch, eventually. I'd prefer to play Zelda on Switch. Yes, I am not getting a Switch just yet. Because apart from Zelda, there is nothing on the Switch that interests me. So getting it for Wii U will suffice for now.

I can imagine the Switch getting a price cut or revision, which will have late adopters save money even if they buy Zelda twice ; once for the Wii U and later for the Switch once they adapt.

So I'll play Zelda on Wii U and if I ever get the Switch I'll think about getting it on Switch too.

why buy it twice? once you've beaten it you've beaten it. Unless you're a speedrunner or didn't 100% it on the Wii U why waste your cash

Oh I'm not saying that I will buy it twice for certain. I might buy it twice if I really enjoy it. If I put houndres of hours into it and still enjoy it, yeah, I might get it a second time just to be able to play 1080p and mobile.
If I'm done with BotW once I get a Switch, I will remain done pretty much.

>Console: $300
Yep

>Normal controller: $80
Not needed, the joycon holder works fine accd to journalists and real gamers that have used it.

>Ethernet port: $30
Not needed, has WiFi like the DS. This is a portable remember?

>200gb MicroSD card: $70
Not needed, internal 32gb is fine for game saves. Switch uses fast cartridges instead of slow optical disks, so you don't need to install the game.

>Online sub: $50
Not needed, Zelda is single player offline.

>1 game: $60
Yep.

$360. Whoop-de-doo. If that's too expensive then enjoy your stick and string, poorfag.