Nintendo Switch Presentation
In less then one hour, the Nintendo's Switch Presentation begins...
I'm cautiously optimistic. Nintendo is hard to predict, they tend to go their own way and do their own thing. I respect them for that, wanting to come up with something unique and apart from other console manufacturers. At the same time, I do hope for a couple of things this time around...
On top of the obvious hardware specifications we'd like to see, here are the four things I most want from the new Nintendo console.
1: Achievements/Trophies/Gamerscore - I know some people could care less about this stuff but It's fun competing with a friend's trophy list and unlocking 100% for a game you thoroughly enjoyed. Sometimes you find things in that game's world that you may have missed otherwise: defeating a boss a certain way, seeking out rare collectibles, carrying a Garden Gnome through an entire game.. There are a number of examples but I would like to finally see this feature on a Nintendo console and I believe it would add replay value to Virtual Console games(Super Mario RPG Achievements!).
2: No More friend codes - It's time for these things to go. If you'd played anything on the Wii, 3DS or Wii U, you know how annoying it is. Adding friends on the Wii was a pain and the Wii U was not any better. Let's hope that we have a proper gamertag/screen name whatever they want to call it.
3: Online Chat - Whenever we would play Mario Kart 8 online with friends, since we couldn't chat during the race, when we would finish and return to the lobby, everybody would be yelling at once! Not being able to chat during races or create a private chat with friends? That's another thing that needs to change.
4: Games,Game,Games - The Wii and Wii U had some very good games, some were great. But there is so much untapped potential at Nintendo, not just new IP's but what about an open world Donkey Kong like DK64? or a large scale open world RPG with various Nintendo characters? We haven't seen a proper Metriod or F-Zero in some time now. Third party support is a must this time as well. I do hope we see more than just side-scrolling platformers(as great as some of them are).
I guess we will just have to wait and see what the Nintendo Switch Presentation has to offer. Nomatter what, It's gonna be fun. Let's hope for the best!