19th December 2016, 7:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th December 2016, 8:04 PM by A Black Falcon.)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1297191 So the new Switch rumor are some specs for the thing which are not exactly powerful and... some people are surprised for some reason? Who knows if these are the real specs or not, but ever since announcement it has been obvious that the system won't exactly be super powerful, and it'll have to sell itself on the games and portability again. Well, we're getting closer to Nintendo's big reveal, so we'll see early next month!
As for the Wii U, I find it weird that people found it so confusing that it was a new system. I was confused for what. a few seconds? Then the game footage started and they showed the console for a moment, and it was very obvious it was a new system. The name is a play on "Wii 2" also, which shouldn't have been THAT hard to notice... so I just find it hard to believe that the announcement or name are major reasons for its failure to sell well. Other causes -- that the gamepad's central gimmick, having a screen in the controller, wasn't implemented well in many games and wasn't something enough people really wanted; the absence of any significant third-party support at a time when those games just keep growing in sales and prominence; the rise of smartphones taking away the casual audience... those and more are bigger factors. I guess it didn't help, but a system can easily get over an iffy launch with the right system and followup, I think.
As for late-night TV, I've only very rarely ever watched late-night shows, but on the rare cases I did it was mostly CBS (because back in the mid '90s when we first found an antenna for our TV the only stations that came in well were PBS and CBS, so for a few years there I mostly watched PBS and CBS and it kind of stuck...), so Letterman mostly; Leno never interested me. I never was a big fan of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, when I had cable back in college in the '00s; The Daily Show had some good episodes, but also some things I dislike such as the 'gotcha' interviews trying to bait people into saying stupid things, John Stewart's dislike for debate shows like CNN's Crossfire (I really liked that show!), and such. And as for Colbert... the Bush administration was bad enough, watching a fake conservative did not exactly appeal. I watched a few episodes here and there but that's it. I like some things about his shows though so when he took over Letterman's spot I watched one or two of the first episodes. It seemed good, and I do watch a few bits from it on Youtube (I at least like that he abandoned the fake-conservative thing, he's much better now!), but it hasn't got me to tuning in to the actual shows more than I did before, I must admit. It seems mostly good though, for that kind of show. I like that he has more political coverage than other major-network late-night shows.
As for the Wii U, I find it weird that people found it so confusing that it was a new system. I was confused for what. a few seconds? Then the game footage started and they showed the console for a moment, and it was very obvious it was a new system. The name is a play on "Wii 2" also, which shouldn't have been THAT hard to notice... so I just find it hard to believe that the announcement or name are major reasons for its failure to sell well. Other causes -- that the gamepad's central gimmick, having a screen in the controller, wasn't implemented well in many games and wasn't something enough people really wanted; the absence of any significant third-party support at a time when those games just keep growing in sales and prominence; the rise of smartphones taking away the casual audience... those and more are bigger factors. I guess it didn't help, but a system can easily get over an iffy launch with the right system and followup, I think.
Quote: Nintendo seems to realize this. They're pushing this Switch as a revolution bigger than the Revolution, and they know that the only way anyone outside of their core audience is going to even know the device exists is if they announce it in the venues "normies" frequent, and that means talk shows. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of Fallon either (I prefer Colbert, then Conan), but Nintendo knew they had to do this. I fully expect over the next week or so we'll be seeing Reggie and Shiggy popping up all across the talk show circuit, because they need to (and are probably doing the same on whatever Japan's popular talk shows are). If they're smart, they'll also do the Youtube circuit and pop up as ultra-special guests on the big name gaming Youtube channels, and that means Pewtiepie. Like him or not (to me, he's okay I guess, but not really my favorite style, as I prefer beard bros or the pherlous) he's the absolute biggest star when it comes to that sort of thing, dwarfing even the likes of the AVGN. Oh, and Nintendo has a facebook and twitter account, for what that's worth (less and less these days), but that's not going to reach a casual audience, because they aren't checking those particular hash pounds.Ugh, Pewdiepie... I watch lots of Youtube, but not stuff like that. But yeah, it probably would be good for Nintendo to show up on some of the bigger Youtube gaming channels, either now or after the announcement in early January, that does make sense. You need to build attention somehow, and that's harder than ever in these days of people having such a ridiculously large number of things to pay attention to on TV, the internet, the radio, and such, so they've got to go where what remains of the larger audiences are... both for the mass audience, which means TV, and for gamers, which means the internet mostly these days I'd think.
As for late-night TV, I've only very rarely ever watched late-night shows, but on the rare cases I did it was mostly CBS (because back in the mid '90s when we first found an antenna for our TV the only stations that came in well were PBS and CBS, so for a few years there I mostly watched PBS and CBS and it kind of stuck...), so Letterman mostly; Leno never interested me. I never was a big fan of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, when I had cable back in college in the '00s; The Daily Show had some good episodes, but also some things I dislike such as the 'gotcha' interviews trying to bait people into saying stupid things, John Stewart's dislike for debate shows like CNN's Crossfire (I really liked that show!), and such. And as for Colbert... the Bush administration was bad enough, watching a fake conservative did not exactly appeal. I watched a few episodes here and there but that's it. I like some things about his shows though so when he took over Letterman's spot I watched one or two of the first episodes. It seemed good, and I do watch a few bits from it on Youtube (I at least like that he abandoned the fake-conservative thing, he's much better now!), but it hasn't got me to tuning in to the actual shows more than I did before, I must admit. It seems mostly good though, for that kind of show. I like that he has more political coverage than other major-network late-night shows.
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