As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Nintendo’s next console has been announced. And like anything, the wider internet has a few opinions on it, ranging from pure excitement to some serious questions about Nintendo’s idea of gamers.
The Switch was introduced as a flexible, portable gaming console which you could play on your TV, grab it off the dock and play outside, and take it to a pick-up basketball game where you can play real basketball and then video game basketball after (in case you just can’t get enough). As a gaming console, it’s pretty amazing. Then again, you’re also expected to take the idea that young urban hipsters want nothing more than to play Mario Kart on the go, which is a bit of a stretch. Still, the reaction has been, overwhelmingly positive, if affectionately teasing.
Nintendo Switch… *MIND BLOWN* pic.twitter.com/824OQUrrax
— GameSpot (@GameSpot) October 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/TrailerDrake/status/789149548283211776
Nintendo Switch – You'll never need to look into the eyes of a loved one again.
— Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) October 20, 2016
The Nintendo Switch is a dog, and I like it! #nintendo #nintendoswitch pic.twitter.com/ts7GldKhau
— TheGamesDen (@GamesDenGames) October 20, 2016
Wii U fans, however, are just a wee bit bitter about Nintendo abandoning their console so soon:
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/789111099006210048
Thank you to all the Wii U owners for participating in the Switch's open beta.
— Frank Cifaldi (Sleepy).exe (@frankcifaldi) October 20, 2016
And others are a bit skeptical of Nintendo’s perception of its core audience.
https://twitter.com/dickfundy/status/789153777488048128
I'm not sure I buy the Nintendo Switch trailer, who are all these 20 somethings with luxurious, spacious downtown condos?
— Mark Hill (@mehil) October 20, 2016
what I want most from the Nintendo Switch commercial: hip, fashionable, city-dwelling friends interested in playing video games with me
— Albert Ching (@albertxii) October 20, 2016
Not everyone, however, is impressed with the Switch:
Glad Nintendo invented the switch so I can turn it off.
— Kaz (@kazeugma) October 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/johnd0p3/status/789162201097445380
Nintendo Switch logo looks like the creepiest Zelda game mask. pic.twitter.com/dY2nsfDXUz
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) October 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/RealShigeruM/status/789156730555011073
The Switch even uncovered the precognitive powers of a Twitter user, because fifteen minutes after he tweeted this…
Now somebody's gotta re-edit the Switch trailer to Hurt by Johnny Cash
— Alex Faciane 🦧💥 (@FacianeA) October 20, 2016
…it arrived.
https://twitter.com/MaxScoville/status/789138411231678465
If you were wondering about the music in the announcement, by the way, the song is Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah) by White Denim
Finally, we end with the important question about the Switch nobody is asking.
Any evidence that the Switch docking station is called the "Power Bottom"?
— Nfinit somehow kept his name on the other site (@Nfinit) October 20, 2016
