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And the damn thing still broke sales records with 18 million copies sold.

Give me a fucking break.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The switch platform was very unique when it launched. It has inspired a new category of gaming devices

The switch is still piggybacking off The WiiU and PSP.

[–] Sethayy 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They innovated greatly off the PSP with uhhh a second joystick! And uhh uhh motion controls, those have never been done before!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How by that logic was the PSP not simply an iterative improvement on the Game Boy?

[–] Sethayy 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, handheld consoles are hardly a new experience - nor is multiplayer for that matter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think what the switch did best was having hardware that more or less works given the diminishing returns we're seeing in the processor space these days. It was the first time that a handheld could competently compete with a home console, and could merge the two into one. The Vita got close, but it wasn't there due to the hardware differential.

[–] Sethayy 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly, so its not much more than they got lucky + theyre big enough to force developers to optimize aggressively for their hardware, hardly anything new there