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Revelation34 posted...

There is no way you played any of those Zelda or Mario games.

You don't actually have to play a game to know that you don't really want to play that game. Or for your subsequent complete and utter lack of interest in those games to fail to sell you on buying a console solely to play those games.

In the N64/PS1 era, nearly every game I wanted to play wound up on the PS1, while the N64 versions of games I enjoyed on the SNES were huge turn-offs. I hated Mario 64, and most of the reasons I disliked it apply to all of the successive 3D Mario games as well. By the time Nintendo actually started doing new 2D Mario games, my tastes had mostly gone off platformers entirely, so they didn't do anything for me either. I can honestly say there hasn't been a single Mario game since Super Mario World that has really excited or interested me in any way.

With Zelda, I got almost nothing out of Ocarina of Time (no matter how hard the Internet in general and the 90s kids specific fellate the hell out of it). The fact that most later Zelda games followed more in that mold than the path of Link to the Past or Zelda 1 or 2 meant that the series effectively became something I had no interest in (especially since most of my fantasy gaming interest was getting channeled into JRPGs and later WRPGs and action RPGs). At this point, I can honestly say there hasn't been a single Zelda game since Link to the Past that has really excited or interested me in any way.

In regards to the Switch specifically, I've watched people play both Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, and there is literally not a single thing in either game that appeals to me in any way. I'm also not a fan of Mario Kart (again, not since the SNES), so that's out. I've never liked any Smash Bros, so the allure of a future Smash release isn't going to mean anything to me. The same goes for Metroid, which I didn't even really like on the NES, let alone since.

So if Nintendo doesn't have a single first-party IP I care about or have any intention of buying, then their traditionally weak third-party support is the only thing that would influence me to buy - and I can't think of a third-party game they have that I want to play that isn't also available elsewhere.

And again, my distaste for gimmicky controllers and other tech that doesn't appeal to me tends to start Nintendo out on negative ground even before the games come into play. I loathed the Wiimote and the Wii-U tablet, so those consoles would have needed dozens of games I considered "must own" before it would offset the fact that I hate the controls. For the Switch, I hate the Joycons (and would have to buy a "normal" controller, thus raising the price and inconvenience), and dislike/don't care about the docking/handheld aspect, so while the Switch isn't starting as deep in the hole as the Wii or Wii-U, it still has to overcome a significant negative bias before it would ever become worthwhile to me.

I liked Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil, but that still wasn't enough to sell me a GameCube - and the GameCube was probably the least offensive console in the hardware sense Nintendo has released since the SNES.


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