Anytime I'm listening to non-Americans talk about "football," I have to mentally substitute the word "soccer" to remind myself what they're actually talking about.
Even though it makes a whole lot more sense to call the game you play almost entirely with your feet "football!"
@Grumblevolcano My guess is that some Nintendo enthusiasts pick it up at launch, but any chance of mainstream success/popularity won't happen until the holidays
Anytime I'm listening to non-Americans talk about "football," I have to mentally substitute the word "soccer" to remind myself what they're actually talking about. Even though it makes a whole lot more sense to call the game you play almost entirely with your feet "football!"
I think only Australians and Americans call it soccer. Though in Australia it's a little bit more of a mess because Soccer is fairly popular and fans of soccer refuse to call it soccer. Also depending on what state you're in footy can either mean Rugby or Australian Rules Football. To make things worse the "well soccer is about kicking" point falls on deaf ears here because AFL is also a game predominately about kicking the ball.
If you said "did you watch the footy last night" the majority of people will assume you mean something other than soccer. If you say "did you watch the soccer last night" a fair chunk of the room will be offended you didn't say footy. So we get the worst of both worlds.
Considering Switch's consistent success, if a game is honestly too graphically intensive to port to Switch (especially with the recent Bethesda ports in mind), and the games aren't being made with the help of Sony or Microsoft money, they're kinda dumb. And not simply because putting games on Switch is a good idea right now based on consistent sales across a wide variety of games. But because they are doing that while also spending more money to make the games more graphically impressive.
I'm not gonna say it's true for every game, and we should give leeway to games that were already in development for a while. But unless you are doing it directly with help from Sony or Microsoft, it seems like a terrible idea to spend more as all you'll get is the same game except not on a popular platform (and likely with worse FPS on PS4 than if it was something that could be on Switch). And tbh, it was a bad idea even during the Wii U era. The fact that we're still dunking on Knack is the perfect example of how utterly meaningless next gen upgrades in graphics can be, and none of these graphic obsessed games will ever be as popular as Minecraft. Or ports of the last gen GTA. It's just even more of a pointless obsession thanks to Switch. The only good reason other than being paid for it by Sony or Microsoft is if you have specific artistic reasons, and most of the companies that can afford such high fidelity games, do not care about art like that.
tl;dr Switch has made it even more obvious how much money has been WASTED to make games technically more impressive looking. Most people who do so don't care about art or video games, just money and yet are wasting money.
Forums
Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread
Posts 26,061 to 26,080 of 69,785
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic