Why not?
This is the company that removed the Ethernet port to save a few pennies from the GameCube, forcing people in later consoles to buy singles to get a wired connection, that pioneered analogue triggers them dropped them from every future console, that gave a revolutionary console (Wii) a clock speed bumped previous generation cpu and gpu. You can go on and on but as much as we love Nintendo, their history of strange or disappoint cost-cutting decisions is very long. Why this insistence on believing they’re somehow a different company now? Based on their entire history, Switch 2 is likely to be puzzlingly gimped in some way or another.
that’s cool and all, but people seem to forget that or not realize that they focus way too much on the pennypinching nature of nintendo that you can’t have a regular discussion about something that’s interesting without someone bringing it up every moment.
Even if it’s something that doesn’t really have much to do with her pennypinching nature, and it’s just something that people want to see arise, or discuss upon. And people also fail to realize that, this constant interruption and concern over how much they aim to save warps perceptions that people have of what actually happened, and then they stick with it, for decades.
To this day, there are
still people that believe that Nintendo didn’t go with a tegra X2 because they were being cheap, not realizing that Nintendo didn’t go to Tegra X2, because there was no point in going with a Tegra X2.
It wasn’t meant for gaming but for automotive, and it offered nothing that the TegraX1 couldn’t do.
but that thought has been pervaded enough in the casual consumer market that people, even more hard-core people, actually believe that’s what happened when that isn’t what happened.
Not to mention, not
everybody wants to actually talk about their pennypinching nature? Like I understand they can be very tight in budgeting everything and are the masters at BOM, but some people exaggerate it so much that it just becomes a useless discussion to have because it starts to sidetrack from the actual main point people are getting at.
Not to mention this is the probably the only company that is still using this expensive ass proprietary media just for their games for the mass market, I know it’s just a cart that can be made like SD cards en masse, but Nintendo‘s expensive choices apply to certain things, and they cheap out on certain other things, they don’t just blindly do it they do it because it has to fit to the entire system.
And people focus so much on analog triggers, but riddle me this: how many games actually make proper use of analog triggers that requires them to have analog triggers that they cannot be brought over to a digital system like the Nintendo switch.
Because to my knowledge, only racing games actually do that amongst the many, dozens or so, genres that exist that don’t really seem to need it.
If they removed the analog triggers, it’s because it brought no benefit (anymore) for them to
include analog triggers in the long run since the GCN.
Analog triggers is just some hardcore fan want and desire, that’s all. Fun and comfortable to press, but a desire nonetheless.
If it comes back, then it comes back and people will be happy, all systems will have the same Triggers, and the 4 nations will live in harmony until the next avata- wrong ending. But anyway, if it doesn’t, it’s because it doesn’t set any benefit that makes them require it for their games or games of others.
But anyway, that’s my two hundred cents on this.
