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Nintendo Switch has another face palm

by on20 January 2017


Forgets to mention key functions and drops important ones


Smart money is on the Nintendo Switch being a lemon, but it seems that the maker of toilet branded consoles is making elementary mistakes on its launch.

Firstly, there is a lot of confusion over what the Nintendo Switch can do. Multiple account support was teased in a photo posted by indie developer Nicalis on Twitter but then this was pulled and people shut up about it.

Now Kotaku has confirmed that the system does support up to eight multiple users but really people should not have to be digging for that information right now.

Nintendo's colourful Miis will be making a return and Mii characters can be used to represent a user profile, but are not required. They can still be used in games if developers choose to include them.

This is a new detail which for some reason Nintendo forgot to mention at its presentation in Tokyo. Some think this is because it is too closely associated with the Wii era, but others are think Nintendo is daft for forgetting to mention it. After all they are a function which the console will have and a sales point.

But the biggest problem for the console is that for some reason Nintendo forgot to sort out support for video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Video.

Streaming video is available on practically anything and would be an important feature of any entertainment centre, so why did Nintendo forget to include it? Apparenly they were spending all their time “making the Nintendo Switch system an amazing dedicated video game platform, so it will not support any video streaming services at launch," a spokesperson said.

Such apps are "being considered for a future update".To be fair the Wii U was not a great video streaming set-top box, but then again that console was also disappointing.

Last modified on 20 January 2017
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