re: Nintendo Switch Presentation 1/12/17 11 PM ET

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Do I buy a Switch or do I just play Breath of the Wild on the WiiU?

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Eh, no one can tell you what to buy, but I'm actually feeling better and better about the potential. Lots of developer comments about it being "the easiest platform to develop for." Lots of confirmation around those ideas of porting. I mean in the end it really depends on support, right? It needs to fulfill some set of requirements (specifically software) for you to buy it? Or is it just Zelda.

Digging into success and support, It was recently said that it took 1 week to port a particular PC game over. That could be huge.

If the Switch can do the following, I think it's going to hit the coveted WiiU+3DS sales figure that would make it a completely successful console:

1) Be a good source of first party Nintendo Games
2) Get all Major Indie Games
3) Have a robust VC offering of first and third party games
4) Have Quality Third Party Support, not necessarily AAA games

I think most Nintendo fans would be fairly satisfied here, and I don't think AAA third party support is necessary if it can attract Nintendo 1st party+all of the major indie games like Stardew, Yookoo Laylee, etc. However, I think it will solidly succeed if the following happen:

5) Nintendo follows through and starts to release two types of games on the system - Console-styled large scale AAA games, Handheld styled smaller games. Two pricing tiers
6) Be good enough, or easy enough, for AAA 3rd Party Ports

100 million is probably a fair goal if they hit everything out of the park. I think Nintendo is tracking well for 1-3, with 4 in play if it takes off quickly. If that happens, Nintendo will consolidate console lines to this, no question. 6, I'm not sure it is necessary if Indie support is super strong.

There's a huge benefit here for people with portability and ease of use and access. I'd almost ALWAYS buy in indie title on the Switch from now on if it gets that level of support. It might be the first time I actually buy Minecraft. Why would you buy an indie on any other console, unless the indie was multiplayer specific?