re: Whatever........this is a "sicboy crapping on the Switch" thread, cuz reasons

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Kind of the issue though, it isn't really a direct competitor to MS/Sony systems

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I think this point is where our primary disagreements are. I like video games, so I do and will continue to compare Valve, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo to each other. They compete for my free time spent in gaming, so they all set the bar for what I want and expect out that gaming time. While the target audience isn't entirely the same, I'm in that part of the ven diagram that is in all 4. As I look to respond to various things about perception and expectation, I think we just view them differently. You say it's not reasonable to expect as much from a free service, but it's been available on Steam for free.

I don't think anything I've mentioned is really a big reach for Nintendo to do. While they're not a very diverisified company with 100k employees, they're not a small, weak company (over $6bn in revenue for 2016). They've shown the ability to adapt and work with others to work into markets they're not familiar with (DeNA for mobile games), so it's not unreasonable for them to work with someone else if they're not comfortable with keeping up with the developments of the industry (not referring to just high powered processors and video cards).

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My first X1 controller did not come with the battery pack and was AA battery powered

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Gross. I didn't think they still used batteries, but at least with that, it's just a matter of swapping them out.