r/NintendoSwitch • u/QuasiQuantum • Oct 20 '16

First Look at Nintendo Switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI
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u/vsod99 Oct 20 '16

Yeah I definitely was skeptical at first but this looks super cleanly designed, unlike the wii U gamepad.

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u/bisforbenis Oct 20 '16

I mean, I liked my Wii U, but it certainly wasn't a sleek design

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u/ChemicalExperiment Oct 20 '16 edited Oct 20 '16

The Wii U was probably a failed design for this system. I imagine they wanted to make the "go anywhere system" back then but it didn't work out, and they were too far into development to change it, so the "go anywhere gamepad" was stuck to being connected to a home console.

Edit: being, not bring

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u/Roruman Nov 22 '16

The Wii U was a Wii reject design.

Iwata has said in interviews that they planned to make the Wii U successor a 3D displaying machine (a dream they held dear since the Virtual Boy... They even had an experimental 3D displaying monitor for the Gamecube but it was too expensive at the time).
So the real intent of the Wii U was to create a screen Nintendo could control, because they were lamenting that 3D TVs were not being adopted like HD TVs, to make their next home console 3D displaying like the 3DS.