Games for Breakfast: Kojima’s Nintendo Switch Thoughts

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Welcome to Games for Breakfast&comma; a new feature series here on BagoGames&excl;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Games for Breakfast&comma; written by features editor Angelo De Bellis&comma; is a daily opinion piece of about 250-500 words—I gotta keep it brief—that engages topical game news&period; Every new post will go live at 9am EST so that you can grab your cup of coffee and read a brief account of a particular gamer’s take on the latest goings-on in the industry&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Happy Monday&excl; For today’s post&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s talk about the delightful combo of the Nintendo Switch and games veteran Hideo Kojima&period; On Friday&comma; <&sol;span><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ca&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;04&sol;hideo-kojima-shares-his-thoughts-on-nintendo-switch"><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">ign<&sol;span><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"> reported on Kojima’s thoughts on Nintendo’s approaching console-handheld hybrid&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the article I linked to&comma; Kojima is quoted as saying that his favorite feature of the Nintendo Switch is its portability&period; He says that he implemented a feature called transfarring in some of his previous <em>Metal Gear <&sol;em>titles released on the PS Vita and PS3&comma; and that the future of the industry lies in the ability to play games on any device&period; While I&&num;8217&semi;m sure he&&num;8217&semi;s on to something&&num;8211&semi;especially considering things like PlayStation Now and Nvidia&&num;8217&semi;s streaming abilities&&num;8211&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m most interesting in his comments on the the Switch&&num;8217&semi;s portability&period; I think he&&num;8217&semi;s on to something&comma; and perhaps it elucidates the flaws I see in the upcoming console&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That is&comma; I think that the ability to take games on the go or play them at home is really the only thing the Switch has going for it&period; That and the proprietary Nintendo titles of course&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s typical of Nintendo to be a trailblazer when it comes to proving new&comma; sometimes quirky technology&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s often technically underwhelming enough that it leads to disappointment among hardcore fans&period; Take the original Wii remote for example&&num;8211&semi;it was a neat piece of tech at the time&comma; but quickly lost its luster because of how imprecise it was&period; This leads me to wonder who or what will come next in response to Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s Switch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What do you think the best selling feature of the Switch is&comma; and please don&&num;8217&semi;t say <em>Zelda<&sol;em>&comma; and am I being too harsh&quest; Do you think Sony will respond to Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s shot at core gaming on the go&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;