7 Reasons Why You Should Be Worried About The Nintendo Switch

2. That Character-Centric Catalogue

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Remember back when every game needed a colourful, cartoonish character? Nintendo sure does, and they’re keeping the tradition alive. Almost all their games are centred around a single, recognisable and child-friendly character. It’s like the era of Gex and Crash Bandicoot never went away.

I see what Nintendo are doing, becoming the Fisher Price of gaming, so even when the next generation grow up, they remember Nintendo as fondly we do.

They’ve started to believe their own hype.

You can add that to your list of Switch concerns too, but I seem to remember playing more than just character-based platformers and adventures on the N64. GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Turok - it catered for types of gamers the way Nintendo always did; the way contemporary consoles do now.

But then, that’s the point isn’t it…

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