That is a contradiction right there.

No, it’s not.

She doesn’t say that in her opinion it will have no effect.

It’s completely redundant to preface every time you give an opinion with ‘In my opinion… It adds nothing – if something’s an opinion you can trust the reader to see that.

Instead she explicityly says (in not so many words) that it will not make any difference to anybody anywhere.

And now you’re just conflating two different things – making a difference to someone, i.e. making them feel warm and fuzzy, and actually making a difference.

NutmegBean‘s very clearly expressed point is that this is an empty gesture that serves only to make people feel good, but won’t change anything substantial.

You don’t have to agree with that argument, but there’s nothing incoherent or inconsistent about it.

Looking bad hasn’t stopped them royally putting their foot in things in the past.

I’m pretty sure your point ‘1’ isn’t true, but can’t swear to it.

On Boost Mode though, it has no effect, adverse or otherwise, on games that have native Pro support – when a game runs in ‘Pro mode’ it already gets the higher clock speeds and the expanded number of GPU cores. What boost mode gets you is just the higher clock speed part of that. There’s no such thing as ‘boosted pro mode’. Where it might have an effect is on non-Pro supporting games that are particularly sensitive to timing, so you might need to toggle it off to get some older games (Grow Home and Grow Up seem to be the best known cases, oddly enough) to work properly.

When did diversity become about excluding people?

At the point where there aren’t films starring white guys.

When we get there, feel free to bitch about it.

A review can be impartial, or not. What it can’t really be is objective, but someone can have an opinion without starting with a bias.

Indeed – just how crap are Nintendo’s entire cohort of PR staff if not a single one of them thinks to drop the press an email responding to the ‘no activity log’ stories and put them straight.

Or alternatively, what are Nintendo’s senior management thinking if they’ve actively instructed their PRs not to talk about the console.

While he’s right that Netflix isn’t a differentiator for a tablet like the Switch

Having it wouldn’t be, lacking it is.

And really the question is, how bad do Nintendo have to be at developer relations to keep Netflix from building an app for this thing – they will Netflix enable everything they can get their hands on, so why are Nintendo getting in the way?

There’s a huge difference between the Wii’s pointer control and ‘waggle’. The sensor bar based pointer control was the best way of aiming a first person game short of a PC’s mouse.

Most people really don’t care.

Oh of course they do. That’s why smartphones not only tout that they have touch screens in their marketing, they loudly shout about the specific numbered version of Gorilla Glass they’re using.

It’s a significantly marketable feature because people really don’t like their expensive shiny looking a lot less shiny straight after they’ve bought it.

No doubt it presented further issues down the line and they decided to cut it and keep parity with the Switch version.

I do doubt that it ‘presented issues’, and I very much doubt that it presented issues they couldn’t have solved if they’d wanted.

I’m sure, however, they cut it to keep parity with the Switch version, which I believe is what I said in the first place.

They already had the map as neatly illustrated in the picture above. They could have left that in place and we’d all have been better off. They could still have had the main screen option as well for Switch users and anyone on a Wii U Pro Controller.

They’ve actively disabled working functionality. That’s not OK.

It was bad for ‘unified’ gaming across the two screens, but it worked very nicely for things like maps where you’d be switching your attention back and forth between the two screens for different jobs rather than trying to look at them simultaneously.

Notwithstanding its other problems, the Wii U gamepad map in AC:Black Flag was a nice little quality of life improvement.

Bullshit.

Indeed. This is utter, transparent, bullshit. These features were stripped out for the sole single reason of crippling the Wii U version so that it wouldn’t look better than the Switch one.

Nintendo lies a lot, but this is blatantly taking the piss.

issues besides quality

I don’t have an opinion about Iron Fist or its specific controversies, but as a general principle these sorts of issues aren’t "besides" quality, they’re one aspect of quality among several others.

is a great piece of industrial design

It’s got a screen that’s made out of easily scratchable plastic rather than using the sort of Gorilla Glass style tough material that everyone else is smart enought to use for portable devices, and then it pairs that with a hard plastic dock that slides along the easily scratchable screen.

That one problem alone disqualifies it from being even competent design, never mind great. And it’s far from the only problem.

And if they don’t, neither will consumers.

Or developers. One of the Wii U’s big problems was that outside Nintendoland, Nintendo themselves had no good ideas for the gamepad. When first-party titles are just switching off the hardware’s main distinguishing feature it’s hardly going to inspire anyone else to use it. And any game that doesn’t rely on the special features of the hardware is going to run better, and probably sell better, on the other consoles than restricting itself to Nintendo.

Yes, if you’d like to see someone say that look at the story above your comment where we say that.

And if you’d wanted to see someone say it on this site over ten hours ago you could have checked out this comment thread from this morning.

IT really means nothing to see tens of people with issues when a device sells millions

It’s not a few in millions though, a bunch of professional reviewers have seen it too; as Polygon said in their review:

This does not appear to be an issue isolated to Polygon, as numerous other outlets have reported on similar problems, and it has been further corroborated by additional correspondence with other outlets in possession of Switch review units.

This is simply not a pool of millions of units.

See how it works both ways?

It doesn’t work both ways because the situation isn’t symmetrical. One hypothesis is that the controller has a design problem that causes issues – an example of it working correctly does not falsify that hypothesis. The alternative is that the controller is flawless – an example of its flaws does falsify that proposition.

It sold out on day 1 because every Nintendo console sells out on day 1

Indeed, which means that this headline stat of the Switch outselling the Wii simply means that Nintendo go (slightly?) more of them into stores than they did Wiis.

It tells us absolutely nothing about the demand.