Nintendo Switch gets first touch-screen only game

The name of the game is Voez, and if it only uses touchscreen, that means it can't be played on TV.

Is this a good idea or a bad idea? Does this cement the Switch's place as a handheld? What say you, System Warriors?

Its a hybrid console. I'm still expecting Pokemon Stars to fall somewhere in the middle of being a handheld game and a true HD home console game.

There will be more games like this, practically a handheld

Touch screen or motion control only games will be completely ignored by me.

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Well it does have a touch screen. And after the Wii U I am glad Nintendo dumped the "second screen" nonsense. I'm sure some games will perhaps require you to play both in hand held and docked mode. With the switch many great things are possible.

Not my thing, I might be interested in the Switch later on if I see lots of 2D games support for it, but I prefer using a controller.

Tablet/Cellphone games, just what the doctor order.

Nothing wrong with this.

@Bread_or_Decide: I don't buy shit games and generally touch only and motion only games are shit.

Bad ass, dude. You are badass.

You're so salty.

What if I have a touch screen TV?

Voez mixes an anime style story with rhythm gameplay.

Not my cup of tea.

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@Bread_or_Decide: Prove me wrong.

it has both modes its both

also you can play it on a touch screen android tv so its fine

You realize this is a mobile phone game, right?

Funny that you constantly knock multi-plats as "worthless" compared to exclusives, but are now defending a mobile port. Bizarre.

For the most part, mobile games are the bottom of the barrel. This one is high rated on app stores, but it's a friggen touch rythm game. GTFO.

Easy prediction: Switch, won't get AAA multi-plats, but it will get lots of cell phone ports.

@Shewgenja:

One of the Joycons has a pointer like the Wii. That's how you play touch only games on the TV

Great for the system, I say bring over all the App store games, give more choice to the consumer. Would love to see Mario Run on it.

I wonder if anyone brought that to Eurogamer's attention? I completely forgot about the pointer!

3DS and vita have touch screens, no one made a big deal out of that.

@jut: i think its pointed the wrong way though. pointing it at the TV would render the shoulder buttons useless. the switch also doesnt have an IR bar.

anywho its interesting to see that nintendo allow this. its not all that surprising. if nintendo required all games to work in docked and undocked mode then the touch screen would end up being pretty useless. no games could use it. so it makes sense.

i wonder if the reverse is also true though: can a developer game a game that will only work when docked? i have heared (i think digital foundry mentioned it but they may have been speculating) that developers always need to account for the undocked performance level. but thats only speculation as i say.

Candy Crush Saga coming soon to the Switch

Looks pretty cool.

It is good. I was wondering about this for the longest but I'm glad Nintendo is not enforcing a "It has to work on TV mode too" with software.

A lot of games work best or only as a handheld and with touch screen controls.

VOEZ is good. And it's not going to work unless it is touch control.

I wish they release Deemo too though, with all the song packs and plus the Vita exclusive songs, because Vita's touch screen is just not responsive enough for this game.

@Heil68: you can ignore the story completely. I have been playing this since launch, never even read a single story shit. And it no anime background when playing the game.

@jut: not this game. It's impossible to play something like this that way.

It's cool that devs have multiple options with the Switch.

Not interested in the game tho.

?..not everyone is into touch screen game..I am also one of them..I don't mind motion control..but touchscreen?..forget it. :P

Pretty cool that the Switch allows for that. Only hope that the pricing is fair.

@osan0: The IR bar is built into the dock

Oh no, not software variety! The horror!

@Shottayouth13-: 2500 yen from what I heard.

Not sure how many songs it will have though because the pricing is different from the original game. But if it's going to have all the standard songs released thus far in the mobile version, it's a bargain.

As far as I'm concerned, having the choice to get games like this is better than having no choice at all. Doesn't seem like a game I would pick up, but it could be something that interests my kids.

Don't see anything wrong with games that can only be played undocked or docked. Freedom of choice is entirely on the developer.

That said, I'm stoked for Voez. I tried it out immediately on my phone and it would easily be something I could sink dozens of hours into. Rhythm games are tons of fun for me on top of exposing me to new music I would then add to my collection.

I figured the first touch-screen-only game for the Switch would be both Japanese and very perverted... disappointed.