This sounds like Bronze difficulty. The achievements leaked online and Andromeda uses the same multiplayer difficulty settings. One of the gold trophies is to beat the single player on insane difficulty OR beat five gold difficulty co-op matches.

This looks almost exactly like Dragon Age Inquisitions approach to world maps and exploration. Right down to doing activities and gaining allies letting you upgrade your home base. Just blown up to a galactic level. And I am more than OKay with that.

@electricocarina: I highly doubt Switch will EVER get Battlefield. BF1 makes a PS4 chug. Meanwhile Switch can't handle BotW as that game begins to chug when action happens. That's not a good sign at all.

As for Skyrim? We don't even know which version Switch is getting. And based on the BotW performance, whichever it gets will look better than PS3/360 but worse than PS4/XOne/PC.

When you guys actually start playing with it tell us if you have the joycon desyncing issues other sites are reporting.

For those here out of the loop a few sites and private reviewers did actual play time with their Switch and Zelda. Joycons are having latency and desync issues when attached to the controller dock and having MAJOR sync issues a ranges of ten feet and up.

@bbtrinet: PS4 just crossed 50 million. Xbox One crossed 25 million. WiiU is stagnant at 13 million. So no. In terms of consoles Nintendo is bottom of the barrel unless you count the Ouya.

3DS has 60 million because it functionally had no competition in the handheld market due to Sony botching the Vita on the international stage. Japan loved Vita. Basically no one else did. Also comparing the PS4 and Xbox One to the 3DS is some real bull. Completely different markets.

Also fun fact, by your own logic Sony is right on Nintendos heels in terms of total gaming market share. Sony is at 64 million PS4/Vita. Nintendo is at 75 million WiiU/3DS.

That's a load of bull and that Gamestop exec knows it. They flaunted similar crap when the WiiU was up for preorder. Then you have Nintendo pulling limited run bull with Amiibos and that new micro NES. Bet you half those preorders are people buying to scalp them on Ebay. One of my fondest memories of the WiiU was scalpers buying like six of them and then being completely unable to sell them even at retail value.

@titang1: I had similar software. The thing was just too annoying. And it's something PC Elitists never bring up. Yes. You can get a better experience on PC than console. But only if you pony up $500+. Lower than that and you get a machine with a high probability of needing more money dumped into it. Meanwhile a PS4 or Xbox One is $250 and plays damn near everything.

@titang1: Last time I played PC was about a year ago. Skyrim. Was the only major game I had little trouble with. Built the PC in 2010 for $480. Had the specs to run basically any game at the time. Yet Deux Ex HR took 45 minutes of messing about to get it to play past the intro. BF3 had screen stutter every five seconds no matter the settings. Crysis 2 could go about five minutes before crashing. Enjoyed the hell out of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim though.

PC was always having trouble as well. First is fried a power supply. Then half the USB ports died. Then it dropped another power supply (more powerful than the first one). Then it fried a CD drive. Then it lost audio to the front audio ports. Then it crapped a hard drive. Then last year around October it loads to the Windows start up screen and then black screens. Meanwhile the 360 I got a month before I built the PC has a loud disc drive but otherwise works fine.

So I'm not fond of PC gaming. I went with the PS4 this gen and have no major complaints. Am looking forward to Persona 5, Andromeda, and Neir. Am already having a blast in 2017 with BF1, Titanfall 2, Xenoverse 2, and Dishonored 2.

You'll note Nintendo isn't getting any of those games. Which is partly why I don't like them. Other part is they refuse to use their franshises that I loved. Like Advance Wars and Custom Robo. Never could get into Zelda. My favorite Mario is still Super Mario World.

@wolfpup7: Nvidia K1 gaming tablet is $200. Runs Google Play store. Google Play has the likes of Final Fantasy, Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddys, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Civilization Revolution 2, Scribblenauts, Terraria, GTA San Andreas, the list goes on. Battery life when playing games is 5 hours minimum. Display is 1080p. And to top it off it can run NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, Wii, PS1, and some PS2 games. And EVEN MORE it can stream from your PC and is compatible with basically any bluetooth controller.

Now please explain how the Switch is overall better than THAT.

@titang1: The Wii was an anomaly. Look at the generations before it. Then look at the generation after it. Wii sold so well because it tapped a market that wasn't tapped. The casual gamer. They liked the novelty of the motion controls. They liked the games that you could enjoy for a few minutes at a time. They enjoyed the ease of access. Same with the DS. Then the mobile market exploded. It took the casuals by storm. Proof? Wii sold 100+ million units. DS sold 150+ million. WiiU didn't break 15 million and 3DS is around 60 million. Gimmicks only get you so far and casual gamers have mobile games now.

As for PC? Yeah. If you're an enthusiast then go for it. I've built a few PCs for console prices. It ****ing sucks. Have to spend thirty minutes optimizing a game, have to deal with crappy broken or non-functional ports constantly, and a large share of the PC market is currently indie trash, paid Alphas, and games that released before they were finished and never got finished because devs already got their money.