It's okay to be like everyone else sometimes

Before and after the Nintendo Switch was revealed, a lot of people that liked the concept of a hybrid liked to ask, "What's the point in having another PS4-like system?" The reason they said that is because 1) they already had PS4s, and 2) they liked the concept of NS. What if someone didn't have a PS4, Xbox One, or powerful PC? What if he or she didn't like the concept of a hybrid that wasn't truly portable nor powerful enough to have games ported to it easily?

It's okay to be like everyone else sometimes. Proponents of NS throw around the notion that being the same as or copying others is deplorable. Oh really? Then why don't you apply the same logic to Sony or Microsoft? They copy Nintendo all the time. Why does Nintendo, and Nintendo alone, have to have the burden of being different? That is unjust and discriminatory. You like to keep Nintendo in a little box that you have constructed in your mind. You think Nintendo has to be this wacky toy-company forever until the end of time.

Proponents of NS like to throw around the notion that it's good to be different, falsely implying as if it's always good to be different, in all situations. Little do they realize that amid all the nonconformist differences, even Nintendo conforms. NS still has analog sticks, bluetooth, buttons, a screen, HDMI, USB, etc. It is logically unsound to say that Nintendo should be different and then ignore the times they are not different. You can't just pick and choose when it's okay to be different, and when it's not.

What is the logically-sound thing to say then? It is good to be different when it makes sense to be, and when it is better than being the same. Being different just for the sake of being different is not necessarily good.

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