No less aspirational than the console’s original unveiling in 2016, the latest trailer really shows off everything that the Switch can do, from getting that cute girl you sat next to on the bus to look over your shoulder in idle curiosity at what you’re playing, to frustrating college professors when you’re playing games before a lecture and costing your friends £45 when you dramatically fall backwards into a pool with a Joy-Con in hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1r369yv2Uk
But seriously, it does do a pretty good job of showing just how flexible the console is, and some of the use cases – Mario Kart 8 in the office, anyone? – do look pretty realistic and appealing. Others, like taking your Switch with its 2.5-6 hour total battery life camping, less so. And what’s Nintendo’s obsession with rooftop parties?
The ad also shows off a bunch of new mini-games from 1-2-Switch. There’s a full on sword fighting mini-game – again, a girl looks on in mild dismay and embarrassment in the middle of a canteen –  a pass the parcel-esque game where you fizz up an imaginary bottle of bubbly until it pops, competitive beard shaving and competitive phone answering, alongside the cow milking, western showdowns and other modes we already know about.
Oh, and there’s the guy playing Mario Kart while seeing a man about a dog.
Source: YouTube
Tuffcub
That woman watching the sword fighting. Lols. The look just says “Stop being massive twats and sit down”
Stefan L
“Can we please just order?”
Tuffcub
“I know he’s your best friend but did he HAVE to come on the honeymoon?”
MrYd
That really is just embarrassingly bad. Plenty of reasonably attractive (but not threateningly so) people. Some with crap beards and ridiculous hair (and even a pair of red trousers!)
I even spotted someone who doesn’t know how hats work, so how he’ll deal with modern technology, I don’t know.
I’m sure all possible comments about cow milking have been made before, so I’ll leave that alone.
All makes it look more and more like a kiddy console (for children up to the age of 20 something), except it’s got a proper grown-ups console price attached.
Still, at least you can use it while you have a shit. Which is obviously something you can’t do with a phone or a tablet, or a Vita or even a PS4 if you’ve got a cunning arrangement of mirrors (and nobody else is about, or you just really don’t care)
Byacca
“Still, at least you can use it while you have a shit. Which is obviously something you can’t do with a phone or a tablet, or a Vita or even a PS4 if you’ve got a cunning arrangement of mirrors (and nobody else is about, or you just really don’t care)”
You sure can do it with a phone or a tablet with their crappy “games” and abominable controls. You absolutely can do this with a Vita, which was completely forgotten by it’s creators. And of course you can do this with a few mirrors.
The question is “why?”
MrYd
Presumably it’s down to “medical reasons” that mean you’re going to be spending a long time on the toilet.
Or possibly it’s for people who drank too much the night before and made poor food decisions. Because obviously “I’m hungover and I’ve just shit out my spleen, but at least I can play Mario Kart, oh no, it’s starting again! Why did I eat that???” is a good reason for anything.
Byacca
I gladly play Mario Kart in toilet)) The thing is i can’t do this using Vita, ps4 or phone.
So i need Switch
ron_mcphatty
Did that guy at the BBQ fall in the pool holding his controller? And did the one playing Splatoon forget to take his right controller with him to uni? Terribly careless of them.
tonyyeb
Was that Holly Valance in the bedroom?!
Tuffcub
You wish
tonyyeb
In *my* bedroom I wish.
bunimomike
If animated GIFs aren’t created about the bit where they’re shaking up the bottle of champagne, we don’t deserve the internet any more.
Stefan L
Tuffcub’s joyous handiwork.
BAGPUS
I rarely bother to log in and comment, but that GIF is surely an early contender for GIF of the year.