At the risk of incurring the wrath of "Angry Cheapy", I have to partially agree with what your listener said about the recent negativity, especially towards the Switch and especially from Cheapy.
I am not saying Cheapy is not entitled to his opinions on Zelda, the Switch and Nintendo as a whole, but I very, very rarely hear much positivity come out of Cheapy's mouth when it comes to anything Nintendo is doing. Which is fine, I personally am the same way about Microsoft, and I think both companies are doing great things. I think some of it has to do with Nintendo/Microsoft not making games that are up our respective allies (Cheapy with Nintendo, me with Microsoft) but that OTHER people enjoy.
Unfortunately, the problem doesn't come in for me when Cheapy says he doesn't enjoy something, but rather when he tells someone else THEY shouldn't enjoy something. I too have been seeing his negative tweets mocking Zelda, and that segment towards the end where he tries to back Shipwreck in a corner by saying "what are you going to do with this thing (Switch) after Zelda? ...after Blaster Master? ...after...?" Why is that neccesarry? What was anyone going to do with their Xbox One after Ryse at launch? You see what I'm getting at and why this is unfair and dismissive of the people who are having fun with the system?
It felt as though Cheapy was trying to facilitate a console war that doesn't need to exist by trying to suggest that games like Mass Effect Andromeda are much more interesting and worthwhile to Wombat before Andromeda is even out or had any reviews/impressions. Or by making this a "Horizon vs. Zelda" debate. Again, I am NOT saying Cheapy shouldn't have an opinion. I am merely stating that I find it unfair to mock/suggest people are wrong for liking something that frankly just isn't your type of console, especially when there HAS been a pretty decent sentiment of "this is a fairly decent console".
Before its said to try to dismiss my argument, for the record, I don't think Shipwreck takes any offense at what you said and I dont think any apologies are neccesarry, so don't just think I'm being overly sensitive. I think "don't buy this console if you're like me and don't like these games" is a perfectly fine review to give a console, but "you made a mistake in buying this and stop having fun" just seems like cynicism for the point of being cynical. And I think there's a distinction to be made. As always, however, great show and thanks for the discussion.
