Nintendo Switch Thread

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[Human Snorenado]

People thinking this thing is gonna be viewed as a portable system...

[Tasty]

It is tho

It's more of a portable than a home console.

[Tasty]

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Us Nintendo fans have been trained to like the same game over and over, fam.

[Great Rumbler]

Only game I care about is Xenoblade Chronicles X 2 or whatever.

[Himu]

If you think this system is primarily meant to replace Wii u and not 3ds you're silly as fuck

[Rufus]

They obviously want it to replace both.

[Human Snorenado]

They obviously want it to replace both.

Key word there

[benjipwns]

Him losing his shit was genuine, the guy fucking loves Nintendo.

Yeah, another reason I was surprised that people thought his journalism credentials weren't always suspect.

[Tasty]

It is tho

It's more of a portable than a home console.

Didn't the most reliable leak source say that it has 3 hours of battery life? 

That's 3 hours more actually-portable than the Wii U's GamePad.

[benjipwns]

[Tasty]

"Switch" is wayyy better than "Xbox One".

Disregarding the other 10 things that came out around that time with "One" at the end of the name, wasn't the whole point of "Xbox 360" was to have "more bigger numbers" than the competing PlayStation? Dopes.

/special fellow

[Himu]

It is tho

It's more of a portable than a home console.

Didn't the most reliable leak source say that it has 3 hours of battery life? 

Final dev kits have it at 3ds level (5-8)

[a slime appears]

I hope the Switch does great. We need a hardware manufacturer that's willing to do something different other than clone the competition (XB1/PS4).

[Tasty]

It is tho

It's more of a portable than a home console.

Didn't the most reliable leak source say that it has 3 hours of battery life? 

Final dev kits have it at 3ds level (5-8)

Switch XL with 200% more battery when?

[Huff]

I'm way more likely to by a switch than I was to a Wii U

but lez be honest here

[Cerveza mas fina]

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/14/nintendo-switch-specs-less-powerful-than-playstation-4/

[chronovore]

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/14/nintendo-switch-specs-less-powerful-than-playstation-4/

Um, who cares? It's nowhere near as bulky as a PS4 in its minimum configuration, and that's what everything is going to be built around. Anything added by dock hardware is going to be bells and whistles.

[Cerveza mas fina]

is just Brandnew was going on about it being Pascal

[Tasty]

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/14/nintendo-switch-specs-less-powerful-than-playstation-4/

gee a portable system with stricter power constraints isn't as powerful as a box that is always plugged in and immobile

who could have guessed

[benjipwns]

The Nintendo Switch game console coming in March won’t be more powerful than Sony’s three-year-old PlayStation 4, according to sources familiar with the system.

Two sources (who asked to keep their names out of this story) confirmed to GamesBeat

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the machine is still powerful enough to play Nintendo-style games that rely on quality art over horsepower, but don’t expect Switch software to match the graphical fidelity of the highest-end PS4 games.

Switch’s visual capabilities could still satisfy most gamers. Nintendo has implied it can handle realistic-looking games like Skyrim and NBA 2K in the trailer for the system.

To give you a sense, we expect the Nintendo Switch to be more than 1 teraflop in performance, but far less than the 6 teraflops that Microsoft is promising for Scorpio.

The Switch could still be appealing.

Based on the video, it certainly looks like there is no touchscreen, as you attach the secondary controllers to the sides of the tablet.

REPORTING

[Raist]

It's essentially a WiiU duct taped to its own controller. It's not going to melt eyes.  Not that it matters, Nintendo stopped caring about exploiting their hardware to their fullest a long time ago, and 3rd parties won't give a shit again.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I saw that jimmy fallon episode today and zelda looks barren as fuck compared to witcher 3

like that whole world looked empty and dead

[Raist]

I saw that jimmy fallon episode today and zelda looks barren as fuck compared to witcher 3

like that whole world looked empty and dead

"See that mountain? You can go there!"

WHAT YEAR IS THIS

[Cerveza mas fina]

that was quite an emberassing line from the OOT marketing bible

[Let's Cyber]

I saw that jimmy fallon episode today and zelda looks barren as fuck compared to witcher 3

like that whole world looked empty and dead

We'll probably need to wait until Red Dead Redemption 2 (Maybe Horizon?) before we see anything match or exceed Witcher 3 in terms of forested and mountainous areas in an open world, be that in terms of graphics or content.  I guess Far Cry Primal is close on the graphics, the lighting looks really good in that game.

It's kind of sad how shitty forests still look like in a lot of games. 

Witcher 3 still king 

[Huff]

So it ends up being a pos baby toy that plays Nintendo games

Pretty shocked atm. Who saw this coming

[bork]

Seems pretty powerful for a little handheld.  I don't get what people are going on about here.

The real question is if they actually get third party support this time.

[bork]

The real question is if they actually get third party...

no.

Seems pretty powerful for a little handheld.  I don't get what people are going on about here.

This is exactly the problem with a design like this. It's mind-boggling Nintendo is going through with it.

It's a powerful handheld but as a console it's way underpowered. So as a console, it's just not very good.

As a handheld it's not very good either because it's so huge and the battery lasts like 2 hours or some shit. Lol.

What is this shit?

The Nintendo games for this better be amazing but I doubt it.

They already said the battery life is on par with the 3DS. 

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

[tiesto]

Seems pretty powerful for a little handheld.  I don't get what people are going on about here.

The real question is if they actually get third party support this time.

Hopefully the Japanese 3rd parties who worked on 3DS, with a few of the Vita stragglers (Falcom).

[Tasty]

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

Is this your first Bore Nintendo thread or

[bork]

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

Is this your first Bore Nintendo thread or

[a slime appears]

It'll be cool.

I hope it does better than the Wii U.

[Take My Breh Away]

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Not using the Tegra X2 is the only thing genuinely disappointing, though. Especially since its whole deal is efficiency gains in battery life and system power. Nintendo have to be either selling this thing as cheap as possible or they are genuinely high AF if they are still using an X1 and want $300 for it.

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[Tasty]

It'll be cool.

I hope it does better than the Wii U.

Would be pretty damn hard not to

[Cerveza mas fina]

Just realized I havent owned a Nintendo console since 2007.

A decade without Nintendo

Doesnt even feel like I missed anything

[Raist]

Try 2 decades. Haven't bought a Nintendo console since the SNES.

[Tasty]

Missing the DS

[Himu]

They already said the battery life is on par with the 3DS. 

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

let's find your posts earlier about how some chinese thing was better than the switch shall weeee?

[Himu]

Just realized I havent owned a Nintendo console since 2007.

A decade without Nintendo

Doesnt even feel like I missed anything

[Human Snorenado]

...they're using a Tegra X1 and are gonna want $300 for this piece of shit, aren't they?

[bluemax]

...they're using a Tegra X1 and are gonna want $300 for this piece of shit, aren't they?

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It's under powered compared to the nVidia shield apparently but it has better OpenGL compliance than anything Apple has out, so there is that.

And yeah it's gonna be way over priced.

[Tasty]

ARM tho

We gon' be backwards-compatible for another decade+ brehs

[insert joke about ninthings buying the same shit over and over here]

[Trent Dole]

...they're using a Tegra X1 and are gonna want $300 for this piece of shit, aren't they?

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I'd MAYBE bite for $249, if they want $300 then

[Himu]

Hoping for 200-250

[Rahxephon91]

While I think Nintendo is a shit company and this will be a shit system, all they gotta do is announce a new Xenoblade or Bayonetta. Both of those games on the Wii U are amazing and honestly looked really great on a pretty weak system.

[Himu]

Want Mario Wii u game ports so I don't have to buy a Wii u. Cat Mario is the cutest thing Nintendo has ever created and cat peach is fucking adorable

[Cerveza mas fina]

I might bite for 199 with a game

[bork]

They already said the battery life is on par with the 3DS. 

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

let's find your posts earlier about how some chinese thing was better than the switch shall weeee?

Yes, please do show me where I said that the GPD WIN was better than the Switch.   

The WIN is full of...WIN...though.  I use it more than my regular handhelds now.  Too bad it has quality issues from unit to unit.  Makes it hard for me to recommend to people.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

My money is on $299 and it will come with a game to reduce sticker shock (it is still an awful value of course).

[Sho Nuff]

They already said the battery life is on par with the 3DS. 

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

let's find your posts earlier about how some chinese thing was better than the switch shall weeee?

Yes, please do show me where I said that the GPD WIN was better than the Switch.   

The WIN is full of...WIN...though.  I use it more than my regular handhelds now.  Too bad it has quality issues from unit to unit.  Makes it hard for me to recommend to people.

That thing looks so fuckin boss. I'm holding off for the second generation (I hope they do it)

[Brehvolution]

*Right side of controller sold separately.

[bork]

They already said the battery life is on par with the 3DS. 

Let's go ahead and trash the thing before it's even out, bros. 

let's find your posts earlier about how some chinese thing was better than the switch shall weeee?

Yes, please do show me where I said that the GPD WIN was better than the Switch.   

The WIN is full of...WIN...though.  I use it more than my regular handhelds now.  Too bad it has quality issues from unit to unit.  Makes it hard for me to recommend to people.

That thing looks so fuckin boss. I'm holding off for the second generation (I hope they do it)

They recently said that an improved version is going to start shipping in January with higher-quality parts, including a d-pad and buttons.    I enjoy mine not just for emulation, but also for when console releases fail me, I.E. Shantae Half-Genie Hero doesn't have cross-save on PS4/Vita.  So OK...I can just play the Steam version on my desktop and the WIN and let Steam auto-sync the saves for me.  

[Human Snorenado]

I have every confidence that the Switch will retail for AT LEAST $300. For fucks sakes, they're still selling the Wii U for $300.

[Trent Dole]

I have every confidence that the Switch will retail for AT LEAST $300. For fucks sakes, they're still selling the Wii U for $300.

This is supposed to be a 'learn from our mistakes' machine. Pricing it for more than what a PS4 standard model goes for would be suicide. Which means they might.

[Raist]

I have every confidence that the Switch will retail for AT LEAST $300. For fucks sakes, they're still selling the Wii U for $300.

It's a rebranded Shield. Internal storage is shit. No external storage. The dock is a glorified HDMI out.

So yeah, $299.

I wonder about games price too. It's going to be a proprietary SD card copycat, isn't it.

[Human Snorenado]

I have every confidence that the Switch will retail for AT LEAST $300. For fucks sakes, they're still selling the Wii U for $300.

This is supposed to be a 'learn from our mistakes' machine. Pricing it for more than what a PS4 standard model goes for would be suicide. Which means they might.

I have yet to see "learn from our mistakes" be interpreted as "will sell hardware at a loss"

[Trent Dole]

..they'd really need to do $300 to not take a loss? Well then that's the price it will be then. Of course cards will be $50, Nintendo have always been hyper greedy fucks when it comes to pricing their software.

[tiesto]

I think $250 for the base console, $300 for a packin (Splatoon?) and more memory.

[Tasty]

I have every confidence that the Switch will retail for AT LEAST $300. For fucks sakes, they're still selling the Wii U for $300.

Care to make it interesting?

I'd bet something dumb like a tag that no launch SKU of the *Switch will be >$295.