Alienware Announces Nintendo Switch

[bork]

Interested for sure.  Bet it will be pretty pricey though.

[Svejk]

Switch annihilated... Like seriously

[benjipwns]

Won't have the patented Nintendo Whimsy™ chip.

[CatsCatsCats]

Well, hopefully it forces Nintendo to put fucking apps on the switch lol

[Joe Molotov]

Nintendo don't care about some $600+ Win10 tablet, come on.

[Great Rumbler]

 

[thisismyusername]

Why get this when I get a more compact GPD Win?

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This probably has better cooling *knock on wood* though.

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[headwalk]

nobody is using one of those things outside. why not just quarter the budget and make it a nice in home streaming solution using steam? basically everything appealing about the wii-u without being lumbered to victorian tech and an anorexic library.

[bork]

Why get this when I get a more compact GPD Win?

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This probably has better cooling *knock on wood* though.

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The newer GPD Win models have issues with the clamshell design in addition to cooling concerns.  I already had to get a new shell for my Win 2 because it cracked due to the hinge design.  Hoping that their next model will fix this but, I'm more interested in this tablet-style design and hope they come out with something similar.

Price is also a concern.  Like...it's cool to have a handheld PC and all, but it starts to feel ridiculous when you can get a regular-size laptop with way better specs for the same price. 

[bork]

nobody is using one of those things outside. why not just quarter the budget and make it a nice in home streaming solution using steam? basically everything appealing about the wii-u without being lumbered to victorian tech and an anorexic library.

You should be able to do this with it anyway.  Ditto for a GPD Win machine.

[thisismyusername]

nobody is using one of those things outside. why not just quarter the budget and make it a nice in home streaming solution using steam? basically everything appealing about the wii-u without being lumbered to victorian tech and an anorexic library.

...Because you can just buy a Raspberry Pi, attach it to your TV, install the SteamLink OS/App/whatever on the Pi and have the Steam Link hardware-ish on your phone or TV that way for way cheaper.

[bork]

nobody is using one of those things outside. why not just quarter the budget and make it a nice in home streaming solution using steam? basically everything appealing about the wii-u without being lumbered to victorian tech and an anorexic library.

...Because you can just buy a Raspberry Pi, attach it to your TV, install the SteamLink OS/App/whatever on the Pi and have the Steam Link hardware-ish on your phone or TV that way for way cheaper.

This does a lot more than that.  If I wanted to, I could use my GPD Win 2 as my sole PC and be just fine with it.  Playing most 3D games on a monitor would look like shit, but everything else would be just fine.  This could feasibly replace a laptop for someone as a secondary machine, easily- you can always get a portable monitor and small folding keyboard to go along with it if needed and that stuff could take up less space in a bag than a lot of regular laptops would.

[thisismyusername]

I was more nitpicking his "Why not just use streaming like Steam?"

Because Steam already has a "low-cost" option out there that they replaced with an even MORE low-cost option.

As for using this with the Shitch's "connectivity" thing, it should be fine in HD provided the monitor here/on the tablet is 1080p, which it should be since most phones do that now a days. They just take the DeX or however it's spelled Samsung "PC in a phone" tech and just expand on that by making it duplicate the screen and have the OS perform there just fine.

Cooling is the major issue though. With Wifi, Blutooth (for the controllers) and other things in it like the CPU/GPU it'll heat up for sure. They need a good way to vent that heat if they want the hardware to last a lo--Hahahaha, I can't even finish that sentence with how planned obsolescence things are.

[BisMarckie]

Never had good luck with in-home streaming wireless.

Have a high end router, but most devices don't have high-end wifi chips/cards.   They don't need them for web browsing or file downloads, some packet loss and latency hiccups don't matter much there.  But game streaming is too much, or at least very unreliable.

My steam link that I got for like 5 bucks during one of their fire sales works flawlessly. And I only use the basic ass router my internet provider gave me.

[thisismyusername]

Never had good luck with in-home streaming wireless.

Have a high end router, but most devices don't have high-end wifi chips/cards.   They don't need them for web browsing or file downloads, some packet loss and latency hiccups don't matter much there.  But game streaming is too much, or at least very unreliable.

My steam link that I got for like 5 bucks during one of their fire sales works flawlessly. And I only use the basic ass router my internet provider gave me.

Is it wired? Because wireless is slightly different. Even Valve recommends wired for their hardware and the Raspberry Pi version. Simply because with games it's putting more into the packets per bandwidth than normal shit.

[BisMarckie]

Wireless, it worked fine when the PC was wireless as well. Now my PC is on a powerline network but I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
And I am living in a heavily populated and WiFi polluted area. There are like 20 visible networks.

Things might get worse when more normies discover 5 ghz wifi.