Nintendo Switch

[Lorfarius]

 

9 minutes ago, Oracle said:

I think people are used to charging things daily.

 

The problem is will the batteries actually last a day with that spec? The WiiU Gamepad was only a few hours.

[DC Lemon]

Given the #NX at the end, this probably doesn't mean what everyone wants it to mean.

 

 

[carlospie]

I reckon it will be 400 pounds at launch.  With a two to three hour battery life. Just long enough to walk your dog and play Zelda whilst it shots everywhere. 

[Lorfarius]

9 minutes ago, dvdx2 said:

Poor battery life at launch, means more money down the line with the release of a high capacity?  

 

Which is a massive failure really. You can't be pushing it as this big portable consoel revolution then tell people you have to spend a dollop of cash on an extra battery. Will put normal people off.

[dvdx2]

13 minutes ago, Lorfarius said:

 

Which is a massive failure really. You can't be pushing it as this big portable consoel revolution then tell people you have to spend a dollop of cash on an extra battery. Will put normal people off.

Well it is Nintendo......

[Alex W.]

13 minutes ago, Lorfarius said:

 

Which is a massive failure really. You can't be pushing it as this big portable consoel revolution then tell people you have to spend a dollop of cash on an extra battery. Will put normal people off.

 

Assuming it's even still true at this stage. I doubt Nintendo were optimising battery life on dev kits.

[Paulando]

54 minutes ago, Jamie John said:

What's 'IFGO' stand for?

 

No idea, all I know is I'm fucking getting one.

[neoELITE]

There's rumours that the Switch will be running Nvidia Pascal GPU architecture. I am in no way any kind of expert on tech specs but I've read a few articles on this and one thing that's repeated is that it extends battery life on gaming PCs.

[womblingfree]

This looks pretty much exactly what I expected the Wii U to be. The portable screen actually makes sense when it's actually portable rather than a big dumb pad that has to be on all the time.

 

This could be very popular, particularly in Japan where portable is king right now.

 

Sold.

[neoELITE]

 

 

 

 

[Hello Goaty ♥]

You can't polish a turd

[neoELITE]

9 minutes ago, Hello Goaty ♥ said:

You cant polish a turd

 

You can roll it in glitter.

[Alex W.]

It'll probably be easy to get alternate colours of controllers even if they just do one colour of chassis. Do one with the black tablet and orange remotes?

[Hello Goaty ♥]

The orange one is nice actually

[BossSaru]

Anyone hoping for a low price on this will be disappointed. Even if it is cheap to produce, the fucked pound will make it really expensive if there is any link to US prices.

[Alex W.]

10 minutes ago, BossSaru said:

Anyone hoping for a low price on this will be disappointed. Even if it is cheap to produce, the fucked pound will make it really expensive if there is any link to US prices.

 

Or any link to any currency in the world, basically.

[Doomguy]

Looks ace. Great concept, decent controller. I still think having accounts ala live / steam will make or break this in the long term. Nobody wants to put in a thousand digit code to play online. 

[Nespresso]

38 minutes ago, Darhkwing said:

Just got done with another video...

 

 

Could do with a little bumpin' background music. 

 

EDIT: Seriously play your video back with this song in the background. 10.000+ subs insta-get.

 

 

[the_debaser]

The orange one will match my Japanese GC. Looks almost the same shade. 

[JohnnyRyall]

It is strange that they seem keen to promote it as a home console first and foremost rather than a handheld, given how much better their portables have sold in recent years.

 

Someone on GAF joked that, while they're reassuring us that it's a powerful home console they'll be making the exact opposite pitch to the Japanese market, but you do have to wonder what will it happen if it fails to capture the audience they've developed with their previous handhelds.

 

Some are suggesting that they should release a TV-only version without the tablet, but I wonder if we won't eventually see a portable-only version with a smaller, more conventional design in line with the DS, especially if it doesn't sell well in Japan initially.

[neoELITE]

11 minutes ago, Stevedave said:

Looks ace. Great concept, decent controller. I still think having accounts ala live / steam will make or break this in the long term. Nobody wants to put in a thousand digit code to play online. 

 

 

You don't have to do that on the Wii U. It's a myth that's perpetuated by people who've not played on a Wii U.

[neoELITE]

10 minutes ago, the_debaser said:

The orange one will match my Japanese GC. Looks almost the same shade. 

 

It's not real, it's someone on Twitter that's been photoshopping.

[Mr Do 71]

22 minutes ago, Hello Goaty ♥ said:

The orange one is nice actually

 

Orange for me as well, please.

[DarhkFox]

For real?  Yeah I was going to have a background track I just thought I'd keep the original trailer sound.

[BruceBruce]

9 minutes ago, Mr Do 71 said:

 

Orange for me as well, please.

 

Half-Life 3 confirmed for the NSwitch.

[BruceBruce]

 

[Shoes]

 

[gizmo1990]

Never heard of Mr Blunty before but after a couple of minutes listening to him and then a quick shuffle through the video, I've come to the conclusion that he's a bit of a whiny joyless git.

[BruceBruce]

1 hour ago, Lorfarius said:

This is all going to depend on its battery life. If its comparable to current systems it will suck up a lot of juice and will they stick in a crap low end battery like the Wii U Gamepad. It's also pretty slim so there's not a lot of room for expanding into say a 3rd party one. Which will effect the portability.

 

Well the tegra chip they're using is made for portable devices.  And the joy-con controllers that attach to the tablet seem to have their own batteries within them.  So battery life may actually be decent.

 

Hopefully the tegra chip they're using is from the new Pascal line.  Maxwell is fine, but if they're using pascal it'll have even more power efficiency meaning even longer battery life.  So you'd think that would be the one they go for.

[Not Thread Owner]

40 minutes ago, Stevedave said:

Looks ace. Great concept, decent controller. I still think having accounts ala live / steam will make or break this in the long term. Nobody wants to put in a thousand digit code to play online. 

 

Nobody did that on the Wii U.