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For me this machine will be ideal. I just finished Arkham City via the Wii u gamepad and currently enjoying Mass Effect 3. If it wasn't for remote play and handhelds my gaming time would collapse.

 

I have plenty of Nintendo goodness to get through too, so will try and skip a day one purchase.

 

Am I right in thinking that Tokyo Mirage Sessions can't be played via just the gamepad? How about the new Paper Mario?

 

 

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29 minutes ago, Napole0n said:

Well, I bought Pikmin 3 and never got round to starting it.

 

Instead of 'foil' I should have used 'shrinkwrap' I suppose :P

 

 

The sound FX of the little Pikmin are cute at first but then, an hour later, it makes me want to pull my teeth out. They're pretty evil too, killing largely benign creatures for no other reason than multiplying their already excessive population; are they an allegory for us?

 

Back on thread, both my kids want this and I want one too. We can buy three of them Dad has been a recurring echo around my house this week. The main issue with multiplayer on the Wii U is that both of them fight over the gamepad - this has been addressed. If the games, like the 3DS/DS are local multiplayer without having to buy the game multiple times like some games are, I might consider it but I doubt that. They've both got 2DS consoles and we've bought Animal Crossing twice and Mario Kart twice. 

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They have stated that this is meant as a home console replacement, and that it is not the successor to the 3DS.

 

We will see. If Switch takes off they may can the idea of a 3DS successor like they did with the game boy when the DS became a hit. I can't see them realistically supporting mobile, switch, and another unannounced handheld.

 

If Switch does reasonably well, I'm guessing they will produce a smaller dedicated handheld version down the line when the tech becomes cheaper and more efficient. Micro Switches!

 

edit: I also have kids and happy for them to play with a 2DS but I'd be nervous of them with the switch and its removable controllers.

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8 hours ago, deKay said:

Yes but who is he? A journalist? An insider? A twat?

 

Why is what *he* says important to so many?

 

 

A man who loves pogs and boglins is a fine man to listen to every day of the week.

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1 hour ago, MidWalian said:

They have stated that this is meant as a home console replacement, and that it is not the successor to the 3DS.

 

We will see. If Switch takes off they may can the idea of a 3DS successor like they did with the game boy when the DS became a hit. I can't see them realistically supporting mobile, switch, and another unannounced handheld.

 

If Switch does reasonably well, I'm guessing they will produce a smaller dedicated handheld version down the line when the tech becomes cheaper and more efficient. Micro Switches!

 

edit: I also have kids and happy for them to play with a 2DS but I'd be nervous of them with the switch and its removable controllers.

Why are they saying it's a home console replacement, when it is patently a handheld, based on handheld components, with all the processing power in the handheld, that you can plug into your TV?

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1 hour ago, Alex W. said:

 Could people post what Nintendo have actually said because a lot of this is starting to sound like bollocks. 

 

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/20/13347910/nintendo-switch-home-gaming-system

 

“Nintendo Switch is a home gaming system first and foremost,” the company told Polygon when asked if the system was going to impact the sale of the 3DS portable systems. “We have made no announcement regarding the future of Nintendo 3DS.

 

 

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Bit of a weird stance then, isn't it? Yeah, I'd love a proper Nintendo home console. Shame this one is actually built around handheld tech with a clear focus on it being a handheld.

 

I'm going to get one to play Zelda anyway, but they should at least be honest about it.

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26 minutes ago, MidWalian said:

 

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/20/13347910/nintendo-switch-home-gaming-system

 

“Nintendo Switch is a home gaming system first and foremost,” the company told Polygon when asked if the system was going to impact the sale of the 3DS portable systems. “We have made no announcement regarding the future of Nintendo 3DS.

 

 

" A home console that can also be taken and used as a handheld. As this 3 minute teaser explicitly shows and every major media outlet is statin it's a home/handheld hybrid. But no, seriously, the 3DS is going to continue on and we don't want to impact on the 3DS holiday marketing campaigns by letting people know we'll be quietly discontinuing the 3DS next year. I mean, there's going to be fuck all games for it as our development teams are flat out on Switch games."

 

Is what they really wanted to say.

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They are indeed bullshitting. 

 

Then again it is difficult to compare with other gaming machines as it is, to my knowledge, the first hybrid system. So, it is an amazing portable system..or an underpowered home console.

 

At the end of the day even with low power tech Nintendo can do some wonderful games. 

 

I do hope third party takes off with this - for me, I'd rather play a title on a system which can be as flexible as this looks to be. I'm also somebody who doesn't have sole access to the TV at home.

 

I will be interested to see what tablet type functionality it may have. Even the Wii U had a browser, Netflix and YouTube. 

 

I'm hoping it is priced about £250 - maybe up to £300 due to Brexit. Otherwise I see it not doing that well.

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17 minutes ago, MidWalian said:

1. ...or an underpowered home console.

 

2. At the end of the day even with low power tech Nintendo can do some wonderful games. 

Point 1 is my main worry.

 

Point 2 makes me hope it's a success, even if I'll begrudge paying for a weaker spec and an extra screen that I'll only ever see the top quarter of from across the living room.

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I imagine when thinking about the possible hardware to use, they thought "well how fucking good did we make mk8 look? Imagine what we can do with 2 or 3 times that power! Let's just go with that and make it a mobile system"

 

As much as I love the shiny games on my ps4, this super powered console race seems a bit unnecessary to me.

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Surely it's pretty obvious that they don't want to make the 3ds look kapput and suffer a complete tanking at Christmas? Therefore we'll have to put up with the 'ol third pillar bullshit. Still gutted about the lack of decent n3ds software support, what a great little machine it is/was. :(

 

Anyway, they can still afford to trot out some further Switch details before the end of the year. Just to keep the interest ticking over..

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24 minutes ago, gizmo1990 said:

Surely it's pretty obvious that they don't want to make the 3ds look kapput and suffer a complete tanking at Christmas? Therefore we'll have to put up with the 'ol third pillar bullshit. Still gutted about the lack of decent n3ds software support, what a great little machine it is/was. :(

 

Anyway, they can still afford to trot out some further Switch details before the end of the year. Just to keep the interest ticking over..

 

Eh?

 

They had a whole Nintendo direct about 3ds games recently. If anything it's had too much support at the expense of WiiU.

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If you've never owned a 3DS/2DS, you can buy a really nice little gaming device with a massive catalogue of games - it doesn't matter if Nintendo are discontinuing the device, you can still play it. It has been available since 2011 so 5 years isn't a bad run if you owned one from launch and have never had to replace it. It's sold 60 million units so it's unlikely they'll just turn off the tap completely.

 

The Switch being underpowered too? Nobody knows the exact specs apart from those involved and they've just shown a quick advert with very little detail beyond the physical aspects of the console; and underpowered compared to what exactly? The Xbox One/PS4 is underpowered compared to a PC (you can spend £4-5k on an off the shelf gaming PC if you really want to).  I understand the comparison is the console market but how underpowered is it? It won't be one of those kids Leapfrog things you plug into the TV.

When the Xbox One was shown at E3, Microsoft marketed it as a device that you can use to control all your media that streams to the TV (using Kinect) and also showed Hololens - most people forget Hololens was/is an Xbox One exclusive (it was at the time). Most people probably don't remember Hololens.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/134271-microsoft-hololens-minecraft-shown-off-with-stunning-augmented-reality-3d-at-e3-2015-video

It took me a while to find a link as I couldn't remember what it was exactly; I had a vague memory of the 2013 E3 presentation where a guy was playing Minecraft on a table.

I'd obviously rather know exactly what this console will be, how much it costs, what games will be released on it and what it can do beyond being able to load up the latest Zelda game but I'm not worried that it'll be a DS killer (I doubt Nintendo will just stop supporting a console with a huge user base) and I frankly don't care if it is slightly less grunty than the big two.

 

 

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14 minutes ago, womblingfree said:

 

How about that time they released a handheld with no backlight.

 

I'll give you that ONE, but I don't think Nintendo is especially guilty of this. Microsoft and Sony more guilty of this imho such as kinnect no longer needed, backtracking on always on connection, adding analogue sticks etc.

 

Nintendo style to me is producing great games at the end of the day and supporting their hardware even if it is a commercial failure.

 

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