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3 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

Based on the release of the Switch, is it worth considering a Wii U at this point? 

My 6 year old son has started gaming and enjoys Plants v Zombies 2 on the XB1 but he desperately wants a Wii U to play Splatoon. He got some money towards the Wii U from various relatives over Christmas but I was surprised to see that the price consistently around 250 pounds and then have found out about the Switch release in the Spring.

 

Just wondering whether it is worth picking up a Wii U now.....

 

May be worth considering a pre-owned console? Seem to be going for ~£150-£170 for a premium console with an A-list title.

 

Although the sensible thing to do would likely be to wait for Switch there are some truly great co-op games on Wii U. Super Mario 3D World, Yoshi's Wooly World and the later Lego games, most of which have been worth the cost of the console on their own on rainy Saturdays :)

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TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap

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6 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

Just wondering whether it is worth picking up a Wii U now.....

 

It's a terrible deal considering both the console and games are still very expensive and you're effectively buying into a dead system which will most likely not be supported much longer.

 

Better wait for the new system and either buy that or  get the Wii U and some games cheap in the clearance sale.

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Definitely wait for the full switch reveal in a couple of weeks. If it's a fizzer, go for a second hand Wii u. If it's mind blown, go for a switch, or watch the second hand Wii u drop in price over the coming weeks as everyone gets shot of it. 

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8 hours ago, Man of Kent said:

Based on the release of the Switch, is it worth considering a Wii U at this point? 

My 6 year old son has started gaming and enjoys Plants v Zombies 2 on the XB1 but he desperately wants a Wii U to play Splatoon. He got some money towards the Wii U from various relatives over Christmas but I was surprised to see that the price consistently around 250 pounds and then have found out about the Switch release in the Spring.

 

Just wondering whether it is worth picking up a Wii U now.....

Yes, pick up a "pre-loved" one for £150 and start collecting some classic Nintendo games that you'll never experience on another platform. (Splatoon is rumoured to be on Switch, but not confirmed).

 

Plus the Wi U is going to end up going up in value over the years. Even the Virtua Boy costs a fortune now, so pick up a Wii U while it affordable!

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8 hours ago, Doctor Shark said:

It seems mad to me to be talking about a new Nintendo console so soon after the Wii u, and even more so when said console is only three months away. I mean, WTF?

I guess the Switch is also superseding the 3DS (although Nintendo say it isn't, and please buy Pokemon Moon and Sun) - which will be six years old when the Switch is launched.

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I want to get my pre-order in and I can't.  With 3 months till release I am unable to secure my day one purchase for the Switch.

The worst thing is that it's Nintendo and they always withhold stock to make their stuff appear more desirable meaning ebay resellers have a field day.

 

Just price it and let me buy it guys.

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3 hours ago, Professor_k said:

I want to get my pre-order in and I can't.  With 3 months till release I am unable to secure my day one purchase for the Switch.

The worst thing is that it's Nintendo and they always withhold stock to make their stuff appear more desirable meaning ebay resellers have a field day.

 

Just price it and let me buy it guys.

There are places doing preorders. A few of us here have them.

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2 minutes ago, pelago said:

? All previous Nintendo handhelds and wireless controllers, inc. Wii U GamePad, had removable batteries.

 

Really? I know about the WiiU pad, but other than that the only batteries I've ever removed from Nintendo stuff are AAs.

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12 minutes ago, moora said:

i think it's saying that the Switch has a non user serviceable battery - like the iPhone (and unlike the Wii U).

 

Maybe that means they're putting a decent battery in there, instead of selling the more powerful upgraded battery separately. Like the Wii U.

 

You are suggesting that contrary to all recent behaviour Nintendo will not cheap out on the battery capacity in order to save a few coppers and in order to make a profit on hardware?

 

 

Brave prediction :hat:

 

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https://pvplive.net/c/nintendo-switch-conference-and-other-software-deta

 

More leaks from Laura Kate Dale who is actually pretty trustworthy and has a decent track record with Nintendo rumors.

 

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Developers have access to multiple dev kits (the most recent version was sent out in October and is more powerful than the previous model issued in July.)

 

Could imply that Nintendo switched to Pascal for their GPU architecture instead of Maxwell.  So possibly good news for battery life, at least.

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7 hours ago, Clipper said:

 

You are suggesting that contrary to all recent behaviour Nintendo will not cheap out on the battery capacity in order to save a few coppers and in order to make a profit on hardware?

 

 

Brave prediction :hat:

 

The (non-removable) battery in the Wii U pro controller is pretty outstanding. I think I've charged mine twice in 3 months. 

 

In fact, is it not the controller with the best battery performance out of all the console manufacturers? It certainly gets raved about.

 

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1 hour ago, Doctor Shark said:

You know, for a console that is only three months away, we haven't really seen much about any games, have we? A couple of seconds of Mario, a couple of trailers for Zelda, but not a lot else. Seems the switch may be light on launch games...

 

Nintendo has reiterated numerous times that they're revealing the launch software lineup during an online presentation on 12 January, followed by a big hands-on media event the next day. This has also been reported by just about every gaming media outlet on the internet but maybe you missed it. That's not to say the Switch won't be light on games - it probably will - but maybe we should wait until they've actually revealed the games before making cynical assumptions and employing ominous ellipses...

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I'm much more excited to find out a game exists and I'll be playing it in less than 3 months than when Nintendo actually panics and says Fire Emblem and SMT are coming together... at some point... but we don't really know what it is yet... we'll talk again in a year or so.

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On 27/12/2016 at 21:57, moora said:

(Splatoon is rumoured to be on Switch, but not confirmed).

 

Plus the Wi U is going to end up going up in value over the years. Even the Virtua Boy costs a fortune now, so pick up a Wii U while it affordable!

 

Considering it was shown in the reveal trailer, along with the rumoured Skyrim port that doesn't officially exist and NBA 2Kwhateveryeartheycallit and a Mario game which also doesn't officially exist, I think it's happening.

 

There are still more of them in the wild than Dreamcasts, and the last time I looked, the DC wasn't stupidly expensive, despite being 15+ years old.

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I was browsing YouTube for something else, and came across a videonews post by some minor UK based tech channel which intrigued me, especially considering the headline he chose to use and the fact he seems the only person to have reported on it so far. Anyway, the source of this was a post by one of the programmers from Red Lynx, who knows his way around a console and was responsible for the very impressive engine for Trials which pushed the X360 to its limits.

 

He was replying about the ease of ports to the Tegra X1 based on the leaked specs confirmed recently, it sounds like Nintendo had better of ordered some very secret sauce if they want to make the X1 useful for doing straight ports from the other X1, it would also explain why Nvidia have only ever shown off last-gen game ports for the Tegra X1 so far:

 

 

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Around 50% of modern game engine frame time goes to running compute shaders (lighting, post processing, AA, AO, reflections, etc). Maxwell's tiled rasterizer has zero impact on compute shaders. 25.6 GB/s is pretty low as everybody knows that 68 GB/s of Xbox One isn't that great either. ESRAM is needed to reach good performance. But I am talking about the POV of down porting current gen games to Switch. Switch certainly fares well against last gen consoles, and Maxwell's tiled rasterizer would certainly help older pixel + vertex shader based renderers. Too bad last gen consoles already got their last big AAA releases year ago. Easy ports between Xbox 360 and Switch are not available anymore. Xbox One is a significantly faster hardware. Straightforward code port is not possible. Content also needs to be simplified.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, neoELITE said:

https://twitter.com/MrNantendo/status/815795300161835008/photo/1

 

Mario Kart on the switch rumour. If this is a launch(ish) title, it could be kept alive with updates and new tracks over the entire Switch lifespan. 

 

I heard it's got the battle mode back now. 24 extra tracks would be nice as long as thats not including the 16 dlc tracks.

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