Nintendo Switch

[joe bazooka]

So about £190 for us Channel Islanders. Bargain. Guess i'll just not get my yacht waxed that day.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

£400 with two games (Zelda and Rabbid Minigame Island) and some offbrand screen protector, cheap plastic pouch that smells of petroleum and a replacement stylus in a non-matching colour.

[pulsemyne]

46 minutes ago, gossi the dog said:

How much do you think it will cost in the UK (given the pounds strength relative to the yen)? I'm hoping for £200. I'm expecting £250 in line with the Xbox One and PS4.

It's currently 170 quid to 25,000 yen. There's ten percent tax on that yen price. Given the 20 percent VAT price of the Uk it could come in at 199 pounds but I think we may see a price of 225 pounds. Still gives Nintendo a nice profit margin after shipping etc.

[joe bazooka]

What's the £170 figure from?

[pulsemyne]

1 minute ago, joe bazooka said:

What's the £170 figure from?

It's the current yen to pound exchange rate. Nikkei say they expect the switch price to be 25,500 yen which equals about 173 quid.

[JPickford]

3 minutes ago, joe bazooka said:

What's the £170 figure from?

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+170GPB+in+yen

[pulsemyne]

Anyway it's just speculation but it is from Nikkei and they do tend to be on the nose with these kind of things.

[Nespresso]

 

(Not going to let this thread be boosted off the first page ffs)

[Lorfarius]

I did a video about it.

 

 

[rgraves]

On 1/8/2017 at 06:11, BruceBruce said:

Switch will finally just do usernames instead of friend codes apparently.

If you don't know what you're talking about, maybe best not to talk at all fella - The Wii U has never used friend codes.

 

21 hours ago, Napole0n said:

Nintendo is notoriously bad when it comes to online. Their interfaces are terrible, their networking stuff is terrible, their browser is terrible. Use that to take on a company renowned for its interface and hardware design that has been perfecting their tablets for about 7 years now? It'd be the end of Nintendo.

Depends on your viewpoint - a lot of people have turned their Wii or Wii U on and played Mario Kart/Splatoon online with no hassle at all - they'd not call the Nintendo online infrastructure terrible - they'd call it simple and effective and free. Same with the browser - I fail to see how the Wii U browser is terrible in comparison to the offerings from Sony and MS?

 

People bash Nintendo online - but what they offer is actually solid, stable, and effective. They lack some *features* yes, but the base service is perfectly fine.

[Camel]

Fella.  Fighting talk.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

8 minutes ago, rgraves said:

If you don't know what you're talking about, maybe best not to talk at all fella - The Wii U has never used friend codes.

 

Depends on your viewpoint - a lot of people have turned their Wii or Wii U on and played Mario Kart/Splatoon online with no hassle at all - they'd not call the Nintendo online infrastructure terrible - they'd call it simple and effective and free. Same with the browser - I fail to see how the Wii U browser is terrible in comparison to the offerings from Sony and MS?

 

People bash Nintendo online - but what they offer is actually solid, stable, and effective. They lack some *features* yes, but the base service is perfectly fine.

 

I'm not comparing it to Xbox or PlayStation but to an iPhone or iPad. After all, it was about Nintendo taking on Apple with a Nintendo phone or tablet.

[DarhkFox]

It also seems like a totally bizarre time to do the presentation. Isn't it like 4am UK time? and really late in USA?

[Bojangle]

Nintendoomed!

It really doesn't matter when they do it, it's going to be all over the internet anyway.

[MikeBeaver]

16 minutes ago, Pockets said:

Are they really announcing it on Friday 13th? After the Wii U problems? I know it's superstition and everything, but still, help yourselves as much as you can.

 

It's only the 13th in Europe, in Japan and the US it is the 12th.

[Bojangle]

If the console bombs we can look back and pin it on the presentation being on that fateful Friday the 13th.  

[Nespresso]

Fuck sake Bojangle.

 

[Indy @ S.E.]

My body will probably not be ready but I'll still wake up and watch this live.

 

I reckon it'll be £229 with a game and I shall buy one.

[MojoChin]

11 minutes ago, MikeBeaver said:

It's only the 13th in Europe, in Japan and the US it is the 12th.

Someone doesn't understand timezones...How can a country to the east and a country to the west BOTH be behind Europe? (Tokyo is +9, New York is -5 or 1pm 13th in Japan and 11pm 12th in east coast US)

[Bojangle]

1 minute ago, VN1X said:

Fuck sake Bojangle.

 

In less supernatural news, the nVidia CEO says we'll be BLOWN AWAY (ign.com) by the Switch.

Get hype.

[Nespresso]

2 minutes ago, Indy @ S.E. said:

My body will probably not be ready but I'll still wake up and watch this live.

 

I reckon it'll be £229 with a game and I shall buy one.

Yes son. That's the spirit!

 

[MikeBeaver]

3 minutes ago, *chin* said:

Someone doesn't understand timezones...How can a country to the east and a country to the west BOTH be behind Europe? (Tokyo is +9, New York is -5 or 1pm 13th in Japan and 11pm 12th in east coast US)

Yeah, I'll hold my hands up to that, although as the Earth isn't flat, technically everything is to the east and also to the west, just depends on how far you travel

[Nespresso]

 GET THAT HYPE. 

 

 

[Not Thread Owner]

14 minutes ago, VN1X said:

 GET THAT HYPE. 

 

 

 

NINTENDO ARE MAKING A GAME? GOOD GOD. MEGATON

 

[mdn2]

deKay, you should really just change your avatar until after the 13th.

[Not Thread Owner]

In other news, which ISN'T klaxonable:

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.konsolinet.fi/category/156/switch-tarvikkeet

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Paulando]

SOFT CARD. WHAT COULD IT MEAN.

[PaB]

1 hour ago, rgraves said:

If you don't know what you're talking about, maybe best not to talk at all fella - The Wii U has never used friend codes.

 

Depends on your viewpoint - a lot of people have turned their Wii or Wii U on and played Mario Kart/Splatoon online with no hassle at all - they'd not call the Nintendo online infrastructure terrible - they'd call it simple and effective and free. Same with the browser - I fail to see how the Wii U browser is terrible in comparison to the offerings from Sony and MS?

 

People bash Nintendo online - but what they offer is actually solid, stable, and effective. They lack some *features* yes, but the base service is perfectly fine.

I'd call nintendo  online "servicable". FO the few titels that support it, it does the job. It;s nothing like as good as PSN/Live.But then Nintendo have never focussed on online multiplayer and I don't expect this will change for switch to any great extent, given the focus of the reveal seemed to be the local multiplayer.

 

If they do expect to offer online to be as integral as it is with PSN/Live though they have an awfully long way to go.

[PaB]

I'd call nintendo  online "servicable". For the few titles that support it, it does the job. It's nothing like as good as PSN/Live. But then Nintendo have never focussed on online multiplayer and I don't expect this will change for switch to any great extent, given the focus of the reveal seemed to be the local multiplayer.

 

If they do expect to offer online to be as integral as it is with PSN/Live though they have an awfully long way to go.

 

 

Same post after proof reading...since for some reason I can't edit my post.

[Lorfarius]

Showtime - Thursday, January 12 at 8 p.m. PT/11 p.m. ET (Friday, January 13 at 4 a.m. UK/2 p.m. AET).