Nintendo Switch

[Mazy]

Makes pretty good sense to merge handheld and home consoles into one, looks like it'll be pretty good for party games and such plus you'll get them sweet 1st party Nintendo games. Gonna be interesting to see what kinda specs it has, but I guess that's not the point

[Pampers]

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Nintendo overestimates how often I'm gaming and my friends call out to me on a nearby rooftop to come outside and party and still game there as well

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this just makes it so that I have a more convenient way to play video games while I'm on the toilet

Pretty cool, but I wonder what the prize and battery life will be. That Zelda game didn't seem to run all that smooth when he was using it.

[PogoP]

Love it. Can't wait to find out more info. ARRGH NINTENDO Y U SO GOOD

[text_fish]

2 hours ago, Mazy said:

Gonna be interesting to see what kinda specs it has, but I guess that's not the point

You said it! When you market your device with a five year old game you're certainly not targeting the traditional hardcore gamer.

[-HP-]

This is amazing, I'll be getting this day one!

[DrywallDreams]

Nintendo is being very savvy in using Skyrim and NBA 2kXX to advertise the Switch.  As someone living in a college dorm, Skyrim is still the game people talk about.  People still often own 360s, they still don't know which current gen console to own.  This isn't designed for just nerds arguing about framerates and specs, it's for the people that got excited about Pokemon Go.

I'm curious if Nintendo will further open their dev program when the Switch releases, will the Switch just work as a devkit?  If so, the Switch could have one of the best game libraries out there.  I would love to be able to develop for a portable console by myself.

[-HP-]

 

This looks amazeballs man.

[-HP-]

 

This thing looks so slick, looks like something Sony would do since usually nintendo consoles look pretty cheap and plastiky.

[BJA]

Design still looks like from Nintendo, you know it's a Sony console when you can see your fingerprints all over the place.

Really like everything what I've seen from Switch, only hope they offer some new refreshing games.

[-HP-]

So, I have a question. In the video you see someone inserting what it looks like a small cartridge. Does it mean the Switch wont support discs? How the hell am I suposed to play my WiiU games on it then? Are you gonna force me to buy them again Nintendo?

[Jetsetlemming]

11 hours ago, Pampers said:

Pretty cool, but I wonder what the prize and battery life will be. That Zelda game didn't seem to run all that smooth when he was using it.

If it's using the Tegra chip, as those leaks/rumors posted last page and months ago claimed, then the battery life should be pretty good. Cell phones have done a lot for battery life development, not so much by making better batteries, but by innovating on chip and screen power efficiency. 

Also, if it's using the Tegra chip, it's definitely not going to play your WiiU games, HP WiiU is PowerPC, just like the Wii and Gamecube. Tegra is ARM. Maybe they've learned a thing or two from the 3ds's launch though, and will focus on streamline ports and accessing existing purchased digital content through their store. The 3ds's store security is laughable right now, though, clearly they haven't put a lot of work into it: Pirates can literally download and run legit copies of games directly from Nintendo, unimpeded and undetectable.  

Personally, I'm interested, but have two big questions: Price, like Pampers, and storage. Flash memory has been cheap as fuck lately, but platform makers are still charging enormous premiums for onboard memory, like $100 extra on the price tag for 16GB, and SD card slots are like unicorns on any recent phone (thanks Apple!). 3ds uses SD though, thankfully, so hopefully the Switch will, too. Digital distribution is 1000x better than buying physical games and having to swap them, but games lately have been fat as hell (bring back compression for 2017, game industry!), and having to delete and redownload something is obviously a nightmare compared to swapping disks.

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Looked into it:  Nvidia has confirmed the Switch is based on Tegra. Last year Nvidia showed off their latest Tegra model, Tegra X1, running Unreal Engine 4. The upcoming Tegra X2 "Parker" is faster and even has GPGPU support, so maybe the Nintendo Switch will have fancy particle effects and cloth physics like circa 2010 PC games  They haven't specified what version of the chip they're using, though, only implying that, at least on the driver level, things have been heavily customized for the Switch. Nvidia's press release has a lot more details than Nintendo's and mentions "a revamped physics engine", but has no tech specs. It also says the release date is March 2017.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/

Edited October 21, 2016 by Jetsetlemming

[Mazy]

[FrieChamp]

Nice. Now just make it a phone, too, and people will be buying 

[blackdog]

The Switch is gonna be a godsend for all those mobile developers that will be able to just repackage their games and sell them at even higher price than what they are on mobile.

Edited October 21, 2016 by blackdog

[Sentura]

just give me mario maker on this thing and I'll be set