What do you guys think of the presentation? I was a bit worried about the Switch but the Joycon i feel makes it worth the price. Nintendo is the only one advancing console gaming right now. Very excited about this!
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I didn't feel like watching. Someone should combine this into a gaming laptop with a full size PC.
Is there a VOD of the presentation? Ideally for download, I'd want to watch it on the train. Didn't have time to watch yesterday.
If you want to listen some to awful translators and some games presentations where they show little or no actual gameplay/footage......
otherwise maybe not
- that is seriously worrying though.
otherwise maybe not
- that is seriously worrying though.
Same here, but I also have the same feeling toward PC gaming. In the end, I only play Indie games as they are the only "non-formated" games on the market nowaday. I don't really care about graphics, only the gameplay and the music are important to me. Simple graphics but with a strong atmosphere are way better than eye-candy 8K VR with GFX that we already saw dozens and dozens of time.
I think it's great for who it's designed for. And the price point is fantastic - $299 and you get a console and a really awesome mobile gaming device. This is the Nintendo I love.
If I were still a kid I'd be over the moon for this. Even as an adult I'm really tempted to buy it almost wholly because of price and Nintendo's IP, the lackluster performance (relative to Xbone and PS4 at least) be damned.
If I were still a kid I'd be over the moon for this. Even as an adult I'm really tempted to buy it almost wholly because of price and Nintendo's IP, the lackluster performance (relative to Xbone and PS4 at least) be damned.
Don't forget Disgaea 5 on Switch: http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/disgaea-5-complete-switch ... that game alone can steal hundreds of hours from your rest time.
I'm really sold out by the Mario game. I just can't get enough of them!
But what I really appreciate on the switch is the fact we may play it as a mobile. Sure the battery life might be low, I don't intend on playing outside my house (99% of the time) and I really like to play on the WiiU pad. The image quality on the WiiU pad is very good and I enjoy playing on it much more than on a tv.
As bonus, the hardware looks are very attractive and slick.
I adore the concept and form-factor, I just can't justify a console that will be used for a handful of games at most.
I've wanted an x86 tablet in this form factor (6"-7" display, dedicated controllers attached to device) for years, but the closest a device has ever been was the Razer Edge Pro which was huge and unwieldy. There is nothing smaller than 13" with a dedicated GPU (Surface Pro with the laptop dock stuck on backwards) and nothing under 12" with even Iris Pro. Even in the Android world, the Nvidia Shield tablet lacks integrated controllers.
That coming from the man who won't play Factorio
I only have one Life
. I know I'll succomb and buy Factorio in a not so distant future, just trying to post-pone my addiction lol.
Now that it's finally out (though it lacks games) what do you guys think of it hardware wise?
It is underpowered as predicted. The connectivity on one of the joy-cons is quite an oversight... and it quite cool to see that you can connect it to the computer through bluetooth, though you can't use both joy-cons as single controler (yet).
I've read people saying that it's not as comfortable to hold on hand for long... which killed a part of the expectation I had on it... :c
It is underpowered as predicted. The connectivity on one of the joy-cons is quite an oversight... and it quite cool to see that you can connect it to the computer through bluetooth, though you can't use both joy-cons as single controler (yet).
I've read people saying that it's not as comfortable to hold on hand for long... which killed a part of the expectation I had on it... :c
The thing is you need to put the Switch into perspective. It's a tablet that can connect to a TV and is powered by SoC for tablets. It's like a gaming laptop in that a desktop computer system of the same cost will be more powerful. You cannot play on a desktop computer system on the go and untethered, feasibly.
Yes, of course. I don't think anyone had unreasonable expectations for the power of its hardware.
I saw some pictures of people who scratched the screen when placing the console on the dock... makes me wonder if some people are more careless than small kids, actually. :v
Well an hour ago I didn't think it was so bad, but then I read this and now I'm not sure what to think. I'll probably wait for the Switch v2 - I'm sure that will have a nice Denver + Pascal based chip in it
The worst part is, this chip was announced in August, but they wait till 1 week after the Switch is released to announce the dev board. So not sure what is going on here.
But double the bandwidth of the Tegra X1, probably a 50% increase in GPU clock (judging by most Pascal vs Maxwell cihps) and also Denver cores, which hopefully are improved and pretty beefy. Seeing as how this is a 15W chip and Pascal is as efficient as Maxwell, I'm guessing we could see this chip in a Surface or some type of Windows device before it goes in the Switch.
The worst part is, this chip was announced in August, but they wait till 1 week after the Switch is released to announce the dev board. So not sure what is going on here.
But double the bandwidth of the Tegra X1, probably a 50% increase in GPU clock (judging by most Pascal vs Maxwell cihps) and also Denver cores, which hopefully are improved and pretty beefy. Seeing as how this is a 15W chip and Pascal is as efficient as Maxwell, I'm guessing we could see this chip in a Surface or some type of Windows device before it goes in the Switch.
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