Nintendo Switch

[k345y]

I'm excited

[RiK]

[toxibunny]

Holy shit it's finally happening!

[toxibunny]

It's actually really real. http://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/Oct ... 48672.html

[Chontler]

WERE IS IT IM PRESSING REFRESH OMFG etc

oh look, nintendo.com is down. The internet is breaking...

[RiK]

[Chontler]

So a portable wii-u it is then. Looks pretty cool and it means I can play in the next room.
Apparently that's Skyrim playing on it which should bring a few more on board...and a new Mario! Sold

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Random thoughts (it's 1am here).

- Silly name, it'll be a hit.
- Marginal graphical improvement over previous gen, so it'll be a hit compared to the last gen (see GC to Wii). There'll be a struggle to run PS4/Xbone level games, but they'll make up for it in quantity of games due to the tablet like nature and lower dev costs.
- So many things to charge - the tablet, each of the small controls, the normal controller.
- Not too subtle emphasis on social and ease of pairing (or up to four or six or whatever number of devices). That's probably the biggest differentiator between this and any run of the mill tablet.
- The dock looks like the mutated spawn of the original DS and PS mini. Ugh. Based on that alone it'll do well, but it's not pretty. Expect an update early to mid 2018.
- Not a single hint of motion controls, either with the old style Wii controllers or the new ones. Have they abandoned that already after only two generations....?
- First Nintendo console without a standard d-pad.

[Chontler]

Nothing showing whether it's a touchscreen neither.
Graphically it should be better...well.maybe. Have to wait till nVidia give more away https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/2 ... do-switch/
but I guess the big thing is that it's way easier for dev to port. If it can at least keep up with the ps4 graphically then it's still in the race as even stuff written for the pro has to be compatible so this generation is far from over.
Plenty of big name dev on board too:

http://mms.businesswire.com/media/20161 ... rtners.jpg

including Take-Two! Lets see if Red-Dead makes an appearance later then.

[Barney]

What's that then? I don't see any info in the video and my ... squiggle language ... is rusty.

[Darkflame]

hmm..thread wise theres already a thread in the games subforum, should they be merge? switch to the other?
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Anyway, much of my skepticism has gone, looks pretty darn good to me. Bit big for a portable maybe, but I always preferred the split controller design.
Little disappointed there doesn't seem(?) to be a camera on the controller which removes any AR or video-chat potential.

[toxibunny]

Hairstyles and trousers in splatoon.

[MattyP]

Well it looks interesting....

Although personally I don't want to carry too many devices on the move so phone is good enough for me.

However given that Nintendo's core market seems to be handhelds these days its a good move to try and integrate the two (home and handheld).

As always its about the software really... and well the new Zelda will be on there.

Be interesting to see what third party support they get...

[Dio]

If it can at least keep up with the ps4 graphically

Unlikely, if it's similar to previous Tegras. They have about the same capability as a mid-range laptop chip, about a quarter to a third of console throughput. It wouldn't be that much more beefy than the Wii U.

[merman]

Good to see some big third-party support there - EA, Activision, Square.

Wasn't clear in the trailer - are those Switch versions of Splatoon, Mario Kart, etc or Wii U backwards compatibility?