Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Operative i think both.

It's quite impressive that Nintendo is able to keep it a secret for this long.

Unless it's all a fad, and we won't be playing the system before summer next year.

@skywake Haha, but on a more serious note; that's what I already do, but standard kitchen ovens don't reach the temperature needed for pizza; so I prefer to get mine made by a good Italian pizzeria; and not one of those chain "pizzerias" like Domino's.

@Octane

A good pomodoro tomato sauce, semolina flour base, buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil, all cooked in really hot oven on a pizza stone (available in good cooking shops or online) finished with Parma ham, fresh chillis and rocket, and a drizzle of decent olive oil. Teach Yourself that and by then we should have another roumor of a possible announcement

possibly

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/yogabook the bottom part is like a high tech large touchpad that can display graphics. I wonder if this could be applied to a controller with a touchpad such like dualshock 4.

@Octane @DjLewe78
You can always build your own pizza oven. I know of a few people who have done that. Failing that you can get a mini pizza oven style attachment for the BBQ. Thick stone, thermometer etc. Drop that on the hotplate and you're ready to go. Been meaning to get one myself now that summer is just around the corner again.

That said with any luck the NX will have a pizza oven attachment. Two birds, one stone.

@DjLewe78 What do you think I've been making for years by now? I guess it's time for another rumour then!

@WebHead Instead of the touchpad? I think so, but as a replacement of actual buttons? I don't like that idea. I've read the reviews and everyone complained about the fact that typing was a pain in the arse; when there's no physical feedback of where the buttons are placed, people were forced to constantly look down at the keyboard. It doesn't really work as a keyboard, as a controller it would be a disaster.

@erv That may depend on how true the Eurogamer leaks were, but for there not to be any actual photo leaks of the NX dev kits is something that's shocked me. I'd have thought there'd be at least one by now.

@Octane hmm. maybe force feedback? like the buttons and sticks could work like normal but each would have their own vibration motor. hold say the a button long enough and it activates a second function?

@skywake That's what I'm planning to do once I'm done with university and can move out of this crappy apartment I'm currently in. No backyard = no pizza oven.

@WebHead Not sure what you mean by that. Controllers can already do that. In a Mario game, the longer you hold the A-button, the higher he jumps. I'm not really sure what you mean by a second function.

@MarcelRguez Nah, not happening. It works on your phone because the touchpad is also the screen you're looking at. However, when you separate the two. Controller and TV screen for example, or the Lenovo touchpad and its screen. It suddenly doesn't work anymore. Buttons are much more useful for tactile feedback. Not only do they tell you when you've pressed a button, but since you can feel the contours of the buttons, you also know which buttons you're pressing.

I just thought of something. The E3 demo of Breath of the Wild lacked gamepad functionality didn't it? Wasn't the rumored reason because they didn't want the Wii U version to have any pros over the NX? If we follow that logic then it would imply that NX won't have anything like a gamepad. If it were a hybrid then it would have a screen on the controller, so it would be capable of gamepad support. There are a few explanations for this:
1) They haven't implemented gamepad support yet or they can't due to limitations of the Wii U. It is a pretty intensive game after all.
2) The NX is something completely different from the rumored hybrid console.
3) The NX will be more of a handheld and can only stream to TV, rather than utilizing two screens like the Wii U.
4) I have gone far too deep down the rabbit hole.

@EOTW It is number 4

@DefHalan Would you like a cup of tea?

@EOTW Maybe Aonuma didn't like the idea of including the GamePad? Tropical Freeze doesn't make use of the GamePad and it doesn't make the game less good than it is. Not everything needs a second screen and motion controls shoehorned into it. Some games just work better without all those bells and whistles.

@Ichi That's what always happens. The Wii U was promised big support. It sort of happened during launch, albeit a big disappointed, then they disappeared. Predicting third party support is really easy; The console has to be either easy to develop for or sell a lot of units. Preferably a combination of the two. We know that the NX won't be the first one, so if you want to see the big AAA games on NX, it needs to sell Wii numbers (well, definitely a lot more than the Wii U).

@Ichi A lot of the talk sounds like "we will support the system if the console sells well enough" type talk.

@Ichi If it's a handheld, that means it's not an x86 based console. Third party games would require porting. That's the exact same situation the Wii U was in. Not as powerful and a different architecture.

@Ichi That's what all the rumours have been pointing to.

Missing my point, I never said anything about how good or bad the gamepad would be for BotW. I was just speculating based on the fact that the pad wasn't used, and what that might mean for the NX port.

But if you wanna know my opinion BotW could really use those bells and whistles on the pad _{just saying.}