Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Octane Is there a rumor that mention the controllers could connect to the side of the screen in portrait mode? I remember people speculating that but i don't remember a rumor.

@MarcelRguez Yeah, I thought about that whilst I was typing it, maybe you can stick the controllers to the other two sides as well? Ugh.. I hope the concept itself looks better than the rumours..

What I'm finding difficult to square: the Eurogamer article was fairly detailed, but was weeks ago now. If someone was prepared to share that much information then, why hasn't there been more stuff leaked since?

@MarcelRguez Not that I imagine it looking much better in its current shape.. Oh well.. We'll see once they actually reveal the thing.

@gcunit Emily Rogers got kidnapped by the Nintendo ninjas obviously.

@MarcelRguez With such a big publisher, especially a publisher that is involved with so many different types of games. (Just Dance, Assassins Creed, Trials, Far Cry) It is very vague. What did they learn from wii U? What games are they wanting to make for the NX? It doesn't really tell us and it just feels like the beginning of the Wii U again where Ubisoft was on board until sales weren't great... ZombiU was awesome

When he uses 'we' in that quote, I think he means a generic 'we', not Ubisoft. It's just more rhetoric in my eyes.

Go see RCMadiax twitter.

Just zoomed in...

@WebHead I can't. He blocked me. What does it say?

@MarcelRguez tbh shouldn't be surprised. :? Nintendo would KILL them.

@MarcelRguez after searching what a Wii Mini looks like, gotta agree, that power button

As far as indies go, only the bigger Nindies like Yacht Club and Wayforward are going to have dev kits as of right now.

The one indie dev that isn't currently a Nindie that should really have a dev kit is Psyonix, the devs behind Rocket League. Being able to play Rocket League on the go would be a great marketing point.

@MarcelRguez hahaha he must know this. What a douche.

I doubt any Indies have dev kits. I would hope Psyonix has them, but my buddy that works there NEVER TALKS ABOUT WORK... its like he takes NDAs seriously lol

More than fair

Having played a DS emulator on my PC (only games I own, I swear), it looks like sin. An ugly bar of colour separating the top and bottom screen, or have them right on top of each other, which makes any animation that covers both screens look disjointed.

Control sticks are much more comfortable.

Control Sticks are better, but not very portable. If this system is supposed to be portable, then it should have circle pads... I guess they could sell control stick controller attachments separately.

I don't really like circle pads, hope for control sticks, but prepare for the worst. This is precisely where the NX might fail, being the jack of all trades (handheld and home), but the master of none.

That's not how it works. If for example well before the Wii U launch someone had come out with a huge leak. One that said it's a home console that's about as powerful as the 360 with a screen in the controller. What else would there be to leak? Every leak after that would just be repeating the same thing. Maybe with the occasional one talking about the amount of internal storage or something else mundane. Because what else is there to say?

That's essentially what's happened with the Eurogamer leak. We got a leak that told us the NX is a portable system that docks to your TV. That it's powered by NVidia Tegra and uses cartridges. That it has detachable controllers. If that's accurate what else is there to leak?

Take the speakers and surrounding plastic off the top section. There you go. I don't see what the issue is with that layout. We've essentially had a vertical screen the with buttons on the sides on Nintendo's portables for a decade now. And frankly that sort of flexibility is the best argument I can think of for detachable controllers.

@AlternateButtons Nintendo has a very different audience today then it did ten years ago, outside of the Nintendo fans that is. As a company they are moving further and further towards the kids in the way they advertise and market their products. And I think this has something to do with the reason they consider themselves different to Microsoft and Sony, despite the fact a lot more children play COD and not Nintendo.