Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I'm surprised there are still people who think this will be in the ballpark of the Wii U in terms of power.

Epic Games has confirmed NX supports Unreal Engine 4, a feat that they laughed about when it was asked about Wii U.

The trailer pretty much established that. The only time the TV was on was when it was docked.

@Nicolai
I'll do one better. Here's a scaled print of the Switch with Nintendos for scale

edit: The print may be just marginally too big but you get the idea.

@skywake: Hmm... you think it will fit in our pockets? After all, the 3DS XL does pretty okay. The Switch looks just barely too big, but maybe if I tried hard enough... with the joy-cons removed...

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@Nicolai
I think it depends on what sort of case you have for it. My 3DSXL has a super bulky case and I still (somehow) manage to fit it in my pocket. Most of the time. Not jeans but in a jacket it'll fit in ok. So if I can get a tablet style case for this? I reckon I could carry it around but only without the JoyCons.

@skywake: I just managed to fit a screen protector box in my pocket, and it is slightly wider, slightly longer, and just as thick as my paper towel cut out (EDIT: Ahem... just as thick as the Switch, not the paper towel ). So yes, I have confirmed it, it will fit in your pocket, so long as you remove the joy-cons.

How boring

A timeline of events:
November 2012: Wii U launch
July 2013: NVidia Shield Portable launch
June 2014: Nintendo's last big push for the Wii U at an E3
July 2014: NVidia Shield Tablet launch (more or less what the Switch is)
March 2015: Nintendo announce NX, say nothing much else
May 2015: NVidia Android TV launch
June 2016: A one game E3 for Nintendo
August 2016: NVidia anounced that they'd cancelled plans for a new Shield Tablet
October 2016: Switch reveal trailer

Lol wut, Powers!?

@Haru17
Yeah, I don't know either. Also since I posted that it has had another 800k views so. I reckon it'll at least get to the #2 spot amongst the official console gaming channels. Not that it means much outside of the obviously decent amount of exposure it's getting.

How big are the chances that Nintendo ditched the touch screen? There's no camera either, it looks to be very minimal, probably to save costs.

@Octane Laura Dale is very certain that it is a touch screen, though not one that will be shoved down our throats so to speak. She said it'll be used with the port of Super Mario Maker though these statements of how it'll be a single screen experience at all times muddy the waters a bit.

@Octane
Well according to this: http://letsplayvideogames.com/2016/10/a-deep-dive-on-lpvgs-ni...

The Switch has a touch screen and also has motion and rumble in those JoyCon thingos. But that they didn't show these things in the trailer because:

The trailer as it was showed basically the same scene over and over again. It was the Switch at home being played docked and then the person taking it somewhere else and playing the same game. Or the other way around. Or not getting home at all. If they showed motion controls? Do that wrong and people might think of it as another Wii. Show touch controls? Well, is this thing a GamePad now? They didn't need to show it.

I definitely agree with that reasoning. However, I just wondered, since all games are also playable in docked mode, it could do without a touch screen. Would the additional costs of a touch screen be justified by a couple of games and browsing through menus in handheld mode? I have no idea how much they would save if they don't include one. Maybe it's just a regular touch screen after all, as looks like the dev kits have just confirmed that.

@Octane
Well for a start I think games like Mario Maker and whatever mobile ports they put on this thing are worth it. But even outside of that I think there's value having a touch screen even if you can only use it in tablet mode. I'm assuming this thing will have a web browser and probably apps for youtube and netflix. And I'd also hope that MiiVerse drawings would still be a thing. So yeah, I think it'd be justified for that stuff.

i think the screen will be touch but wont be a big focus for the system.

That rumour of a 3DS successor in the future is just going to be a smaller, refined version of it that doesn't come with a dock. Possibly also no option to detach the controllers either. Would come out Nov 2018 at $100 lower.

@WebHead Bad in what way ? In terms of sales... Probably, it focus wsy too much in gaming performance (althou Denver CPU are no joke)

But in terms of graphical performance, the just released Snapdragon 821 JUST matches the Tegra X1, and rumours are X2 is about 2x powerful.

Developers have been saying that mobile chips will hit ps4/xb1 performance in 2017

Edit: Remember Tegra was never planned to be for mobile devices (at least not slim/small ones = zero heat dissipation) PX2 (Tegra X2 in a nutshell) ia being used for self driving cars and gaming, but there has been 0 devices with it, whoch leads to believe Nintendo wants all the TegraX2 supply to meet NS demand

@Faruko yes but most of those arent tegra. there's 2 devices that have the tegra x1 and i don't think they sold well.

https://mynintendonews.com/2016/10/22/you-wont-be-able-to-use... well no wii u gamepad style control.

I could see this happening down the track. I just don't think there'd be much point in not including the dock. Because from what we know there's no reason to believe that the dock is any more than just a tidy way to plug in USB/Power/HDMI all at once.