Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Farmboy74 USB ports will probably be for Smash. A Smash game is dead to the community if you can't use the GC controller hence why Wii U had the GC adapter.

You know, honestly I wouldn't mind that, and I bet a bunch of people on these forums wouldn't, but in this world people would freak out.

@SURubyFan It had directional buttons on the Joy-Cons for parity in local multiplayer, that wil be weird but usable (Think C-Buttons), and the Pro Controller has what many call a d-pad

@Grumblevolcano, good call about Smash Brothers do you think you could reuse the GC adapter they brought out for the Wii U?

@Monkey_Balls The point of the dock (and this is just speculation at this point, as Nintendo refuses to talk about the specifics) is probably there to supply more power and cooling to enhance the visuals on your TV screen. So instead of the 720p image that is rendered on the main units, the dock will aid the main unit in rendering a 1080p image on your TV screen, without containing much hardware itself, apart from a power brick and some cooling fans.

Nintendo is definitely encouraging everyone to buy physical media again, cause I don't see how you can go digital-only on this system easily.

As for what the USB ports do; Grumblevolcano mentioned a possible use; GameCube controller support, or at least the support for wired controllers for the competitive scene.

I'm also pretty sure that you can charge the main unit without the dock. Especially if the idea behind this system is taking it on the go, it's kinda a must that you can charge it on the go as well. In terms of functionality we really need to look at this system as a handheld. In terms of games or when you're not on the go? That's where this system tries to be a home console. The foundation is a handheld though.

The Color TV Game didn't have a D-Pad

I have Xenoblade, Wind Waker, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Kirby's Return to Dreamland, Super Mario 3D World, a ton of VC games, and a few others, and I don't have enough space on my 32gb Wii U. I desperately hope there is at least the option for more than 32; heck, 32gb is the base model for iPhones now!

I think what is most likely is a low amount of flash storage in the tablet, and a bit more in the dock.

@Monkey_Balls: I don't see any way hooking External Hard Drives to the dock will work. It would make the whole "take it and go" thing extremely inconvenient, maybe even impossible.

I don't think the dock has to have a large number of uses anyway. Even if it only turned off the screen, sent the signal to the screen, and charged the system's battery, it's still useful and convenient, and its arguably safer than leaving it on a shelf or the floor unprotected with cords dangling from it. I imagine the dock will be slightly heavy to make sure the system is well rooted to the shelf.

It'll probably have USB ports, but mostly for things like wired ethernet connections and rechargable/wired controllers.

EDIT: Just a thought: it can't be the Joy-con Controllers either, or else you wouldn't be able to remove them for two player on the go, either. Do external hard drives work remotely?

It's possible, they do exist. I've not heard anyone use them for gaming though. So the question is whether the signal is actually strong enough to send the data over to your system without any delay. It works for regular text files, pictures, films and stuff like that (data storage essentially), but I doubt it works well enough for gaming.

i mean we have been getting 500gb sd cards since like 2013, this year 1tb debuted, 2tb coming next year.

so honestly, i CAN see the switch wanting only SD cards.

And they are not THAT expensive, sure more than a HDD...

Mt idea for dock
ports(HDMIx1,USB 3.0x2,USB 2.0 x1,Ethernet portx1)

If the rumored line of Wii U ports to Switch is true, Nintendo Land and Game & Wario are the only two major first party games that couldn't be retooled for Switch, because they take more advantage of the Wii U's Game Pad as a controller instead of just an alternative screen more than any other Wii U game.

@CrazyOtto It would be nice if they reworked Star Fox Zero with no frills controls.

I think two Wii U games that are prime for a Switch port are Pokken Tournament and Tokyo Mirage Sessions.

The people wondering how the dock could possibly provide more power if there's nothing in it. NVidia has this thing called GPU Boost. What happens is that if the GPU is running cool and has more power available to it? It'll dynamically overclock. In portable mode you obviously want to save battery life right? You probably also don't want the fan going nuts either. So that's how it'd work.

Two things they could do. For a start they make it so that digital games are always saved to the unit itself. Which would mean that undocking the unit mid-game would be kinda like ejecting the disk mid game. The other thing they could do is make storage management easy. Make it obvious in the UI which games are on external storage and which games are on an SD Card or internal storage. Then give people the option to either run the game from the HDD or do a Wii-style fridge cleaning.

Yea. My hunch is that this is exactly what is gonna happen. the tablet portion of the system (so the system itself) is going to come with a 500GB or 1TB SD card, meaning two price points at release.

I think this because it's the most simple solution to all of these storage discussions, really. It pretty much eliminates the question mark of external HDDs and how those would preclude taking the tablet with you, and it even avoids the possibility of the dock somehow uploading massive amounts of data to the tablet on the fly as you yank the thing out of it.

Could really affect the price, though. I can even see them going for something like 250GB as the base model, and 500GB as the "premium" price point.

Switch Trailer Reaction

Etika VS OBE1

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@rallydefault
SD-Cards costs:
16GB - $7US
32GB - $10US
64GB - $20US
128GB - $40US
200GB - $80US

I can see them fairly easily sliding in at under $299US if they use 32GB. But 200GB or 500GB? They'd have to bump up the price. A 500GB version would push the price closer to $399 if not over. 1TB of flash is insanity. With that much flash most of the cost of the system would be storage.

@skywake Thats not entirely accurate because you have to assume that nintendo would buy like 5m of each version so they could get them quite cheaper