Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH I use my PS4 for Netflix, so personally I couldn't care either way, but it's strange indeed. Leaving it out and saying you probably have a dozen of other devices that do Netflix is true, but it's also perplexing that it doesn't have Netflix or even a browser either. I'm not sure what I think of this, although I do think that the option of having Netflix or a browser is always better than not having them.

So...the Wii U can do more than the Switch can at launch.....including playing BotW. Craziness. I will get a Switch one day but i see no point in getting it on March 3rd.

Honestly: Who here does not have another console, smart TV, or Fire Stick/Chromecast stick/etc. to get Netflix and all the media stuff on?

Honestly. Don't be lying little buggers lol

I know there will be a couple of you, but not many. Even me - I have a PS4 that has basically become my media machine if I want to check out Prime (I don't even have Netflix actually) or whatever.

Nintendo knows this, so what's the dang point of wasting time and money getting redundant stuff like that ready for launch? That stuff will roll out over time, and beyond griping on a forum like this, next to nobody will care or probably even notice.

REAL TALK!!!

@Octane
Oh for sure, agreed.

@bezerker99
Well I don't think it's about doing more, I think it's about a new generation of games and playing those games anywhere. If it was a competition to do the most, it'd just become a smartphone console loaded with every app and service under the sun, know what I mean?

Of course, there's really not much it offers at launch if you're a Wii U owner. However, Zelda on a handheld that looks as good as it does on HD console is infinitely more appealing than Xenoblade on an SD handheld, and even that was appealing to a lot of 3DS owners to buy in. So it's mostly that (Zelda on handheld), the ushering in of new games Wii U will never see (like Bomberman R and Snipperclips and I Am Setsuna and Has Been Heroes, etc, a list which will grow by the month) and just investing for all the above along with the next 5+ years to come. Kind of a, "well if I'm gonna get it anyways, why wait, why not get it now and enjoy it right away, play Zelda at work, enjoy these other games and all that..." as opposed to waiting 2-3 years, still end up buying it anyways and lose 2-3 years you could have had with the system for your money (well, maybe save $50 waiting but, seems a pretty negligible gain in exchange for several years of doing without)

That's why I never wait on a console I know I'm gonna buy anyways... not unless I think the price is gonna drop by a substantial amount really fast, like, waiting 6 months will see a drop from $600 to $400 or something like that.

@rallydefault Yeah my PS4 is a media machine away from my PC. Or the Fire Stick downstairs...

Also 4x ARM Cortex A57 cores. Everyone Nintendoom wave approaching brace for impact because this is somehow news we werent prepared for.

alarms blaring

The internet has yet to take the damn hint this thing is an inch thick and not more than 8 inches wide and that its gotta have costs dropped somewhere to accomodate form factor and that its not meant to have its battery eaten in minutes and that its Nintendo and its easy to port to and that brute force power to run games is horribly inefficient development that really dhould stop in the industry but nope.

DoA. Lets here it,yall know who you are, its as sure as 2pm daily.

Cant gone week without Nintendoom but hey thats what happens when ya like something I guess.

In all seriousness if it does what it needs to do then great. Could you fit a PS4 in that form factor? Yes, most definitely. Would it be cheap? If you are loaded yes. Welcome to the reality of tech, you cant have everything.

^Is it actually easy to port for tho? There was quotes about pc ports taking a year to do, and even then we are not talking about PS4-Xbone AAA titles coming over.

@BLP_Software But I want everything to be of the highest tech even though I don't know anything about tech or how it works but give me the highest standard pls and cheap while you're at it! Fun!? I don't need fun, I need numbers! I visit these forums to learn about pascal and dockall and bout tegra x1 and segra d1. Practicality!? I don't need that! I want an ugly box that screams and shouts power out of its bulky belly. I want it to be strong just like my mom and fat just like my... dad.

My true feelings.

@jump That quote came from Miyamoto, who is absolutely the wrong person to be asking that type of question. Plus things get lost in translation.

@jump What I've seen and been told yeah it is, if youre not a prat about developing. As I said, developers really shouldn't brute force games to work, leaving it uncompressed or unoptimised and expecting a platforms raw power to fill the gaps (Which is sadly what as a student I have been taught, and it p***** me off). But of course all the stories and talks I've had about Switch could be untrue, I dunno. Got to wait and see.

@Spanjard that got deep real fast.

But hey, it /could/ have a PS4 inside it. If you didn't mind it at least doubling in size, having a big ass heatsink, fans, and if the story about it running at the equivalent of human internal body temperature at its hottest point is true, searing your hands off while being so costly it makes Apple look cheap and having a battery that makes 5% on your iPhone when sending an email look lengthy.

But that's just reality. It cant be the definition of beefy, cheap, and good quality all at once. If I had to pick one to lose? It would be the one that doesn't smack the consumer in the face with cost or a poor product.

The scary thing, though, is that you're accurately portraying the modern consumer as well as your typical forum-goer.

I'm one of those rare beasts that actually uses the browser regularly on my Wii U, only for YouTube though as the app isn't the best.I have a laptop and a very good smart phone but I like having YouTube on my TV. Why dont I use a dongle instead you may ask? Because I'm an even rarer beast that doesn't own one or want one.Other than football, some other sports and the news I never watch any TV. So if I can't do the same on Switch I'll be disappointed. Certainly no deal breaker but it'll annoy me for sure. If the YouTube app is there again though I can live with that .It'll surely be an improvement over Wii U's too if it is.

Another thing that just came to me. I really liked watching Directs and E3 through my Wii U and I imagine I would enjoy watching watching them through Switch too. That'll be a shame if we can't do that anymore.

Yes, but the Switch is also a portable device. I think everyone has a way to watch Netflix on their TV but not everyone has a tablet. I can see myself being in the position where the Switch is the largest screen I have at hand. So having the option to use the Switch rather than my phone? That would be handy.

This. I'm off to America at the end of March; the Switch having netflix/youtube etc. would be the difference between me taking my Switch and laptop, or just the Switch.

Both X1 and X2 has Cortex A57. X2 also has 2 denver-cores, which are Nvidia created. So nothing confirmed.

But I don't see why they would have denver-cores in switch. From what I understand, they draw much more power than the A57 from arm.

And yet again, the GPU is the most important when it comes to consoles. And we still don't know that part.

No browser, no Netflix, no apps. In a gaming device. When almost everyone has AT LEAST ONE between smartphone, tablet, smart TV, laptop, PC.

No broswer? No Netflix? No apps? Not a problem to me. What i want on Switch are GAMES!

Has anyone seen any Switch ads in the UK yet? I mean, in the wild, on billboards or on TV, not just gaming sites or youtube.

@chardir not yet but in fairness I don't watch much tv (I'm a streaming kodi type of guy) however my local game is heavily advertising it. I know this is perhaps to be expected but remembering when the Wii U launched they barely gave it half a shelf in a darkened corner.

No browsers and apps and all that - I like that to be honest.