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@Ulysses

Wireless Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac)(*)
Bluetooth 4.1

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/tech-specs/

...?

Oddly, they also removed the rubber feet from the dock. No logic in that...

@Nin10dood

Old people can use reading glasses and stuff too, right?

Black. I also use dark scripts on all websites that allows it.

Loved the N64 controller back in the good ol' days. Actually, I still think it's the only good controller from the 90's. But damn, I really hate that they went for SEGA and not N64+Gamecube.

Damn, hoped for a stealth drop tonight. Well, at least the wait won't be that long.

"Oliver Munck of IGN Nordic had similar concerns, saying simply, "one single question about the Switch needs to be answered: Who is this console for?"

It's for folk who wants to play videogames...?
Interestingly, the journalists who predicted it's failure all comes back to graphics and call of duty...
Graphics has never been a mayor role in making a console a success. PS2 ran circles around the first Xbox, DS around PSP...etc. It's all about making a unique product that makes sense and has good marketing.

• NSO news. Maybe a price increase with the rumored premium tier, including either Gameboy/Color or Nintendo 64. Personally, I would prefer Gamecube now that they have a working Gamecube-emulator software since Mario all stars.
• Disco Elysium port showed, and released directly after the direct.

@Ajnin

Actually, yes, they are very efficient. But the development in the mobile integrated gpu department has not come far since tegra x1 "huge" gpu-modul. Even when the A14 runs it's GPU at peak 1,8Ghz, it only performes slightly higher graphics rendering than the X1. Anyway, iphones as "gaming" devices is still pretty much held back from console grade games by their lack of bigger gpu on the chip and active cooling. They just can't handle the load over time.

@Carck

Well, Ive got a fairly new iphone myself, they simple can't handle advanced console games. Sure, a mobile game without any physics and such can run, but rendering the weather effects and such of Botw, your iphone would melt. That example, you can really tell it's first and foremost a game meant to run on phones. They've crippled back the advanced stuff.

@Carck

Not only would they heat up, a game like Breath of the wild would probably ruin the CPU as slick phones simply doesn't room even good passive cooling. Thats why iphones cant even browse the web without getting hot within the hour.

@Carck

I doubt it. An iphone 6s wouldn't be able to run any of the more advanced 3D games Switch runs for hours. The problem is thermal managing, even 1000 usd phones today gets hot to the point of throttling and cpu-slowdown only by watching hi-res movies for hours.

@Carck

Still, I doubt this new iphone would be able to run Crysis 2-3 like the Switch does, as the lack of active cooling would probably not allow such a game to be run for 3 hours

At 1099 dollar and 2021 tech, it would be a scandal if it didn't had better battery than a 299 dollar 2017 device...

Doesn't all games now work with the system built-in zoom-function(x2 taps on home-button)?

I use the mCable gaming since a couple of years. No, obviously it doesn't make the Switch a "Pro", it simple helps clean up the raw image that's not have any sort of AA, like 100% of all the games from Nintendo themself. The only difference is really that you get rid of the rough staircase edges and some of the shimmer gets treated too. So basically you just pay a pretty big amount of money to get very basic AA added. I actually find it particularly good for Witcher 3 on Switch, where you can turn off that strong TAA that makes the whole game a blur, and then still get some basic AA that doesn't make the game blurry.

@Strumpan

Yeah, I know some people is into that sorta thing. Myself, Im not that into the more casual approach of this particular game. At something like 29.99 or "free" on gamepass, Id like it. But it do feel a fair bit overpriced at 59.99, esp if you expect a big RPG as you would when it's from obsidian

@the_beaver

It's worth it when it's on sale. Bit of a disappointment IMO. It feels like something like a poor man's Obsidian rpg. A bit too lightweight somehow. At least now with both DLC out on Switch, the game at least got some length now. The base game is only about 8-10h.

@tangeraniumm

Nah, I don't think its a hard sell at 50USD more. A bigger, better screen is a pretty highly requested feature in a handheld system. At 50USD you could anyway not expect higher performance. And you do get twice the storage as well.

@Bratwurst35

Switch Oled seems like a better buy than the Steam Deck. There are cheaper laptops out there than Steam Deck.

The Gamecube. No doubt about it.

@120frames-please

I could easy go for a 7-8 year generation with just a mild performance update, without 4K-resolutions or 120hz. Just to get stable 30/60 fps and more consistent resolutions, at least around 900-1080p minimum. And that Switch could reach 60fps in those cross-plattform competitive online- games. That would be just fine with me. I play PC at 1440p120 now and again, but I don't think 1080p60 feels out of date. It still looks sharp and plays just fine.

Bare minimum would be we at least could get rid of those sub-720p dynamic res and sub-30fps hick ups.

@60frames-please

I think price range is a pretty hard restriction on the specs. High-end gaming phones w 120Hz displays costs like twice the Switch price, and Still those glorious 120hz displays are Still mostly used only for browsing the phone UI...

Valve couldn't afford it att 399 neither. I dont see Nintendo going for something like 499 on next gen Switch.

Fallout with a more mature/serious tone set in Australia...I like the idea. And The design looks great too

Nintendo owns Japan.

Sticking to the Switch Oled this fall. Ive got third-party joy-cons with full-size sticks, and I can see why Nintendo went for the low-profile sticks on the original joy-cons. It doesn't feel good to have the thumbs so far off the system.

Woke and political corectness is killing the entertainment business. Indians are nice and funny, so is Vodka russians. John Wayne, we need you now more than ever...

Im sticking to the Switch OLED, Ive already got a laptop

@dxrx

Probably not that big of an issue. Played like 500hrs of civilization 6 on my Oled TV some years ago, static UI all the way. Only problem I got were that the TV dimmed the display after mb 2hrs playtime.

I think it's pretty much a non-issue today.
Got my Oled-TV for 4 years and thousands of hours in use, zero burn-ins. Phone with samsung oled, 3 years and zero burn-ins. Some will ofc. get burn-ins and tech don't last forever. But I think its a decent trade, great contrasts and blacks and mb minimal to some burn-ins after 5-6 years of usage. Im totally OK with that.

Burn-ins on today's OLED:s is like a minimal problem compared to the problems we had with dead pixels on the LCD:s on PSP and NDS. Only a few will have big burn-ins.

@roadrunner343

Yea, the graphics is not pretty. But I do think 3D is the right direction anyway, it gives the battlefields some depth. And while the graphics isn't impressive by any means, it at least looks very clear in opposite to Tiny Metal with its overly-clottered graphics, were one can barerly distinguish between unit types. I think they did the right thing there with this remake. Would be neat if it got some modern post-process effects to stuff like rain, fog of war, explosions etc...

I don't like only 2 players online. Wargroove takes the online part in such a good way, with open-ended matches and up to 2vs2. I can just hope that it will at the very least be better than the "online support" in Days of ruin. That was a disgrace.

Furthermore, no mention of map editor.

I love the online system in Wargroove. So much settings, you can suspend a match and continue later on, you can get a disconnection, no problem. Only thing I miss in that game is no connection to the Switch last play with add-function and no way to communicate even by emois.

@anoyonmus

Saber's own game brands are great on Switch too, like snow runner.

@Austrian

The Ninja-guy compared a 2006-era generation CPU with a Switch...GPU. Clearly, he knows what hes on about lol

If the port is as nice as Saber's Witcher 3 Switch-port, Im buying it. But I do have a hard time believing it will be as good as Witcher 3 on Switch, as Kingdom Come still runs pretty bad on PS4/Xbox.

Doesn't make much of a difference, I think its more or less given by now that Switch will reach around 100M at the end of this year, which is a pretty huge user base.

They forgot to put in the folders, browser and BT-audio that was meant for this update. They're fixing it now...

Wellm I refuse to get hyped, but the line-up for the rest of 2021 just got to be better than 2020...

Nintendo Switch U

The perfect name

Im releasing cyberpunk 2077 on Gamebuilder Garage this july.

ID be happy if they at least could add a search category for horror genre.

@Mr-Fuggles777

lol, the same console that goes from an old power PC/Amd architecture to arm and nvidia. Id say you cant take a much further step than that. But sure, I guess one could reason that PS5 is only a PS3 Pro too, it did release with a PS3 game at higher resolution after all...

@Dragwhite

Its not strange, Its a better game than anything released on PS5/Xbox Sersies...

Makes no difference to me.

Oh no! Not even the sun lasts forever!

lol, its not "blindly defending" corporations to come down on piracy/theft. The argument that Nintendo's pace in developing games or hardware fault with joy-con drift, somehow makes it OK to pirate their content, makes literally no sense at all. It would be a weak defence in court to argue that you did the right thing to steal in a store bcause you don't like their candy.

"Crime is OK cause I dont like the company anyways."

Grow up, teenage socialists

@CarlosM87

Well, you just told me I have the right to my opinions, but now you can't tolerate that my opinions cause you think it offends you? Make up your mind. I don't think Im more clever then the rest, I just pointed out that your reasoning is immature. That you find that offensive pretty much proves my point.

I don't love Nintendo, I care for their products as I enjoy them and grew up with them, I care what happens to my favorite brands in the foodmart too...And I do think it's a difference between doing honest and dishonest business. You don't have to play tough don't caring about anything, just further proves my point about your way of reasoning. You just need to grow up a bit

@CarlosM87 Me, and many others, obviously cares what happens to Nintendo as we enjoy their products. You having the right to your opinion, I never claimed that you didn't, doesn't give your particular opinion any sense anyway. I don't see any logic in why it wouldn't be OK for a company to defend their legal rights against individuals. Yes, I have noticed you have some kind of kindergarten reasoning that a company shouldn't use its legal department (or something like that) against individuals. You think it should be a limit only one lawyer gets to work a case against one individual? lol, so ridiculous

Switch is a fairly sturdy piece of hardware at a low price point. I don't think Nintendo builds their consoles with built-in lifespan as certain phone manufacturers do. It survives a drop better than many phones and the components aren't made to lose performance over time.

lol, so you claim you are a gamer, but you don't care about games. Fair point.

@CarlosM87

Is it a competition in having the most teen-socialist opinions? The civilized society works thanks to most people respects and upholds legal rights and the law in general. The good guys is the guys trying to uphold an honest business, no matter what you think their "piece of plastic" is worth, and us customers who will have to pay in the end cause some people take on themself the illegal "right" not to pay for products they choose to use anyways.

@BloodNinja

No, its nothing wrong with a company protecting its legal rights against an individual exploiting their security and therefore hurting the company to make his own profit. The only unethical in all this is to make profit by facilitating piracy or cheating.

@Mr-Fuggles777

I don't have a problem with people making money in fair and honest way. It's a difference between selling an unlicensed controller, that business model is not about making money of people illegally downloading games. In the same time, it is wrong selling accessories made for cheating in online competitive games. In the same logic, it's not wrong making money on collecting, but I do think ocher is wrong.