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@DanTheSausage Snapdragon is made by Qualcomm, though. NVidia expects its partnership with Nintendo to last 20+ years.

https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-amaze-players-nvidia-ceo-relationship-decades/

@rjejr I also agree that AR will become more part of our lives, just not so much for gaming. There's a couple of great applications for AR and gaming: card and table top games are a perfect example. But beyond that, it starts to veer in to gimmick territory.

As for Facebook, I'm not too sure what they're doing with AR, but they don't really push their FB services on to Oculus users as people assume. And unlike Nintendo and Sony, they're actually a lot more open-source friendly. They natively allow users to sideload applications outside of the Oculus store on Quest headsets. And now the Quest can even be used as a regular PC VR headset, to play SteamVR games and other PCVR games outside of Oculus. It has essentially become a "Switch VR", allowing users to either play it portable or "dock" it to their PC for a supercharged experience..

PJ O'Reilly was the guy who falsely called the Sword Art Online game misogynistic as well. He knows saying this type of stuff in reviews is going to vex the readership of this site, and is probably doing it intentionally to get clicks.

I feel like I just watched some weird cultist video.

How many times have we stated this: Nintendo didn't invent the concept of the Switch in the first place. Don't make me copy / paste my post about the Aikun Morphus x300 again.

@rjejr I think where we're headed is a convergence of VR and AR, all confined in to a small sunglasses sized device. We aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed in the next 10 years.

The Oculus Quest is, imo, the first real attempt at it, albeit it's not really an AR device for use outdoors, it's primarily an indoors VR device. But it is completely wireless, and contrary to what you said about price, the Oculus Quest is only $399, and is all inclusive, meaning you don't need an extra console or computer, or extra sensors.

@rjejr "for now AR is really the more interesting path going forward."

Based on what we've seen of Magic Leap, Hololens and other forms of AR vs what's going on with VR, I disagree.

And I don't think the general consensus thinks AR seems all that interesting, either. If anything, AR seems like more of a dystopian nightmare to the average person than VR (which is getting more public acceptance via VRcades, Netflix VR, Oculus Quest, Ready Player One, Anime, etc).

Whereas, a few years ago, there was a fear of privacy over Google Glass AR glasses, where the device was banned from being used in certain public places. There's also the fear that marketers will abuse AR for adverts directing you to the nearest Starbucks, or whatever.

@rjejr Lol, what's funny is you can literally do what he's doing in that gif right now with the Oculus Rift on PC (and with other VR/AR headsets), where you can pin multiple virtual windows in mid air. I use that feature a lot when playing a VR game and pinning a YouTube video off to the side.

@Anri02 You can do it with any VR headset, but Oculus Quest is wireless and pretty much the best headset for virtual theater.

You can already play the Switch through an Oculus Quest (granted, it's VR not AR):

Nintendo doesn't want another R4 situation on their hands, I guess. I mean, literally most people who modded their Wii, Wii U or used Flash Carts on DS did it to pirate games, not for emulation or other niche homebrew stuff.

If you want a homebrew portable, stick to Android device + telescopic controller or get something like a GPD Win or Smach Z.

Lol, the drawings make it look like a patent for Virtual Boy 2. They need to just make it like a Gear VR, with a headstrap.

I hope that doesn't mean they're abandoning hardcore games for Switch in favour of kids/party games.

It's a shame the Lite is still too large to fit in a pocket, otherwise this would have been essential.

With the advent of VR, I don't think I could go back to playing old school Snooker games.

@NEStalgia I'd rather have those so called "lectures"than misinformation. 😉

The textures are very clearly low res, but it still looks great, especially in portable mode.

So basically EDGE aren't real investigative journalists, since they would have researched and figured that out back then.

The Aikun Morphus X300 did the "Joy Con" idea before the Switch, though:

The real news is that, like most people, Mario is boycotting Gillette.

I didn't want it to be real... I still want a clamshell mini Switch...

I think it looks nice, but it's a shame to see a Platinum game not run at 60fps. Imo, 60hz responsive gameplay should have been prioritised over pretty graphics.

They did this because of the amount of Joy-Con drift comments. So if you've ever made a Joy-Con drift comment on NintendoLife, YouTube or elsewhere, you're partly the cause of this.

It's funny, because I'm reading some of the comments here, and I'm like, 'hold on, weren't you making one of those Joy-Con drift comments the other day?' But now you're making a snide comment about greedy lawyers or whatever...

He needs to get the memo that fans of Japanese games are moving on to Nintendo and PC platforms, especially now with PlayStation's very anti-Japanese censorship policies.

"While the Wii game itself isn't particularly noteworthy"

What? Crystal Bearers was great! Great use of the Wiimote and just a fun, lighthearted action adventure game in general.

@60frames-please I would assume since it's Platinum and a character action game, it's 60fps, but based on footage from E3, it looked to be 30fps.

@CharlieGirl "I can't wait to see people who are not okay with this, but love junk like Senran Kagura"

The people who aren't okay with this are mostly people like you, the type who complain about games like Senran Kagura.

It's still large and not pocketable, though. They should have gone with a clamshell design if they really wanted to attract the portable crowd and kid audience.

@westman98 Yeah, but the Switch has only been out for 2 years. It would have been cool to see more developers make first person games designed for TV mode, where each Joy Con is used as your characters hand and stuff like that.

For example, a game where the left hand is for holding a torch and movement and right hand for holding a gun, or both Joy Cons for dual wielding, etc.

With the Switch Lite, the incentive to do cool stuff like that is lessened...

@westman98 They can, but I'm talking about developers dropping the incentive to do those features, when they know a new segment of the audience won't have them by default.

@westman98 But this product renders stuff like HD rumble and the IR camera to unused gimmick status, as now a new segment of the userbase won't have those features. It's also less incentivising for developers to do separate Joy Con stuff if a lot of the userbase won't have them.

The lack of docking it to a TV and how powerful it is in portable mode may also affect other things, like developers no longer optimising as much for docked games. If the handheld performance is the same as a docked Switch, then it's okay.

They could have easily added a way to dock it through a cable, but I bet they've removed the docking functionality completely. Typical illogical Nintendo with their 2 steps forward, 1 step back thought process.

Nintendo: "We have cancelled F-Zero Switch and will be supporting Race with Ryan on Switch, instead. Please enjoy exclusive Captain Falcon racer coming to Race with Ryan on Nintendo Switch."

Perhaps they're gonna copy the Valve Index controllers, but put a few more buttons on it, and use a sensor above the TV to track them.

I think Nintendo definitely wants to get in to VR, but it's a matter of cost; Nintendo mainly cares about selling consoles at an affordable price and making profit on them at the same time.

@xpownz Nothing bait about it. Wasn't even making a comment on the game. It's just every time I hear "Daddy" used in that context, it creeps me out... Maybe I'm just old.

Am I the only one who thinks the term, "Daddy", when used in a sexual context, is incredibly creepy? Especially considering it's a term most people use to refer to their father as a child.

Was the intention behind Dualies to create the worst 3rd party Nintendo controller of all time?

Arrogant Sony are back.

I already got this for free on the Epic store. Also, 2200 yes in GBP is around £16, and this will likely be a big graphical downgrade compared to the PC / console twin versions.

We all know this Pokemon, which looks like Car keys is the best:

https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/0/04/707Klefki.png

… Yeah, one of the many reasons I stopped caring about Pokemon.

@NinChocolate Personally, I don't want a Switch Pro, I just want a "Dock Pro", which contains a powerful supplemental computing device.

Curious to see how well this runs on Switch, considering the frame rate is really bad on PS4.

I hope they don't make a Pro model, and instead release a new dock that contains a supplemental computing device.

The "Dock Pro" would allow games to run at higher resolution, frame rate and added graphical affects when the Switch is docked, and either the current Switch or mini could dock in to it.

There would be no exclusives made for the dock, and when you take your Switch out of it, the game returns to its regular downgraded Switch portable graphics.

PSO 2 was translated in to English way back in 2012 itself, and has had an active English community on Ship 2 for all these years. If you want to play the game in English, head over to Arks-layer.com, which has all the files and guides you need to get started playing the game in English on PC. It's not all that graphically demanding, either and runs very well, even on my old 2014 laptop at 60fps.

It might actually be pretty awesome when you install a PC OS on to it, through "sandbox mode". Then you'd have a relatively cheap Ryzen powered gaming PC for PC games, emulation and the like.

Yay, another shovelware mobile phone port. Well, at least it's free and actually seems of good quality.

"Using a PC with specifications closely mirroring the performance of your favourite Nintendo console..."

Well of course Witcher 3 isn't going to run on a SNES!

"the PS4 Pro is still considered to offer the definitive Team Sonic Racing" ... In the video, they literally state, "PC aside", before they said that.

@Morrow "The only guess I can get is if it was going be a switch exclusive, but they couldn't keep it as such for the lack of sales. However, if that was the case, they could have said that too"

So basically, you want them to be honest and publicly state why the game is coming to other platforms, after they said it would be a Switch exclusive?

Be patient then. Maybe they will explain all in time; I don't think they've even been interviewed about this yet, and if they have, then blame the journalist for not doing their job.