Behold Nintendo Switch (March 2017, Hybrid w/ Dock, Detachable Controllers, Nvidia)

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Ushojax said:
I'm so curious to see whether it has a touch screen. The way the system is designed, there is no way to display on TV and tablet simultaneously, an explicit curb-stomping of the Wii U concept. Any touchscreen use would be restricted to portable mode.
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Yeah, if it is a touchscreen I imagine it will explicitly be for downloadable mobile-specific games. None of the main Switch releases that are designed as console games will have touch functionality, because how could they?
 
Plinko said:
That looks terribly uncomfortable to play with.
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This is pretty much the layout of all current controllers.

I have never seen a controller that vertically align the sticks and buttons yet. Which is only natural when I see how my thumb moves.

The layout proposed by the Switch looks uncomfortable to me.
 
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The connector in the middle seems interesting, is it known but only more niche so I don't know.

That could be the one for dock link, if it remains on the final retail version.

As for the 2 screws, those could be for both wireless frequencies, so it may support 2.4 and 5ghz.

But even if the Tegra specs seem kinda still not enough, the magic will be in the low level API and the new architecture, so there will be more that could be squeezed out than it may seem.
 
Xhaner5 said:
The connector in the middle seems interesting, is it known but only more niche so I don't know.

That could be the one for dock link, if it remains on the final retail version.

As for the 2 screws, those could be for both wireless frequencies, so it may support 2.4 and 5ghz,
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Why are you commenting on this fake photo? And why are you posting it anyway? I'm probably wrong.
 
KingSnake said:
Why are you commenting on this fake photo? And why are you posting it anyway?
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It is apparently the dev kit. How do we know it's fake? This was posted on 4chan before Nintendo revealed the Switch and it looks pretty close in my opinion.

I could see it being real.
 
You may or may not prove it a fake but we can never know for sure maybe someone purposelly made a fake but actually show the correct connectors, but it's only been a day, I maybe read like 30 posts and checked 5 threads and 3 articles. I know it's not a lot but hey.

I was about to comment on the supposable devkit specs, the ram speed is weird, it's like so much less than , it could be an early devkit, god knows, but it doesn't make sense, the texture fillrate is like 10 points or 65% of what PS4 has, but the RAM speed is like 7 or 8 times smaller.
 
OCD Guy said:
It is apparently the dev kit. How do we know it's fake? This was posted on 4chan before Nintendo revealed the Switch and it looks pretty close in my opinion.

I could see it being real.
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Xhaner5 said:
You may or may not prove it a fake but we can never know for sure maybe someone purposelly made a fake but actually show the correct connectors, but it's only been a day, I maybe read like 30 posts and checked 5 threads and 3 articles. I know it's not a lot but hey.
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https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/789137115120623616

That "NX dev kit" which was floating around today was a mock up based on the rumours available. Dev kit looks very different.
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Xhaner5 said:
I was about to comment on the supposable devkit specs, the ram speed is weird, it's like so much less than , it could be an early devkit, god knows, but it doesn't make sense, the texture fillrate is like 10 points or 65% of what PS4 has, but the RAM speed is like 7 or 8 times smaller.
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Those "devkit specs" are from someone who previously stated that Nvidia is not involved at all in NX. Maybe you should start looking for better sources.
 
I'm curious about the media playing on the Switch. If it has Hulu and Netflix and HBO Go, I'm all in. Maybe if it doesn't have 4G, you could save videos from those services for offline use? Just dreaming here.
 
Stone Ocean said:
A dev kit with a professionally arranged display photo?

Cmon now
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Well someone took a pretty good guess, as that thing looks balls on accurate with the placement of things, colour scheme, design etc.

As I said this thing was released before the Nintendo Switch was revealed. I'd be more cynical if someone released it now.

KingSnake said:
https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/789137115120623616
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Based on the rumours? But we never had a leak or rumour that depicted the design as close as that.

But anyway, ultimately I don't care, I'm just so happy at what the switch is. Roll on March....
 
Stone Ocean said:
A dev kit with a professionally arranged display photo?

Cmon now
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Someone may took the shots on desk, and to hide the source, and background, he made it into that kind of look. Am I not allowed to speculate, I'm not saying one way or the other, there's always tech speculation going on every time the new system comes out.

There are so much possibilities how that image was made, infact the one who made it may have purposelly made it look like a photoshop simply to make the internet undecided and guessing, the who mystery part makes it harder for nintendo to hunt down who's responsible as well as it makes discussion and that buzz on the web is basically free marketing.

Nintendo to IGN:

"The main function of the Nintendo Switch Dock is to provide an output to the TV, as well as charging and providing power to the system."

See I came home today, looked some more, and one of my speculation was correct, in 30 mins ;)

Let's hope there's some more inside that "output to TV" part, - I do agree and I think that when docked it may disable the power saving limit when the tablet is mobile mode. And the power could be delivered straight to the console bypassing the battery but I'm not sure about that, the battery always being kept charged at 100% is not a good idea for Li-Ions as they degrade and lose capacity with long stress at peak.

But that's just enabling whatever they already have in the tablet part, because the tablet only part I don't believe it'll be enough to compete with the other two consoles, Nintendo said it is meant to be mainly a home console so there just has to be some more juice somewhere or somehow.
 
This will never more than a Nintendo first party console for me. It will also never be ported around by me.

Still, I skipped Wii U. First Nintendo hardware ever I didn't buy.

I might buy this. I read it's power should fall between Xbox One and PS4. I'm fine with that for 1st party games. I can hide it in my rack and use it as a fixed console on my tv with a decent looking Pro controller. No motion/touch/peripheral nonsense.

Just hope they get a competent online and digital store system. And that you can plug in a USB hard drive to store/play digital games. I absolutely do NOT want to futz with physical cartridges.
 
Xhaner5 said:
Someone may took the shots on desk, and to hide the source, and background, he made it into that kind of look. Am I not allowed to speculate, I'm not saying one way or the other, there's always tech speculation going on every time the new system comes out.

There are so much possibilities how that image was made, infact the one who made it may have purposelly made it look like a photoshop simply to make the internet undecided and guessing, the who mystery part makes it harder for nintendo to hunt down who's responsible as well as it makes discussion and that buzz on the web is basically free marketing.
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Whats more likely, someone went through some wacky amount of work to make something real look fake as fuck when trying to leak something as being real

or

someone took some picture from a random car GPS and called it the NX
 
Tom_Cody said:
Question: Have there been any size comparisons made to Nintendo's past systems and to the Wii U gamepad?

I very actively take advantage of the portability of my 3DS and TBH I'm worried this is simply to big (and likely heavy). I'm also worried that the analog sticks will get caught in whatever bag I'm carrying it around in.
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Anyone?
 
Tom_Cody said:
Anyone?
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I haven't yet, but getting some type of sleeve will solve the issue of the analog sticks getting caught on things in your bag. I had a cheap Garmin gps sleeve I used for my Vita for that purpose. Added almost no size or weight and solved that problem.
 
That picture shares a lot of similarities with the actual Switch tablet. It may not be a devkit which usually are big and ugly machines that don't look at all like the console but a debug console, that tend to be a lot more similar.
 
Stone Ocean said:
Whats more likely, someone went through some wacky amount of work to make something real look fake as fuck when trying to leak something as being real

or

someone took some picture from a random car GPS and called it the NX
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Your car GPS would require even more wacky amounts of work to make those ports and extra pieces look right.

Seriously, this pic came out before the reveal, and it looks just like it. It has those weird coax ports that Wii U kits had (that most average people don't know) and as I've said a few times some devkits have professional style photos on the order sites or dev tool sites.

I don't have a Switch kit and haven't seen one. But I have had and seen many dev kits and this looks pretty right to me.
 
KingSnake said:
Why are you commenting on this fake photo? And why are you posting it anyway?
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I think it's pretty safe to say that is the official dev kit. Unless the fakers were very lucky in getting the placement of the game cart slot, the headphone jack and the design and placement of the vents bang on.
 
The more I read about Ninty not wanting to talk about games, specs, etc this year the more botched this seems.

Why keep these things secret? It's less than 6 months away and they don't even want to talk about games?

Seems stupid to keep speculation going until 2017.
 
sammyCYBORG said:
The more I read about Ninty not wanting to talk about games, specs, etc this year the more botched this seems.

Why keep these things secret? It's less than 6 months away and they don't even want to talk about games?

Seems stupid to keep speculation going until 2017.
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How is it botched? Let's wait next week and hear more from them.
 
KAL2006 said:
People who skipped the Wii U have the upper advantage advantage of Wii U ports being new games.
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Yeah I think Nintendo would be smart to lean on that. They could add new content to a lot of games like Mario Kart, Smash, Splatoon and release them on Switch since a lot of people never played them on Wii U. And as a Wii U owner, I'd be pretty happy to play an enhanced version of a game I liked on the Wii U.
 
KingSnake said:
Why are you commenting on this fake photo? And why are you posting it anyway?
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I don't know how anyone can pretend this is a fake photo. It came out before Nintendo unveiled the Switch, and every single aspect of it corresponds to the retail Switch Nintendo has shown in the reveal video. The volume buttons, the vents, the game card port, etc. Everything is there and in the right place and looks exactly like the retail unit. I don't see how anyone could have photoshopped this.
 
For me at launch I need a bundle with:

Switch, dock, pro controller and Zelda.


Once I have Zelda I won't need any other games for a long time. I'm very excited for this machine.
 
AtomicShroom said:
I don't know how anyone can pretend this is a fake photo. It came out before Nintendo unveiled the Switch, and every single aspect of it corresponds to the retail Switch Nintendo has shown in the reveal video. The volume buttons, the vents, the game card port, etc. Everything is there and in the right place and looks exactly like the retail unit. I don't see how anyone could have photoshopped this.
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It even has the same little cutout shape on the top left and right corners. There's no way that wasn't a legit leak.
 
Vinc said:
Second screen might actually work if the tablet can somehow stream to the dock. It would be cool if the dock could use media apps like Netflix, you could game on the tablet while playing a movie on the TV.
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Why would anyone need that though, these days. Most people are already capable of streaming on their TV's, many times it is even the TV itself. Hell, my old ass LCD TV is capable of playing films (never tried other "smart" functions though).

Being capable of streaming media on tv and playing games at the tablet at once is a bit redundant in my opinion, and likely to cost additional money production/R&D wise. And even if many people don't have the capability to stream yet, in more and more TV's and households that is becoming the standard, so I doubt it will remain a selling point for long for those who don't have it yet. Not to mention that it costs processing power of the handheld unit that could be spent on games. And battery life will be worse because of it as well.
 
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