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

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I watched the trailer myself first before gauging and feedback and came away mostly impressed. But then, my social media is heavily negative about the device, and GAF seems pretty mixed as well.

I'm honestly a bit surprised
 
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I'm stoked about the Switch, but probably for a different reason than most: I HATE portables. The idea that no more Nintendo games will force me to play on a tiny, crappy low-res screen stuck onto the controller is my dream come true. Or, in point of fact, a dream returned, since the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player had this problem solved years ago.

Now, if this thing could just play DS and 3DS games, all of Nintendo's portable catalog would be playable on a TV.

Also, it looks like I was wrong about it being delayed to Q4. I'm happy to be proven wrong on that front. Now I hope I'm wrong about the reason: not enough software ready.
 
Dee Dah Dave said:
The only real positive for me is the software teams focus on singular hardware, which should dramatically improve output and quality.

The Xbox style pad is nice too. Other than that, it's pretty underwhelming. And I would never use the tablet.

I don't see this being a big hit for Nintendo. It has to compete with ever improving mobile phones, and also a selection of much better consoles for the home core gamer.

35 million tops.
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Yeah i was thinking the same this will be do or die for Nintendo, i feel like this might be Nintendo last console. Looks like nintendo just put all their baskets into this, as always we see third party games shown at the beginning then support will dwindle down this makes me cautious. We will see , very underwhelming and now they won't have the handheld market to fall back on.
 
orioto said:
THIS aspect is what will make the console a success.
It's what i was telling i would have done.

Let people play local multi on the go, with games that were only online before.
Now Nintendo, move your old ass and go convince big community game devs to port their games (overwatch, destiny...)

There is a market here.

The 2 mini pads idea would have potential but it just seems horrible..
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Haha, I remember arguing with you about this in the EG leak thread. I (still) think Nintendo has hit gold with the mini controllers and instant, anywhere multiplayer concept, but I'd really love more full screen, multi unit local multiplayer too. Both Overwatch and Destiny should work fine assuming everyone's connected to wifi. Playing something like Borderlands with my buddies would be amazing, too. :)
 
Combichristoffersen said:
Better name than Wii U.
Design is pretty neat.
Still don't really care because we all know how third party support has been for the last ~20 years.
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Well I would imagine it will pick up the 3rd party support that Nintendo usually gets for it's handheld. So in that sense it's pretty decent. I wouldn't expect a lot of the big AAA western releases though, barring some serious software selling power.
 
GamerJM said:
I was surprised at how close some of the fanfiction shit was. In last night's GameXplain analysis the way they said they'd start the trailer was essentially exactly what they did.
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If I remember the mockups posted on GAF, someone actually got it almost 100% right during the summer. The only thing they got wrong was how the dock looked. I wish I could find it.
 
Obliterator said:
I watched the trailer myself first before gauging and feedback and came away mostly impressed. But then, my social media is heavily negative about the device, and GAF seems pretty mixed as well.

I'm honestly a bit surprised
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GAF's reaction at least has been surprisingly positive imo. I mean, I've seen some brutal Nintendo console reveals..
 
The WiiU's success depended on their idea that people wanted to play around the house away from the TV. This is taking the same idea and making it more portable so you can take it outside.

Let's see if people want to carry around a Nintendo tablet with attachments.

The negative for those people who use it only at home I guess is that power has been sacrificed for the portability factor. Though if you will only be using it around the house then at that point it's nothing more than a WiiU.
 
More functionality than I was anticipating so that's impressive. Granted, I'll never utilize the multiplayer features. Honestly, it's exactly what I've wanted from a Nintendo console ever since the Wii U launched. Terrible name, though. The logo, and name just seem so... cheap. At least it conveys what the system is all about. I'll pre-order one as soon as possible. I want it. Now. I just hope we're still going to get the kind of games we're currently getting on the 3DS (mainly Japanese titles).
 
Guys do we know anything about backwards compatibility and I obviously don't mean putting your Wii disk in but downloading Wii or Gamecube or N64 games on it, because if I can play, say Metroid Prime, on a handheld I will be all over this console.
 
As long as the games are there, i'm there. I couldn't fully watch the video because i'm at work but if the screen has the same touchscreen capability as WiiU then i have nothing to complain about. I really liked the second screen when it was used properly.
 
Looks great. Like Wii U but 10x better executed. Glad to see no motion controls in the trailer, I know they're still rumored but hopefully that just means they are a very minor feature and not a focus for most developers.

Mario needs to be at launch or close to it. I love Zelda but I need another game for a day 1 purchase. Ports are meaningless to me, especially 5-year old games like Skyrim (finally caught up Nintendo). I have no interest in seeing games already out like Overwatch, Destiny, etc. on the Switch as I can already play those on other consoles which a way larger user base.

Just relieved the hybrid was true and there will be so many games for this I won't even know where to begin.
 
My biggest question is storage. Will it need SD, microSD, or heaven forbid some proprietary format.

I highly doubt we'll be shoving USB drives into that thing.
 
USC-fan said:
This is a perfect console for kids.
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I think it's the perfect console for me as an adult with responsibilities and less and less time to sit in front of the tv to play games for hours. This will let me have the big screen experience when I can and play the same games whenever I can sneak in a bit of gaming during the day wherever I might be without forcing me to resort only to mobile/portable games like experiences. As a portable-first the games look sick and as a home console-second they're still good enough to have the potential beautiful on the big screen especially when married with good art.
 
I didn't believe they'd do a hybrid once the rumours started swirling a couple of years ago so I'll eat crow on that. In the past year I've even thought that it might suit me fine.

Dunno why it uses such an ugly grey plastic, it gives me flashbacks to the original DS and how ugly that was. Still time to fix that though.
 
Instro said:
Well I would imagine it will pick up the 3rd party support that Nintendo usually gets for it's handheld. So in that sense it's pretty decent. I wouldn't expect a lot of the big AAA western releases though, barring some serious software selling power.
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Exactly. I don't give a toss about handheld games and Japan makes little to nothing I care about anymore (in fact I think the only Japanese game I own for PS4 is Silent Hill PT). It's a nice concept, but Nintendo has offered pretty much nothing since the SNES that has been of interest to me, largely because I don't like their first party games much.
 
Was the Mario game new? Looked a lot like 3D World in the later part, but didn't seem like it the first time it showed up.
 
There are two things I'm not sold on: the name (I mean, it's not Wii U Super 2 Plus or anything, but it's meh) and the Joy-Cons. I don't think I'll ever use those unless I really have to.

Otherwise, it looks pretty great. Here's hoping the software lineup is excellent come launch, and that the price is nice. Also hoping the Pro Controller comes with it! I want this to be a success for Nintendo.

You nerds broke GAF just before I could originally make this post, on my birthday and everything
 
Nere said:
Guys do we know anything about backwards compatibility and I obviously don't mean putting your Wii disk in but downloading Wii or Gamecube or N64 games on it, because if I can play, say Metroid Prime, on a handheld I will be all over this console.
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I'm sure virtual console is gonna be around still. gonna imagine there'll be VC for nintendo consoles up to Gamecube but everything after that who knows
 
TimeEffect said:
OK, so some concerns:

-Pro Controller will be sold separately, will the Joy Con grip? Presumably not.

-So out of the box we get: Screen, detachable joy con controllers, joy con grip (to transform into a traditional controller)


The split controllers dont look useful as you have a pad, face buttons squished in, and presumably at least a shoulder button. That's fine though, using them together looks neat and friends can buy their own controllers.

How many buttons does the thing have for one person? What about shoulder buttons?
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Press release said the joys will be sold seperatly. I think it's 6ish buttons per joy?
 
This thing is literally every rumor or leak from the past year lol, I ain't mad though. It's got me excited about a Nintendo product for first time in awhile.
 
Great reveal. Really glad they dropped the Wii branding and went back to "Nintendo X." The logo/animation and the click sound effects are really memorable and are gonna go a long way in advertisements. They managed they get across the idea of what the system is--a home console/handheld hybrid--successfully and that's the biggest hurdle they had to jump through imo, so we just have to see how audiences respond to it.

Personally I think the system looks sexy af. I'll probably be rocking the Pro controller for couch play and handheld play for everything else, so I just hope the latter is able to fit in my pocket.

Gonna need to see specs, dimensions, and price before I commit, but if they got every Nintendo dev on this thing, a decent third party lineup, and it's around $299, I think I'm all in.

also new Splatoon fuck yeah
 
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