Nintendo Switch Thread - Page 8

On October 25 2016 05:48 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
https://twitter.com/FDG_Games/status/790495122823733248

Anyone else think that the reason Nintendo is withholding info on the Switch till next year is to protect 3DS sales?

On October 21 2016 14:02 Gahlo wrote:
Going through this point for point would take way too long. Overall, it's a pretty crappy review.

On October 21 2016 23:06 Frolossus wrote:
this guy completely missed the point. the switch isn't a competitor to sony and microsoft consoles anymore.
it's a successor to the 3ds line

On October 25 2016 06:44 andrewlt wrote:
From my vantage point, that link you posted is coming across entirely from the point of view of a console war fanboy. Nintendo's stock dipped when the Switch was announced, but that was entirely due to the market's disappointment that they weren't making the transition to mobile.

Face it, consoles are now a niche market that is going to continue to shrink in the future. The market is moving towards more casual mobile games. Investors don't give a shit about core gamers. Nintendo is trying to combine their shrinking space of the console market with their still large 3DS userbase.

On October 25 2016 05:52 Faruko wrote:
Of course, holidays are coming up, and the NS isnt part of their market, so you might as well go all the way with WiiU and 3DS, sell as much as you can, and once the holidays are done, (around mid jan) you throw a direct and start hyping the NS

Pulling all the guns and ammunition right now might end up working against it too, this way you can hype it in january with price and games, do another direct 1 week before the NS launch or something keeping the hype up

It's been a week since NX became Nintendo Switch and we finally learned all about Nintendo's next home console - except, actually we didn't learn all there is to it.

Last week's slick trailer gave a solid overview of Switch's core mechanics, but Eurogamer has learned about other features which were not shown or talked about.

A number of sources, including those who informed me of the Switch's design and detachable controllers back in July, have all confirmed other capabilities which Nintendo is currently keeping quiet.

Let's start with the Nintendo Switch's screen. It is 6.2" in size, 720p and - for the first time in any Nintendo device - boasts a capacitive multi-touch screen.

(Both 3DS and Wii U featured resistive touchscreens, reliant on pressure and less precise. They were also single-touch only.)

As is standard for capacitive devices such as most modern smartphones, Switch's screen is a 10-point multitouch display, meaning multi-finger gestures are supported.

Why not mention the touchscreen in the trailer, or show users playing with it? Perhaps Nintendo did not want to confuse its messaging of Switch being able to play standard home console games on the go.

Switch does not carry the DS or Wii U branding, for example, and both of those were defined - for better and worse - by their tablet-esque stylus controls. Demonstrating touchscreen on Switch now might suggest a continuation of both those brands rather than a brand new device.

More comments from NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang have come in, who spoke about Switch during the company’s latest financial call last week.

Huang indicated to callers that the system’s Tegra processor is similar to what’s found within Sony and Microsoft consoles plus most gaming PCs. Thanks to that, developers should be able to port games over to Switch fairly easily.

Huang said:

“The quality of games has grown significantly. And one of the factors of production value of games that has been possible is because the PC and the two game consoles, Xbox and PlayStation, and — in the near-future — the Nintendo Switch, all of these architectures are common in the sense that they all use modern GPUs, they all use programmable shading, and they all have basically similar features.”

Huang did say that there will be differences between the chips of Switch, PCs, and other consoles. But while the processors vary in design/capabilities, they all feature a common architectural language.

“As a result of that, game developers can target a much larger installed base with one common code base and, as a result, they can increase the production quality, production value of the games,” Huang noted.

On October 31 2016 04:54 DickMcFanny wrote:


Ugh, I had hoped, perhaps stupidly, that it wouldn't have a touch screen at all.