*** Nintendo Switch ***

3-4 hours battery life and hopefully the ability to swap batteries. Maybe offer chunkier heavier batteries for longer battery life for those who need it.

Unlikely to be gaming 3 hours remotely ever anyway. If on the way to work, you can charge it when you get there. Also these days you have big power banks which you would easily get an full charge remotely if needed.

I personally doubt I would ever need it to be more than 3 hours. If needed for say a long flight, then can take a power bank as backup. My guess is mine will be used 90% of the time docked to play on the TV anyway.

Just hope that the system is more powerful than the Wii U :)
 
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TNA said:
3-4 hours battery life and hopefully the ability to swap batteries. Maybe offer chunkier heavier batteries for longer battery life for those need it.
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3-4 hours is hardly bad considering the power its got IMO.
 
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Broken Hope said:
The Switch is Nintendo doing what they need to do to stay relevant, the Wii U and 3DS proves they can't fully support 2 consoles on their own, with the Wii U basically being left to die for the whole of 2016.

They can't rely on 3rd parties because they aren't willing to invest in powerful hardware. This allows them to double their output.

Imagine if all the 3DS and Wii U releases were just on a single console.
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Nintendo have already said this is a replacement for the Wii U, not the 3DS.
 
Begbie said:
Nintendo have already said this is a replacement for the Wii U, not the 3DS.
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Yeah cause Nintendo are going to come straight out and say they are replacing the 3DS at this point when it's the only reason they can sell make money from the console market.

The whole point of Switch was to combine their output instead of having to support 2 different consoles.
 
Begbie said:
Nintendo have already said this is a replacement for the Wii U, not the 3DS.
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Well Nintendo are idiots. This is a handheld first and foremost, it moves the way forward for handhelds. For home consoles, it is at best a sidegrade (it's not even a proper home console since it just docks to a TV output). Not to mention that Nintendo have lied before. They said the same thing about the original DS with respect to GBA, but of course the DS did indeed replace the GBA. I think they might have also said something similar about the WiiU, but that's to be expected of the worst marketed console in history.

That said, Nintendo's actions speak otherwise, they are still releasing games on 3DS and even porting WiiU games to it. Whereas the WiiU might as well be dead, except for Zelda next year. It certainly hasn't had anything this year (none of the handful releases have been any good).

3-4 hours battery life sounds a lot like the original 3DS (3 to 5). People moaned about it and they then increased it on the 3DS XL and further still with each iterative damn release. Expect an NX XL with better battery life or something, it seems to be Nintendo's usual shady tactics. That said, a Switch with 3-4 hours isn't too bad for the types of games you can play on it. Let's just hope they don't pull more stupidity and include no chargers with this thing (cos they haven't with the later releases of 3DS).
 
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It's a hybrid games console.

Broken Hope said:
Yeah cause Nintendo are going to come straight out and say they are replacing the 3DS at this point when it's the only reason they can sell make money from the console market.

The whole point of Switch was to combine their output instead of having to support 2 different consoles.
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In the long term, I think it could be more about supporting a single platform rather than a single device. For example they could release a slightly smaller, more straightforward handheld device in the future that plays all the same games. The benefit of having access to all Nintendo software with a single device remains, but users have more choice ergonomically, financially etc.

It's what Iwata was talking about when he said a "family of systems" sharing the same OS and software. It will ultimately depend on who buys the Switch and how they use it in the majority.

I agree they are emphasising the home console aspect of the Switch as to not cannibalize 3DS sales. I'm sure they are already planning alternative handheld form factors of the device though.
 
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What I mainly want to see is Nintendo bring out more games than they did for the Wii U, preferably more Nintendo games. I basically interested in things that I cannot get on PC. Really hope they bring out an F-Zero game this time around.
 
It wouldn't matter if this thing had a gtx1080 inside, without regular multiplat games like cod battlefield and Fifa etc this thing will die as quick as the wiiu, and I say this as an owner of every single Nintendo console
 
DONOHUE07 said:
It wouldn't matter if this thing had a gtx1080 inside, without regular multiplat games like cod battlefield and Fifa etc this thing will die as quick as the wiiu, and I say this as an owner of every single Nintendo console
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Thing is, people who play games have already invested their money into xbox or playstation or both. Releasing the same games on (most likely) the least powerful console isn't going to make them drop everything and get one. Although having said that, playing cod or BF on the go would be amazing. They just need to release more of their other IP's along with the usual suspects. Imagine a remastered Goldeneye that could do a split screen for 2 people or 4 with another switch.
 
megalomanic said:
I'm sure they are already planning alternative handheld form factors of the device though.
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It all depends on how you mean this.

If you mean altering the controllers and any slot mechanism to fit /slide the screen into, then thats not really altering the device itself and its more than likely this would be additional purchases on top of the initial system so would work for Nintendo with no issue.

If you mean actually changing the core parts , and there fore having different manufacturing and multiple different package types then no this is unlikely to happen. They have gone through great pains (probably) in designing their new system so its a hybrid and works conveniently as both - why shoot themselves in the foot by then bringing out a portable only version that takes sales away from the "main" system.
 
TNA said:
What I mainly want to see is Nintendo bring out more games than they did for the Wii U, preferably more Nintendo games. I basically interested in things that I cannot get on PC. Really hope they bring out an F-Zero game this time around.
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Same.

PC + Nintendo = dream setup.
 
Begbie said:
Same.

PC + Nintendo = dream setup.
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Which is why I had a WiiU, long before I had a PS4 and I probably won't ever get an XB1.

I'm calling the Switch a portable, mainly due to the fact that it doesn't improve much over the WiiU in terms of home console ability. It's the same level, if not worse, I struggle to see how games can run better on the Switch than the WiiU. People wanting a home console from Nintendo are disappointed. People wanting them to make a handheld (like me) are happy to get something that runs home console level games (as opposed to the dumbed down games that handhelds have usually gotten in the past).

Keeping Tegra in mind, remember the Nvidia Shield? Remember the 'home console version of that?' Nothing more than a TV output version of the portable Shield. I'm gathering the same here. The Switch is more impressive as a handheld, it disappoints as a home console. Which is why I personally regard it as a portable. I'm trying to see it in the most positive light I can without being a hype-driven fool.

No specs for Tegra X2, but as before people are saying that at full power, it will be somewhere around the level of an XB1.
 
I sword I wouldn't get another Nintendo console after the WiiU but will probably get one of these. Perhaps holding on for the next iteration and a few games tho. The idea is sound and if you can convince a bunch of mates you meet up with regularly to get one it'll be great.
 
FrankJH said:
They have gone through great pains (probably) in designing their new system so its a hybrid and works conveniently as both - why shoot themselves in the foot by then bringing out a portable only version that takes sales away from the "main" system.
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Yes hopefully they won't have to, and it will be successful as a hyrbid - I feel it's got a really good chance!.

When I said planning, I meant researching and designing potential handheld (or home) console only form factors/devices, so they are ready to react to how the market takes to Switch, just in case.

I'm not much of a handheld gamer - If it was up to me I'd just take a more powerful traditional 'home console only' device. Without the portability and the screen on the device, resources could be spent elsewhere (more computational power).
But at the same time, having access to more Nintendo games to play on my TV makes up for it - made possible by the hybrid approach. That's the most exciting thing about Switch for me.
 
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