*** Nintendo Switch ***

loco said:
so rumor's floating around are,
there will be two versions of the switch,
one with a tegra chipset and a custom pascal chip with 4k capability?
another rumor gaining momentum is it will come with a portable water cooled,nvidia 1080gtx in a custom encased water cooling closure for uhd gaming
that clips on to the side of the switch dock station
port on the second hybrid console as an extra peripheral?
anyone else heard this rumor>?
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Sounds legit.
 
lol. Tegra chipset and a custom pascal, for all of 4 minutes battery life when not plugged in. Also the idea of a chip inside the console and another inside the dock is nonsense. While it is possible to do things like external graphics, you do it with a wide very power hungry external connection. That would mean sticking a big pci-e 3.0 8-16x connector to connect to thunderbolt or a custom port, but you don't get that kind of thing because that alone can suck down 3-5w of power at idle. It's just something you can't fit into a mobile chip. There isn't the bandwidth or power available to provide such a set.

It also seems Nintendo is marketing it alongside 3DS as they are apparently telling journalists on game websites that it's primarily a home console, not primarily a mobile console. Which also to me suggests battery life ain't great otherwise they'd hype up how good it was.

SO a primarily home console, that is the same price as vastly more powerful consoles like the Xbox One S/PS4 slim, which already have a massive catalogue of games with more coming with no hanging questions about dev support going forwards.

After the Wii U, my first foray into Nintendo gaming for over a decade, I was disappointed with the lack of gaming options and the lack of progression in Nintendo IP. I'll get Zelda but that is probably the next and last Nintendo game I buy for the Wii U.
 
I did say first and last Nintendo game though ;)

I never got around to playing my brothers Gamecube, played the Wii for like 20 mins that my parents/brother had with basically just Wii Sports. I got the Wii U thinking buy a bunch of old and new Mario games, some other stuff, figured I'd have a large back catalogue to play... sucked. So even another decade from now having not played Nintendo stuff I know what I'll be getting. The same basic Mario platform games, a new even worse Mario Kart, Pikmin 34, still 3 hours of game for a full price game, still boring, with no voice acting, no real humour, no real interest.

Basically Nintendo have proven to me they just won't move on with 95% of the stuff they make so I won't be missing anything.
 
$299.99
March 3rd release world wide
Battery 2.5-6.5hrs
No region locking
'Joycons' have haptics, giros and also available in red and blue
 
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They wanted to show how big a company EA are by sending a guy twice the size of you're average Japanese person.
 
That trailer though.

Launch title. ****, thats me buying. I've got to be honest here, this isn't looking great. But Zelda, so I'll take a risk.
 
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