*** Nintendo Switch ***

[McPhee]

Indeed. I remember when for a brief spell I had a Nexus 6. 4K screen on a phone!

What a waste of battery power that was!

The Nexus 6 is QHD, not 4K. Not unreasonable on a 6" smartphone - 476 pixels per inch is approaching the limit as to what the human eye can detect, but not beyond it.

As an N6 owner, I find myself wondering whether the Switch's screen is a little small?

 

[Phate]

The Nexus 6 is QHD, not 4K. Not unreasonable on a 6" smartphone.

As an N6 owner, I find myself wondering whether the Switch's screen is a little small?

Ah my bad. I've gotten a lot wrong on this forum today

And the Nexus 6 screen was too big for me. Got rid of it after 2 weeks.

 

[Jae-So]

I'm not sure you could go far beyond the size of the Switch screen before it no longer works as a true portable.

 

[TNA]

I'm not sure you could go far beyond the size of the Switch screen before it no longer works as a true portable.

The screen could be bigger instead of a huge border I suppose.

Looking forward to Jan. Hopefully we get to see full specs, release titles and price.

 

[Jae-So]

Yeh that's true, would have been good if they could have done that.

 

[Kreeeee]

Yeh that's true, would have been good if they could have done that.

The border helps with thermal properties and accessory attachment so I can see why the wouldn't push to minimise the border. The cheaper manufacturing costs must be a big factor too.

 

[Bluntwrapped]

I'm going to take a guess at the dock having a second GPU which will either be used in SLI or as a dedicated GPU when connected to a TV. I could be wrong but the design of the dock looks too chunky to house only video and charging connections.

 

[Kreeeee]

I'm going to take a guess at the dock having a second GPU

It doesn't.

 

[Begbie]

I'm going to take a guess at the dock having a second GPU which will either be used in SLI or as a dedicated GPU when connected to a TV. I could be wrong but the design of the dock looks too chunky to house only video and charging connections.

It doesn't.

Well no one knows that for definite, but an educated guess would lead to the dock doing nothing put providing power and some sort of upscaler.

 

[Flibster]

My best guess is still that it operates a bit like a laptop. On battery, downclocks and shuts down some cores. Docked and on mains, full speeeed ahead.

 

[Kreeeee]

My best guess is still that it operates a bit like a laptop. On battery, downclocks and shuts down some cores. Docked and on mains, full speeeed ahead.

Exactly.

 

[ThestigGT999]

New Nintendo Patents Could Highlight Unannounced 'Switch' Features

 

[spoffle]

The Nexus 6 is QHD, not 4K. Not unreasonable on a 6" smartphone - 476 pixels per inch is approaching the limit as to what the human eye can detect, but not beyond it.

As an N6 owner, I find myself wondering whether the Switch's screen is a little small?

It is UHD, not 4K!

 

[Begbie]

New Nintendo Patents Could Highlight Unannounced 'Switch' Features

Built in projector, wow. That's never happening.

 

[Jae-So]

Built in projector, wow. That's never happening.

My thoughts exactly

 

[d_brennen]

I was ready to dismiss the switch, but I feel I need a portable again. 3DS and Vita are too long in the tooth... but I'm not going to pay console prices for a handheld, however they dress it up, and I think that's true for a fair number of the middle market

 

[BMox81]

4gb of RAM in the Switch according to Emily Rogers on Twitter.

 

[Phate]

4gb of RAM in the Switch according to Emily Rogers on Twitter.

Potential specs got leaked a few pages back. Seemed very detailed to be false. But I am believing nothing until Nintendo officially announce it.

Like we can best guess that the dock is just to power/charge and to output video but we also don't know for certain. We cannot say anything for definite until Nintendo announce it or someone gets their hands on the dock and tears it apart and posts it online.

Speculating...if the current dock does not have additional GPU/CPU power that in the future they could release one that does. We know its a Tegra X2 which I think is designed to have extra gpu power bolted on. That could be a nice upgrade in the future. If it's needed of course

I just can't wait to get my hands on Zelda. I'd buy the console for that.

 

[KraniX]

720 on a 6 inch screen is fine for me, I'll probably use it unlocked around the house most of the time.

The Vita screen still looks great, if the Switch is in that territory quality wise but with more power then I'm sold.

 

[megalomanic]

Yeah a 720p screen seems like the sweet spot considering the screens size, and I think any higher would be too much overhead for battery life.
Vita is 960 x 544 I believe, so should look noticeably better than that (~75% more pixels).

It will of course output at higher resolutions to a TV. The resolution games will typically render at natively is another question however.