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Well, I'm bummed because it means no added power, which could make 3rd party support an issue going forward, once again.
But hopefully this means that the system will be relatively cheap at launch. I could see $250-300 being the retail launch price.



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Strange, Ideally the Dock should of had a better GPU that would render the game at a higher resolution on the TV screen. The handheld GFX may look good on the small screen but on the TV ouch.



RolStoppable said:
Cobretti2 said:
The only hope left of this turning into a real home console is the SCD patent they got lol.

Supplemental Computing Device

Power is what makes a real home console?

No, having a device that can only be played at home on the TV is...

A SCD would only work at home, when hooked to the TV, hence home console.

Right now it's just a tablet & any tablet does what the Switch does (except playing Nintendo games) & then some, because I seriously doubt that it will have a SIM slot, so it have less features than the average tablet, no internet on the go, no online play on the go, no video/audio streaming on the go.

With this system, Nintendo is reduced to its bare bones, anterior systems always had a unique twist, this is just Nintendo's fugly underpowered tablet that does nothing except playing Nintendo games.

I really hope it's cheap at least, more than 200$ would be a slap in the face, it's not worth more!!!



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GProgrammer said:
Strange, Ideally the Dock should of had a better GPU that would render the game at a higher resolution on the TV screen. The handheld GFX may look good on the small screen but on the TV ouch.

Probably, though it's really soon to say that, the GPU won't be running at max capacity on portable mode to save power, and works at max capacity in the dock station. So the portable would be a downgraded version. 



This is actually good. Nintendo are smart enough to not get involved in a dick measuring contest and do there own thing. The concept is good, it'll be cheap to produce and should sell pretty well.

After looking at it again I'm starting to like the look of it, better looking that the Wii and Wii U by a good margin. So that's another box ticked.

The name is shit though but what does that matter anyway!?



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Game_God said:
RolStoppable said:

Power is what makes a real home console?

No, having a device that can only be played at home on the TV is...

A SCD would only work at home, when hooked to the TV, hence home console.

Right now it's just a tablet & any tablet does what the Switch does except playing Nintendo games...

Not sure why it's not a home console. Well, my definition of a home console is different, probably. But if you can play with your family/friends, on a TV, with multiple controllers is a home console to me. It's also portable which is a neat plus. 



LipeJJ said:
Now I wonder... is it going to be more powerful than a Wii U? :s Any solid rumors about specs?

The old rumors where 3-4 times the power of the Wii U.

Pretty sure when its docked it ll be more powerfull than the Wii U.

Im guessing that means it turns out to be slightly less than half the Xbox One S, in terms of performance.

So multiplats will run lesser resolutions than the do on the normal Xbox One, on the Switch.



Sh1nn said:

Nintendo continued: "The dock is not the main console unit of Nintendo Switch. The main unit of Nintendo Switch is the unit that has the LCD screen, which the two Joy-Con controllers can be attached to and detached from. The main function of the Nintendo Switch Dock is to provide an output to the TV, as well as charging and providing power to the system."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/20/nintendo-confirms-amiibo-support-for-nintendo-switch-clarifies-additional-features

So Nintendo confirmed that they made a 720p tablet. Great. Great gimmick Nintendo.



Volterra_90 said:
GProgrammer said:
Strange, Ideally the Dock should of had a better GPU that would render the game at a higher resolution on the TV screen. The handheld GFX may look good on the small screen but on the TV ouch.

Probably, though it's really soon to say that, the GPU won't be running at max capacity on portable mode to save power, and works at max capacity in the dock station. So the portable would be a downgraded version. 

Perhaps, I suppose the Dock could have some fans in it, blowing air over the handheld to cool it down, so they could run the GPU at a couple hundred Hz higher, its not going to be a huge difference though, i.e. it won't be enough to make the 720p games suddenly playable at 1080p.

From looking at specs, docked I guess this will be 60-75% of the flops of the Xbox One, about half a ps4, OK for a handheld but for something plugged into the TV, hmmm



bunchanumbers said:
Sh1nn said:

Nintendo continued: "The dock is not the main console unit of Nintendo Switch. The main unit of Nintendo Switch is the unit that has the LCD screen, which the two Joy-Con controllers can be attached to and detached from. The main function of the Nintendo Switch Dock is to provide an output to the TV, as well as charging and providing power to the system."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/20/nintendo-confirms-amiibo-support-for-nintendo-switch-clarifies-additional-features

So Nintendo confirmed that they made a 720p tablet. Great. Great gimmick Nintendo.

You say that, but they haven't said what the resolution is (rumors point to possibly 540p) and they have said they aren't going to say whether it's a touchscreen or not.

 

So it could end up being much worse than a 720p tablet.



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