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nuckles87 on 24 October 2016
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bigtakilla said:
nuckles87 said:
There are a few assumptions here that I take some issue with, and one that is just plain wrong.

For one, you can't really make any meaningful predictions on its success without knowing it's exact price, specs, or level of support from third parties. You certainly can't seriously predict how it will perform against Scorpio, a console we know even less about.

Switch, as far as I'm co concerned, is a fine name. NS is a curious acronym. I was wondering how people would shorten it.

Never knock something until you try something. That includes the Switch's mini controllers.

And Nintendo has NOT ruled out the base boosting the system's power in some way. If you read their statement, they specifically say the base is not the CONSOLE, and that it's MAIN function is to provide power and a tv connection. Not it's only function.

We already know major third party games are not coming to the switch. Mass Effect, and Final Fantasy to name two.

As for the dock, if there were truly any performance boosting parts, I think sliding it in and out the the dock station would have some issues in running the game. It wouldn't be as smooth of a transition as it is, plus the danger of bricking the NS. A pc owner would never pull pieces of their pc out while running a game. Plus it would add to the cost considerably. Most likely it isn't going to have anything in the base. We'll see soon enough though.

Those two games don't really clue us in at the kinds of games Switch will or won't be getting, let alone its overall level of support, especially since ff15 never actually ruled out a Switch version.

The Switch isn't a PC, and it's the first gaming device ever DESIGNED to operate like this. I'm not really sure how you can infer on how a mobile device/game console would operate based on how a stock PC works. I'm also not sure how you can definitively say it would add to the cost considerably, when we don't know how much any of the components in this thing cost. Even if the base doesn't have anything, there are ways it's power can be improved while it is plugged into it. 

We've also had rumors from a very credible source (the same source that nailed other aspects of the Switch) that there is a power boost when docked. And in fact, she even explains the transition time :

https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/789131903622406144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw