Nintendo Switch Software

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Trunkin said:

hershel_layton said:

so they'd have a section for games like crossy road, angry birds, etc? I honestly can see them doing that. I know angry birds was on the 3ds, but no one(except 6 year old fanatics) would ever pay $30 for it if you can play it on a tablet for free.

Yeah, exactly like that. Games like Angry Birds are out of place next to huge $60 games like Zelda or Xenoblade, or even smaller Indie titles like Steamworld Dig, and charging $30 for Angry Birds just to make it fit in is madness! There's got to be some division between the "time wasters" and the actual games, otherwise they risk it turning into what the Windows Store is right now, or worse... the Play Store! But at the same time it would be a waste not to explore all the possibilties of the tablet form-factor they've decided to go with.

 

But the whole industry is nothing but time wasters with no actual games today. If you put these time wasters like Zelda, Xenoblade and Angry Birds into the time wasters basket, what do we have left?

mountaindewslave said:

invetedlotus123 said:

 

 

Why Nintendo fans has such a hard time to accept Nintendo Switch is a tablet? A dedicated tablet optimized for gaming, but the form factor is pretty much a tablet in and out. By accident i`m sure vivster meant that the only thing, hardware wise, that differentiate the NS from other tablers are the accessories. The difference between Nintendo Switch and the crop of android tablets that eventually are going to use the same chip is the software, in both OS and game-wise.

kind of semantics, is a PSP or Vita a tablet simply because its a screen with a few buttons?

its funny how until now that the main Nintendo console is leaning towards a mix of handheld and home gaming that everyone wants to paint it has "omg its just a tablet"

In terms of functionality, dedicated gaming, and the options (i.e. coming with a dock to connect it to a TV for main use) its nothing like a standard tablet. Again, many people will buy this device SIMPLY to play on their TV at home. Not sure if that really falls into pure 'tablet' territory as it practically is a TV streaming game device in some respect

 

and Nintendo will handle the OS on their own (although obviously probably taking from other architectures, Linux, whatever).

 

I also seriously doubt there will be any sort of mobile game section on the device, Nintendo is not looking at this as a tablet like some of you claim.

Yes, and when you put the device into the dock, it no longer functions as tablet anyway. Besides - what Nintendo has shown us this far, it functions as home console you plug into the TV and a portable screen with detachable controllers.

The OS is Linux, NES Mini already has a Linux running on ARM in it, so you could already consider Linux as confirmed for Switch.

And those who think OS development is time consuming (when talking about Linux distros), it isn't as even a single guy can make his own distribution. Of course, in Nintendo's case it's about customising the OS to your needs, but it's nothing that could be compared to making a new Windows.