Looks like no 3G/LTE or Upgradable Battery for Nintendo Switch =(

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onionberry said:

KBG29 said:

Exactly the problem with Vita and 3DS. 

1. Most are not connected devices, so why take them out on the regular.

2. Thanks to number one, they are regulated to basically dedicated gaming machines.

3. Due to one and two, this is the smallest handheld generation ever, and therefore finding someone with a Vita or 3DS is a 1 in a million chance.

Not everyone is so lucky. Nor do I have the room to carry multiple devices everywhere every day, or the time to be pairing them. As for the battery, it really depends on how unchangable it is. If I can get to it to swap it, then cool, I typically have power around me all the time, but as mentioned below, batteries only last so long.

So much good stuff here. It is really incredible that they won't offer a wifi one for $299.99 and a 4G one for $399.99. I can live with paying $399.99 for something I will use for a couple hours everyday. But, even at $250 or $300, it is hard to justfiy for something I will only use once in a blue moon. The underclocked hardware and low res screen where also something I could live with for a great mobile device, but now that it appears it will be an at home only device, it fells quite upsetting. 

The battery thing I have to see. If it is soldered into the mother board, then that is just....?

Well I'm guessing that if people have the money to pay another data bill just for a  handheld console, they have the money to pay a mobile hostpot or unlimited data. And you can use those options for more devices, not just for the switch. Time to pair the device? You have time to play outside but you don't have 30 seconds to pair the switch to an external online connection?

 

Mobile hostpost, wifi carriers and free wifi everywhere... yeah I don't see the need of a more expensive device AND another data bill just for the switch when the internet is so accessible these days. 

 

Pairing to my mobile hotspot is automatic. It works just like a full size router. Only difference is that you turn it on before using it. If the Switch has the option to automatically see and connect to a router its already paired with, using a mobile hotspot with it is as simple as hitting the ON button on the router.