Pemalite said:
bdbdbd said:
Yeah, the controllers have their own batteries, but judging by the Switch trailer, the controllers are wireless, meaning you need to have some sort of a receiver/transmitter for the controllers, and I'd be willing to bet it consumes power.
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It will likely use Bluetooth which is extremely energy efficient.
| bdbdbd said:
If you're a high-end tech enthusiast, what's the point in debating about the tech in videogame consoles you know them not being high-end anyways. I can understand the point being for the sake of discussion, but even then it's pointless if your only argument is that "company X shouldn't be doing a product for it's customers".
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First and foremost, I am a PC gamer. I do enjoy my tech.
But I also wish for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony to succeed and be competitive, competition breeds innovation and allows for tech to advance even more rapidly.
And just so we are clear, there is more to tech than just the performance of a system.
Thus, I will happily ridicule any platform which doesn't strive to push boundries in technology, that's not a bad thing either, that's a good thing, these companies need constructive criticism to change and get better and to appeal to our wallets.
Being apologetic does nothing.
For example, Microsoft was heavily ridiculed for the Xbox One, it's price, it's performance, so Microsoft boosted the Clockrate of it's SoC, got rid of Kinect which freed up GPU resources and DRAM... Optimized it's various software stacks. You name it. The consumer won.
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I understand your point to an extent. But what makes you think Nintendo isn't pushing boundaries of the tech? I mean they obviously (assuming the rumours are correct) chose existing tech for a reason, instead of relying on something that may or may not be out at the time the console is supposed to launch. This could allow the code being used optimised.
And what did the consumer win by MS boosting the clockrate and freeing DRAM? Umm... Nothing, I believe. Unless you're talking about possible framerate issues, which are problems with software and not hardware. It still runs the same games. Personally, speaking about tech, I'd be more worried about Sony and MS releasing updated consoles instead of new ones, that could actually have games that advantage of the hardware, than Switch, which most likely is as optimised as possible.
I really don't know what is it that Switch should be competetive with, as the device is so much different than anything currently on the market.
