Do you like the Switch as a handheld?

[GhaudePhaede010]

NATO said:

GhaudePhaede010 said:

Are you really going to say the dock is really worth $90? If so, we are done for that stupid reason alone.

 

And Zelda running better in handheld than on the television has nothing to do with this conversation except to say, you probably have not played the game to know what I am talking about. Even in they remove HD rumble (which would be an awful idea but you would not understand since you probably have not played the console to know the benefits of having controllers that rumble on a hand held that do not destroy your vision aside from the awesomeness of the gimmick itself of location based rumble and emotion through rumble...) and the camera, it does not change the fact that outputting to television for games like Zelda is much better than seeing them on a limited 6.2 inch screen. The benefits simply do not outweigh the downsides. The minor price drop (and if you think they could release this same console for the price you are asking even though NVIDIA shield is 200 with 16GB) is simply not worth it to most gamers. Zelda like that on a 6.2 inch screen as your only option would be ass (considering almost nobody bought Wii U).

 

I sincerely suggest you spend some time with the console (not buy one because you have every right to not want one) but until you actually get some meaningful hands on time with the console to better understand it, spouting your position is going to seem silly to people that have given the console adequate time and understanding.

I'm a hardware engineer, so as someone that has taken apart the dock, dumped both the SPI flashes and fiddled around with the code, I can say that while the dock isn't worth the $90 retail pricetag, it's still at least a $50 chunk of the cost alone.

SPI flashes are located either side of the HDMI connector, other side of the board has an arm serial wire debug testpoint for dumping the MXIC ic, too, i've delved into all of the readable data in great detail, so i'm extremely familiar with what the dock does, how it does it, the BOM for such a device, and the bottom line, which is seemingly infinitely more than you, with your "if you think it's worth $90 this convosations over" stuff.

But hey, what do I know?, hell you even went as far as to pull the old "you don't even have one" nonsense, what do you think this is?

2 things:

 

1) You just said it was 50 not 90. That ends that.

2) I did not say you did not have one, I said you need to spend time with one. If you did not have one and did not want to buy one, that is fine because I am not suggesting someone actually buy what they do not want to buy. However, you seem to not understand my points and even though I understand yours and that is a huge disconnect. You have not once went in on one of my actual points and I am not going to have that derailed any further. Spend some time with Switch, if your opinion does not change, so be it. However, at least you will have more information than the very little you have displayed here.