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KLXVER on 21 October 2016
COKTOE said:
KLXVER said:

and I might be wrong, but I dont think it has a touchscreen, so this thing really could be 250 bucks.

Now that is an interesting thought. It seems like such a given that it never would have occured to me that it might not have a touchscreen.

Not a single person in the trailer even taps the screen a single time and pictures explaining the Switch on Nintendos site doesnt mention it at all.



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COKTOE on 21 October 2016
KLXVER said:
COKTOE said:

Now that is an interesting thought. It seems like such a given that it never would have occured to me that it might not have a touchscreen.

Not a single person in the trailer even taps the screen a single time and pictures explaining the Switch on Nintendos site doesnt mention it at all.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about the trailer since you brought this up, and realized that too! I wonder how a lack of touchscreen would be received by the masses? Both casuals and hardcores.



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KLXVER on 21 October 2016
COKTOE said:
KLXVER said:

Not a single person in the trailer even taps the screen a single time and pictures explaining the Switch on Nintendos site doesnt mention it at all.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about the trailer since you brought this up, and realized that too! I wonder how a lack of touchscreen would be received by the masses? Both casuals and hardcores.

Its fine by me, but I could see it being an issue for others.



Frogger on 21 October 2016

This is good news. That means the dock won't hike the price up.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 21 October 2016

So that means below 300? Perhaps 250...



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JulioMadeira on 21 October 2016

Hmmm...Dock power?



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Normchacho on 21 October 2016
KLXVER said:
COKTOE said:

Yes! One would hope this would this would be the case since the power we can estimate it will have should not command too high of a price.

and I might be wrong, but I dont think it has a touchscreen, so this thing really could be 250 bucks.

I have a feeling it won't have a touchscreen either. Which...Not a HUGE deal, but it's certainly an odd omnission in 2016.



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StuOhQ on 21 October 2016
WagnerPaiva said:
I have an idea: what if the Switch uses only part of the CPU/GPU while in handheld mode and the whole thing while in dockstation mode?
It could be the case, to save pwer specially.

Would make the vents/fans on the docks and dev kits make a little more sense. They don't want the damn things melting down when they're being used as a portable. 



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oniyide on 21 October 2016

I am really surprised people were thinking it would be more than this



dark_gh0st_b0y on 21 October 2016

ok, this confirms that it is a handheld, and also goodbye 3rd parties

so either they underestimate their customer's intelligence, or they are exiting the console market from the back door

unless they decide to put the "Supplemental Computing Device" patents into use, I find the home console claim to be misleading



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