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kljesta64 on 30 October 2016
V-r0cK said:
kljesta64 said:
super gameboy adapter was first in the console world not the sega nomad or the ps vita

You're wrong.  

We're talking about a single device that can play on TV and on the go with the same library of games.  Sega Nomad and PSP (not Vita) can do that.

The Super Gameboy adapter you'd have to buy the SNES AND Gameboy AND Gameboy Adapter. That's two different devices that have two different library.  The Super GB adapter is more like making your SNES being backwards compatible with GB games. Or if the PS3 had a PSP UMD slot/Vita slot built in.  You'd still need two different consoles to play at home and on the go.

doesnt matter .. the basic idea was already there. others just build upon it..



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darkknightkryta on 30 October 2016
taus90 said:

yeah heres the proof how sony time travelled copied the concept and used it in a commercial. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yzkdnJeFkh8

not to mention they completely ripped off the Switch commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC7QcE6WEhg

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V-r0cK on 30 October 2016
kljesta64 said:
V-r0cK said:

You're wrong.  

We're talking about a single device that can play on TV and on the go with the same library of games.  Sega Nomad and PSP (not Vita) can do that.

The Super Gameboy adapter you'd have to buy the SNES AND Gameboy AND Gameboy Adapter. That's two different devices that have two different library.  The Super GB adapter is more like making your SNES being backwards compatible with GB games. Or if the PS3 had a PSP UMD slot/Vita slot built in.  You'd still need two different consoles to play at home and on the go.

doesnt matter .. the basic idea was already there. others just build upon it..

But it does matter, because this thread is referring to the Switch's ability being a single device using the same library to act as both, a home and portable console.  No one's ever thought of the Switch being similar to  the SNES+GB+GB Adapter because it's not the same.  You're comparing apples to oranges.

If Nintendo patent the idea of SNES+GB+GB Adapter, they couldn't sue Sega if Sega were to patant the Nomad because they're different.  If anything Sony's PSP copied Sega and now Nintendo is too.



malistix1985 on 30 October 2016

maybe at some point there will be a ps4 portable, when the components are small enough, that would be cool, but in general I don't think that nintendo will have another Wii here.

They copied the Wii because it was the most hyped console in, well maybe ever! the switch isn't going in that direction, reception has been mixed but generally positive but I have not seen the "mad need to play this revolutionary new device"




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Snoopy on 30 October 2016

Didn't nintendo stocks drop quite a bit because of this? The switch will more than likely fail. Why buy a switch when you can get an xbox one and ps4 at a cheaper price with better game library and where their friends are at?



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Alkibiádēs on 30 October 2016
V-r0cK said:
GoOnKid said:

As this was one of the major reasons why Nintendo didn't want to show off the Switch earlier, and as we know that both companies have a habit to immitate the big innovations Nintendo introduces to the gaming world, do you think thant they are already working on some similar concepts?

Nintendo is copying this time (and one of the last to finally do it) - in terms of a handheld device that can play games and hooking up to a TV.

The PSP/PSP Go has a charging dock that you can hook up to your TV and play with a Dualshock 3 controller.  Hell it even has home console style games to make it feel like both a portable and home console (ie MGS Peacewalker, GoW, Crisis Core etc..).  Hell even the Sega Nomad was able to hook up to the TV i believe, so maybe Sega was the first to do this.  You can already do similar to this as well with MS Surface Pro tablets.  

I feel like alot of Nintendo fans ignore these innovation from others because they're so in belief that Nintendo is the only one capable of innovating.  Yes Nintendo has innovated a shit load of things, but doesn't mean that they've innovated ever single thing in the video game world.  The only difference that makes the Switch seem better than others is that because they're the last to do this so they have the better/newer technology to impliment more and newer ideas and features.  If Sega's Nomad and the PSP/PSP Go was to be released the same time as the Switch then you better believe it that they'll have similar/new features like the Switch.

Title of the thread should be "Switch finally copies Sony and MS (and Sega)"

That being said,  regardless of Nintendo's late arrival to hybrid console I still can't wait to get the Switch.  I've always loved that feature when I was playing my PSP Go and I'm excited again with Nintendo.

Who on earth wants to play PSP games on a big screen HD TV? This is NOT the same as the Nintendo Switch (and we don't even know all the information yet, so stop pretending this is all the Switch is). You do realize you could already play GAMEBOY games on the SNES with the Super Game Boy (1994)? So if anything, Nintendo certainly was the first. The idea is just fully realized now, and again, Nintendo is the first that's doing so.



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malistix1985 on 30 October 2016
Snoopy said:
Didn't nintendo stocks drop quite a bit because of this? The switch will more than likely fail. Why buy a switch when you can get an xbox one and ps4 at a cheaper price with better game library and where their friends are at?

I think its mostly communication too, if they said this is our new handheld which replaces the N3DS, its the most powerfull handeld and has a docking station (optiona buy) to play on the TV, I think people would have been so much more possitive lol, maybe its just me




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Alkibiádēs on 30 October 2016
BraLoD said:
You mean Sony copy something they already did?
Or the detachable controllers the Switch copied itself?

Dont even see what Sony has to copy from Nintendo there.

Please do show me where Sony did this first.



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Areym on 30 October 2016

Why would they? Both their consoles are doing just fine, with the PS4 stumping the competition.



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Alkibiádēs on 30 October 2016
BraLoD said:
Alkibiádēs said:

Please do show me where Sony did this first.

PSP.

You could play Sony portable games on a TV since ever.

Cute. You could play gameboy games on your TV since 1994.

Obviously not anywhere close to the same thing.



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