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Conina on 15 January 2017
ratuscafoarterea said:
Conina said:

I was (and still am) very disappointed of the lack of an Ethernet port on the Wii U, but for the Switch I can understand that decision.

How should that work when docking or undocking the device? Should it use ethernet when the Switch is in its dock and flawlessly switch to WiFi when taking it out of the docking station? Could work, but what happens when I put the Switch in a different docking station in another room / house / town after that?

Will it then connect with the different LAN flawlessly?

It’s been confirmed that you will be able to connect an Ethernet port to the usb port on the Switch dock, so yes, you can have wired Ethernet connection when docked, and wi-fi when it’s in tablet mode. So I don’t see why they didn’t just added the Ethernet port to the dock on the first place. Wait, I see why …. Nintendo’s nickel&diming ….

 

Okay, if it is no technical problem, I'm no longer defending that. Every home console should have Ethernet and a WiFi transmitter.



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SuperNova on 15 January 2017
Conina said:
ratuscafoarterea said:

I have to say that I'm really disappointed with Nintendo. This has the same WiiU prone to fail story written all over it. Again if I want a normal controller I have to spend extra money, again the console is very short on internal storage space so I have buy a extra storage (in this case sd card) , and again no proper Ethernet port.

I was (and still am) very disappointed of the lack of an Ethernet port on the Wii U, but for the Switch I can understand that decision.

How should that work when docking or undocking the device? Should it use ethernet when the Switch is in its dock and flawlessly switch to WiFi when taking it out of the docking station? Could work, but what happens when I put the Switch in a different docking station in another room / house / town after that?

Will it then connect with the different LAN flawlessly?

You mean like my macbook does on a daily basis? It's not hard to do. Every smartphone out there switches between diffrent wlans effortlessly, and computers can switch between diffrent Lans and Wlans with no problem. This isn't the 90s when even the most basic internet connection required a slew of drivers and a 30 page booklet to establish...

Also, the WiiU ethernet port is rumored to work on it, don't know if that was confirmed though. I'm more interested to know how they'll solve online mp on the go, as the presentation seemed to imply it's possible at several points.

As for the dock itself. If it really is as barebones as it seems then there's no reason third parties shouldn't pick up the slack and release cheaper docks down the line.



JRPGfan on 15 January 2017
Peh said:

So, that little piece of plastic and a few interface like USB-C, USB, HDMI and Power Connector will have a cost of around 90€.

Why is it so extraordinary expensive? Stuff like that would be around 30€ or less. I don't understand why it would be so damn expensive?

Any idea?

Because when you spend 10$ makeing something and can sell it for 90€....... you can pocket alot of $$$ in profits on sales.

Its just greed, on a level like Apple does.



Proxy-Pie on 15 January 2017

Would a cheap 3rd party USBC/HDMI splitter work with the Switch?



JRPGfan on 15 January 2017
Peh said:

Just noticed........ WHERE IS THE ETHERNET PORT!???

Is the switch only wireless again? <.<



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Conina on 15 January 2017
JRPGfan said:

Just noticed........ WHERE IS THE ETHERNET PORT!???

Here, just 30 bucks:



JRPGfan on 15 January 2017
Conina said:
JRPGfan said:

Just noticed........ WHERE IS THE ETHERNET PORT!???

Here, just 30 bucks:

This is the problem.

299$ switch

30$ adapteur lan (for nintendo switch)

50$ MicroSD

70$ procontroller

+1 game 60$

= 509$    (to get a system that basically has what a PS4slim / XB1s bundle has)



merman on 15 January 2017

The whole thing is far more expensive then it should be tbh



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vivster on 15 January 2017

Can we conclude that Apple shared their secret pricing technique with Nintendo for timed exclusivity of Super Mario Run?



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Dulfite on 15 January 2017
JRPGfan said:
Conina said:

Here, just 30 bucks:

This is the problem.

299$ switch

30$ adapteur lan (for nintendo switch)

50$ MicroSD

70$ procontroller

+1 game 60$

= 509$    (to get a system that basically has what a PS4slim / XB1s bundle has)

What's that?  brand new system costs as much as bundles of systems that have been out for years?

And you are surprised? When the ps3 launched, the base price of the device was $500-600. And that was back years ago. Inflation would put that at $600-700 now days.

New devices = no fancy bundles in order to get as much boost profit as possible off people like me that are early buyers that don't need the big fat incentives.