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Actually, outside Pikmin, Fire Emblem and Ever Oasis, Nintendo is 100% with the switch... And outside some japanese games being translated in the future, Nintendo isn't gonna produce any other 3ds game...



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superchunk said:
StarOcean said:
Only if that shitty battery life is fixed in a Switch-lite

I wouldn't call it shitty. I've taken it on plane trips, to work, etc. ~3hrs is actually pretty good considering I can charge it between sessions easily. Not to say 6, 12 or 20 hours wouldnt' be better of course.

Oh how the mighty have fallne. I still remmeber Nintendo fans calling out the PSP for its 4.5-5 hours abttery life and how unacceptable it was. Now 3 is more than enough.

OT: I agree. The jump from the 3DS will most deffinatly help. But in the longrun I doubt that the extra year they are pushing it's sales will hurt it that much.



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hunter_alien said:
superchunk said:

I wouldn't call it shitty. I've taken it on plane trips, to work, etc. ~3hrs is actually pretty good considering I can charge it between sessions easily. Not to say 6, 12 or 20 hours wouldnt' be better of course.

Oh how the mighty have fallne. I still remmeber Nintendo fans calling out the PSP for its 4.5-5 hours abttery life and how unacceptable it was. Now 3 is more than enough.

OT: I agree. The jump from the 3DS will most deffinatly help. But in the longrun I doubt that the extra year they are pushing it's sales will hurt it that much.

PSP came out at a time where USB charging stations/outlets in airplanes/buses was rare and so were cheap ion-lithium battery packs. Not to mention said battery packs are handy to have for charging ones phone as well. 

Completely different time. 

And the PSP sold 80 million anyway.



StarOcean said:
roadkillers said:

There's always a option to buy two $20 dallor battory packs.. That'll get you around 15 hours on max settings

I shouldnt have to buy a battery to make my portable, well, portable

I shouldn't have to charge my phone or carry a battery pack in order for it to be portable. 



Soundwave said:
hunter_alien said:

Oh how the mighty have fallne. I still remmeber Nintendo fans calling out the PSP for its 4.5-5 hours abttery life and how unacceptable it was. Now 3 is more than enough.

OT: I agree. The jump from the 3DS will most deffinatly help. But in the longrun I doubt that the extra year they are pushing it's sales will hurt it that much.

PSP came out at a time where USB charging stations/outlets in airplanes/buses was rare and so were cheap ion-lithium battery packs. Not to mention said battery packs are handy to have for charging ones phone as well. 

Completely different time. 

And the PSP sold 80 million anyway.

Yeah, it sold well, but one of the main derogatives it got was the battery life. I had a battery pack attachemnt that pretty much double the battery life for 30$. If that was not cheap, I dont know what was. Now with 3 hours.... Im sorry, but for a portable system its absolutly horrible, no matter how you try and spin it, especially for a system of its size.



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hunter_alien said:
Soundwave said:

PSP came out at a time where USB charging stations/outlets in airplanes/buses was rare and so were cheap ion-lithium battery packs. Not to mention said battery packs are handy to have for charging ones phone as well. 

Completely different time. 

And the PSP sold 80 million anyway.

Yeah, it sold well, but one of the main derogatives it got was the battery life. I had a battery pack attachemnt that pretty much double the battery life for 30$. If that was not cheap, I dont know what was. Now with 3 hours.... Im sorry, but for a portable system its absolutly horrible, no matter how you try and spin it, especially for a system of its size.

As opposed to what else? My laptop has a giant ass battery in it, but guess what? After about 2 1/2 hours of playing BioShock Infinite on low/medium settings it dies. 

High end games require high end juice. No ifs, ands, or buts. Seriously though I really wonder how people have more that 3 consecutive hours per day to sit outside of their home playing video games. Even as a kid, I had friends to interact with and could play Game Boy maybe 30-40 minutes on the bus/recess time combined before getting home. 

The Switch is a clever design too in that at home you simply put it into the dock and are forced to dock to play on TV, so it's a clever way to basically ensure the system is at 100% charge most of the time when ever you feel like leaving the house with it. It's not like a Game Boy that gets buried under a bunch of dirty clothes or something in a messy bedroom. 



Helloplite said:
StarOcean said:

I shouldnt have to buy a battery to make my portable, well, portable

I shouldn't have to charge my phone or carry a battery pack in order for it to be portable. 

Phones last much longer than the Switch without needing a charge



StarOcean said:
Helloplite said:

I shouldn't have to charge my phone or carry a battery pack in order for it to be portable. 

Phones last much longer than the Switch without needing a charge

Why don't you play Zelda BOTW in your phone, then?



 

 

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Fededx said:
Actually, outside Pikmin, Fire Emblem and Ever Oasis, Nintendo is 100% with the switch... And outside some japanese games being translated in the future, Nintendo isn't gonna produce any other 3ds game...

Ever Oasis isn't being produced by Nintendo, even this Pikmin game neither, I think



 

 

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Soundwave said:
Lets also put some context into the "3DS is selling well" ... it's shipping like 6 million a year. That's not exactly anything to throw a party over. It's doing ok, "ok" like a 75 year old that's still able to walk around and do stuff, yeah great, but it's not exactly lifting any heavy weight.

Yea but production costs I'm sure are at an all time low for the 3ds, making them make more profit per sale, meaning they don't have to sell as much as say the first year. I'm curious if someone did a profit x number sold comparison, year by year, what it has looked like this past year, but I suppose no one can do that due to Nintendo not really telling us these days how much profit they are selling 3ds at.