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Nintendo Switch — Nintendo's new console for the home and your hands 👾
Nintendo Switch is designed to fit your life, transforming from home console to portable system in a snap. So you get more time to play the games you love, however you like.
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Super interesting to see it's both a home and handheld console. But it's not the first console they've announced this year.
Nintendo has some of the best IP's. I'm probably in the minority but I'd love to see a Super Mario RPG sequel.
@rrhoover I was just listening to the Super Mario RPG soundtrack the other day! I'd love to see a sequel, too.
@rrhoover I think the real play is here is "make gaming social again." If you look at the teaser video most of the examples are people playing the Switch together, in real meat-space.
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@nivo0o0 : yeah, i actually wasn't buying into the modularity of it with the disconnecting controls and what not....until I saw the scene on the plane when he disconnects them and uses them more like wii U controllers, separate from the unit altogether. that was really clever. though i wonder if developers will have a hard time creating a smooth gaming experience in all modes...hopefully that's not too much of a barrier that it ends up turning developers away...
@nivo0o0 That looks like a killer feature. I love Nintendo. Will never forget the sweet sound of Tetris. ^^
Biggest takeaway from this is that Nintendo has figured out that playing together with friends on a couch is what makes gaming great. I love xbox live, but almost nothing compares to having super smash bros tournaments with 12 people in the same room as each other fighting over who got the purple controller and actually spending time together.
When people say that we don't need a handled console because we already have smartphones. I'm sorry, but I prefer this
Apple really needs to ramp up their partnerships in regards to the AppleTV. If I look at the image quality of the games in the video, this is something which could easily be done I think on the AppleTV. They even got a proper gaming controller for the AppleTV and the standard remote is like the Nintendo WII remote, why aren't there just more game developers who already develop for IOS porting their games to TVOS?
Game developers, time to up your game and release more for the AppleTV!
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A few interesting things here:
1) This isn't the first console that is both a "home" console and "portable" console, that really goes to the NVidia Shield. However, one thing that caught my eye here is that you actually insert the Switch into a machine to get it hooked up to your TV, not with say just a cable. That sort of makes me wonder if by plugging in the Shield into that box if it receives GPU boosts (ala the Surface Book) to allow for higher quality experiences.
2) With this being solidly both a home console and portable console, I wonder if this mean we will see the end of the DS line of handhelds. That would be sad, because the experiences on DS have been amazing.
@rocaroundaworld Though it wasn't seamless, the Sega Nomad was essentially Sega Genesis on the go. You could even attach a full-sized controller to the device for two-player mode.
@rocaroundaworld No, the docking station is just for the connectivity to the TV and for recharging.
This is "not" a solid home console. It is a tablet that streams its media to the TV via a hardware connection instead of like other tablets wirelessly.
Ok Nintendo, Ok! You're making someone who gave up gaming a long time ago to seriously consider this.
Seems like a natural progression from the Wii U, which was a screen-controller paired with home console. I agree with others that Nintendo's IPs are amazing, but they reuse them and repackage them requiring you to buy incrementally improved systems. I bought the Wii and the Wii U but I have a hard time justifying a new purchase only a few years later when only a few great titles came out for last one.
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Lots of excitement on Product Hunt about the Nintendo Switch, but watching the preview trailer I was left feeling like it portrayed a kind of anti-social dystopia, where we're all jacked into some kind of gaming environment at all times, so much so that we literally can't pull ourselves away because with the Switch, you no longer have to.
Sure, gaming is fun (I play too). The Switch looks fun too. But once again, I'm reminded of @TristanHarris's profile in The Atlantic about the subtle ways we're being manipulated by our technology devices and I wonder if the escape gaming provides is a satisfying and worthwhile future to keep investing in so heavily.
Yet another device to carry around? Why can't they just make better use of the existing device I carry around with me everywhere?
I wonder why they've designed the dock to cover the screen. It could show notifications, photos or something while docked.
Absolutely digging this play. It really embodies the reason for resisting a hardcore move into mobile for iOS or Android. They've been working extremely hard to figure this at-home + mobile console problem... starting a long time ago.
I think they've done an extremely fine job here. Can't wait to get my hands on the thing!
... and, while superficial, I wish I didn't want to hide the hardware away.
All I see is a Nexus 7 with added super small gamepads on its wings and a docking station in a Microsoft surface design. The product design is great and pretty surprising for Nintendo, but this is not a great product as there is no clear target audience except Nintendo fans.
It's around 7" and features around the same huge bezel as the Nexus7 did but in 2017. It basically is a gaming-dedicated tablet with very small screen real-estate and added size when on the go making it even less portable, due to the necessary gamepads.
Regarding its size, you can't expect much battery life to make it a very portable gaming device. We all should be aware of what a tablet can perform and this must sport a dedicated GPU and it has to run a process heavy task all the time when active. This won't run Skyrim portable in a good resolution or settings as depicted, even though Skyrim is 4 years old.
The docking station will not magically make it a beefy console either. I'd be surprised if it can surpass the WiiUs capabilities by a lot.
I'm skeptical at best, more disappointed, because I, for one, expected competition in the console market, not just a tablet with gamepads attached. It's not just a console with gimmicks attached, it is a single gimmick.
Portability is the whole USP here but greatly limited as it is huge with the added gamepads (even though these are pretty small itself) and the bezel. I'd not wonder if the active screen is less than of a Note.
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