Hardware Poll: What do you think of the Switch?

[DavidRO99]

Thinking how to save 400$ until March

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The thing that worries me the most on the tech side is the rumour that the portable battery mode will be much weaker than the dedicated electric mode. People have been citing a noticeable drop in frames during the announce video.

I hope it's not as exaggerated as people imply.

The tablet is the console, the dock just streams it to the TV, so if it lags I dont think it would be that huge of a problem

 

[delta123]

I usually buy a nintendo console for one reason. New LoZ. so I am going to get this. I will get it day one if zelda is a launch title. I will evel line up like all the japanese people to get this.

 

[TemplarGR]

The thing that worries me the most on the tech side is the rumour that the portable battery mode will be much weaker than the dedicated electric mode. People have been citing a noticeable drop in frames during the announce video.

I hope it's not as exaggerated as people imply.

Probably around half the power in portable mode. In portable mode, this is a handheld Wii U. Which is impressive, btw. But not for 300$ and home console level priced games. Nope.

Every Nintendo handheld was a portable form of its earlier home console. Gameboy was a portable NES, Gameboy Advance was a portable SNES, DS was a portable N64, 3DS was a portable Gamecube/Wii. Resolution differences and other minor details aside, those handhelds were more or less at the same level of performance with the earlier Nintendo consoles, to allow for easier game and game engine portability and reuse of code and assets. It was expected that the next Nintendo handheld would have been a portable Wii U, and that is what you will be getting. That also explains the ports.

But i am really concerned about the price. Nintendo handhelds always had games for 30-40$, not 60-70$. This is a HUGE deal, i don't see this succeeding.

 

[DavidRO99]

Probably around half the power in portable mode. In portable mode, this is a handheld Wii U. Which is impressive, btw. But not for 300$ and home console level priced games. Nope.

Every Nintendo handheld was a portable form of its earlier home console. Gameboy was a portable NES, Gameboy Advance was a portable SNES, DS was a portable N64, 3DS was a portable Gamecube/Wii. Resolution differences and other minor details aside, those handhelds were more or less at the same level of performance with the earlier Nintendo consoles, to allow for easier game and game engine portability and reuse of code and assets. It was expected that the next Nintendo handheld would have been a portable Wii U, and that is what you will be getting. That also explains the ports.

But i am really concerned about the price. Nintendo handhelds always had games for 30-40$, not 60-70$. This is a HUGE deal, i don't see this succeeding.

The nintendo stock shot up by 1 billion dollars... I dont see this failing

 

[TemplarGR]

The nintendo stock shot up by 1 billion dollars... I dont see this failing

Yeah sure pal... Let's use the stock market to predict console performance...

 

[Boured]

I'm pretty interested, I plan to buy it as soon as it's released.

 

[DavidRO99]

Yeah sure pal... Let's use the stock market to predict console performance...

You never said Performance, you said it not being bought

 

[Youkai]

Well it does look interesting but I will wait ...

The controller look really uncomfortable especially when you separate them and hold each one in one hand, I doubt I would use that feature often (maybe I am wrong with this)
And really funny as like 90% of the people here were like "if it is a handheld I will kill someone" and now they are like "wow its a handheld I love it, gimme gimme gimme" XD

If you really have the same good graphics as you have on the big screen and can just take it out while playing as shown this is kind of nice but than again, how did they fit hardware which is good enough for what was shown in the Video into such a small handheld ? and what exactly does the "console" you put onto your TV do ? is it just some kind of adapter for the TV or does it have some GPU or whatever inside ?

 

[Deleted User]

The thing that worries me the most on the tech side is the rumour that the portable battery mode will be much weaker than the dedicated electric mode. People have been citing a noticeable drop in frames during the announce video.

I hope it's not as exaggerated as people imply.

None of the games are finished, so it's likely because the games aren't correctly optimized as of yet. They still have 5(?) months to fix BotW up before it gets released.

 

[daxtsu]

None of the games are finished, so it's likely because the games aren't correctly optimized as of yet. They still have 5(?) months to fix BotW up before it gets released.

Probably a bit less than that since cartridges have to be made and shipped, which would surely take at least 1 or 2 months off. But yeah, you're right, there's still some time.

 

[djnate27]

Thinking how to save 400$ until March

Considering selling my Vita & 3DS XL w/ Gateway. I hardly play them anyway.

 

[Eurasiam]

I'm very much interested. Though there's alot that I'm still unsure about. However in the end, ill probably buy it

 

[Smash Br0]

I'm interested. Will probably wait until a special bundle or limited edition is offered before I buy, though --paying full MSRP at launch is for suckers.

I hope it will be backwards-compatible with Wii / Wii U controllers.

 

[DavidRO99]

Considering selling my Vita & 3DS XL w/ Gateway. I hardly play them anyway.

Im gonna sell my Wii and my PSP and save that up with some christmas money, maybe I can get some money for the console and for the games

 

[InsaneNutter]

I'm certainly interested once a Mario Kart / Pokemon game is released on it. Not sure if i'd pick it up at launch though, it would depend on the games for me.

 

[Online]

I just cant help but feel this comes off as an underpowered console and a overpowered handheld. I care more about what this means for state and future of handheld gaming if it just means scaled down console games. I don't know how third party devs are going to transition to developing games for this hardware from the standards set by the 3ds which were affordable or if they are ready for this. ahh I don't know, I just fear the most that hanheld gaming may have died for this

as for third party console games, the portability aspect of the NS is really amazing but if the ps4 is going to have much higher graphics and performance as originally intended then i'll want to play them there. We'll have to wait and see what the power of the NS is really before we understand how third party games will support this system. That might be the curcial factor for me personally.

ultimately games should be the reason a system sells or not, if it gets great games then everything else becomes less of an issue but hardware should still make sense on some level and to me this just doesn't really

 

[DBlaze]

It looks interesting, but i'm holding off any hype until more is known and some decent in-game footage is shown and more details surface about the capabilities.

 

[Depravo]

If they've finally ditched the awful motion and touch controls then I may be a little interested.

I refuse to call it a 'hybrid' console though. It's a handheld with a TV out.

 

[papermanzero]

Great thing.

 

[kingsora831]

As a wii u owner....i will wait.
(The hype was real for the wii u too when it was initially announced and welll.....)