Hardware the switch has a touchscreen? weird?

[The Catboy]

Nintendo is competing with smartphones (and at the same time part of the problem ) So they really need to keep beating that dead horse known as the touchscreen.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Weight shouldn't be a problem for me under normal handheld usage for sure, specially considering the old 3DSXL I already use weights ~336g.
Anyway, and I know I might be lazy as fuck, but when I just drop lying on a flat-bed*1 seat in a long distance bus, the weight of supporting even the XL against gravity becomes somewhat annoying after a couple of minutes.

*1 Seats that can really be flattened as a bed, very comfortable. I think that type of seats in buses are only common in Argentina, perhaps Brazil and I don't know about the rest of South America. Here in Germany long distance buses are bullshit in comparison, took one once and since then I only travel by train or plane.

 

[Xzi]

Nintendo is competing with smartphones

No they aren't. It's just that nobody would buy a "portable" that weighs ten pounds. It's not an early 90s laptop.

 

[FAST6191]

No they aren't. It's just that nobody would buy a "portable" that weighs ten pounds. It's not an early 90s laptop.

Not in the sense that people line up a Sony Xperia, HTC touch, Samsung Galaxy... and the nintendo switch before comparing specs and price. However a lot of what looks to be happening for the switch could well also happen for phones, and while I do not want to read too much into the launch titles/titles I already saw... yeah.

To that end quite a few of the potential audience might have a phone, or have a phone and face a choice between spending the extra on a better phone or a switch. We already saw the rise of IOS gut DS homebrew, take a whole bunch of developers and it is not like the 3ds is riding as high as the DS.

 

[KingVamp]

If they do a DS VC. I wonder how long the battery will last for it.

 

[Xzi]

Not in the sense that people line up a Sony Xperia, HTC touch, Samsung Galaxy... and the nintendo switch before comparing specs and price. However a lot of what looks to be happening for the switch could well also happen for phones, and while I do not want to read too much into the launch titles/titles I already saw... yeah.

To that end quite a few of the potential audience might have a phone, or have a phone and face a choice between spending the extra on a better phone or a switch. We already saw the rise of IOS gut DS homebrew, take a whole bunch of developers and it is not like the 3ds is riding as high as the DS.

I mean, Nintendo knows everyone and their dog has a smartphone. Which is exactly why they're integrating the smartphone into part of the Switch experience. I don't think we're going to see console-quality games on smartphones any time soon (other than old ports), because developers are making money hand over fist by suckering people with "free" (mtx) crapware already.

Nintendo can keep releasing stuff like Super Mario Run for phones while simultaneously developing higher-quality games for Switch. Android/iOS games don't take a whole lot of resources. They'll make money on both ends.

 

[The Catboy]

No they aren't. It's just that nobody would buy a "portable" that weighs ten pounds. It's not an early 90s laptop.

Yes, they are. So long smartphones of their foot in portable gaming, Nintendo's portable systems will be competing with them.

 

[Xzi]

Yes, they are. So long smartphones of their foot in portable gaming, Nintendo's portable systems will be competing with them.

I understand the sentiment, that all devices compete in an environment of limited demand, but if you don't understand the difference between the console gaming market and the mobile gaming market, I'm not sure what to tell you. Just don't get suckered into thinking you're going to get a better experience by paying for all those micro-transactions.

 

[The Catboy]

I understand the sentiment, that all devices compete in an environment of limited demand, but if you don't understand the difference between the console gaming market and the mobile gaming market, I'm not sure what to tell you. Just don't get suckered into thinking you're going to get a better experience by paying for all those micro-transactions.

I understand the difference, but that doesn't change how the market works. Nintendo is still competing regardless

 

[Xzi]

I understand the difference, but that doesn't change how the market works. Nintendo is still competing regardless

To the extent that Playstation and Xbox also compete with the mobile market, sure.

 

[Nikki_swap]

So they really need to keep beating that dead horse known as the touchscreen.

this made me chuckle.

 

[Bladexdsl]

for the lazy goes right to the touchscreen in action
https://youtu.be/P3hJqmGczXU?t=6m36s

 

[CreAtor135]

Too bad Nintendo is shilling out artists by getting rid of resistive touch :^)

inb4 "muh gaming muh get professional drawing equipment"

art has been a viable platform on Nintendo handhelds since the DS. Touchscreen isn't a gimmick, it's an expanse towards the demographic of people who use the console.
too bad nintendo chose business instead. not even a stylus this time smh

 

[CatmanFan]

Skylanders: Imaginators does use the touch screen. Watch this video and go to the 6:35 mark to see it for yourself:



Also, since the Switch touch screen is capacitive, and the DS/3DS/Wii U touch screen is resistive (which means that it is controlled using pressure), that might mean that DS VC on the Switch would be a bit incapable, unless they make a capacitive touch stylus like Apple did with its appropriately-named "Apple Pencil".

 

[FAST6191]

Someone, other than the staff they had at it, actually played skylanders at an event? Wonders never cease it seems.

 

[Enigma Hall]

Skylanders: Imaginators does use the touch screen. Watch this video and go to the 6:35 mark to see it for yourself:



Also, since the Switch touch screen is capacitive, and the DS/3DS/Wii U touch screen is resistive (which means that it is controlled using pressure), that might mean that DS VC on the Switch would be a bit incapable, unless they make a capacitive touch stylus like Apple did with its appropriately-named "Apple Pencil".

NintendoSwitchApplePen.
Anyway. The words portable and handheld never sounds so diferent to me before
It's handheld, but portable? At home, i belive.
Portable is my vita and my smartphone.100% with me while Im out.

 

[KingVamp]

Too bad Nintendo is shilling out artists by getting rid of resistive touch :^)

inb4 "muh gaming muh get professional drawing equipment"

art has been a viable platform on Nintendo handhelds since the DS. Touchscreen isn't a gimmick, it's an expanse towards the demographic of people who use the console.
too bad nintendo chose business instead. not even a stylus this time smh

I doubt this will keep artists from drawing.

Also, since the Switch touch screen is capacitive, and the DS/3DS/Wii U touch screen is resistive (which means that it is controlled using pressure), that might mean that DS VC on the Switch would be a bit incapable, unless they make a capacitive touch stylus like Apple did with its appropriately-named "Apple Pencil".

There are DS emulators on Android. I doubt there will be any real or many issues.

Portable is my vita and my smartphone.100% with me while Im out.

Switch is about the same size as a Vita without the Joy Cons and you can put the Joy Cons in another pocket.

 

[Enigma Hall]

I doubt this will keep artists from drawing.


There are DS emulators on Android. I doubt there will be any real or many issues.


Switch is about the same size as a Vita without the Joy Cons and you can put the Joy Cons in another pocket.

How about no? Lol no way I will pass my day with that things in my pocket.

 

[CreAtor135]

I doubt this will keep artists from drawing.


There are DS emulators on Android. I doubt there will be any real or many issues.


Switch is about the same size as a Vita without the Joy Cons and you can put the Joy Cons in another pocket.

Obviously it won't. But it'll stop artists from drawing on Nintendo consoles which could sometimes be the only way for some to make digital art :^)

 

[KingVamp]

Obviously it won't. But it'll stop artists from drawing on Nintendo consoles which could sometimes be the only way for some to make digital art :^)

I obviously meant that, just because the Switch has a capacitive screen doesn't mean artists wouldn't draw on it. At least, most of them, anyway.