Dang, that's late. Patience is a virtue I guess.

 

Nintendo sure are cutting it close given the launch is in March. They better hope people have time to save their pennies.

 

Ya know, at least this time we won't be in suspense for months.

 

THIS.

The system sucks. It will be underpowered compared to the other consoles, and too expensive compared to the 3DS and Vita, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Nintendo already officialy announced that they aren't going to sell at a loss, which means this is going to be 300$ or more, while less powerful than the Xbox One by a long margin.

Nintendo knows that most likely this is going to end up being Wii U version 2.0. What they are hoping for, is for this to inherit the 3DS market, which won't happen because of the price.

If Nintendo was confident on the system's specs, they would have announced them by now. They don't do it because they know this will kill the hype. They rely on kids' imaginations imagining some secred ultra powerful OMG cpu that somehow this will make it beat Scorpio. LOL. Not to mention some vague promises about 3rd party support that will never materialize.

That's it folks, Nintendo after this is going 3rd party.

 

It's risky, but it might pay off. If people ride the hype train all the way to launch, that could push consoles. If enough people buy the console at launch, that could cause a landslide in sales as people buy the Switch because their friends have one, and then their friends buy it, etc. etc.

 

I ain't buying nuffing.

 

LOL. The final specs of the system are known years in advance. A chip takes around 4 years to materialize, from design to production. Before the chip begins the design process, the designers already know what things they want to target for. Only minor things like clocks or amount of cores are left for later, to see how well the production process goes in the real world.

There is no chance in hell Nintendo doesn't know the final specs of the thing as of now, since the SoC have been in production for months, for it to release @ March 2017.

But yeah, i will let a teenager fanboi tell me how the tech world works.

There is only one reason the specs weren't revealed: Because once people find out this thing is going to be 1/2 of the Xbox One at best, while costing around the same, hype will die a sudden death.

 

Yeah, I remember that.
I also remember I was one of those ambassador idiots that paid it overpriced at launch. Not gonna happen again.

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No it won't.
Everything points it will be akin to a very low end nvidia 10xx gpu, yes it could output 1080p, but with horrible quality.
The xbox one could get everything running in 1080p at 60fps, and the x1s at 4k for the case, if it used low quality textures and shaders, but it would look like a horrible upscaled dreamcast game, like the shield does and like this will.
I am still doubtful this will produce better gfx than the Wii U. Yes, I believe Wii U Zelda will be the definitive version.
Oh man, this saying "ignorance is bliss" is just BS, stop lying to yourself.
I hope the portable part of the console goes well, it is the only thing that looks interesting with the speculated specs.

 

Are you a joker? GTX 1050 is not low end, it is mid.
Low-end 10XX is still unreleased.
Think something in the Pascal family targeting the GT920M sector.

 

Exactly, that is what I meant. All the way back to a low power cheap implementation of the Pascal architecture.

PS: I would love to be wrong, but Nintendo will have to prove me wrong big time before I donate money to them yet again.
PS2: And proving me (and anybody else) wrong would be as easy as releasing some real footage, showing some demo units working, presenting the fucking thing somewhere, showing the real thing... it is SO fishy they haven't already done it, it stinks like BS.