Theyre extremely reliable, there ARE the ones who got the Switchs design to a T.

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Lol are you serious or?

 

How is that even feasible?

 

Thats bs, I have an athalon x2 4400+ (stock) that can play x265 fine, and an E7300 that can also play it fine

 

Let's face it. Specs don't matter as much as everyone thinks it does.

The WiiU bombed because Nintendo itself failed to support it. The games came too late, and IMO they weren't enough, even the hardcore Nintendo fan felt the library was lacking.

The Switch will just get too much software. Imagine the 3DS and WiiU library merged into one... A console with Pokemon, Animal Crossing and Monster Hunter. Backed by Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Fire Emblem and EVERYTHING ELSE. No way in hell this one'll fail.

And when a console gets a comfortable userbase, third party devs will have to put software out on it. Be it third party exclusives or whatever, I don't mean it'll get the latest COD or Battlefield. What I mean is, it doesn't matter. Nintendo's unified catalog is more than enough to drive success. The 3DS was carried by it alone.

They just need a good price point now. $200 and this thing's a huge hit. And if the Pokemon Stars rumor is true, it's gg.

 

The SoC is 2012, the architecture is 2011. Maxwell is much better

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$200 is too cheap, expect $300 for a premium console and $250 for the basic model

 

Clock speeds being slower then a n3DS while on battery...307mhz is just barely faster then an o3DS.....Yeah I call BS on this

 

Those are GPU clk speeds. CPU is locked at 1Ghz docked/undocked.

 

Unless you are using vlc (which is bloated shit and known for artifacting videos)
MPC-HC and Kodi both play HEVC files fine for me
Its either the media player (possibly outdated) or old conflicting codecs for one of those all in one codec packs like k-lite or cccp, those are not needed anymore

A Q6600 should be able to play that no problem

 

I used to run my Q6600 at around 2.8ghz overclocked...my i5 right now is at 2.7ghz without OC. I never tried x265 format, I barely use x264 as it stands - my monitors are not even that good of quality to bother.

point is that the i5 will perform better than the Q6600 and the clock speed is almost the same. clock speed does not mean better in this day in technology. long time ago clock speed was king.

the switch might have lower clock speed but perform as well or better than the wii u.

 

I Would agree if the speed would be around the WiiUs one, like 450 or what, but 307 is not a realiable speed for a GPU who need to handle today shaders, to compare with a VERY close hardware, a Tegra X1 have an aprox. speed of 1Ghz for the GPU, we all know how she handle stuff pretty great but how it's limited now, we all saw the unreal engine 4 benchmark on it, it need a little more power to be flawless, then i really doubt about a downgraded X1 can handle "console games" wich are wide AF, like Zelda, because, IF it's really a tegra X1 downclocked @7xxmhz and down do 307mhz when portable, we are fucked aknoledging what we do know about the power of the tegra X1... it's gonna be the same power than a WiiU, just like 10-15% more powerfull.