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Kyanbu The Legend
10-20-2016, 12:28 PM
https://www.nintendo.com/switch

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And most of the leaks turned out to be true. And Nvidia is indeed the ones powering it.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/nintendo-switch/


The first thing to know about the new Nintendo Switch home gaming system: it’s really fun to play. With great graphics, loads of game titles and incredible performance, the Nintendo Switch will provide people with many hours of engaging and interactive gaming entertainment.

But creating a device so fun required some serious engineering. The development encompassed 500 man-years of effort across every facet of creating a new gaming platform: algorithms, computer architecture, system design, system software, APIs, game engines and peripherals. They all had to be rethought and redesigned for Nintendo to deliver the best experience for gamers, whether they’re in the living room or on the move.

A Console Architecture for the Living Room and Beyond

Nintendo Switch is powered by the performance of the custom Tegra processor. The high-efficiency scalable processor includes an NVIDIA GPU based on the same architecture as the world’s top-performing GeForce gaming graphics cards.

Nintendo SwitchThe Nintendo Switch’s gaming experience is also supported by fully custom software, including a revamped physics engine, new libraries, advanced game tools and libraries. NVIDIA additionally created new gaming APIs to fully harness this performance. The newest API, NVN, was built specifically to bring lightweight, fast gaming to the masses.

Gameplay is further enhanced by hardware-accelerated video playback and custom software for audio effects and rendering.

We’ve optimized the full suite of hardware and software for gaming and mobile use cases. This includes custom operating system integration with the GPU to increase both performance and efficiency.

NVIDIA gaming technology is integrated into all aspects of the new Nintendo Switch home gaming system, which promises to deliver a great experience to gamers.

The Nintendo Switch will be available in March 2017. More information is available at https://www.nintendo.com/switch.

Nintendo Switch is a trademark of Nintendo.


I'd be worried but this thing is getting hyped to hell in back due to nintendo with 3rd party support and the fact that this thing is actually pretty damn powerful for mobile standards and getting console ports. The WiiU and 3DS successor has a good future from the looks of it.
Ryong
10-20-2016, 12:44 PM
A pretty good idea and all, but:

- oh boy, that framerate on portable Zelda
- I get that using half a controller for games isn't exactly going to be the intended way to go for multiplayer but holy shit Nintendo, not even Japan has hands that tiny

Ironically, I'm now more interested in what Sony and Microsoft will do.
Kyanbu The Legend
10-20-2016, 02:28 PM
Depending on how the NS performs. Sony may try this same thing for Gen 9. Though MS is looking to be relying on Scorpio for the remainder of this gen and likely next gen.
mauve
10-20-2016, 03:36 PM
Nintendo already burned me with the Wii and Wii-U. With the relatively small number of actual good titles (and even smaller number of non-Nintendo-IP titles) and focus on gimmics (screw you Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival) the last two consoles had, I remain hesitant to throw more money their way.
rpgdemon
10-20-2016, 05:28 PM
- I get that using half a controller for games isn't exactly going to be the intended way to go for multiplayer but holy shit Nintendo, not even Japan has hands that tiny

I think that Nintendo has made the Best console, using all all the best cyber. It has been well documented that their controllers are quite long and beautiful. This console is going to make Nintendo great again.
phil_
10-20-2016, 06:11 PM
It's neat, but in this age of high-speed internet or go home, I am stuck at home. A trip to the city to borrow library internet to download day one updates every time I buy a new game is more awake time than I'm willing to spend on games. I don't think cartridges and scalable GPUs are going to change that paradigm.

Mostly I'm posting to say goddammit rpg.
Nique
10-21-2016, 01:23 AM
It looks cool but 'Switch' is weak. I would have gone with the Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System
Ryong
10-21-2016, 07:11 AM
It looks cool but 'Switch' is weak. I would have gone with the Ultra Nintendo Entertainment System

You have to realize "Switch" is an English word that the Japanese really like.
Just call it the Nintendo Gattai ( "combine" ) to have the same effect.
Tev
10-21-2016, 11:52 AM
So is this what had to happen before they entertained the idea of a future generation of Pokemon on a console?
Kyanbu The Legend
10-21-2016, 05:57 PM
So is this what had to happen before they entertained the idea of a future generation of Pokemon on a console?

Yes. And before the game can only be played while in handheld mode.
Bard The 5th LW
10-21-2016, 09:41 PM
Dunno if I'm intent on getting it right away, cause I was also a bit burnt on the Wii U, but I'm curious. I'll wait and see how it stacks up to the PS4, which I already own.
Hatake Kakashi
10-23-2016, 01:33 PM
No thanks.

I remember my naivete, jumping on the WiiU platform. I couldn't wait to see what people did with the tablet controller, and I couldn't wait to see how Nintendo might court the 3rd party support.

A few years later, I see the WiiU as the biggest waste of my video game budget ever. And this is coming from a guy who's paid for subscriptions and microtransations on MMOs.

I think the worst was seeing them not even attempting to court 3rd party support. Sure, the games would be a little more difficult to develop, given the gimmicky nature of their controller, but at least working with Natsume, or Marvelous after Natsume lost the Harvest Moon franchise (oddly enough, they kept the name) would have been nice.

At $350 for the system (close to $500 after buying everything to make it run well), having no Harvest Moon was a slap in the face. I'll pass until they get their act together.
shiney
10-24-2016, 09:24 AM
The lineup of 3rd party developers that will be making games is impressive enough, at least. It has potential.

I'm buying it strictly for Zelda. If other games come along then great. I got significant mileage out of the Wii U and I do not regret that purchase. I'm in the minority there perhaps but I don't mind buying a console if I know I'm getting hundreds of hours of gaming out of it.
Tev
10-24-2016, 03:18 PM
The controller looks so awkward to me.....at least in console mode. Maybe I'm just spoiled from years of Wiimote and DS ownership. This new controller looks like an N64 controller had angry violent cathartic relations with a Dreamcast controller and this was the result.
Arcanum
10-24-2016, 08:47 PM
The lineup of 3rd party developers that will be making games is impressive enough, at least. It has potential.

I'm buying it strictly for Zelda. If other games come along then great. I got significant mileage out of the Wii U and I do not regret that purchase. I'm in the minority there perhaps but I don't mind buying a console if I know I'm getting hundreds of hours of gaming out of it.

Sign me up to the "loved his WiiU purchase" club. Got a ton of value out of it. Granted I bought it about two and half years ago with the intention of playing specific exclusives and not on the premise of hype or what it could have been. I knew what I was getting, and what I was going to use it for, and it lived up to those expectations spectacularly (and even exceeded them since I bought more games than I had originally planned over the past ~2 years).

The controller looks so awkward to me.....at least in console mode. Maybe I'm just spoiled from years of Wiimote and DS ownership. This new controller looks like an N64 controller had angry violent cathartic relations with a Dreamcast controller and this was the result.

If you're talking about what http://i.imgur.com/o7870Qb.jpg then yeah I'm not too sure about it, mainly because the sticks and buttons are perfectly aligned. I'd have to get my hands on it before I come to an actual conclusion though.

Fortunately they already showed us http://i.imgur.com/Qdzs3AN.png so if the default one is terrible it's not the end of the world.


Anyway I have no plans on getting the Switch. I like the idea of it, but I'm planning on getting a PS4 some time in the next few months, and then my next big video game related purchase in the next couple years will be upgrades to my PC.

After that I'll see what kind of exclusives the Switch has and come to a decision on it, same thing I did with the WiiU and PS4.

It also helps that Breath of the Wild is coming out on WiiU.
greed
10-25-2016, 12:23 AM
Nintendo already burned me with the Wii and Wii-U. With the relatively small number of actual good titles (and even smaller number of non-Nintendo-IP titles) and focus on gimmics (screw you Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival) the last two consoles had, I remain hesitant to throw more money their way.

I kinda agree, on the other hand this also seems to be their 3DS successor as well and that definitely delivered.

.... I'll probably get it cause well fuck it this is my way of spending disposable income.