Nintendo Switch revealed in official demonstration video

[Pleiades]

Nintendo seem more 'Think Different' than Apple these days... always a risky proposition not to go with the flow though...

[directhex]

It's not Denver.

So either it's X1, or some magical specially created chip with Cortex CPU & post-Maxwell GPU. The former is MUCH more likely, given the thermal concerns of this going in a tablet.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...y-nvidia-tegra

[FRISH]

I'm somewhat interested in it. I kind of wanted a WiiU but decided that for the cost of it, it's not worth it for the low performance. I do have a 3ds which again isn't that great cost performance wise. So again it will depend on the cost, and even though it may not be an amazing step up, combining the home console and portable markets could work well. I'm not totally convinced on the controllers though.

[DanceswithUnix]

I kind of wanted a WiiU but decided that for the cost of it, it's not worth it for the low performance.

I wonder how many people skipped the Wii-U and so are ripe for a Nintendo fix

Personally I got the Wii-U just for Mario Kart.

Edit: I thought Nvidia said it wasn't worth doing consoles?

[jigger]

Offering a tablet to the console market will be a tricky sell with only 17% of the performance of the PS4 pro. I think this is going to need to be well priced to be a success outside of Japan.

[directhex]

Edit: I thought Nvidia said it wasn't worth doing consoles?

They're not! They're doing a tablet

[scaryjim]

They're not! They're doing a tablet

Uh oh - I sense flame wars a-brewing:

"It's a CONSOLE"
"It's a TABLET"

Wonder what horrid portmanteau term will get foisted on it....

EDIT: as an aside though, they could almost certainly make huge sales out of providing emulators for NES/SNES/GB/GBA and running a retro game download store - my cheap-ass android gamblet from three years ago makes a great GBA emulator....

[Jace007]

very interesting, kudos for Nintendo bringing out something different but some what lacking; from What people really wanted from the NeXT Nintendo project. I was thinking they would go for a more standard console with the bells and whistles. For the age market its aimed at i think this is spot on. Those small controllers look way too small to hold on larger hands. I'm sure Nintendo will have a nice list of games to backup the /Switch/ lets hope it comes at a nice price.

[Xlucine]

The dreamcast lives again! The wireless mobile co-op looks like the most interesting part of it, it's a big step up from what's been possible in the past. I don't see much use for connecting it to a TV - that invites comparisons with the other consoles, which are a lot more proficient with grpahics. TFLOPS doesn't automatically equal good gameplay, but on a big screen the differences in fidelity with less-stylised games will be hard to ignore - did I see skyrim in the trailer?

[directhex]

Consider this: The Wii U is Nintendo's last ever home console.

This is a 3DS successor. It has a dock - so what? So do plenty of mobile phones & tablets.

[nitro912gr]

This is a nice move by nintendo, there is no reason for another PC-like console out there, the 2 from sony and MS already are more than enough for a saturated market.
Actually nintendo is trying to give a reason for someone already owning a pc or/and another console to buy their machine, just like what happened with wii.

I don't know if this is gonna work, but nintendo always aimed to a more toy-like machine and this helped ninty survive with wii, there where "serious" games, but what got the people into wii was the casual gaming that you can enjoy with friends who are not really into videogames. I could play a wii game with my girlfriend and have a lot of fun, but there is now way to have a lot of fun playing something else from the games that I enjoy as a pc gamer.

[Stu C]

This certainly has some attractive elements. Like the idea of split screen gaming with my son when away from home.

[Dashers]

Looks like a great idea to me. Interesting that the video didn't feature much in the way of kids playing on it!

Nintendo don't ever produce consoles for the COD-gamer. But as we all know, you should be doing your hard-core gaming behind a desk on a PC. For fun casual gaming, this looks like a great idea - battery life will be important though. The control system looks much better than just using a tablet for gaming during your commute etc.

And it's great for parents too. Kid playing on the TV and you want to watch it? Tell them to naff off and they can carry on the game - none of this "but I'll lose my game!" that we risked as kids.

Not that I'll get one, I play games out the way on my PC.

[EvilCycle]

They need to heavily market this as a handheld replacement that CAN be docked to be played on a big screen if wanted, otherwise people are going to see it as a competitor to ps4/x1 which it obviously isn't!

[realstock]

Impressed with the concept, not concerned about the power of the hardware, considering it will likely only ever run Mario games which hardly push the envelope.

Unless they open their portfolio I expect they will find it difficult to penetrate the market like they did in their heydays, tablets these days have quite a wide variety of games that isn't restricted to classic Nintendo favorites.

[DemonHighwayman]

I don't get all the hate in the comments, this is the first nintendo since the N64 which has showed a lot of potential. Yes its not as tflop crazy as the next xbox but least its not using stupid wii (hand waving) gimmicks. To me this sounds like a system built for gamers rather than a wider audience, and even sounds as if it has decent third party support.