Nintendo Switch revealed in official demonstration video

[virtuo]

After watching the video, it does look like nicely polished concept. Some things I'd be worried about though - the controls seem small, the "tablet" itself runs the risk of being underpowered (or at least compared directly with more powerful tablets), and having detachable parts on a portable is asking for trouble.

I think my favourite "feature "was being able to use the controller parts wirelessly like little wiimotes - I can imagine a market for reselling Wii classics Virtual-Console style for this.

Wii Golf on a plane?

[Zak33]

why the negativity guys?

I like the idea of removable side controllers to allow multiplayer, with the docking station at home

Why kick Nintendo? What makes it less good that old gen?

[directhex]

why the negativity guys?

I like the idea of removable side controllers to allow multiplayer, with the docking station at home

Why kick Nintendo? What makes it less good that old gen?

Sorta depends on what you expect from a console.

The easy way to be positive: it is the replacement for the 3DS, not the Wii U - and holy #### does it look good compared to the 3DS. Most powerful mobile console EVER.

The easy way to be negative: it is the replacement for the Wii U, but not even in the same league as the main consoles for power, so once again, will get no 3rd party games.

You can buy a system with the Switch's power today - it's called a Google Pixel C. But that's way more expensive, due to the better screen/battery

[j.o.s.h.1408]

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.

People already have another alternative to consoles/pc. its called a iphone 7/S7/ipad

[mojothejester]

Until I know what it can do, I'm not going to get very excited about it. I would be happy if it was as powerful as the xbox one or ps4. But as it's in tablet form, to me, it'll just be like a phone. Crap battery, overheating... Wouldn't have minded if the home dock thing actually had an external cpu/gpu/apu, to make it run better in home mode, but it'll just be a tablet cast onto a tv. Hopefully I'm proven wrong, I like Nintendo games

[nitro912gr]

People already have another alternative to consoles/pc. its called a iphone 7/S7/ipad

I never managed to enjoy gaming in my tablet or smartphone, let along to enjoy it with other people.

[DaMoot]

I kind of have the feeling that this is gonna be another WiiU debacle. I don't want giant hand-held screen as a gaming device. I want a console that I plug in to my TV! Nintendo, rewind all the way back to the Wii and try again!

[directhex]

My sources say it's definitely using a Cortex core, not Denver.

Which makes it X1.

Maxwell GPU, ~830M

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...-spec-analysis

Don't mean to say "I told you so", but...

The scary thing here is those clock speeds. The CPU is running *half* the speed of 2015's Shield TV. And the GPU is running at 30% or 75% of an 830M.