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Since the initial reveal, I have been utterly underwhelmed by this product. I fail to see a viable market or a satisfactory use case for such an oddly designed and artificially limited gaming device, and am confident that it will be yet another failure in a long line of Nintendo failures. No touch screen? Not a single camera for AR content and/or social communication? The controllers look miniscule in the actor's tin…
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Dolphin EMU really highlights how strong and under-appreciated so many of the GameCube gen games are: Viewtiful Joe, F-Zero X, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine, Pikmin, Wind Waker, and especially the Metroid Prime series are outgrageously good games. Hard to think of any real bombs in that entire library TBH.
Oh man, games like F-Zero GX, you just don't get this stuff on Sony or Microsoft consoles. Also Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros Melee! Stuff of legends. 4 player support on the same couch? Damn. Gamecube might have been the best console from Nintendo in my view.
(It's playable on the older Wii models with gamecube ports if anyone is intrigued by the description)
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Um, yes? 2.5 hours is terrible. Besides a daily commute, many flights are more than 1 hour. Also, it'd be nice to not have my device die immediately if I forgot to charge it three times a day.
You kinda have access to USB power on a flight. It should suffice I think.
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Um, yes? 2.5 hours is terrible. Besides a daily commute, many flights are more than 1 hour. Also, it'd be nice to not have my device die immediately if I forgot to charge it three times a day.
You kinda have access to USB power on a flight. It should suffice I think.
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"The games are on cartridges.. what year is this?" Assuming you are referencing optical media: A year in which optical media is actually having a hard time keeping up with cartridges in capacity and size and gets blown away on random read speed. (Possibly raw read speed too, depending on the specs.) In the PS1/PS2 era, the optical media advantage in size and price per MB was clear. In the PS3 era it was possibly less…
> Optical media also means you aren't portable Err, the PSP would disagree with you. So would a whole generation of portable CD players. I agree that SD is a better choice, or even the current gen of DS carts, but optical is not necessarily a killer.
And the battery power issues have relatively gotten more acute since then, as have the performance issues. It's less viable now than it was then, and it's debatable whether it was a good idea then.
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I don't really get the obsession with high end graphics. Hyper Light Drifter is one of the most beautiful games I played to. For me the Switch looks powerful enough to run beautiful games. A good art direction trumps raw power in almost all cases.
Right, but imagine good art direction AND raw power.
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> Finally, I'll be able to have one piece of hardware for playing at home and on the go. Until you're done playing both games, and then what ?
Which both games? There will be plenty of games coming out. And if not, Skyrim is pretty much a game you can play forever (and people, including me, still do).
Skyrim is not a launch title.
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I do want to point out that it matches current consoles in the US, but is actually going to be significantly more expensive than anything on the market in many countries. Where I am, for example, if they release at exactly the US price -- which they won't, prices always get inflated -- a Switch will cost more than a PS4 that comes packed with Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Dishonored 2, three hit games. On top of this, I thi…
Regarding the iPad, do kids/parents see that as a gaming device? You can't get real games on one of those.
My house has a PS4, Ps3, Wii-U, a gaming PC, a Vita, and two 3DS machines. My kids spend 90% of their gaming hours on an iPad or phone. The PS4 is my favorite device.