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Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by phn »

kdamken wrote: post #327
Raphmedia wrote: post #314

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really need more than 2.5 hours of battery power? I can imagine myself playing on the dock in the morning, taking the train and using the battery for 1 hour, working/school, taking the train with the battery for 1 more hour and then dock it back on.

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.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by op00to »

nicky0 wrote: post #280
tmuir wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't call them Zelda Boxes for nothing. I'll admit I'm biased, but I see nearly every Zelda game as easily in the top 3, if not the killer app of each Nintendo system. Legend of Zelda - NES Link to the Past - SNES Links Awakening - Gameboy Ocarina of Time - N64 Wind Waker - Gamecube Twilight Princess - Wii Skyward Sword - Wii Heck, even the promise of how perfectly the WiiU's controller could have been for a Ze…

You forgot the best Zelda game of all - Majora's Mask - N64.

That game made me want to pull my hair out - the time limitations made it stressful, and I eventually just gave up.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

syntaxing wrote: post #322

I'm hoping someone can chime in to this, but putting the American market aside, is it just me or is this extremely marketable to the Asian market? Most of my Asian or Asian American friends exclusively play games on their phones. They play a wide selection of MMORPG to RTS games on their phones daily. Asians value games that are more repetitive (like EXP farming or turn based games, such as FF) and have great charact…

I'm going to guess they expect their handheld to last longer than 2.5 hours like a phone though.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by syntaxing »

tomw2005 wrote: post #328
syntaxing wrote: post #322

I'm hoping someone can chime in to this, but putting the American market aside, is it just me or is this extremely marketable to the Asian market? Most of my Asian or Asian American friends exclusively play games on their phones. They play a wide selection of MMORPG to RTS games on their phones daily. Asians value games that are more repetitive (like EXP farming or turn based games, such as FF) and have great charact…

> I would jump on this if I had more time to game. I'm getting it as I hope having a portable console will give me more time to game. It'll fit in my suitcase and plug into nearly all hotel TVs. That is pretty awesome.

Agreed! Especially if it can play movies. I hope they make some sort portable display dongle.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by eloisant »

djhworld wrote: post #305

I've pre ordered it, but £280 is quite a large pill to swallow, especially when the US is getting it for $300. Not sure if that's inflation or brexit or what, but damn. Will see what happens in the next few weeks before deciding whether to cancel or not.

it's €320 in France, which seems to be about the same as £280 so I guess brexit has nothing to do with it.

It's a long tradition of making European pay more when it comes to electronics.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by syntaxing »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #333
syntaxing wrote: post #322

I'm hoping someone can chime in to this, but putting the American market aside, is it just me or is this extremely marketable to the Asian market? Most of my Asian or Asian American friends exclusively play games on their phones. They play a wide selection of MMORPG to RTS games on their phones daily. Asians value games that are more repetitive (like EXP farming or turn based games, such as FF) and have great charact…

I'm going to guess they expect their handheld to last longer than 2.5 hours like a phone though.

But are there phones out there that are capable of playing graphics intensive games on normal-high brightness with sound and everything for longer than three hours? I don't play many games on my phone but when I used Pokemon GO, my battery was drained from about a hour of continuous playing.I remember reading online that an iPhone can't even playing clash of clans continuously more than three hours. Clash of Clans doesn't even seem like a graphic intensive game.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by justinhj »

eltoozero wrote: post #96
agumonkey wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're stretching it. The N64 was a beast even quite some time after introduction. I understand the point about SNES 3D ability blurring the line for the average consumer. But 1 minute into play and you'd understand the massive leap. I remember when Zelda 64 was released, a friend got all the latest PSX games (moto racer N, Tomb Raider 3, whatever). We played Zelda a few minutes, but then switched to the PSX. We trie…

Comparing the N64 and PSX is painful on many levels, I've always found the polygon tearing effect on the PSX extremely distracting and off-putting visually. (This artifact is an apparent result a lack of floating point support[0]) However the massive size of disc based PSX games vs N64 carts yielded visual variety that we just didn't get on the N64. Not to mention the music, although N64 Tetrisphere's amazing music b…

Yeah there was no floating point for a while on consoles. I remember spending a week or two making a renderer that subdivided geometry so the textures would tear less. It was more expensive so had to be done based on view distance.

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by tomw2005 »

iplaw wrote: post #295

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…

> 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.

It is a portable console that I can take on business trips. That's a use-case :)

Re: Nintendo Switch

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Post by bitwize »

Kiro wrote: post #165
johnhenry wrote: post #78

First off, I'm super excited by this. However, is it just me or is it a little disturbing to see Mario and his crew greatly out of proportion with the other "humans" in the world of Mario Odyssey ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ti9rFafwTw&t=65m49s )?

I found the whole "Mario in the real world" disturbing overall. A bit nightmarish.

I couldn't get Mario Is Missing! out of my head.
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