Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]

Post by eropple » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

jbmorgado wrote: post #540

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Telling you what you wanted to know wasn't an invitation to argue with me. I am the OP to whom you refer. I didn't mix the dates; you misread the antecedent to which "release date" referred and, in an effort to treat your response in good faith, I issued a mea culpa I then edited out when I realized that I had had it straight in the first place.

What did you had straight in the first place, the fact that your comment wasn't clear about if you where talking about Fallout 4 (like you said in the mea culpa that you now removed) or Skyrim Special Edition, or that you said it "came out 3 years ago"? Because neither Fallout 4, Skyrim original and Skyrim Special Edition "came out 3 years ago", and if you weren't going around editing your comments, my comment would…

Post by Natanael_L » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 11:47 PM UTC

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Maybe not a popular opinion right now... but I'm so glad there's at least one brand out there that isn't jumping the 'VR'/'AR' - bandwagon. I've tried to get into VR with the oculus and the VIVE, but no, it's just not for me. Happy to see Nintendo do what they do best: come up with a great formfactor, but let games be games.

This seems prime for AR to me. Head out with your device, catch some pokemon, then plug it into the big screen.

Post by macspoofing » Sun, Oct 23, 2016, 12:37 AM UTC

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Having horsepower doesn't hurt, no matter how much Nintendo PR will try to spin it that way.

More horsepower can hurt because it's more expensive to produce content for (textures/polygons/realism expectations), and more money on the line for the studio means less creative risk taking permitted.

Post by blakeyrat » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 5:46 PM UTC

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The Xbone and PS4 can both play Skyrim and Fallout 4. Nothing Nintendo's put out can come close. Just sayin'. Different people have different priorities when it comes to gaming.

Not sure if you noticed in the Switch launch video, but that's Skyrim they're playing. It looks like Nintendo is putting some effort into third party this time, and they'll be the only "console" which allows you to play "console" third party games portably. Pretty significant advantage.

Post by AndrewKemendo » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 6:59 AM UTC

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I disagree. I think it's a massive lack of imagination on the part of manufacturers that has led to mediocre deployments. I think your comment reflects a sentiment that I agree with which is that HMD based systems today do not give the same degree of awe that happened when the NES came out - or even the playstation. I'd rather see Nintendo invest heavily ($5BN+) in an AR VRD and infrastructure that changes the landsc…

AR needs better hardware still. It needs very powerful GPU:s and processors, running at very low power with good and yet lightweight batteries. While we probably can produce great AR content today and produce headsets to display it, it will likely take almost another decade before it can be made portable in something you WANT to use.