Corpse Run 655: Versatility
It’s been a loooooooooong day and it’s about to be a loooooooooooooooong week. Chances are high that I’m going to be burnt out over the next seven days due to work, but we’ll see.
One of the shiny little beacons of interesting-ness this past week however, was the Nintendo Switch video. Nintendo showed off their new home console and all the neat things it can do.
…wait… it’s not a home console?
Well, not really.
Apparently the Switch is a tablet that you can physically connect controllers to to use in a manner similar to the Wii U, but they can also come off and be clipped together to make a regular controller while you play games on the screen when you’re not at home.
There’s a dock that comes with it with home theater I/O to connect to your TV, but it does none of the processing, the whole console is just the tablet.
On one hand, that’s really neat.
On the other hand, that’s not at all what I’d want as a customer. I have severe doubts that this thing is going to be powerful for a couple of reasons:
- It’s pretty thin, there’s not a whole lot you can really put in there and keep temperatures low
- It has a screen, so in order to keep costs down the rest of the hardware must take a hit
Also, when the Switch isn’t plugged in to power, wouldn’t the performance take a nose dive? Either that or the battery life will be abysmal.
I’m not sure what Nintendo is going for here. If I want to play games on the go, I have my 3DS and a phone; I’m not going to want to carry around a big tablet just to play games.
That said, I’ll likely have a moment of weakness and buy it at some point…
…but I’ll hate myself for it.
I’ll do like I did with the Wii U and wait a few years and buy one cheap.
they’ll release pokemon on it eventually and when they do I’ll buy it regardless of whether I’ll end up using it more portable or as a console.
You’ve got to consider it like this: The Switch IS the new 3DS. Likely, they’ll spend a year finishing off some games for the 3DS, then will retire it. Just as they will do for the Wii U. Think of the Switch as being the next step in the GameBoy/DS line. Just that it’s also a home console, and thus the next in the home console line. Yeah, you have your 3DS right now, and yeah, you can have fun playing it now, but it’ll be retired just like the Game Boy, GBA, and DS before it were when the next system in the line came out. They’re not planning to have the 3DS and the Switch. It’s going to be just the Switch.
That’s because it’s *not* a home console and possibly you’re not the target audience. The switch is a portable gaming tablet with a convenient AV dock.
Nintendo’s bread has been buttered by the DS for some time now but the mobile market is getting chipped away at by cellphones and tablets. To me it looks like Nintendo is committing all of their resources to being competitive in the mobile gaming space. With an AV dock and *adequate* performance they can appease the Nintendo console fans without having to commit additional resources (time, money, people) to another console in a mature market they’ve failed to gain a foothold in.
Meh, I don’t care ’cause I have a PS4.
(The audience is probably angry right now.)
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Good !
It’s not just 4 unicycles, but 4 MOTORunicycles!
Honestly though, it looks interesting, and it sounds like while physical copies of WiiU games won’t transfer over, digital might be (which, if they do upgraded versions for free, is pretty cool). It’s not quite interesting enough for me to rush out & but it in release, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
Yes, with me, the games that are on it decide whether or not I get it. Just put Animal Crossing, Pokemon, and maybe Fire Emblem on it… Oh yeah, Smash Bros to hit the multiplayer up. I won’t even ask for a Soul Calibur game or anything.
rumors put the nintendo switch as being the most powerful arm mobile device made. even more powerful than the latest ipad pro
No purpose behind this, it was just the first thing to come to mind.
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