Nintendo Switch

[MrTambourineMan]

Zelda used to be my game. But i stopped playing once the first Wii came out

Just played through The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD versions on the Wii U and introduced my 3-year-old Nephew to the World of Zelda and he absolutely loved them and is now dressing up as Link for Halloween.


I'd forgotten how good they were, especially The Wind Waker. That game just oozes Charm.

[Rip Chudd]

Just played through The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD versions on the Wii U and introduced my 3-year-old Nephew to the World of Zelda and he absolutely loved them and is now dressing up as Link for Halloween.


I'd forgotten how good they were, especially The Wind Waker. That game just oozes Charm.

I have tried to get back into them. Bought all the games when i got my daughter her Wii U, but end up always just playing Mario Kart with her instead

[MrTambourineMan]

HanzGruber's ( The Poster ) reaction:

[CatchAndShoot]

Can you stream tv and movies?

What I'm wondering as well, and the pro controller looks like the xbox one's controller. Nintendo steady copying Microsoft with their controllers. First, the wii u pro looks just like the xbox 360's controller, and now this knock of the the One's controller.

And if it can stream and has a good amount of apps, I'm gonna be very tempted to buy this, if I'm not already tempted to get this. Gotta see what type of 3rd party support it gets, ad if it's gonna have the same games as the One, and PS4.

[$Bullsfam$]

What I'm wondering as well, and the pro controller looks like the xbox one's controller. Nintendo steady copying Microsoft with their controllers. First, the wii u pro looks just like the xbox 360's controller, and now this knock of the the One's controller.

And if it can stream and has a good amount of apps, I'm gonna be very tempted to buy this, if I'm not already tempted to get this. Gotta see what type of 3rd party support it gets, ad if it's gonna have the same games as the One, and PS4.

Exactly. If it supports streaming media and other stuff like it could be like getting a PS4 & Vista in one.

[HanzGruber]

HanzGruber's ( The Poster ) reaction:

lol wut

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[CatchAndShoot]

Exactly. If it supports streaming media and other stuff like it could be like getting a PS4 & Vista in one.

If it has the power it's rumored to have, then this might just be a definite buy. I'm also excited about playing a hand held on my bed with the power of an xb1, or a PS4. That's freaking insane if you think about it. It wouldn't just be a portable that's got ps4 or XB1 "like" graphics, it would be a portable gaming device with actual graphics of those systems, unlike the Vita, which was basically the PS3 lite, but not truly on par with the PS3.

And even though they might've taken away from the xbox one's controller scheme, it's not a bad thing, since the XB1 controller is my favorite ever.

Only other thing I need to know is how the online service is gonna stack up to the big dogs. If the online service is very good, it's a definite purchase.

And at $250, that's nothing. I'd have to cop one at that price. Hopefully that is the price.

[Robbie Barrett]

You're crazy if you think that thing is going to have the power of a PS4/XB1, it's a tablet which will have a mobile processor and graphics. It will likely be slightly better than the Nvidia Shield. This is more of a portable than an home console. The successor to the 3DS.

[Robbie Barrett]

According to a companion piece published by Eurogamer’s gaming technology-oriented Digital Foundry blog, the Nintendo Switch development hardware is using a version of GPU manufacturer Nvidia’s Tegra X1 chip, which also powers Nvidia’s Shield set-top box.

The Nvidia Shield box is a small set top box using a "passively cooled" X1 chipset, which means that stable, generally non-moving bits of hardware direct heat generated from the processor away from it. Digital Foundry’s article stresses that the X1 chipset in the Switch development box is actively-cooled, however, which suggests that the hardware in the dev kit is running at a faster configuration than existing products using that hardware.

Active cooling isn’t particularly feasible in a mobile device, however, so it seems likely that the Tegra hardware inside of the Switch is more advanced and more powerful than the existing X1. Conversely, perhaps the dock element of the Switch provides cooling for the tablet’s Tegra system-on-a-chip, which, along with a move from battery power to a dedicated power supply, could allow for higher performance in "console" mode.

Unfortunately, for fans looking for a new Nintendo console that’s "competitive" with the presentation capabilities of the PS4 or Xbox One, there’s not much to be excited for here. The Tegra X1 debuted in March 2015 with promises of PS3/Xbox 360 equivalent graphics, systems which were ten and nine years old at that time, respectively, and even then, this promise proved somewhat unsubstantiated. As Digital Foundry notes, Doom 3 BFG was natively ported to the Shield platform, and ran at 1080p and 60 frames per second in comparison to the 720p30 presentation on last-generation consoles. However, close comparisons suggested a significantly lower level of model complexity, normal and shadow maps, and texture resolution on the Nvidia hardware by comparison.

Put more simply, Doom 3 BFG ran faster and in higher resolution on Tegra, but it looks a lot worse in every other regard. Call it a wash, I suppose.

As Digital Foundry also points out, Nintendo’s new console doesn’t appear to be running Android, meaning developers on Nintendo's Switch will likely be able to secure performance increases and better looking games than Tegra has previously provided. And if the Switch is using the next generation of Tegra mobile chipsets, we could see even more performance improvements. The previous Tegra chip used a GPU derived from the same family as Nvidia’s 900 series of video cards, whereas the new generation moved to the hardware driving Nvidia’s recent 1080, 1070 and 1060 GPUs. These graphics cards are much more power efficient than their predecessors and more powerful to boot, suggesting the evolution in architecture might also help Nintendo get more out of Tegra.

While Tegra’s specifications are competitive with more modern hardware, its roots as a mobile chipset — designed for small form factor devices powered by batteries, rather than the power supplies in consoles and PCs — makes direct comparisons difficult, and not encouraging. The laws of physics make it hard for devices designed to run on batteries that will fit in a small form factor device — like a tablet, for example — output performance on par with devices that don’t have that constraint. A "faster" processor in a mobile device will have difficulty competing with a "slower" box plugged into your wall. Even if the Nintendo Switch's dock provides a power boost for the system’s SoC, it’s unlikely to boost it to anything remotely resembling the PS4 or the Xbox One. So it’s time to come to terms with that — and, potentially, to get excited for another new, different thing from Nintendo.

[Robbie Barrett]

It's going to come nowhere near to console performance and 32GB of storage is ridiculous, you'll be lucky to install 1 modern game on the thing.