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Don't put the Princess on a pedestal.
ProspectorPete
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I like that they made the cartridges taste disgusting so that children won't eat it. Poor Jessica Chobot* 
*like if you understood that reference
*like if you understood that reference
Well i did say if you want it as a home console only. you also need need to get a pro controller and sd card, to have a descent controller with the console. you're looking at 400$, you can get a NEW ps4 for 235$ right now on ebay with uncharted 4.
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from the kotaku switch review.
"Breath of the Wild looks and performs noticeably worse when plugged into the dock than it does in handheld mode, a potentially worrying indicator of how the Switch’s graphics processing hardware will hold up over time. When I play on the TV, I notice frequent dips below the game’s 30fps frame rate, sometimes to the point that it’s genuinely distracting and makes it harder to play. Any time I’m running in tree-shade on a sunny day in Hyrule, zooming in for a closer view, or moving quickly through the rain, it feels like things drop into at least the 20-25fps zone."
this really sucks.
"Breath of the Wild looks and performs noticeably worse when plugged into the dock than it does in handheld mode, a potentially worrying indicator of how the Switch’s graphics processing hardware will hold up over time. When I play on the TV, I notice frequent dips below the game’s 30fps frame rate, sometimes to the point that it’s genuinely distracting and makes it harder to play. Any time I’m running in tree-shade on a sunny day in Hyrule, zooming in for a closer view, or moving quickly through the rain, it feels like things drop into at least the 20-25fps zone."
this really sucks.
monstercameron
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-nintendo-switch-review
what do you guys think about the max power draw of the switch?
That just sounds like Nintendo should have targeted a higher frame rate when they chose the graphics complexity for that configuration. Maybe they will patch it.
It's interesting to see how much hardware information we're getting about this thing. No secrets really. Not like the Wii U.
The battery life isn't super but I think it beats anything else I know of with this kind of processing capability while gaming. My Shield Tablet might be able to last 3 hours if I ran it in power save mode....
The battery life isn't super but I think it beats anything else I know of with this kind of processing capability while gaming. My Shield Tablet might be able to last 3 hours if I ran it in power save mode....
tongue_of_colicab
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I wonder if they could have fitted a bigger battery though. On those internal shots it looks like a lot of space is taken up by padding. If there is nothing beneath that maybe we'll see 10.000mah aftermarket batteries appearing?
what ever it is, nintendo needs to fix this asap. drop it to 720p if they have to.
Rootax
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It's only a port of a WiiU games, with different architecture. It's not cool, but I'm not surprised. Plus the hardware is crap power wise, so, they can't "bulldozer" the port, they need to tweak it good for running well. I guess they didn't have the time.
Nintendo Switch is 16W (docked home console mode). Xbox One Slim is 50W. Both when playing demanding AAA games. With 3x+ lower power consumption, it's not possible that the docked Switch matches current gen consoles in pure performance. But it's hard to draw any decisive conclusions yet, as nobody has compared the systems running the same AAA cross platform games. Let's wait for Digital Foundry verdict.
On handheld mode Nintendo made the right choices. 3 hours of gaming is a good target. The clocks are adjusted to reach this goal. In comparison, top of the line tablets (iPad, Shield Tablet) have higher CPU & GPU clocks, but only provide 1h - 2h of play time when playing demanding games such as Modern Combat 5 and Asphalt 8.
Rootax
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Conclusions about what ?
Conclusions about cross platform AAA game performance. Whether Switch also functions well as the lone home console, or would you want to also own a PS4 or XBox One to play cross platform AAA games at home.
Switch obviously is the best gaming portable around.
Rootax
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I don't think there will be a lot of cross platform AAA games anyway... Too many technical sacrifice to make...
I agree with the portable thing, they did a great job about that. Honestly, I believe the reaction would have been a lot better if the console was presented as the 3DS successor. But, they can't admit that they give up on the home console market... (which they did, let's be honest).
I agree with the portable thing, they did a great job about that. Honestly, I believe the reaction would have been a lot better if the console was presented as the 3DS successor. But, they can't admit that they give up on the home console market... (which they did, let's be honest).
To quote Mr. Iwata back before his passing.
So you can expect that we'll see many versions of the Switch. Probably a home console version in a year or two, as well as other revisions. One thing people need to realize is to upgrade the ENTIRE system, Nintendo simply needs to replace the tablet portion of the system with an upgraded one every few years. So you yank the old tablet out of the dock, plop the new tablet in and put in your mini-SD card into the new system and you're good to go. If it ever gets to the point where Tegra can't be upgraded anymore, it'll likely have a version so small by that point that adding it as extra hardware for BC wouldn't be a problem.
I honestly think Nintendo will try playing the long game with the Switch. It'll evolve and get better versions as mobile tech gets better and better. I also wouldn't be shocked if they started courting devs that have been exclusively on android/IOS to bring full versions of some of their games to the Switch. They got Puzzles & Dragons on 3DS, it wouldn't be crazy for them to push for the more impressive mobile games
I hope the day 1 patch fixes this. IIRC, the press is still playing with an old version of the firmware, as well as an unpatched version of the game. I could be wrong though.
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phoenix_chipset
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Uh oh...
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