The Nintendo Switch

The people whose leaks have been most accurate e.g. Emily Rogers have been saying that it will be region free, and Iwata said on a few occasions that they were thinking about it. This console has got to have some big dumb thing wrong with it tho so it could be that :/

holding out for the big mario party announcement

I'm going to end up having to buy two of these.

i was also surprised that apparently there's no touch-capability.

i haven't had a nintendo console since the wii (which i attempted to mod and ended up bricking within 2 years), but i'm not sure this is going to be the one.

the whole gimmick where you can transform it into a handheld and go off to the williamsburg party and play videogames on the rooftop at the bbq - that's kinda cool in theory but i know i would never do something like that. when i walk my dog in the early morning, i like to just sit on the bench and pay attention to her, i don't want to resume my dragon quest at that moment. and after getting beaten down IRL 2v2 basketball underneath a bustling highway, i know my bros aren't going to want to play nba 2k18 with me. they'll probably be mad at me for being bad at basketball irl, 15 minutes earlier. i don't play games on public transport either. i'm just not a handheld person, so i feel like the main purpose of the system design isn't aimed toward me.

kind of raisin' an eyebrow at the cartridge thing, although maybe these days cartridges can handle resource-intensive games? either way, i guess it has to be a cartridge so that you can Switch(tm) your game into mobile mode so you can level up while you're eating brunch and windsurfing in the afternoon.

whoooa, that came out way more negative than i meant it to be, sorry. i'm sure this will be a cool system and i will be jealous of all people getting to play the nintendo 1st party franchise sequels, for real.

solid state storage is fast in a way optical media will never be, and I get the impression that the Japanese market wouldn't be about a download-only platform. Also yeah carrying around an optical drive would work about as well as a discman.

(a discman that needed to stream textures to the GPU without skipping.)

idk i think the portability is actually pretty interesting/compelling. the best thing about the Xbox one right now is how it integrates into the windows 10 ecosystem. i can play it on my pc in my office, on my laptop in bed, or on the TV directly from the Xbox in the usual way. this limited portability is pretty awesome, and extending the possibility to take the game with you anywhere is a logical extension and seems pretty cool. Xps

yeh I play handhelds mostly at home, in bed etc. playing an Atlus game while cycling is on TV is my jam!

Kind of funny that there were no kids in that video, unless I missed something.

I think the average age of someone playing video games is now around 30

goin' for chill hipster demo?

going for that disposable income demo for sure

I would like to see all the cables involved for connectivity ie power/recharging etc

The WiiU is a monster for too many cables, I don't want to go through that again.

i can play it on my pc in my office,

oh is that a thing? like, via remote desktop or something? this makes me pretty glad i don't have an xbox.

It will have a multi-touch screen. That's semi-confirmed (again from Emily Rogers' so far 100% correct fact sheet)

xp there's a windows 10 app that lets you stream games which is basically, as you say, a remote desktop thing. supposedly you can also set up your home router to allow you to access your Xbox from anywhere with internet but i haven't tried this

You can do that with the PS4 as well, but I haven't used it any further away than a laptop on the same wifi

looks cool

wish i had the desire/time to get back into games

yeah if you could just go into a hotel or a friend's apartment & hook this up to play on the tv, w/o anything complex, that would be terrific.

that's actually a good point

ugh new mario looks DREADFUL. they have turned him into a little blond girl with pointy ears running thru the countryside. too far SJWs too fucking far

You guys want a thread title change?

yeh that would help.
the battery life on this thing is going to be terrible isn't it?

You can do that with the PS4 as well, but I haven't used it any further away than a laptop on the same wifi

how do you do this???

https://remoteplay.dl.playstation.net/remoteplay/

you've just changed my life. the biggest impediment to ps4 gaming is that my kids are always using the tv.

Changed title to just 'The Nintendo Switch', lmk if you want a ref to the NX in there still.

for some reason i didn't know you could remote play outside the vita, this is good info. @mordy, from my experience doing this on the Xbox it's an awesome feature of the current gen that i wouldn't give for anything. it's rad to know everyone is proceeding on the assumption that portability is a necessary feature

Mordy, the vita really does the trick well ime

it works well for some games for sure, but if you need the r2/l2 buttons regularly it's kind of a chore ime

some games also seem to have developed better control schemes for working w vita than others so it may be a game by game basis kind of thing

but do i need the vita if i use this software? i think i'd prefer to play on my big macbook retina screen anyway

nah, macbook will likely work better for you if you're a laptop in bed kinda guy

you will probably become that guy, given the opportunity

ipad / home office / no children have thus far led to me not being that guy but life is long

so does remote play only work over the wi-fi or could i set it up to access from anywhere?

On the PS4? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can remote play over the internet if you're away from home. The PS4 has to be in standby with the 'wake for network activity' (or whatever it's called) enabled, so you can wake it with the remote play request.

So the list of commitments for 3rd party support is already awesome. I cannot wait to play a new DQ on this. And Terraria! I bet they'll have Terraria for this. I'm going to have to buy a headset thingy with the microphone and everything.

My daughter is going to be the perfect age for this when it comes out. Dudes. 2017 is going to be the best.

can't believe your daughter is 27 and bbqing on a rooftop

badump switch

i clearly have to hurry up and make a child to get ready for this

Our Wii U (with Kart and Smash Bros) sits idle while my 9-year-olds play Geometry Dash and slither.io on the tablets. IDGI.

they love that name wii don't they
http://i.imgur.com/8KkKvdG.png

u r mr gay

Remote Play is good but will drag ass if ppl are streaming video. I would still get one anyway in your situation though as the Vita has tons of games worthy of your attention.

re: the Switch, the fact that it's not going to be BC with any previous games is making me want to hold off from buying at launch. REALLY hoping they don't make me rebuy all the digital shit I've bought over the years, although previous efforts on Nintendo's part in this regard are not encouraging.

They will absolutely make us rebuy it, and we will, because we are weak.

It totally makes me feel great about my decision to have not bothered with any Nintendo digital shit since 2007 or so!

Their digital system has been garbage for a long time, was hoping for this system they'd finally implement multi-system buys like Steam/XBL/PSN.
No backwards compatibility makes me sad as well and makes this a lot of less of a slam dunk for me. Probably gonna be a year or two before whatever version of Smash Bros comes out anyway....

Yeah, that sounds about right to me too, so many Switch 1 owners who would happily buy it and frankly I doubt there'll be some kind of killer NSW2 features... but who knows, maybe Nintendo finally gets their online stuff right

the new mouse will prob be used for new metroid since its a fps but im sure itll be playable without too

yep it was just shown in the switch 1 direct. maybe they'll show it again next week to demonstrate the switch 2's graphics capabilities though that's a very un-nintendo thing to focus on

also lol at nintendo poaching multiple sony series (patapon and everybody's golf) sony truly does not care about non-Cinematic games anymore despite astro bot posturing otherwise, they're giving them away

haven't played any games in a while but if wind waker gets a switch port, tha drought is over

Raidou remaster a big surprise, coming to every other platform too
happy to see a new Rhythm Heaven game

have always been curious about saga frontier 2, its one of my favorite artstyles from that era but never played it

I’m a sucker for hot shots golf

i was down on the switch mario golf and its gimmick so nice to have another more classic option

loved the psp version of hot shots golf but didn't like the ones I've tried since then
bring back the daftness of pangya imo

i was thinking - wasn't Mario Golf basically a skinned Hot Shots Golf, often the same developers even?

new rhythm heaven, yay!

the official Pac-Man metroidvania game looks absurd, love these kinds of things

yeah y'all were right - crossgen Metroid it is!

But... giant tree, "magic" powers - is Samus a tarnished now?

the pac-man game and the old man platforming game both looked good but I assume those aren't switch exclusives

Sure is a lotta vulva imagery in the new Metroid.

Also, never having a Wii and being somewhat checked out on video games during that stretch, I either completely forgot or didn’t even know there was a Metroid Prime 3.

replayed metroid dread, real good game the movement is crisp and nice, i found it pretty easy this time tho i remembered it being kind of hard, one thing is it sort of betrays the metroid formula by effectively guiding you to your next intended destination, theres not actually a lot of backtracking or needing to find things if you just go the obvious way the game wants you to, its not totally obvious theyre doing it its well done which is nice it feels good to progress along, maybe i found it easier this time because i wasnt trying as hard just breezing along instead of looking all around, only annoying thing they basically make you fight three versions of the same boss in quick succession at the end of the game wonder if those were intended to be different guys but they ran out of time