Liveinadive wrote:

I couldnt give a flying fuck about 1080/60, the total obsession with those numbers is the absolute worst thing about gaming at the moment.
Yes worse that thing you just thought of and are about to type.

It's not unreasonable to expect the resolution to be the same as the screen it's playing on. Apparently Zelda looks and plays more smoothly on the mobile screen and I find this unacceptable even though I agree with your main point.

Only piece of Wii plastic of any use was the guns.

edit: Speaking of which I'm after a couple of plastic guns for my PS Move controllers but their fucking extortionate.

retroking1981 wrote:

Only piece of Wii plastic of any use was the guns. edit: Speaking of which I'm after a couple of plastic guns for my PS Move controllers but their fucking extortionate.

Loved the Move. Really under rated bit of kit.

There was a pub at my Uni that had a Time Crisis 2 machine, the big fuck off one.
It was set at a reasonable difficulty as well.
Great times, especially on pound a pint night.
Nothing beats ear piercing arcade sound for lightgun games.

This type of machine, that wasnt the actual place.

Apparently, bundled Joy-con grip won't charge actual Joy-cons.

Madness.

Source was @MyNintendoNews on Twitter. If it's accurate, that's bonkers.

It is true but we've already gone over it.

Not your fault, I'm sure there's been too many comments for you to catch up on, can't blame you for not bothering.

Jaco wrote:

Been head down in work all day.

Pfft.

You need to sort out your priorities, mate. This is serious business.

Had a customer ask if we had any WiiFit balance boards left today. Took me back.

Jaco wrote:

Time warp.

Let's Twist Again.

Hahaha

Nina wrote:

$300 is less than what I'd pay in euros

You won't need a different power adaptor?

Speedhaak wrote:

You know it might have been better (although it's clear it will never happen now) if they just came out with a balls to the wall gaming console with top tier first party games running at 4k/60fps with a focus on emulating the success of the Snes in the 90s and forget all this rubbish about living room party games and reenacting scenes form the matrix like a twat.

This applies to me, because I'd planned to buy their previous two when they'd fallen in price, but they were so dated by then — or will be, in the case of the U — that all attraction was lost. I'd begrudge paying £300+ for wheezy tech (unless it functioned as a full tablet), and it'll be two gens old when it hits a hundred.

dynamiteReady wrote:

On paper, it's one of the best tablets made since perhaps (ahem), the iPad Mini.

Without wishing to bring back any of my hacking chat, I agree.

g.man wrote:

The charging dog controller is a separate accessory that you have to buy though.

That connects to the dock over USB according to the specs sheet I saw earlier, so it doesn't appear to have its own battery. Maybe it does? Might just be a wired conduit, though.

retroking1981 wrote:

then again it is Hori not Nintendo.

Who've been around for ages as a third-party hardware outfit, @monkey. Mad Catz aren't doing so well these days, but they're another. Razer; Logitech; Saitek; Fanatec... The techs.

Liveinadive wrote:

I couldnt give a flying fuck about 1080/60, the total obsession with those numbers is the absolute worst thing about gaming at the moment.

I'm not backing that stance (proviso below), just repeating that it matters to (seemingly) a growing number. As I said above (and then I really must stop moaning), I wouldn't mind were its price reflective. The other two consoles had the advantage of an overlong previous generation when they came in at £350/430, plus reasonable levels of power.

The Switch makes a lot more sense as a portable, but the majority of those with pre-orders — that I've heard from — have stated home-use as their heavy primary. And though it's powerful as a portable, its size and battery are major hurdles in its application to that end.

In many ways it's a good idea, but I'd have kept the 6.2" screen and shrunk its case, and then removed the techy gubbins and two-player functionality from the Joy-Cons in favour of cheap replacements and a d-pad. For £199, a genuine 6.2" tablet with nice attachable controllers and a TV dock. I think that that screen size is a perfect compromise between portability and usability, but housed in their too-big case it's far less appealing.

I want to like it, I honestly do.

Tbf, Switch does use the best of cutting edge android tablet hardware for gaming purposes with detachable Nintendo controllers. People who want a more rounded tablet like experience really should check out nvidia's original shield.
As for pricing, I'm sure prices will go down during the holidays. People in day one will have to pay the early adopter full phat price.

Also, the current Switch uses active cooling with a fan. Make the housing any thinner and the thing will probably experience problems with heat dissipation. Here's waiting for the inevitable X2 soc upgrade.

Escape wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

All this said I will definitely get a Switch come Christmas and bust out some 720p Mario

Just to clear this up, Leadbetter was told that it was running 720/60 docked, and it's allegedly almost finished. Without 1080 to come down from to maintain 60fps, he questioned the available headroom for portable. 11 minutes:

Is the portable grunt deficit confirmed?  I can't click on that video at the mo.  I'd filed that with the Mario Rabbids stuff as rumour.