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Rumor: Beyond Good and Evil 2 will be announced along side NX As NX exclusive, will be a semi-reboot not full sequel letsplayvideogames.com news Nintyfan17
[siliconera.com] Links Awakening 64! Fan made LA mod for OoT! Please let this come out! siliconera.com news Dvader
[neogaf.com] Battlefield 1 is great?!?! High reviews! Mostly 9s, I'm shocked. neogaf.com impressions news Dvader
[youtube.com] Batman: Return to Arkham Launch Trailer It showcases the difference between the original and the remastered versions youtube.com media Nintyfan17
[rockstargames.com] It's official, Red Dead Redemption 2 coming Fall 2017 Teaser trailer due out on 10/20 rockstargames.com news robio
[youtube.com] Prey - The History of TranStar Trailer youtube.com media news Nintyfan17
[nintendolife.com] Breaking Down the Nintendo Switch Reveal King Boo in Mario Kart '8' and New Splatoon Goodness - nintendolife.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Zelda: Breath of the Wild video clips gonintendo.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Nintendo Switch car mount spotted gonintendo.com gamingeek
[youtube.com] Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer youtube.com media news Nintyfan17
[nvidia.com] Nvidea confirms partnering on Switch article has a good shot of the system and controller nvidia.com SupremeAC
[youtube.com] NX is called the Nintendo Switch! youtube.com media news Nintyfan17
[twitter.com] NX preview tomorrow at 10am est!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It's happening!!!!! But it will leave us wanting more! twitter.com impressions Dvader
[eurogamer.net] Superb fan-made trailer for new Pokémon games It's super effective eurogamer.net media SupremeAC
Nintendo Switch hardware specs: What we know and what we can guess - interesting post in the comments section too arstechnica.co.uk gamingeek
[vg247.com] VG24/7 out-of-touch Nintendo’s going at it arse-backwards again "the Switch is gimmicky, likely under-powered and can’t seem to front a decent release slate." vg247.com gamingeek
[gamespot.com] PS4 Pro Has Replaceable Hard Drive gamespot.com gamingeek
[twitter.com] Switch is 100% going to be region free. "Very confident in that" twitter.com gamingeek
[twitter.com] Switch: Expect price, date, specs and specific games expanded on by the end of the month investor call twitter.com gamingeek
[cinemablend.com] New Breath Of The Wild Trailer Watch Link Discover New And Interesting Creatures, Then Kill Them, In cinemablend.com media gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] Xbox surges as Microsoft's gamble pays off gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] Nintendo Switch heralds the end of the handheld era GI.biz gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] Unreal Engine 4 Will Be Supported on Nintendo Switch Rein *laughs* nintendolife.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] How Sony made the first "4K" games console Inside PlayStation 4 Pro eurogamer.net gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Analysts comment on Switch features, market audience, pricing expectations & more gonintendo.com gamingeek
Gearbox not yet sure of Switch support press-start.com.au gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] No official announcement on Switch games or specs this year Nintendo tells the WSJ gonintendo.com news gamingeek
[wsj.com] Nintendo stock falls 6.5% after Switch reveal Also worth pointing out, Sony stock dropped following the reveal of the PS4, as did Microsoft when they showed the Xbox One wsj.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Nintendo refuses to speak out on Switch having touch or not Also, Skyrim and NBA not confirmed for Switch by devs. eurogamer.net SupremeAC
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:22:35

I'm looking at those wireless joy cons and thinking they might be good controllers for VR.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:37:10
gamingeek said:

Wtf does that mean?

All this info comes from Laura Kate Dale, who has proven herself extremely trustworthy with information. She has gone through multiple sources to get this information. Still, it's all rumor until Nintendo confirms. If you hit up the source link, you can see just how Laura got all this info.



- Switch will be region-free



- Joy-Cons will support motion control & rumble



- Switch dev kits support Wiimotes



- motion support will be confirmed closer to launch



- the Splatoon and Mario Kart games will support motion



- Breath of the Wild will support motion control for things like gyro aiming, steering, use of the magnet ability



- the past six months have been legal and pre-development discussions between Ubisoft/Nintendo for Beyond Good & Evil 2



- discussions included budget and direction, project scope, and how much of previous development efforts could be salvaged



- October art teases were the result of the project reaching a point where all parties were confident they could re-announce it



- Switch screen is  a multitouch screen, used for menus, for drawing, for certain games


- all Switch games need to be playable with the handheld in the console dock, all Switch games will be playable without touch


- dock will have additional processing power


- maximum battery life of three hours


- price, release dates for regions, launch software and spec press releases are essentially ready for release

If motion controls are as good as the Wii motion plus then I am on board.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:20:38

It seems officially an nvidia tegra chip in the switch. It will be like a tablet. Not as powerful as Xbox one.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:45:00
I think it'll depend on if it's an x1 or an x2.  Digital Foundry has some good articles where they go in detail about what the X1 is capable of.  I'm thinking x1 would be comparable to WiiU, with an x2 not lagging far beyond the Xbone.

What stumps me more is how they're updating WiiU fames for Switch.  It's a totally different architecture, so they'll need to recode the whole thing.  Might as well just create true sequels then I'd think.
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:37:39
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Yes but handheld games usually cater to a completely different crowd. The handheld market may not even exist anymore because most people I see just play on their phones.

I think 3ds has sold upwards of 50 million. There's a market but it is shrinking. As for the taking the dog for a shit thing, that happens all the time. Everytime I go for a shit I'm using my phone.

There's a big difference between using a phone and lugging this thing around. But the point is more that if you can't stop playing a game for a few minutes to look around at the real world you need mental help.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 21:14:09
If I buy it, I'll only Switch it on at home like I do my Wii U and 3DS now.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:49:30

Just saw the credits roll in MH4U.  The 'last' battle was pretty unclimatic.  A whole battle riding around on a big canon, without having to confront the beast on foot at all?  That's not what MH is about...

I also realized that I hadn't seen a rather large number of the stronger beasts, so I took to the internet to see what was up with that.  So far I had been doing the Caravan Quests, the kind you get from your friendly quest marm.  But as now transpires, it's impossible to see all monsters only doing those quests.  You also need to do the online quests in order to even be eligable for some of the more advanced monsters to show up in the regular, offline portion.  That just doesn't make any sense.  So now I'll need to decide wether I want to battle those baddies enough to invest another 50 or so hours of fighting all the monsters I've seen before...  Why can't Capcom just make one big quest pool?  Why insist on having about 4 different quest pools, each one hidden further down boring menu's than the last, with only the first being related to the main story?  Bah.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 22:57:32

Some more thoughts on the Switch:

What's the deal with local multiplayer?  It would make sense that when on the go, you can only play with 2 per Switch.  It wouldn't make sense to support 4 Joy-con's on one Switch as they probably won't sell them seperatly.  But what happens when you're docked?  I can't see Nintendo ditching 4 player splitscreen gaming.

I understand that Nintendo is very weary of 'confusing' everyone with a muddied reveal, but seriously, they could have confirmed touch and motion controls.  Those things are enough of a known quantity to people by now that not including them has done exactly what Nintendo tried to avoid: make for a confusing message.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:29:47

I wonder if it'll even have a touch screen. How would touch screen work when it's in the dock? That would make some games unplayable on a TV.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 23:34:11

I'll just use the Switch when I'm at home for playing on the tv and off when I'm watching something like a hockey game or wrestling. It doesn't seem like something that would be portable enough for me to game on the go.

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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:37:43

Fortune Islands complete. Where are you, Travo?

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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:51:37
Dvader said:

It seems officially an nvidia tegra chip in the switch. It will be like a tablet. Not as powerful as Xbox one.

Not strictly true, it depends if it uses FP 16 or FP32 - GAF says it could reach 1teraflop if it's FP16. Laura Dale also says the dock has more power.

Also GAF are saying the Nvidia to AMD flops doesn't convert in a linear way. Also UE4 runs far better on Nvidia hardware too. But yeah, most people are expecting 500 - 750 GFLOPS.

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I think it'll depend on if it's an x1 or an x2.  Digital Foundry has some good articles where they go in detail about what the X1 is capable of.  I'm thinking x1 would be comparable to WiiU, with an x2 not lagging far beyond the Xbone.

A standard X1 is around 3.5x more powerful than Wii U. Digital Foundry say that when it sheds the Android OS the performance will be better. I think Nvidia said the PX2 was 40-60% better performance than the x1.

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There's a big difference between using a phone and lugging this thing around. But the point is more that if you can't stop playing a game for a few minutes to look around at the real world you need mental help.

I think the point is convenience. If you can literally pick it up and walk away with it people will. I spend anything from 5-45 minutes on the toilet so if it's a choice between staring at the empty walls for that long or playing a game or browsing the net, I'll choose to use tech. I can imagine taking your dog for a shit several times a day gets old fast, so if you can continue playing Zelda while you dog gets his jollies, why not? Playing late at night, go upstairs with it and continue playing in bed.

Have a train ride home after work - play on the train, come home, drop it into the dock, instantly continue playing. You also have the benefit of having offscreen play and that will include Wii U like offscreen use of apps like Netflix or Crunchroll. The number of times I've wished I could just walk upstairs and take the U pad upstairs for Netflix in bed. Ahhhhh.... so annoying.

My biggest concern is whether you can hook it up to any tv without the dock. I want to flip it between many different tvs. But if the dock does have more tech in it, it'll either be unaffordable to buy spares or not available.

Finally, like PSVR I wish you could feed through any HDMI signal to the portable unit.

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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:10:16
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I wonder if it'll even have a touch screen. How would touch screen work when it's in the dock? That would make some games unplayable on a TV.

I think someone said all games will have to be able to run without touch. It might not even have touch though. I can't tell you the number of people on GAF celebrating that it has no gimmicks. I don't get it personally but there are a lot of gamers who don't like change and just want what they know. Anyhow, I was reading gaf and a thread reminded me of that MCV news that NX would cost much lower than the vast majority of people would expect. The thread pointed out that it doesn't seem to have a camera, a mic, might not even have touch.

Nintendo might even be going with the X1 as a dirt cheap option if that Digitimes article on Nvidia's contractual obligations are true - in that supplying Nintendo with X1s would lose them less money than the punishments they would get by ditching their contracts.

They could literally be ditching functionality for a lower retail price.

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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:04:32

I have a hard time believing that the Tegra chip will be such a stellar performer.  Seriously, if it was so easy to build a relatively high performance piece of hardware as to just stick an X1 or X2 in there, why would Sony and MS go through all the effort of designing their consoles and not just take the same route?  Unless of course this is where consoles are headed.  I gues there's little point in discussing it now, we'll just have to wait for more info from Nintendo, and even then there's a chance we'll never know as they don't really care for tech specs no more.

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