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Ouch. That plane ride in the ad must be real short.
Somewhat an aside, but you can plug things in on planes.

Laura Kate, who's been spot on with all of her leaks so far and has some real ace insider sources. She broke the PS4 Pro long before anyone else too.

http://letsplayvideogames.com/2016/10/a-deep-dive-on-lpvgs-nintendo-switch-reports-and-info/
Well, three hours would work fine for my daily commute back and forth, but yes, that'd be a shitty battery time for a handheld and I don't know if I'd get it for that purpose until the better-battery model came out, like what happened with the 3DS. (Though as Dei said, still better than the Wii U gamepad :/.)
 
If it is running the same sort of hardware as the shield, then yeah, about 3 hours sounds right.

You can have a 'gaming' tablet for the big graphics. You can have a long battery life. You can't have both.
 
I'm wondering if Nintendo's plan here is to make a killing on the recharging stands by selling the console at cost...
But that's part of the console; it's the little briefcase dock.

Unless you mean for the individual ones, because one handheld ain't gonna do it per household. Hmm, you might be onto something.
 
But that's part of the console; it's the little briefcase dock.

Unless you mean for the individual ones, because one handheld ain't gonna do it per household. Hmm, you might be onto something.
Yeah, but if they expect this thing to be portable, they are going to need to sell a charger. People are going to want to charge this at work, to use an outlet on the bus, to charge it at your hotel room on vacation, etc... you need a way to charge this away from the main dock.
 
Yeah, but if they expect this thing to be portable, they are going to need to sell a charger. People are going to want to charge this at work, to use an outlet on the bus, to charge it at your hotel room on vacation, etc... you need a way to charge this away from the main dock.
Given it's tablet design and innards, I wouldn't be surprised if it just took a USB-C charging cable.
 
Given it's tablet design and innards, I wouldn't be surprised if it just took a USB-C charging cable.
Nope. Nintendo ALWAYS makes it's chargers proprietary now because they know they make money on them. It's why they changed it from 2DS to 3DS and why the 3DS XL doesn't come with one (or at least didn't at launch).
 
Nope. Nintendo ALWAYS makes it's chargers proprietary now because they know they make money on them. It's why they changed it from 2DS to 3DS and why the 3DS XL doesn't come with one (or at least didn't at launch).
It's not like there aren't 3DS-to-USB converter cables to charge them off of any portable battery. They will come for this too after a while.
 
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Speaking as someone who owns Nintendo products and has owned 3rd-party versions of Nintendo products in the past, I'd rather just pony up the extra for the proprietary, because I'm going to have to buy it eventually anyway after the janky 3rd party piece stops working. Even 3rd party controllers for Nintendo consoles were a crapshoot, and that was before they got weird with the Wii and Wii U.
 
I find it laughable that 3 hours battery life is remotely consisted OK in 2016. My old Gameboy would last an entire week between charges when I was in high school.

Then again, I have a Samsung S6 Edge and despite all my efforts, awesome phone, shit battery. I have 2 portable batteries to plug in.
 
I find it laughable that 3 hours battery life is remotely consisted OK in 2016. My old Gameboy would last an entire week between charges when I was in high school.
They had rechargeable Gameboys? Mine would last a couple weeks, but then it was time to throw in a couple new Duracells. And that was a Color; my sister had an old school Gameboy and that needed four batteries.
 
I'll also point out that the game boy had really low end hardware even by 1989 standards. There's a reason every other handheld system had far better looking games, but awful battery life.
 
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-22-nintendo-switch-nx-games-specs-release-date

Some speculation and also some definite stuff. There's a suggestion that the Joycon sides will each have motion controls like a Wiimote and nunchuk, but also will have no backwards compatibility whatsoever, i.e. a clean breaking after the merge of console and handheld development teams at Nintendo.

Something a little more concrete: while no price has been announced yet, it's stated the Switch will not be sold at a loss. I'm wondering just how pricey that will get then.
 
I can already imagine the logo and how the trailer will unveil it. The psycho will come out and do the usual finger-gun motion with one hand to the head, then two hands... he'll look confused for a second and all you're going to hear is the ZZZZZZIPPPP of someone's pants, followed by a third hand coming up from the bottom of the screen, forming the third finger gun. Cue splatter shot and logo.

This dreaded three-armed Bandit will then become a rare spawn in the game.
 
I can already imagine the logo and how the trailer will unveil it. The psycho will come out and do the usual finger-gun motion with one hand to the head, then two hands... he'll look confused for a second and all you're going to hear is the ZZZZZZIPPPP of someone's pants, followed by a third hand coming up from the bottom of the screen, forming the third finger gun. Cue splatter shot and logo.

This dreaded three-armed Bandit will then become a rare spawn in the game.
*The sound of someone at Gearbox writing something on a piece of paper and running to the advertisment department.*
 
There you go Capcom, you aimed your game squarely at hardcore fighting game fans and you got only them.

YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A BASIC ARCADE MODE.

Fuck.
 
It's really easy to see why Japan thinks going mobile is the correct strategy when they clearly don't know how to cater to their audience anymore.
 
Just waiting for Square-Enix to drop the ball (again) next. Capcom had a turn, Konami took like five turns at once, and I feel next it's time for Square-Enix to let everyone down when it comes to either Final Fantasy XV or the FFVII remake.

That Doom thing looks cool though.
 
Just waiting for Square-Enix to drop the ball (again) next. Capcom had a turn, Konami took like five turns at once, and I feel next it's time for Square-Enix to let everyone down when it comes to either Final Fantasy XV or the FFVII remake.

That Doom thing looks cool though.
There are a ton of custom classic Doom maps (called WADs) and mods, it's a surprisingly active community.
 
Just waiting for Square-Enix to drop the ball (again) next. Capcom had a turn, Konami took like five turns at once, and I feel next it's time for Square-Enix to let everyone down when it comes to either Final Fantasy XV or the FFVII remake.

That Doom thing looks cool though.
They are already getting shit on for the FFVII remake because it's not turn based combat. By turning it into active combat, a lot of the older fans feel like it's not a game for them anymore. Personally, I couldn't care... I love Kingdom Hearts, so this is perfectly fine with me.
 
They are already getting shit on for the FFVII remake because it's not turn based combat. By turning it into active combat, a lot of the older fans feel like it's not a game for them anymore. Personally, I couldn't care... I love Kingdom Hearts, so this is perfectly fine with me.
I do too and the combat change makes it more likely to be something I'd play. I don't trust them to retell it effectively.

There's a point I've come to accept I liked the FF games when I was a teenager, and that a lot of the dumb shit in them is aimed at teenagers, so as long as they can get the gameplay decent (i.e. not FFXIII), let the teens enjoy their weird angst train.
 
One time I advised the young emperor Claudius and wrote a history of the foundation and growth of Rome.

I was Livy.
 
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