TheMightyEthan

I really doubt there's any actual processing capability in the dock (beyond possibly an upscaling chip), I'm sure any difference (if there even is a difference) in processing capability between docked and tablet mode is due to it going into a lower power mode to extend the battery life. I'm also confident that any processing difference will be used just to increase the rendering resolution and possibly framerate while docked, not anything massively gameplay altering. An interesting implication is that, if I'm right, you could get the same benefits in tablet mode just by plugging it in to a wall charger (though obviously there any increase in resolution would just work as fancier AA). I think people are worrying about the processing power issue too much. The Tegra is no slouch, and especially at 720p I think it will be able to do a lot more than people thing. Just look at the Shield, which also runs on Tegra: it does better at 1080p than the 360 can with same games at 720p, so if you take a newer, more powerful Tegra in the Switch, running games at 720p it'll be just fine. It's not going to be PS4/Xbone quality visuals, but I don't think it necessarily needs to be. Then add to that either an upsampling chip in the dock to sample the resolution up to 1080p (like how the PS4 Pro is doing 4k) or using a performance boost from being plugged in to render at 1080p native and I don't think there will be too much issue. I also think Nintendo is making a mistake by marketing it as not a 3DS or Wii U replacement. They should market it as a replacement for both. That's a pretty good value proposition to parents to be able to say look, get this one thing and now your kids have their handheld for the car in addition to their home game system, you don't have to buy two separate things.

Just finished my first game (and I was playing on quick!!) and I'm not a fan of the way they handled culture victory. There's no buildup to it, it's just suddenly you reach a certain level of tourism and poof, you've won. It's very anticlimactic. I liked it better in Civ V how you had to build the special wonder to complete the victory. That also gave you the option of *not* getting the culture victory even though you qualified, and continuing to a different victory if you wanted.

You don't have to have a touch controller on Vita TV though, you can do everything with a PS3 controller. Sure it doesn't support every Vita game, but it also wasn't released until several years after the Vita so lots of games used touch in a way that wasn't compatible with it. With the Switch though it'll all be released as one thing so they can plan from the get go for everything to support both modes. Again, things could be made that work better with the touch, but that you *can* do without it.

I want to qualify what I said about the resolution: 720p is fine if it's full RGB. If it's pentile then yeah, it's shit.

The screen is about what I expected too. 720p at that size is shit compared to a cellphone, but really it's still perfectly fine. @Cowboy: I really really doubt that there will be tablet-mode-only games. I imagine the touch will be primarily for menus and stuff, and that while it may be more convenient for some things you'll be able to everything on the TV that you can do on the tablet. Similar to how Vita TV handles things.

6.2" 720p multitouch screen. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-27-nintendo-switch-has-a-6-2-multi-touch-screen It's smaller than I thought. I would have thought it was 7". Also, everybody probably already saw this, but Ninty isn't giving price or specific release date info until Jan 13.

No, the warmongering thing has never been like that before.

I'm playing on Chieftan and my neighbors keep declaring war on me. It's getting really irritating. Especially irritating is that Egypt just denounced me for being a warmonger despite the fact that I have literally never started a war and always make peace as soon as the option appears in the diplomacy screen.

I've seen the Japanese version and had completely forgotten that...

Shitfuck, I'm running out of time to replay the Daud DLC.

What the shit is that dinosaur rockstar show? I totally vaguely remember that...

Solved it! The problem is Windows Defender real-time protection, so if you go into Windows Defender settings and add the Civ VI folder as an exclusion then it loads just fine.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way. It seems like the controllers that are out are always busted up, too.

Supposedly if you have the stuck-at-the-leader-load-screen issue I'm having you can "fix" it by performing a full restart of your computer every time before you launch the game. I haven't had a chance to try it yet.

The October 5 driver is the one I'm on. It's the one I was on Friday when it worked, and the one I was on today when it didn't.

I'm sure I'd love the game if I could get past this screen: Been sitting here almost 10 minutes. It worked fine Friday, loaded in less than a minute, but now it just sticks here. I haven't changed drivers or anything.

Because if the Switch is $500 then I'm not getting it and I'm keeping the Wii U, cause I need something to play Zelda on.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. I quite enjoyed it. It was fun, and not just in the actual "fun to play" sense, but in the theming and everything too. Now I can sell my Wii U as soon as they price the Switch. *Edit - Leaks are suggesting $299 for the basic console and $399 for bundles (although it's not known what's in the bundles) so that's promising.

Up till now Nintendo's been pretty good with BC. The Wii and WiiU both were, and every handheld they've ever released has been. *Edit - Luckily for me there's nothing on the Wii U I feel the need to keep access to.

Considering that n is faster than all but the very fanciest of home internet connections it would be more than sufficient for the Switch.

Pretty sure the Wii U and 2DS support g.

I already posted that.

That one tweet by the Washington Post guy says they're going silent until next year, but the people who leaked the info about the Switch (which all turned out accurate) are saying Nintendo will be giving specs/etc by the end of the month.

I haven't gotten to play it yet but from reviews/previews I read it sounded like the AI turns were faster than previous civs.