TheMightyEthan

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.

https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-switch-not-compatible-with-3ds-nor-wii-u-games-394759.phtml Switch will not play Wii U discs or 3DS cartridges. It's still an open question whether it will support them via the eShop.

I was actually thinking about the disc drive, and how that base station seems weirdly big. What if there's a drive in that for use when it's docked? I doubt it, but with Nintendo you never know.

Oh yeah, there could easily be back compat problems for other reasons, I was just talking about the limitations imposed by the screen situation.

BC should be possible for any Wii U game that supported off-screen play, because it can just treat it like you're always in off-screen mode. You're gonna be SOL for games that didn't support off-screen though, as well as DS/3DS games. I'll be interested to see what they do with Wii games, because theoretically they could let you pair some Wiimotes to it.

It'll arrive tomorrow, I'm just irritated how late in the day it will be.

Apparently Eurogamer is getting info that the tablet screen is 720p, so I'm guessing most games will run at native 720p, which lends support to my guess that there's probably an upscaling chip in the base station to bump it up to 1080p for TV play. A second possibility would be games Switch-ing from native 1080p while docked and outputting to the TV to native 720p while in mobile mode, and that any power boost it gets while docked is used to handle the higher resolution.

The map that was leaked several months ago suggested it's actually centered around Louisiana/New Orleans, with the Great Plains region also part of the map.

Ah, okay, scared me there for a minute.

Wait, did they say you can't have two accounts on a Switch?

Luckily I knew Nintendo's digital policy was shit so I never bought anything digitally from them.

Yeah, I checked and used Wii U's are still selling for surprisingly good amounts, so I think now my plan is to finish Tokyo Mirage and then sell my Wii U and 2DS with an eye toward buying this for Zelda.

Apparently there are hints that additional processing is available when docked. If so I still hold to my original guess that it's probably just a power usage thing and not that there's actually additional processing hardware in the dock itself.

One thing I've seen pointed out on Twitter is that this doesn't look like a fisher price toy, so that's nice.

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It may not have an expandable battery but there could be external batteries built into a controller-holder type thing. Like a power bank.

We also know that either there's a PC version or that trailer was prerendered, cause ain't no way a console got that kind of foliage draw distance.

My guess as to what will be included in the box: console itself (obviously), base station with power brick, the two snap-on controllers, and an HDMI cable. I'm guessing the "pro controller", that other controller thing that you snap the little controllers into, and any mobile (ie non-base-station) charging cord will all be sold separately.

That's the Mario game I wanted on the Wii U. Goddammit! @Dean: We've known it's a Tegra for a long time. @FMW: I'm pretty confident the base really is just a glorified charging station with HDMI ports, and possibly some kind of upscaling chip built in and maybe additional storage space. I doubt there's any actual processing horsepower in the base. If there really is a performance hit when you go mobile it's more likely that it's due to it going into some kind of power save mode when it goes over to battery power. Anyway, as I've said before the PS4+Vita has completely sold me on this thing's premise, I just need to see that it's actually going to be supported now. Also, Switch is a dumb name, but it's way better than Wii U. I would have chosen either Next or simply Nex. I do at least get where they're coming from with the theming between the name and their usage design. *Edit - If by some miracle this thing actually gets wide support from Western 3rd parties then the portability aspect could easily turn it into my go-to console.