Scalpers will love this.
Agreed. Nintendo needs to discount and price-drop their games more often.
Only if you pretend Nintendo doesn't exist.
I'd buy this on Switch.
Good point. I'm thinking Microsoft wants to move away from the Xbox One name since there's still a bit of a stigma to it, so I'm doubting it will include One in the name.
From what I understand, Sega still sells new Master Systems over there too.
They're pretty affordable now I'd say.
Has that been confirmed? I thought Nintendo said that they have some big reveals about Switch in January, and maybe they'll shed some light on what all the dock does.
Ouch. Those are not good numbers. I'm hoping the dock has some processing power to boost the Switch when docked or even within a several foot range. Think cloud computing except it's external computing done locally via Bluetooth or whatever.
Has any open world game ever been 60fps on a console unless it's a remaster of an old game, and by old I mean 2 generations or more old?
@luckytrouble
I never said there weren't droughts. There were plenty of them. I was responding to a comment about the overall length of time the Wii U's been supported. Four and a half years is a long time to support a console that's sold as poorly as Wii U. Most other companies would have given up sooner.
If they pack in a special edition of Mario Kart 8 in with the Switch, that console will fly off the shelves.
Considering Wii U is a sales failure, 4 and a half years (by the time Switch launches) of support is a fair amount of time. The original Xbox had 4 years by comparison. The reason they need to launch a new console like Switch is because Wii U can't sustain them financially and 3DS is fairly old at this point and shows it's age spec wise.
It looks nice from the front and I like the design, especially the choice to place the right analog stick beneath the face buttons. But what are the triggers like? Wii U controllers didn't have proper triggers, so I'm hoping this does.
They'll all mysteriously disappear.
Dude, you can keep this system docked full time and play with a traditional controller that looks well designed. This is the most conventional console Nintendo has released since the Gamecube.
It would have been nice for the Switch to be able to play physical 3DS games with the switch itself being the bottom screen and your TV being the top screen and having stereoscopic 3D. That would have given gamers the opportunity to play 3DS games on a TV for the first time, which would have been a good selling point.
The Switch dock could have included a disc drive and Wii U/Wii playability, which would have been an interesting way of redesigning the Wii U and extending it's lif...
It wouldn't make sense to put a disc drive of any sort in a console that's meant to be used at all as a portable device. Discs are meant for stationary devices that aren't being moved around in your hands.
Edit: If Nintendo releases a separate dock for NX, it's possible it could get a blu ray drive but don't count on it given Nintendo's track record.
The 3DS is ready to be retired though. It released in March of 2011, and Switch releases March of 2017. That's a six year gap, which is pretty long by game console lifecycle standards.