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Movies & TV / Re: Anybody Want A Bunch Of Digital Movies Free?

« on: November 06, 2016, 07:12:06 PM »

Is BvS the extended edition?

but if no one claims it, I'll take Civil War and Aladdin.

I bought the extended cut but I'm not sure what the code is.


you can have the other 2

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Movies & TV / Re: Anybody Want A Bunch Of Digital Movies Free?

« on: November 06, 2016, 04:47:03 PM »

Minions

The Transformers (1986)

Aladdin

Inside Out

Avengers 3: Civil War (You know I'm right)

Ghostbusters 2016

Batman Vs Supman










I think I might be tapped out I wanted to end it with a bang. Until 2017 (or when Suicide Squad comes out)

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch Game Ideas Thread

« on: October 29, 2016, 10:43:21 PM »

TableTop Amiibo Game.


I hoped the Switch would be able to do a Quad-NFC with other Switches in sorta a grid mode and you have to move your Amiibo in a RTS-like real game. BattleShip Amiibo.






Also a Smash Bros, Kingdom Hearts like action RPG

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 26, 2016, 09:22:20 PM »

I don't think what Smash on Wii U/3DS has to do with Switch, it is an entirely new console it's going to have it's very own version of Smash Bros. Probably be much better at scaling down to the smaller size, and to that end, did the 3DS even support the Game Cube controllers or was that just for Wii U? Because if it wasn't supported on 3DS there isn't a need for that support with Switch as it has a controller option that appears to satisfy the need for Game Cube style controllers. Unless people are just so stuck in the past they can't let that go.

Not sure if you noticed but Smash is Nintendo number 1 Franchise and the best selling fight game series of all time...just syaing

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 26, 2016, 12:21:39 PM »

That's another thing. Why would the dock have USB hubs unless for storage? I doubt you can access the usb storage when on the jet plane with your Switch, so there must be something to it.

Smash Bros. USB is needed fro the  GameCube Controller Hub. Smash sold 15mil copies on Wii U/3DS sos you'd best believe they need that to work on the Switch.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 24, 2016, 10:05:51 PM »

This is exactly why Nintendo should go with a 64GB Cartridge with a 48/16 read write partition. Proprietary or not they will have to buy 100,000,000 or so and the 48 GB is DL Blu-Ray size. They should be able to get the price down to less than $2 a card. They can completely change the game...and there is the slogan.




Nintendo Switch
"Change The Game"

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 24, 2016, 07:18:25 PM »

This discussion reminded me of the rumors from Boogie2988.
http://gonintendo.com/stories/266258-rumor-boogie2988-gets-insider-info-on-nx-expands-upon-console

- in the example, you have a unit attached to your TV where you play the Assassin's Creed console game
- then you can detach the unit and play the Assassin's Creed mobile game on the go

This makes me think that docked Switch does indeed have more power and maybe even more storage space. A 1gb mobile game is installed on the tablet, and the full game is stored on the dock storage? Just a thought.

This also jives with the 2 versions of Dragon Quest 11 that SquareEnix announced.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 23, 2016, 11:35:48 PM »

@Soren Bingo!


They would have to be stupid to go with 32 GB of internal storage. I fear the only SD card slot they're going to offer is one that fits their proprietary cartridge.


We will have to wait and see, but until then SMDH that we even have to go through this discussion in 2016.


UPDATE: I'm also coming to the sad realization that the latest Pokemon game for 3DS is NOT even compatible with this thing. Any further support for the 3DS will have no benefit to this new hybrid portable, meaning basically that this thing has to wait for some brand new Pokemon title...


Why are they going the route of a proprietary SD cartridge? Are we still THAT worried about game piracy?....

The Wii, Wii U, and 3DS all have SD support and the 3DS has that for game storage. I am fairly certain Nintendo has to allow for removable storage for a portable system with console level complexities. You shouldn't need to install the retail games physical game since the speed of the read/write cartridge should be a nominal difference from the internal memory. eShop games are a different deal and are going to require more than 32GB. Infinite Warfare won't fit on 32GB and Nintendo is not that daft. 


There absolutely with be both SD cards and Game Cards on the tablet. 100%


@Agent-x I think (hope) nintendo ships all games on 64GB cards and level a partition on every cart for the updates and patches and DLC. I think this optimizes both performance and barratry life.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 23, 2016, 09:57:45 AM »

So I just bought Gears 4 which requires an 11.GB update and a 54.6GB install  so another thing I am hoping for is the architecture of the NX is built around dropping the necessity of the Full Game Install since we will be running off of cartridge that should have a much higher data bandwidth that would make the difference in playing from the cart or HD negligible. This is for Passive Mode (Undocked) as it shouldn't make a difference when in Active Mode (Docked) and running at full power and speed.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 23, 2016, 02:15:04 AM »

My new question. Since this is cartridge based and will be receiving some same-day third party support will the day-one patches save on the cartridge or the systems internal memory? I hope these are 64GB Carts that leaves some room for patches to save to the cart thereby saving hard drive room for other games.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 22, 2016, 03:40:53 PM »

I don't think folks should get their hopes up about the Switch being on the same level as PS4 or Xbone. Maybe if it was only on AC power, but the games have to run portable as well. Like, if it didn't have to run away from the dock, I'm thinking it might be like PS2-->Gamecube/Xbox, but with that requirement it's probably more like Dreamcast-->Gamecube/Xbox.

Probably we don't have an exact analogue for the power gap, though I think it's possible Switch could run "PC low-settings" versions of some multiplatform stuff, should the publishers feel inclined to make those ports.

I'd bet this is running on Nvidia Pascal, because they(Nintendo) would have to actively fight for this to be a custom Tegra k1/X1 since that tech is fairly old and Nvidia needs this enough to take a a cut on the price. Especially when Nintendo expects to sell 10million of these in the first 18months.


For example here are the Nvidia Shield Specs at @ $199.99
PROCESSOR   NVIDIA^® Tegra^® K1 192 core Kepler GPU
2.2 GHz ARM Cortex A15 CPU with 2 GB RAM
DISPLAY   8-inch 1920x1200 multi-touch Full-HD display
VIDEO FEATURES   4K Ultra-HD Ready
AUDIO   Front facing stereo speakers with built-in microphone
STORAGE*   16 GB
*Portion of storage occupied by system software.
WIRELESS   802.11n 2x2 MIMO 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS / GLONASS
INTERFACES   Mini-HDMI with HDCP 1.4 output, Micro-USB 2.0, MicroSD slot
3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with microphone support
MOTION SENSORS   3-axis gyro, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis compass

These stats are outdated and the NX will have better by a  quite a bit. Not Apples to Apples but  Pascal is a pretty solid chip in comparison to even whats in the XB1/PS4 . Say the NX is $299.99 in March, you should be able to come pretty close to an XboxOne.

My expectation is the NX will have Active and Passive RAM based on it being docked. To elaborate: even if the dock is only housing  for usb, hdmi, cooling fan power and Wifi, the fact that it will have AC power that will allow the system to run at full power thereby increases performance. This thing needs 6 maybe 8 GB of ram so lets say when its undocked it uses half so either 3 or 4GB of ram and running on a 720p screen. Docked you get 1080p 8GB ram. You create the game with Max Settings and let the situation (home or go) throttle it down.

The screen is probably 1080p but games run at 720p and Netflix and other things run at 1080p. THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL NINTENDO IS GOING TO BLOW-UP A 720p SOURCE ONTO A MINIMUM 1080p (in some cases 4K) in 2017. They can't be that daft.  Plus this is a modular system and we don't even know about the so called SCD.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 21, 2016, 08:22:53 PM »

Neo, Morpheus and now Switch?





 


The Matrix is all around us.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 21, 2016, 07:46:12 PM »

looks like there is a 3rd shoulder button on the Joy cons, possibly to unlock it from the base.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 21, 2016, 02:49:18 AM »

Noticed a something watching the video again.


The guy playing Skyrim on the plane is playing with a different model NX than all the others. If you notice his Switch on the plane has actual FCC information on both the Joy-con and the Tablet itself. The woman playing  Super Mario has no documentation on the back of hers.


Also, looking at the guy on the plane, his NX has a off center double slot on the left bottom side of the system. Possibly the speaker placement but that would seem weird. Maybe cooling vents but if thats the case, whats on top next to the game card slot?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 07:42:52 PM »

Also, lets speculate. I imagine the tablet will incrementally upgrade. 2 years from release we might switch to a beefier tablet in the dock and then use the old controller like a wii u controller.

We still have to wait on the SCD. If that's not the dock(it ain't), they can introduce that during the Spring 2018. If the specs are close enough to an Xbox One, which it the LCD that can run this generations Multi-Platforms then it wont get left out of the port market being that there should be about 10 million NX's in the wild within the next 18 months. The tablet should suffice with until early next decade.




Of course its a touch screen. Can't play Super Mario Maker with out it. (USB Mouse is really an option but no)

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Forum Snap Poll: How Sold Are You on the Switch?

« on: October 20, 2016, 06:12:18 PM »

Depends on the price and the sku but I'll probably get 2. One for me for my commute and one to stay in the house for the kids. As long as we can share the dock i have no issue. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 05:28:45 PM »

This is the Morpheus x300. It is the exact same concept as the Switch. Its's also older and already released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBysrZ2v8


Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y845oUAxrPY

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 01:43:53 PM »

What about memory? There are some usb ports (I think at least) on the right side of the dock, so expanding your capacity maybe possible, but I'm most concerned, or at least simply wondering, how much memory the tablet will have. Maybe they'll allow you to use your own flash card to store your games.

What do you guys think?

Its a safe bet that digital games will be able to save to a SD card. Now if you're asking if that SD card will play in another Switch, nope. There are 2 visible USB ports on the S.Dock (Gotta support GameCube Controllers for Smash) I would think there is at least 1 more usb port on the back along with HDMI  2.0 (4K) Gigabit Ethernet, SD Slot and one more unknown port.




8 GB of RAM MIN.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 01:28:53 PM »

Its a safe bet to cross reference everything the Nvidia Shield can do and fit it into the Switch. Being that this is a newer chip and guaranteed to have more and faster RAM.


https://shield.nvidia.com/android-tv

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 12:40:27 PM »

I agree regarding the dock, but assuming every last detail that Emily Rogers reported is true, then this whole package tops out at just below Xbox One power. I'm not incredibly enthused. Still missing from any rumor or teaser is glasses-free 3D. Not a must-have but considering Nintendo pioneered and perfected it, it would be oddly missing from a portable experience.


I would still like for them to consider a bit of future proofing in this concept. I just hate to think that the competition is already 1.5x ahead of their original PS4 and Xbox One offerings. To think that this package might not even keep pace with the Xbox One is worrying when it comes to 3rd Party support.


Still, I expect 3rd Party support to be light years ahead of Wii U.

 




Graphically I was worried too that this would be left out in a few years but this think will consume Japan. So if we can get a portable Monster hunter game that has quality even close to the XboxOne (which ain't chopped liver at all) then I think this can survive the market.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Pre-Release Discussion (March 2017)

« on: October 20, 2016, 12:14:33 PM »

The dock is far too thick to only be a connection to the tv. The side view is almost 3x as thick as the switch itself. It has to be doing some processing.


When the video first started I thought I heard a ringtone and was like...oh **** its a phone!!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch Rumors and Speculation Thread (Mighty Switch Force Edition)

« on: October 20, 2016, 12:02:23 PM »

I also wonder does this mean a patch for single player pro controller Wii U support  for Spaltoon? Looks like Splatoon Seitch as pro controller support.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (Reveal Trailer 10/20/2016 10am ET)

« on: October 20, 2016, 11:48:24 AM »

Fucking finally.

Checked NeoGaf, it's predictably a mess, but this has bubbled up from 4Chan:

This is 100% real by the way

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch Rumors and Speculation Thread (Mighty Switch Force Edition)

« on: October 20, 2016, 11:39:12 AM »

Did the removable controllers have "shoulder" buttons?

Yes!


I have a very HUGE problem with this.  If it is a home console that I can take with me. I am going to have to buy no less than 3 Switches.  What the heck are the kids going to play while I have the Switch with me during my commute to work? Like really. Unless this cost $199 out the box I'm screwed.


Maybe the Switch Dock has some functionality that supports different tablets un the same house. Not a deal breaker but I have a house full of gamer kids.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (Mighty Switch Force Edition)

« on: October 20, 2016, 11:32:44 AM »

Oh snap! You can attach only one side and play Gameboy style and Arcade Shumps!