Releasing March 2017 still.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/43567/nintendo-gives-first-details-of-nintendo-switch
Nintendo has finally revealed the Nintendo Switch.
The video demo showed the system sliding into and being removed from a docking system hooked to a TV, with instant transition to a portable mode when removed. There are controllers called "JoyCon" that can be detached and used by multiple players or as a dual format for a single system. An optional Pro Controller will be available, and Switch systems can communicate with each other for multiplayer.
The video showed a Splatoon-like game, a new 3D Mario title, Breath of the Wild, a Mario Kart game, an NBA game and the remastered version of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from Bethesda. Konami, Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Epic Games, Atlus, From Software, Warner Brothers, Take-Two, SquareEnix (including Tokyo RPG Factory Co. Ltd) and Capcom are among the publishers with products in development.
nVidia have confirmed that they are providing a custom Tegra processor for the system.
The games will come on 3DS-style cartridges of indeterminate size.
So that means that plastic shell that combines two halves literally does nothing, because you can control the game without it.
Does anyone see any shoulder buttons on the split controllers?
... Will it be compatible with 3DS cards? I have to assume the screen will be touch sensitive-- they have to accommodate the backlog of Wii U games no one played on the original hardware, so everything the Wii U can do the Switch should support too. ...
That'll be the case for Wii U discs for sure, but it could very well still be compatible with 3DS cards (won't support 3D obviously, but neither does the 2DS). And if you had features in mind, not just media, if you look at the design, not only is it still possible for the all the hardware features from Wii and Wii U to still be in there, it certainly looks to me like it was designed with the intent to support them all (the separated handed controls mirror the Wii remote-Nunchuk combo). Of course, just because the accelometer and pointer features may have been in mind during the design stages doesn't mean they weren't still ultimately dropped for cost concerns. But I wouldn't be surprised either way.
* Backwards compatibility looks like a complete write-off, so I can't sell existing hardware to subsidize the purchase unless I dump all my games too.
... Will it be compatible with 3DS cards? I have to assume the screen will be touch sensitive-- they have to accommodate the backlog of Wii U games no one played on the original hardware, so everything the Wii U can do the Switch should support too. ...
Don't count on either 3DS/DS or Wii U compatibility. This is a single-screen device, although it has the capability to push that single screen to a TV using the dock. That would effectively kill any chance of backwards compatibility with those systems.
... Will it be compatible with 3DS cards? I have to assume the screen will be touch sensitive-- they have to accommodate the backlog of Wii U games no one played on the original hardware, so everything the Wii U can do the Switch should support too. ...
Don't count on either 3DS/DS or Wii U compatibility. This is a single-screen device, although it has the capability to push that single screen to a TV using the dock. That would effectively kill any chance of backwards compatibility with those systems.
I guess, I initially missed the fact that the two screens weren't used together... but it certainly looks like it could be compatible with a special touch screen add-on-- and there's no doubt they'll find a way to make Wii U games playable on the new platform-- they need to make money off those games that no one played on the original hardware.
I guess, I initially missed the fact that the two screens weren't used together... but it certainly looks like it could be compatible with a special touch screen add-on-- and there's no doubt they'll find a way to make Wii U games playable on the new platform-- they need to make money off those games that no one played on the original hardware.If Nintendo were really smart, they'd find a way to make it compatible with smartphones/tablets-- allowing them to function as the touch screen).
Bman - yeah, they'll make WiiU games playable on Switch, but not with backwards compatibility - if they do it they'll do it like ejamer said - re-releasing. Think about it. You could play Gamecube games on Wii, but how much money was Nintendo making off of that? People weren't buying Gamecube games from Nintendo at that point. They were either playing the ones they already had OR they were buying them used.
I don't see Nintendo finding a way to make backwards compatibility of any kind work when it's a lot more profitable to just re-release the games to sell. Not what I'd prefer of course, but it's what seems more likely.How about the fact that the wireless controls means it could always be compatible with Wii U GamePads and Wii Remotes? I think that's too easy for it not to happen.
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Look at my previous post-- if they manage a way to implement that (which seems almost inevitable) then Wii U compatibility is pretty much guaranteed at some point.
Plus, who says the system won't be compatible with Wii U GamePads or Wii Remotes too? There doesn't seem much reason to think they won't.
Well, they probably want people to buy new controllers too... and there is also no sensor bar for Wiimotes. Plus, I doubt it has the same streaming tech to handle the GamePad.
Who says there's no port for a Wii Sensor bar? We haven't gotten a full look at the back of that dock yet-- there could easily be one.
@sm2k
I had both an n64 and a playstation(and a Saturn)
I can safely say Nintendo 64 was better than Sony Playstation.
Playstation was all smoke and mirrors. The only thing Playstation had over n64 was FMV. All of which were fairly short at fleeting. If you watch those FMVs now they don't even look as good as modern games. When you actually played the games, the games on n64 80% looked better. All the Playstation fanboys were tricked and have continued their brainwashing every since. I was one of those people that had a friend show off Final Fantasy VII to me, and I was unimpressed.
as far as not having Bluray. My roommate had an Xbox One. Its Bluray drive doesn't work worth a ****. It stopped working a month after he got it. We just ended up having to use the Bluray player. For the most part, all of these systems play Netflix anyway. The only use of a Bluray player is playing movies not on Netflix, which you have to usually hunt down from a redbox(which itself has a limited selection), or a still in business "mom and pop" video store. Also worth noting, many Blurays come with Ultraviolet, which is a service that lets you stream the same movie off the internet. Optical media is dead. But we're all on the same page there.
Okay but the world has now changed the tables have turned, nobody cares about disc media anymore they all watch Netflix. So that is no longer a deterrent from the Nintendo console.
as far as not having Bluray. My roommate had an Xbox One. Its Bluray drive doesn't work worth a ****.
Ryo_Hazuki-san on Miiverse says the cards are different sized than 3ds (somewhat larger),