There has been a lot of speculation about The Witness coming to the Switch, so maybe that will be announced as well? That would be a great game to take on a trip...
What is especially smart is that, at first, I thought, there would surely be a full human civilisation spread to Andromeda within 600 years of technological development. That mission would arrive with stuff as comparatively outdated as a musket was to John Shepherd (assuming tech develops at a linear speed), so surely, in that long a time they make ships capable of making the voyage in a fraction of the time, overtaking the ship and arriving centuries ahead of them.
THEN! I realised that the jump gates are no more and that the place they left went through all the events of Mass Effect 3 just a year or two after departure... so they will be truly alone out there for the longest time. It is a good use of the Mass Effect Trilogy's story.
@butterworth the logic seems to possibly go both ways.
It's either in-between a console and handheld, or it is both a console and handheld. Much like wireless noise-cancelling headphones don't tend to be priced between wireless and noise-cancelling ones, I feel like the Switch might also be priced at a premium for delivering two products or feature-sets. Therefore I could really see a $400 price-point - whether it is worth it, then depends on the quality of all the functionality.
@Tyson8earzz: I could imagine that Nintendo is moving into the direction of merging the two in the long run, but probably not yet with the Switch. 3DS/2DS are sold at a much cheaper price-point, include very different type to gaming experiences, etc., so I cannot see how they could bring them together at this point. What I could see happening is, eventually, a more typical portable device that is compatible with the Switch dock, for example (a device that could still cost $200, have a different catalogue, but somehow connect to the new console).
A big difficulty with compatibility (even with WiiU games) is the apparent lack of two screens (using the Switch docked leaves with a traditional setup). So any 3DS game, and all WiiU games that rely on the WiiU Pad's screen might not work well.
My thinking was quite different: this console offers a versatility that other consoles are still struggling with, and that could come at a premium, if the offered product has features beyond gaming and feels like a premium product. With Netflix, Youtube, media player and maybe a good fully-featured browser, this console could inch closer to the $400, or even $450 mark, positioning itself between the tablet and console market. A home-tablet you can take out an game with while on the road. The worry is that Nintendo has a terrible track-record for media related things, so if they charge a high price, but only deliver a console that sits below the XB1 and PS4 in performance with an added portability of gaming alone, whilst feeling plasticy, it might be a tough sell. I hope it will cost $400 and feel like a $400 device!
I am also worried that, some time around Christmas, the PS4 will push Remote Play to iOS devices and opening it up to some more Android ones. This would be adding at least a good in-home flexibility, you know, Rocket League while on the toilet type stuff.
Nonetheless I am super excited. Being a parent, there is something nice about being close to family while playing Zelda WindWaker on the WiiU Controller, rather than hiding out in the study in front of the PC, or having to hog the TV with the PS4. When your baby is restlessly napping with a cold and occasionally just checks if you're around, this kind of subtle handheld gaming is perfect, esp. when you're unwilling to pass the time with stupid freemium iOS games on the phone. Given that this is my ideal use scenario (rather than gaming with friends off a basketball court or multiplayer MarioKart in the back of a van), the Switch, in my world, competes mostly with an iPad (XCOM, XCOM EW, Bastion, Baldur's Gate 1&2, KOTOR, Banner Saga, Broken Age, Telltale games, Limbo and Sword and Sworcery! were all completed on an iOS device for me and it worked great).
I never thought CPUs made a huge difference for gaming and always stuck to mid-range ones. Upgrading to a 970 Sli setup last year I finally got to a point where my i5 3450 became the bottleneck (frame dips, esp. at 4k and 1440p) and an upgrade to a 5820K pushed frame rates up considerably and really pushed performance in the lower percentiles of the fps.
@elessarGObonzo: Not sure where I am incorrect, and where I am incorrect again. Maybe my language is convoluted or something.
Unless your gripe is, that I did not consider the Titan a 700 series card (there is a Titan, Titan Black, Titan Z, and Titan X, so I think of them as their own cup of tea)? Apologies if that is my error.
In the first instance, however, I believe you simply misunderstood what I was saying, since I never mentioned that there was no comparison between the different cards, just that those scores might as well have been taken from old benchmarks from those cards, given the ancient selection of games.
@elessarGObonzo: The games in the review are old. Bioshock and Tomb Raider are over three years old. The 700 series wasn't even out yet. So, even though it is nice to see how the 1080 performs in games that were developed with a GTX 780 in mind, it would be better to see new games.
A part of this is to see how the older generation of cards holds up with newer games, when compared to the newest cards. Is, for example, the performance difference between the cards bigger in The Witcher?
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