Nintendo: 'Nintendo Switch is a Home Gaming System First and Foremost' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 October 2016 / 10,628 Views
The Nintendo Switch is a home gaming console, as well as a handheld that is powered by custom NVIDIA Tegra technology. However, Nintendo is making sure that people know that the Switch is a gaming console first and a handheld second.
"Nintendo Switch is a home gaming system first and foremost," Nintendo told Polygon. "We have made no announcement regarding the future of Nintendo 3DS.
"Obviously with sales of almost 60 million 3DS portables worldwide, there’s still a huge hunger for new games, such as Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. There are many more games in the pipeline."
"We have nothing to announce about the production status of Wii U," Nintendo added. "We announced in April 2016 that as we prepare for the launch of Nintendo Switch in March of 2017, Nintendo will ship 800,000 Wii U hardware units to the global market for this fiscal year. As a result, the inventory of Wii U hardware at retail will become harder to find.
"We encourage anyone who wants Wii U to communicate with their preferred retail outlet to monitor availability."
The Nintendo Switch already has a long lineup of publishers, developers and middleware partners that are currently working on it.
The Nintendo Switch launches in March 2017.
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No its not, because the specs are limited due to it being a handheld console. But its perfectly acceptable as a home console.
Do you know what the specs are?
Nobody does. But it appears to be more powerful than Wii U and that console could push some pretty stunning graphics. For something size of a standard tablet its doing impressive stuff.
That's a bit of a circular argument, no? You're arguing that the Switch is a handheld because its specs are limited, but that's an assumption based off of your claim that the Switch is a handheld.
When the switch is hooked up to the TV, we have no idea what the specs are. Those specs could go down when the Switch is in portable mode, but that doesn't mean that it's capabilities as a home console are limited.
I see what youre saying and I suggest lowering your expectations given the size of the device and they will aim for a competitive price.
I don't really have any expectations, honestly. The only one I have is that will be more powerful than the Wii U. I'm just pointing out that we don't really know anything. I try to avoid speculating and let myself enjoy whatever comes.
Okay, but its fair to make an assumption that specs are limited due to size of the device and also price reasons. Its not really speculation, that's what we expect. Based on the software we know is coming and the reveal trailer, we expect specs at par or better than Wii U.
It's funny how gullible and/or dumb they think we are.
I think they should shut down support for WiiU and 3DS ASAP and focus only in the Switch. It is more economic and every single new handheld game is also a new console game and no more dividing the marketing budget and time.
This just looks like another Wiiu to me...
Nintendo:" We have a portable console with a screen, mobile chipsets, battery, cartridges, accessories to play on the go, but it's not a handheld, it's firts & foremost a home console, because you know, you can plug it to a TV."
Sorry this is 100% a handheld console & sorry again but it has nothing original at all, it's a small tablet that plugs into the TV & you can pair a classical controller to it, just like any tablet has been doing for half a decade!!! Nothing new here except it's fugly as a Garmin GPS!!!
Where were you three months ago when I was fighting with drones over the rumors about this console a couple months ago?
I just want to know how the portable part works. Is the hardware in there or is it stream technology that requires an internet connection all the time? I hope its the first, because the second wouldn't work very well.
"Nintendo Switch is a home gaming system first and foremost," Nintendo told Polygon. "We have made no announcement regarding the future of Nintendo 3DS."
Oh ho. This might be supporting my thoughts that Nintendo will give this the added function of being an individual tablet, too. As in: separated from the base and the Joy Cons, it still works though not with any games that require controllers. Come on; give us a touch screen!
I wonder if every game also has to have an on the ho/handheld mode. If Nintendo doesn't demand that the toad for LASTING third party support seems brighter. I would be totally fine with Nintendo exclusives and some third party titles on the go and all titles having a home console mode.
I do not think there is such a thing as developing for the handheld and the dock, I think you just make the game and the Switch does the rest.
Mhm...
Nintendo should just admit that they're phasing out the Wii U. Lowering production of hardware and having almost no games on the horizon has made that pretty obvious. Despite what they said, the Switch is at least replacing the Wii U, and considering the slim announcements for the 3DS in 2017, I'm pretty sure Nintendo plans to use the Switch to phase out the 3DS as well, or maybe they have a more dedicated Switch companion in the works to take that job that can still provide a unified library.
I hope so. It is actually brilliant. When you buy the Switch you get a next gen Nintendo console and the next gen nintendo handheld, what a bargain! That is a great strategy.
