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JustJeff88 posted:Wow, there's a thing that I haven't heard mentioned or thought about in ages which both really takes me back and makes me feel old. I still have a perfectly functional Atari 7800 that uses that type of connection, but I no longer have a television to which to hook it up. I keep a VCR for the sole purpose of hooking up my 7800 and possibly the NX now. 
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i don't think nx will sell the handset and dock separately at least at launch. the marketing has to be as simple as possible so they don't gently caress it up again. the dock can't possibly have that much cost in it anyway if its just an upscaler, charger, and hdmi out.
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Aug 3, 2016 16:47
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Launching at $299 and concentrating on Japan sounds like a good way to fart your way to Wii U sales. The Shield is $199 with a controller right now, so if the NX is that same X1 chip it'd make sense to launch in that same area
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Aug 3, 2016 16:57
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A $200 console/handheld hybrid launching with that new Zelda would sell like crazy imo
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Aug 3, 2016 16:59
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if the nx is rf-only, then i hope you can mod it to output rgb and s-video as well.
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Aug 3, 2016 16:59
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Instant Sunrise posted:if the nx is rf-only, then i hope you can mod it to output rgb and s-video as well. imagine if the nx needed a 300 dollar framemeister to work on your tv.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:02
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Kelp Plankton posted:A $200 console/handheld hybrid launching with that new Zelda would sell like crazy imo At $200 I would probably buy it day-1 even if Zelda is the only launch title I care about.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:02
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they should just call it the Nintendo Zelda
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Aug 3, 2016 17:03
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How much would something like the X2 even cost compared to the X1? I kind of wonder if Nintendo is indeed not eating the cost on the hardware, but nVidia is instead, supplying the chips at or lower than cost to sell off inventory or as some kind of guarantee that they'll be able to sell more in future production runs for a profit (hell, maybe even getting a small bite of software sales in order to offset initial production costs.) Like I kind of wouldn't be surprised if nVidia really wants a portable nVidia console for some reason, realizes they won't do it alone, and are looking to Nintendo to actually get it done. The Shield is a pretty cool idea but also like the kind of thing that will never, ever catch on without Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo behind it and maybe nVidia knows that?
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Aug 3, 2016 17:27
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Thread title still makes me  every time I come in here. Thank you, tia
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Aug 3, 2016 17:39
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the rumor/speculation is that nvidia is hurting from missing out on the console boom and failing to sell shields and is willing to give nintedo early access to a chip due for consumer electronics use in may 2017 based on their words and give them a signifcant deal on them. non consumer x2 chips currently are used by the automotive industry i think so they do technically exist already. i don't really buy it but here's hoping.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:40
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Boten Anna posted:How much would something like the X2 even cost compared to the X1? I kind of wonder if Nintendo is indeed not eating the cost on the hardware, but nVidia is instead, supplying the chips at or lower than cost to sell off inventory or as some kind of guarantee that they'll be able to sell more in future production runs for a profit (hell, maybe even getting a small bite of software sales in order to offset initial production costs.) Fully answering that question would require information none of us is ever going to get. As others have said nVidia is probably accepting a miniscule profit in exchange for getting a toe back in the console market. If they are using the same fabrication process for the X2 that they did for the X1 then they should be able to produce it at a price that they and Nintendo are both willing to accept. Hopefully nVidia is not trying anything too crazy in terms of design or attempting to use new fab processes, those are the kinds of things that hurt them with previous Tegra chips. That and they sucked at integrating a good modem which was necessary to sell to the smartphone market, since the NX won't have a cellular connection it's not a disadvantage.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:47
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So why didn't digital foundry buy a car, strip out the x2, and plop it in their Shield? They owe us that.
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greatn posted:So why didn't digital foundry buy a car, strip out the x2, and plop it in their Shield? They owe us that. they actually have one in their video but its set up for calculating gps and poo poo not for pushing graphics apparently. maybe they could do a collaboration with that ben heck guy to bodge it together.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:57
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coffeecup posted:Thread title still makes me It's cute, but everything feels like a step down after the original "NX Gon Give it to Ya!"
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Aug 3, 2016 18:46
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JustJeff88 posted:I still have a perfectly functional Atari 7800 that uses that type of connection, but I no longer have a television to which to hook it up. Germstore posted:It should still work with ANT in assuming TVs still have analog tuners. Might need an adapter if it's actually the two sets of prongs rather than coax, but RF is RF. Sotogrande posted:I keep a VCR for the sole purpose of hooking up my 7800 and possibly the NX now. Reading all of this, I just realised that I was thinking of another kind of connector. I have an LED TV and a huge old CRT (with a built-in VCR and DVD), and both of them have an RF connection as well as composite/component. I was thinking of an even older and more archaic adaptor called a switchbox that has a flat cable out of it that splits into two branches, each of which ends in a two-tined fork, which is what I think that Germstore was referring to. My Atari 7800 is actually in my mum's closet a long way away, and there's only two games for it I still enjoy anyway.
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no touching kirbys genitals
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Quest For Glory II posted:no touching kirbys genitals Looks like I made a trip to Japan for NOTHING. Also, I've finally gotten the magazines I owned as a kid. Reading through the Nightshade strategy section is causing an overload of nostalgia. Nightshade was the coolest, you guys.
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Aug 4, 2016 06:16
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Do not touch Japanese Kirby.
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Aug 4, 2016 06:55
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call it whatever you want. just no region locke. NONE!
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Real hurthling! posted:the rumor/speculation is that nvidia is hurting from missing out on the console boom and failing to sell shields and is willing to give nintedo early access to a chip due for consumer electronics use in may 2017 based on their words and give them a signifcant deal on them. non consumer x2 chips currently are used by the automotive industry i think so they do technically exist already. i don't really buy it but here's hoping. Nvidia is also still stinging from that lawsuit they just lost.
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JustJeff88 posted:Reading all of this, I just realised that I was thinking of another kind of connector. I have an LED TV and a huge old CRT (with a built-in VCR and DVD), and both of them have an RF connection as well as composite/component. I was thinking of an even older and more archaic adaptor called a switchbox that has a flat cable out of it that splits into two branches, each of which ends in a two-tined fork, which is what I think that Germstore was referring to. Right, as Germstore said back in the day there was the two-tined fork for UHF frequencies and later on there were just the twist-on coax connector, but it's still an RF connection either way.
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MCV has their own set of deep throats in the biz.MCV posted:The same sources confirmed that the Eurogamer report last week - which revealed that NX will be a portable machine that can be plugged into a TV and features a breakaway controller – is ‘100 per cent accurate’. If that's true, Nintendo's Blue Oceans strategy is still in effect.
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also popular rumor is that a new pokemon/mario will release in the first 6 months of the console. given the architecture of the system plus the strides in AR tech, a new Pokemon Snap would be excellent.
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MinibarMatchman posted:also popular rumor is that a new pokemon/mario will release in the first 6 months of the console. given the architecture of the system plus the strides in AR tech, a new Pokemon Snap would be excellent. no it wouldn't
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MinibarMatchman posted:also popular rumor is that a new pokemon/mario will release in the first 6 months of the console. given the architecture of the system plus the strides in AR tech, a new Pokemon Snap would be excellent. AR is loving dumb
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Aug 4, 2016 14:09
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i want to die so i can turn into ghost and fly there and stay there forever!!
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Aug 4, 2016 14:12
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Wheany posted:AR is loving dumb And yet Go has insane market penetration.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:And yet Go has insane market penetration. The AR display is the least compelling part of Pokemon Go. The success is the location-based gameplay.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:38
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I would love a new Snap but I absolutely do not want an AR one.
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DoctorWhat posted:The AR display is the least compelling part of Pokemon Go. The success is the location-based gameplay. A big part of the initial reasons why it blew up was "seeing pokemon in real life" and the funny images people took with the AR. Its a big part of the game you silly goose even if its not reponsible for the entirety of is success.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:48
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The pokemon game will probably be some sort of "monkey paw wish Pokemon" i.e. some kind of offshoot non-mainline game, but I'm pumped about whatever Mario is going to be. I soooooooooooooooo hope it's some kind of exploration based 3D game ala M64. Some wild rear end galaxy type game would fine too.
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DoctorWhat posted:The AR display is the least compelling part of Pokemon Go. The success is the location-based gameplay. I'd argue that location-based gameplay is AR as much as taking pictures of rattatas in laundry hampers. This is a horribly constructed sentence please send a grammar tutor
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Aug 4, 2016 15:33
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PBS Newshour posted:A big part of the initial reasons why it blew up was "seeing pokemon in real life" and the funny images people took with the AR. Its a big part of the game you silly goose even if its not reponsible for the entirety of is success. A major part of its marketing success, yes, but not really part of why it's fun in the long-term. Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't have succeeded without it, but at the same time it's not actually GOOD. Plus it doesn't work on a bunch of devices.
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Yorkshire Tea posted:And yet Go has insane market penetration. AR is loving dumb
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AR, VR, whats next, RR? That stands for reality reality.. which we should be living in, but we aint, even without the VR and the AR because we are in phone reality, or computer reality. drat these times! I don't want Conker jumping on my couch! e: this was an especially bad post and I can not apologize enough for it Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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I'd be very surprised if the Mario game wasn't an October or November 2017 release as the pillar of NX's first Christmas.
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People say AR is not responsible for Go's success, but I think that depends on your definition of AR. The thing about being based on the real world map with stops from real world locations, I think is VERY much a form of AR, and very much responsible for its runaway success. If you just caught monsters sitting at your desk no one would care. If you limit your definition of AR to "character overlaid over video feed" I would agree that it's dumb and doesn't matter, but the map component is huge.
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That is true, ingress is called an AR game in all its marketing and it doesn't have any camera features like that from what I know.
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