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Switch lite is just what I’ve been hoping for, and just in time for pokemon too, glad I held out. 
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Steve2911 posted:I don't get why anyone would want this? Unless they have a TV but no space for a dock. It's 10x less annoying to move your setup if it's just game boy + link cable and power source, so just convenience really. It's a pretty niche use case but popular enough that you see people crowdfunding smaller docks all the time
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Jul 10, 2019 16:05
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Steve2911 posted:I don't get why anyone would want this? Unless they have a TV but no space for a dock. You could take your Switch with you and play it on a TV somewhere else without needing to bring anything but the Switch itself and a cable. Except the Switch needs to be connected to power to be able to run like it's docked, so it'd have to be some sort of crazy breakout cable. And at that point it's not doing anything a more minimal dock wouldn't.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:06
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If you have multiple Switches, can you choose which console will be PRIMARY? I wanna get one of this for my work travel, but apparently secondary consoles can only play your games if you are connected to the internet. So the portable Switch will have to be the primary, and the home Switch the secondary. Does Nintendo allow you to choose which one is which, or is the first Switch you owned permanently set as Primary?
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Jul 10, 2019 16:09
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Oh SHIIIIT my boys at Nintendo did patch in game sharing last year, all good fam. I'll get a lite as a supplement rather than a replacement My hype for switch lite is back up
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Jul 10, 2019 16:09
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I'm getting the special edition one and probably never opening it solely because I'm a huge Nintendo loser. That said, any problems or hopes and disappointment I feel from this are solved by the Switch itself. The Switch is great for homebrew, can be connected to a TV or played portably, has better color options (obviously imo), and then obviously has all the things that Nintendo stripped away to compromise for the Lite.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:10
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TheScott2K posted:Seems like a great way to open up the Switch to people whose price point is lower without obsoleting our existing Switches. Anyone whose hams get steamed about it should Care Less. Good job, Nintendo, now the Switch has a 2ds Agreed, there's a big market for a sub-$200 Pokemon machine, now they have a sub-$200 handheld that will work great as a Pokemon machine, and they're going to sell lots of sub-$200 Pokemon machines. That $200 mark (which'll probably be down to $150 in some sales next year) is a lot more palatable to families buying a Switch as a gift for a kid. I wonder if these are all being made in Vietnam, wasn't a part of the WSJ's reporting on Switch Lite rumors that they were moving production over there to avoid the impending 25% tariffs?
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Jul 10, 2019 16:10
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KingSlime posted:The point is wouldn't it have been a very easy feature to shove in? Unless they did scale back the internals a bit to improve battery, which actually makes sense Heat dissipation is a thing, which is why the original Switch has fans and a big ol' heat pipe for when playing in docked mode.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:11
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:You could take your Switch with you and play it on a TV somewhere else without needing to bring anything but the Switch itself and a cable. Except the Switch needs to be connected to power to be able to run like it's docked, so it'd have to be some sort of crazy breakout cable. And at that point it's not doing anything a more minimal dock wouldn't. yeah it would just be a mess of cables, and it's no surprise nintendo isn't jumping at the opportunity the dock itself is very unportable though. it's easier to throw a brick of a console like an Xbox into your trunk than it is to pack up your whole Switch package for travel.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:11
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Looks pretty much perfect for what a cut down version of a Switch should be, price tag is good and should make them a billion dollars this Christmas. Only thing that's surprising is the lack of kickstand when they're still selling it as a multiplayer device to use with friends, even the video showed a regular Switch with the kickstand out. I've no use for a portable only Switch personally, but that turqouise would match my kitchen nicely.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:11
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EL BROMANCE posted:Looks pretty much perfect for what a cut down version of a Switch should be, price tag is good and should make them a billion dollars this Christmas. i'm personally going with the yellow to match my bathroom
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Jul 10, 2019 16:13
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As long as the pro is coming people can have their Nintendo Doesn’t Switch with severely reduced functionality, minor battery improvement and 200 price point. Everyone can be happy.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:14
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Korelle posted:I can't believe this cheap handheld version of the Switch is, in fact, a cheap handheld version of the Switch. I'm getting steamed about this Nintendo, this is a slap in the face!! To what functionality does the very name "Switch" refer? 🤔 "Here's our DS Lite. It has one screen." At least with the 2DS they changed the name. Imagined fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 16:15
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Mario Maker 2 finally made realize how lovely the default controller is, so I ordered the 8Bitdo SF30 pro and I'm extremely glad I did. Feels really solid and definitely a big improvement.
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Imagined posted:To what functionality does the very name "Switch" refer? 🤔 It plays Switch games. It's a Switch.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:16
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There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it.Metanaut posted:Mario Maker 2 finally made realize how lovely the default controller is, so I ordered the 8Bitdo SF30 pro and I'm extremely glad I did. Feels really solid and definitely a big improvement. Worth noting since I just got one myself, but 8BitDo released a wired version. Only thing it lacks is motion control and obvious wireless connectivity, but it has an incredibly small amount of less input lag and it can boot the Switch from sleep. https://www.amazon.com/8Bitdo-Gamepad-Nintendo-Windows-Raspberry/dp/B07R481CVY LODGE NORTH fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 16:16
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No it’s missing the sandwich eating IR motion stuff not the gyro
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Jul 10, 2019 16:17
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When my controller start drifting I throw my joycons in a lake and buy a new one, good luck Doesn’t Switch.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:18
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LODGE NORTH posted:There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it. Would this also mean there's no way to complete the temples in BOTW that require you to tilt your Switch around? Edit: just saw the post above about it still having gyro, nevermind.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:19
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LODGE NORTH posted:There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it. Eh, huge odds they patch let's go to let you use the touchscreen.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:20
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Wonder if text is gonna be annoyingly or impossibly small in some games? Looking at you darkest dungeon!! Jk I got bored of that game after my second boss battle but imagine I mentioned a cool game instead
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Jul 10, 2019 16:21
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If my kid was old enough to want a switch to play with me I’d be stoked. If they could give me a cheaper regular switch without the extra garbage bobbles nobody ever uses in their games I’d probably upgrade too.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:22
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LODGE NORTH posted:There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it. This can be easily fixed by syncing a pair of joycons to it, although how you're going to recharge them is another topic.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:22
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Let's Go already works just fine without motion controls in portable mode. You just push a button to throw the Pokeball. I like it better than the normal way actually.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:23
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LODGE NORTH posted:There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it. you can move the camera around in handheld mode
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Jul 10, 2019 16:24
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LODGE NORTH posted:There's also no motion controls, according to The Verge. Which means some games just will not work on this thing. You could, in theory, play Let's Go, but you'd have to wait for the Poke to be in the middle of the screen to catch it. It still had gyroscopes. In Let's go handheld mode you don't use motion controls.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:24
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No. 1 Callie Fan posted:This can be easily fixed by syncing a pair of joycons to it, although how you're going to recharge them is another topic. At that point you’re better off just getting a regular switch. The price difference in some countries is 50-100, with the US at the high end, and we’re talking about getting a gimped version that some people will also buy an extra pair of joycons for? If this is just a second switch unit in the house or you’ve got the disposable cash to do this then you’re not really the customer base for this product. Shammypants fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jul 10, 2019 |
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Jul 10, 2019 16:25
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Didn't some dungeons in BotW require motion control? How will they account for that?
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Jul 10, 2019 16:28
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If kid 1 was a year or two older I'd get her one of these for Christmas
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Jul 10, 2019 16:29
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Frankston posted:Didn't some dungeons in BotW require motion control? How will they account for that? Some required gyroscopes, which the Switch Lite has. (your regular switch also has them and usually uses them instead of the joycon when in handheld mode, it's how head tracking works on labo)
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Jul 10, 2019 16:31
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I was going to buy one as a second Switch for us but not if you can't dock it. gently caress that. Was really looking forward to it too. I don't give a gently caress what the fanboys say, the entire point of a Switch is to be both in ONE device. The tradeoff was supposed to be a smaller screen, no detachable joycons and not coming with a dock, not NOT being compatible with one.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:32
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And I bet you in six months someone will hack it so docks recognize it as a normal Switch and SURPRISE it will work just fine in TV mode. Nintendo will have just disabled it in software for Nintendo reasons.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:37
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Has anything other than sandwich eating and Labo used the infrared camera?
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Jul 10, 2019 16:38
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Last weekend my girlfriend said she'd honestly prefer a smaller switch when I showed her the hypothetical mock-ups that were going around. Guess I'm on the hook come September.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:38
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Surely Nintendo has access to usage statistics and knows how many people even use the dock. Myself, I tried it once when I got my Switch just to see how it worked. I don’t even know where it is anymore.
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io_burn posted:Surely Nintendo has access to usage statistics and knows how many people even use the dock. Myself, I tried it once when I got my Switch just to see how it worked. I don’t even know where it is anymore. Bowser basically said this According to Nintendo’s Bowser, the decision to focus on a portable-only option was based on watching how people used the Switch. “It’s more about how we’ve observed them playing,” he says of the console’s audience. “We have the ability to track how people play games and play our titles, so I would say that it’s really an option that offers more choices to people.”
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Imagined posted:And I bet you in six months someone will hack it so docks recognize it as a normal Switch and SURPRISE it will work just fine in TV mode. Nintendo will have just disabled it in software for Nintendo reasons.
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Jul 10, 2019 16:41
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KingSlime posted:Where's my punk rear end posters who were like "Nintendo would never betray me like this" KingSlime posted:This and the smaller screen are my only concerns. Otherwise I'm trying to debate if I should sell my og unit for this, get a lite as a supplement, or wait for the switch pro that my friends at Forbes told me about it was the WSJ sis
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American McGay posted:Do you understand how USB ports work? They don't just output video signals natively. Bet
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Imagined posted:I was going to buy one as a second Switch for us but not if you can't dock it. gently caress that. Was really looking forward to it too. I don't give a gently caress what the fanboys say, the entire point of a Switch is to be both in ONE device. The tradeoff was supposed to be a smaller screen, no detachable joycons and not coming with a dock, not NOT being compatible with one. The Switch is still both in one! They're releasing an exclusively handheld version and you're upset that it's not a regular Switch. This is not a fanboy thing. This is you getting upset that a different product isn't doing what the original product already does.
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