Nintendo Unveils New Switch Model With Better Battery Life (kotaku.com) 48
This August, Nintendo is releasing a new Switch model with a longer battery life. It will be priced the same as the current model and, aside from the improved battery, feature the same specs. From a report: The new model's battery life will last between 4.5 and 9 hours, depending on the game. For Breath of the Wild, for example, the battery life will last for an estimated 5.5 hours. In comparison, the current model has a battery life that's between 2.5 and 6.5 hours, depending on the game. Once again, for Breath of the Wild, the battery life is 3 hours.
Re:LOL! Battery life! (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, Sony is been censoring games a lot more than nintendo lately.
Nintendo don't actually do any mature title, but when they come to the system, they're left intact while on PS4 you have to shot all sorts of "god rays" to hide anything even slightly prudish.
Now microsoft on the other hand, they're fine.
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"Nintendo Switch's are made for a younger audience"
That makes about as much sense as saying samsung tv's are made for a younger audience and not allowing TV-MA content on them. All this censorship should be stopped, for the sake of the children.
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That makes about as much sense as saying samsung tv's are made for a younger audience and not allowing TV-MA content on them.
The difference is that HDMI's uniform-royalty licensing structure means that Samsung doesn't need to approve video content played through a Samsung TV, whereas Nintendo has granted itself the power to approve or reject game content played on a Nintendo Switch console.
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What does that have to do with HDMI? Does the switch not have an HDMI port?
"whereas Nintendo has granted itself the power to approve or reject game content played on a Nintendo Switch console"
And it makes as much sense for them to approve or reject the content you play on your console as it does for Samsung to do the same with regard to the content you play on your TV. Next up, Shun to prohibit cucumbers from being sliced by knife purchasers because they are overly phallic. Users may no longer make pickles,
90% crap in the Atari shock of 1983 (Score:2)
What does that have to do with HDMI? Does the switch not have an HDMI port?
The current* Nintendo Switch console has a DisplayPort output, which the dock converts to an HDMI output. But I was referring to inputs through which content is received. A Nintendo Switch console has a Game Card and Internet download inputs, and a Samsung TV has an HDMI input. But unlike the Samsung TV, a Switch applies a content whitelist policy, just as the Wii U, Wii, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64, Super NES, and NES consoles before it had.
And it makes as much sense for them to approve or reject the content you play on your console as it does for Samsung to do the same with regard to the content you play on your TV.
I guess a content whitelist may have made sense 35 years ago wh
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"A Nintendo Switch console has a Game Card and Internet download inputs, and a Samsung TV has an HDMI input. "
Fair enough, though I'll nitpick and add that your Samsung TV also has an internet input these days.
"I guess a content whitelist may have made sense 35 years ago when..."
It made and makes sense for Nintendo (and other console makers) since consumers put up with it and they actually pay a premium on each game for permission from Nintendo to run it on hardware they and not Nintendo owns. Honestly, I t
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Now that the platforms are mostly generic hardware in a pretty case hopefully we'll start to see competition creep in with more open platforms.
What would these "more open platforms" do differently to succeed where OUYA failed?
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Except he's right. Look up Sony's censoring of anime games over the past year, it's getting ridiculous. Anime gamers were a small but significant and dedicated part of Sony's fanbase until this started happening; these were people who actually bought the Vita when no one else would. All of this has happened since Kaz stepped down and Sony moved their entertainment division to California.
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There is Mortal Kombat for the switch, its a bit shit but it is there and CoD is kinda dead now.
Meanwhile the PS4 is the only platform where DMC 5 got censored because gotta protect the "mature gamers" from a butt.
Is it a more efficient manufacturing process? (Score:3)
Is it an improved fab process making the CPU more efficient?
More battery life isn't an issue for this larger Switch model since I don't take it out of the house. I'd like a version that would feature more powerful hardware that could be an upgrade to this home model.
However, with Nintendo's history, they have only updated this aspect late into the life of the hardware, with very little software taking advantage of the improvements. The DSi, New 3DS, N64 4MB RAM add-on are examples of this.
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I wouldn't do that, you are likely to void your warranty and break Nintendo terms of service.
I suggest you do that with a desktop PC instead, these are much less restrictive about what you can do.
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They switched from 20nm to 16.
A "new nintendo switch" have the potential to deliver a lot of improved games (while undocked) by just tricking the games into thinking they're docked, but the docked mode would indeed be on this same situation you pointed out.
Plays to nintendos strengths (Score:2, Insightful)
Nintendo won the handheld war with Sony. Making the switch a hybrid handheld/console made sense considering the failure of their last console (wiiU), or well they did the hybridization right (unlike the wiiU).
I read somewhere that Nintendo tracks docked vs undocked usage of the switch, and had about a 50/50 split. Having a cheaper switch geared towards undocked play, should help their sales.
Time will tell how Nintendo fares vs competition from phones and tablets. I think consolidating their platform has str
Re: Plays to nintendos strengths (Score:1)
I have a Switch and I have never yet taken the dock out of it's packaging. We don't have a tee vee set anywhere in the house to even plug it into. I am a PC gamer who took a liking to Nintendo handhelds. Couch/teevee gaming I have never gotten into.
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If you only ever play mobile, the new switch lite is probably right up your alley. $200 and mobile-only
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The only problem with this cheaper Switch is that the games are still the same price. It's only $100 cheaper, which might be a lot for some people, but really doesn't make the whole system that much more affordable. It's not like with the 3/2DS where they had a version you could get for $80 with a game. Spending $200 vs $300 isn't a big deal and you're probably better off getting the $300 version with all the increased functionality it offers. Assuming games cost $60, by the time you've bout 5 games, the
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I think the switch makes it obvious - the handheld market. The console market is tied up between Sony and Microsoft, and Nintendo historically has not made anything really competitive in the arena (they really just got lucky with the Wii).
Nintendo's only ar
Re:If your kids play video games 3 hours straight (Score:5, Insightful)
I suppose you think comic books are for kids too? The Nintendo generation is in their 40's now.
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I wish my 40 year old neighbors would mow their damn lawn. It's like an insect farm now.
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Why would you mow your own lawn?
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3 hours? Hah, filthy casuals.
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drift (Score:3)
they should fix the drift issue with the joycon.
the switch lite doesn't even have removable joycons, if these have the drift issue too, there's going to be fun times ahead.