Nintendo Switch Most Sought video game brand for the past 2 weeks
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Neo Cyrus
People are sure willing to spend a lot on Zelda. Most people I know who bought a Switch bought exclusively for Zelda Breath of the Wild and nothing else. $360 USD without taxes, not including a controller which last I saw was $70 USD.
All the reviewers are raving about what an amazing game BotW is, but I'm not willing to buy a console just for one game. Especially when that one game runs at 20-30 fps (double vsync) at 900p when docked and 720p when mobile. Source is Digital Foundry.
Ricepudding
i saw the digital foundry video as well, the docked mode is very worrying... i hear on mobile mode it runs constant 30fps at 720p but isn't a good case for the life span of the console... this time next year we might see 20-25fps games at 540p? just to make things look "pretty".
I see none or very few muti-platform releases being put onto the console, basically just a WiiU version 2... which is a shame too the idea of a hybrid console sounds amazing in theory... maybe the tech just isn't there yet?
Anyone know if intel/amd APU's/integrated graphics are stronger than this tegra?
icedman
After seeing my brother playing zelda all I can say is it looks like $hit and the game costs 80$ what a ripoff for the console and the game
Neo Cyrus
justdoge
watch before buying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-srOfRqNc
moeppel
The difference between the Wii U and Switch version seems to be some AA and contrast.
That said, as a Wii U owner I couldn't possibly justify to buy a Switch for a single game when it is a cross-platform release.
As someone that doesn't own a Wii (U) it might've made sense to jump onto the Switch train. For mobile gaming I'd still much prefer my 3DS though.
Anyhow, the issue the early adopters seem to be plagued are partially quite worrying though and while BotW is by no means a bad game I'd say it's also unwarranted that it gets 10/10 everywhere. It's a beautiful game/world - particularly for children - as expected of Nintendo but inevitably it, too, would have to be measured with the likes of Dark Souls and more so perhaps Witcher 3 - both of which, at least as adult, outclass the game by miles in their respective strengths (combat / story / world).
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ubercake
Just like with the Wii, once the honeymoon is over, this will be old news.
Thanks for the tip justdoge!
They should force game vendors to start producing cartridges again. This way they are forced to sell you an actual functioning final product or they go by the wayside.
Everyone is so accepting of launch errors these days. You don't deserve systems and games full of errors when paying hundreds of dollars for them.
Reardan
Guys, the switch is a ****ing tablet. Talk about the pros and cons of that all you want, but if you expected like a GTX 1080 in the dock you were insane.
It's running on a tablet SoC. Your whining about the graphics strikes me as totally pointless. Why were none of you complaining about the graphics in Link Between Worlds?
Domingo
The graphics are bad even by Nintendo standards. You'd think that whatever they used to cell shade everything and obscure details would have made it perform better than it does. Having a AAA title with regular FPS drops into the teens is pretty weak. I tend to blame the game more than the hardware, though. Mario Kart and Arms look far more representative of what the system is capable of.
The Switch's main issue is that it's a money pit. By the time you purchase the system, a pro controller, a memory card, and a game you're in the hole for $500. I get that it's uniquely portable, but that's quite a bit when you can get an Xbox One S (that plays UHD Blu-Rays, current games, backward compatible games, and has apps) with Battlefield One for $255.
slyphnier
Rich_Guy
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vbetts
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Aura89
All i ever see is negatively in this forum anymore.
TimmyP
Well its completely justified here.
Aura89
KissSh0t
Switch is pretty cool... you can download games strait to it, for it's size I think the graphics are pretty darn good, it's essentially a little tablet.
ScoobyDooby
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