Here’s your first official look at the Nintendo Switch

Apologies, I have been fairly vocal throughout the forum. Nintendo’s only current appeal is first party titles beautifully rendered which they’ve always delivered on, no argument.
This iteration of Nintendo looks gimmicky AF with portability advertised as it’s biggest drawcard… I still have a cellphone in my pocket.
The controllers look cheap AF and I cannot see 3rd party dev’s sinking time into a console which they have previously shunned and will continue to do so once they realise Nintendo are selling an underpowered dud appealing to old Nintendo fans. The Asshole Army (under 18 crowd) will have zero interest in this product.
The over 18 consumer already owns a superior console and has zero interest (beyond nostalgia) in this product.

We can stream all our current gen consoles to multiple devices in a *closed environment. How are Nintendo going to use that as a method to get to carry our consoles out everywhere?

Game Over.

My personal opinion of course but not even an exclusive GTA title can save the Switch.

I hear the Ouya is on sale if you’re interested?

A hipster corpse though!

😛

This new console looks ace though. Very very interesting and miles better than the Wii U.

1 Feb, ha!

Yeah, I know how Flight Mode works. But I’m just saying I’ve never heard it as explicitly as that. And I’ve never seen someone with a smartwatch or the like have to turn it off, for example (outside of landing and taking off of course). I’m skeptical that bluetooth isn’t allowed at all on planes

The FAA states that it’s not an issue at all. Might have been that you’re mistaking Take Off and Landing for In-Flight. Recently airlines have become super slack with transmitting devices while cruising.

https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=15254

Read an article on it few weeks ago.

Of course talked about US and EU but currently evenly split (and forever changing) between airlines, sometimes even between types of planes in the same airline.

Some still completely ban all radio devices.
Some allow short range Rf like Bluetooth as long as does not connect to cellular device
Some allow Wi-Fi and Bluetooth even to cellular devices.

Yeah I’ve experienced this. Qatar allows literally anything while in flight. SAA, for example, still requires flight mode but allows Bluetooth and the like. They’re all governed by different bodies that have their own rates of researching these things

It doesn’t say Bluetooth though?

Ah, I see your point. That’s what I thought too though @Alessandro_Lazygamer:disqus seems to believe otherwise. I get the wireless headphone example but that is really new. Watch would be allowed as your phone is in flight mode so cannot communicate with the watch? Not sure, we need answers now!

Watch will still transmit trying to establish connection if not also in flight mode (maybe it goes in flight mode when phone goes into flight mode?)

RF wise not really a difference between bluetooth devices old and new.
RF operating frequency stayed the same all the way from v1 to v4 and power output.
Although there have always been 3 classes of power output, from highest class 1 to class 3.
99.9% of laptops & peripherals are class 2 (2.5mW = ~10m range)

This is true. Though those are flights using new, advanced systems. I am sad that kids will never know the fear of realizing their phone was on during take off and they could have killed everyone 😛 Age of innocence! (looks at twitter # of the day, sigh… Forget that)

This is the most interesting thread in the comments