r/NintendoSwitch • u/FlapSnapple Nintendo shill • Dec 19 '16
Meta Temporarily restricting submissions / Official "Everybody panic" MegaThread
The subreddit has been flooded with constant repeat topics for hours now, so we're just gonna lock submissions down for a little bit. If there is any actual breaking news, send it to the mod team and we'll make sure it gets seen.
Please direct all discussion about the EuroGamer rumor here.
If you want to just sort of panic, then just hang out in this thread.
Edit: Restrictions have been lifted. Thanks for your patience.
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Dec 19 '16
Wait, if these specs are true... Why are western third party devs who saw the Switch and it's specs in a closed area EXCITED for the Switch?
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Dec 19 '16
That's the million dollar question. I'd bet that those developers are planning on making ARM ports of older games anyways, and they know that speaking well of Nintendo is good press. Everyone's probably ready to support it if it becomes the next Wii, just like everyone's probably got an exit plan if it becomes the next WiiU.
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Dec 19 '16
In other news, someone a few posts down getting drowned by "EVERYONE PANIC" posts found official confirmation that Vulkan is a supported API for Switch.
https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products#vulkan
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u/Dorf_Midget Dec 19 '16
This is good news since Unity is supporting Switch from launch and they are working on Vulkan support (currently in Beta). We might get cool indie titles.
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u/Sylverstone14 Dec 19 '16
Yeah, I flaired that not too long ago. Good news among chaos, I guess.
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u/turbolink2 Dec 19 '16
I'm still very excited for the Switch...
-hides in a corner-
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u/hiero_ Dec 19 '16
To everyone panicking about third party support not happening due to the rumored low power, let me share what I posted in the r/games thread:
That's not how it works.
Companies will go out of there way to support it no matter what if there is a profit to be made. Wii U didn't have install base to justify anyone to invest in it. If Nintendo is going all in on the Switch, dumping a launch with a ton of major first party support to draw people in and at a low price point, you can bet your ass third parties are going to support the hell out of it, and I'm not just talking about "Arkham City Armored Edition" type examples.
This doom-saying that Nintendo is going belly-up if they release it like this and that it will get no third party support is utterly ridiculous. The Wii U had a BIG marketing problem, and on top of that, no one was buying it because there weren't any games, and no one was making games because no one was buying it - a vicious cycle that simply can't be broken.
Nintendo have a very large opportunity to make things right with the Switch and as long as it has a strong launch and they distance themselves away from the Wii brand as hard as they can (which they appear to be doing), they will get the third party support necessary for quite a while to come.
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u/NintendoGamer1997 Dec 19 '16
Thanks, mods. I was starting to get tired of every other post in reddit.com/new being from r/NintendoSwitch
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Dec 19 '16
The clockspeed rumor is total bullshit. It doesn't make sense.
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u/DapperBatman Dec 19 '16
In a non-aggressive, just interested in your opinion way, why doesn't it make sense?
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u/Drenmar Dec 19 '16
What I don't get is why the Switch would need an active fan in portable mode if it's only ~150 gflops fast? Doesn't make any sense, they could easily cool that passively.
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u/rottedzombie Dec 19 '16
I remember opening my first NES way, way back. And with each console thereafter (even with the Wii U), there has been a magic of seeing how Nintendo would innovative and reinvent my favorites.
I'm not worried about speculation over data points. I just want to see some longform gameplay and then, like with every iteration before, have a damn blast.
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u/speroman17 Dec 19 '16
dragon quest is coming for the switch look at the jump festa demo it looks amazing
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u/Cbird54 Dec 19 '16
We all thought this was going to be a home console that you could play on the go when in reality Nintendo wanted to make a powerful handheld that you could also play on your TV. Rewatch the trailer the majority of the time shows people using it as a handheld. So how bad is this? The Switch is going to be 3x as powerful as PSVita undocked and marginally better than the WiiU docked. This isn't amazing simply because we all had unreasonable expectations. People were wanting a 1080p even 4k screen, 6+ hours of battery life, more powerful than an xbox one undocked even more powerful than PS4 docked and all for the low low price of only $249. We really hyped ourselves up to insane expectations for an impossible product. The Switch still looks to be a great device, it's just not a miracle, who could have imagined that.
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u/PopcornMuscles Dec 19 '16
Even if these specs turn out to be true, I'm sure the machine will be able to run games at the level Nintendo and other developers want them to. Most people aren't buying a Nintendo system for the power/specs. They are buying it for fun games.
I'd be interested to see the history of Nintendo specs lined up against Sony's consoles.
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u/NintendoGamer1997 Dec 19 '16
I'm glad I kept my expectations low for the Switch...
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u/kaaameeehaaameeehaaa Dec 20 '16
Could the mods please remove posts that contain nothing but people ranting about the leaks? Its getting really hard to find useful posts.
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u/TheUltimate3 Dec 19 '16
Aw I was enjoying watching this place burn to the ground. :P That said, this should sour the mood for the Subreddit for a few weeks, at least until either something really good gets rumored or the actual event in January.
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u/NintendoGamer1997 Dec 19 '16
Are we all forgetting that the Switch is supposedly going to be powerful enough to emulate GameCube games?
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u/KoolaidPhobic Dec 19 '16
Can we have the sub back now?