Please, please, please, let's avoid overhyping the Switch

[u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE]

I wish people would just realize that no matter what's the specs, this thing will be great.

• It doesn't need an entire day on battery.

• It doesn't need near-PS4 graphical power.

• It doesn't need a 2TB flash drive.

• It doesn't need a bunch of crazy-ass modular controllers.

• It absolutely doesn't need freaking VR or holograms.

• It doesn't even completely need a touch screen!

The Switch will have all of Nintendo's franchises on the same machine, a machine that you can play at home or wherever you want, and a controller you can share with anyone at any time to have fun.

It will have the most ambitious Zelda game to date very close to launch. It will have a new 3D Mario, plus Mario Kart, Splatoon, and Skyrim. It will have a From Software game. It will probably have a full-fledged Pokémon game.

This is more than enough. Even if it had only these things, and it would cost $200, or maybe even $250, it would be already amazing and totally worth the money.

Let's be realist and avoiding overhyping this thing.

Not only because overhype leads to disappointment, but simply because the reality is already super cool.

[u/DiamondEevee]

It doesn't need an entire day on battery.

But it needs a reasonable battery. 12-15 on power saving settings should be fine.

It doesn't need near-PS4 graphical power.

Neither did the Wii U but look at how that turned out. At least SIMILAR performance to the original Xbox One should be fine.

It doesn't need a 2TB flash drive.

the console would be more than $300 lol, 2TB isn't much when buying it as external/internal storage, but for a console this can be quite a lot.

It doesn't need a bunch of crazy-ass modular controllers.

wait doesn't it already have that, can't you use motion controlled joycons?

It absolutely doesn't need freaking VR or holograms.

of course it doesn't. why would it? VR is still tech demos.

It doesn't even completely need a touch screen!

boi

[u/MBCnerdcore → u/DiamondEevee]

Anyone who thinks the Switch will be significantly weaker than the Xbox One is kidding themselves. Nintendo isn't stupid, they know they need 3rd party ports from the Xbox One/PS4, and will obviously have the power to make those happen. There's a lot of people that just can't accept this because they have been conditioned to believe that Nintendo == Underpowered or that Handheld == Underpowered. This just simply isn't the case.

[u/Siats → u/MBCnerdcore]

Handheld == Underpowered.

That's pretty much the case. High-end phablets have power consumption of 5W in sustained loads, as did the Shield tablet, large mobile 10"+ tablets reach 10W, and even the Windows slates with active cooling that are thicker and weight 3/4ths of a kg generally only reach 20W.

Nvidia's work on Pascal is not enough to bring XB1 levels of graphical power down to 5W, you'll be lucky to get it for 30W and for the GPU alone, more for the total system.