I'm a sucker for Mario Kart :D
Thats a lot for a tablet. With a game you're very close to PS4 Pro money. I think Nintendo might have some problems selling these.
The Nvidia shield failed spectacularly at half this price. I think the problem is the console market is driven by kids and people obsessed with performance numbers and this might not appeal to either. You never know though, Nintendo are probably the only firm people will over pay for because of the games.
It seems quite extortionate given what it is, I did read that it is more powerful when docked, release no doubt will see if it is true.
Don't get me wrong, the new innovation is pretty cool but pricing is way to high, for those 2 controller side pieces they are saying £75 per set which still puts a flashy tablet and dock at £200. Then also the whole charging a monthly fee like PS+ or XBLive Gold, according to Eurogamer you get 1 game per month, either a NES or SNES classic, now it is a bit ambiguous but it sounds like you only get the game for a month, not like PS+ where you can re-download something from ages ago provided you added it to account and have a live sub and it stays with you until you uninstall it.
Just have to wait and see, I am not really seeing anything better than the Wii U at the moment, maybe they should have done a Wii U refresh with more power, normal controller and so on to draw in the crowds.
I want one yes, but at that price most likely not
Here's hoping on a SNES Mini………
Well $299 translates to £294 (inc. VAT). So we're getting a better deal than the US (or alternatively, the price is likely to rise to £299 if the pound falls any further against the dollar).
That's the only good thing about the price. The JoyCons are clearly advanced, but that makes them expensive (especially compared to a PS4 controller) and they don't look that comfortable to use either, being dictated by the form factor of the console.
OTOH Zelda, Kart and Mario…
No chance, I'll buy the 4k 144hz HDR monitor announced at CES instead. ;)
Should last me a decade, Get my money's worth!
Ferral
It seems quite extortionate given what it is, I did read that it is more powerful when docked, release no doubt will see if it is true.
Don't get me wrong, the new innovation is pretty cool but pricing is way to high, for those 2 controller side pieces they are saying £75 per set which still puts a flashy tablet and dock at £200. Then also the whole charging a monthly fee like PS+ or XBLive Gold, according to Eurogamer you get 1 game per month, either a NES or SNES classic, now it is a bit ambiguous but it sounds like you only get the game for a month, not like PS+ where you can re-download something from ages ago provided you added it to account and have a live sub and it stays with you until you uninstall it.
Just have to wait and see, I am not really seeing anything better than the Wii U at the moment, maybe they should have done a Wii U refresh with more power, normal controller and so on to draw in the crowds.
I want one yes, but at that price most likely not
Here's hoping on a SNES Mini………
Yeah I think Nintendo should have gone for a high performance under the TV box. Something that could have run 1920x1080 at 50-60FPS with some AA.
The online pay monthly service just sounds strange considering this is obviously more DS than Wii. How are people going to connect to the service while out?
Note pre-orders are already selling out!
I like the idea of it but would I buy one and at that much …….. “No!”
DanceswithUnix
Note pre-orders are already selling out!
The'll probably end up on ebay for £1k a pop.
A bit too over priced for me. I am still waiting to get hold of a NES Classic Mini they have really dropped the ball from a supply demand standpoint.
No intention whatsoever of buying it. Just like the Wii and the Wii U, it just doesn't appeal to me.
Not even slightly interested
My family enjoyed the Wii in it's day. The Wii U didn't appeal and the Switch isn't a million miles away from it conceptually. Then there’s the price which I think is too high so no, no Switch for us.
I think of lot of people will buy this at launch, particularly those receiving their end-of-financial-year bonus, but I won't be one of them.
I think it looks great, but it's too expensive, especially in terms of peripherals and games. Given its portable nature, I also wouldn't be surprised if a Switch XL or Switch Lite launches in a year or two.
Finances and quality of games permitting, this does interest me in a way that the Wii U simply never did, but it's not at the right price point.
Hopefully this will be the N64 launch where they dropped the price from £250 to £150 in pretty short measure when says started off sluggish. (At £280, it's a tough sell. At £180, it'd be a very-tempting offer.)
Cut the price in half with mario kart thrown in i'll think about ;) I'd rather put the money towards a good 4k monitor to be honest.
DanceswithUnix
Note pre-orders are already selling out!
Nintendo are well known for holding back stocks to make the hype for the item more. They did it with the Wii.
But no I won't be getting one.
flearider
why we all have pc's
Couldn't agree more.
Just got a Wii U, so I suppose I might get a Switch a in 2021. :) I'm not enough of a gamer these days to go for a new console.
I do hope that the using a common mobile part will allow Nintendo to upgrade this easily, offering a more powerful Switch in the future, with compatibility for the older Switch.
Definately not. I think consoles are great for those that have a use for them but even then why would anyone waste money on ‘the 3rd option’? If you want a console, grab a Playstation. Otherwise just use a PC at home or a smart phone on the move.
No. The price is too high and the main draw of it (the portability) is wasted because of the poor battery life (3 hours for Zelda).
Nintendo should just remove itself from the console market and focus only on handheld gaming (not the console/handheld hybrid like the Switch is) and/or start releasing its older games (from the NES all the way to the Wii U) on Android, iOS, PS4, XO, and PC. They'll be rolling in money.
your better off with an xperia z
Not until the price drops. £279 is serious hardware money and I'd only want it for Zelda…
Maybe if the price drops/gets a game included with a price drop on the games on top. A little bummed about the online subscription too.
Nope. Not particularly into Nintendo stuff, but I have enjoyed the odd game or two from the Zelda series.
no thanks hardly ever uses the tablet i have.
jigger
Ferral
It seems quite extortionate given what it is, I did read that it is more powerful when docked, release no doubt will see if it is true.
Don't get me wrong, the new innovation is pretty cool but pricing is way to high, for those 2 controller side pieces they are saying £75 per set which still puts a flashy tablet and dock at £200. Then also the whole charging a monthly fee like PS+ or XBLive Gold, according to Eurogamer you get 1 game per month, either a NES or SNES classic, now it is a bit ambiguous but it sounds like you only get the game for a month, not like PS+ where you can re-download something from ages ago provided you added it to account and have a live sub and it stays with you until you uninstall it.
Just have to wait and see, I am not really seeing anything better than the Wii U at the moment, maybe they should have done a Wii U refresh with more power, normal controller and so on to draw in the crowds.
I want one yes, but at that price most likely not
Here's hoping on a SNES Mini………
Yeah I think Nintendo should have gone for a high performance under the TV box. Something that could have run 1920x1080 at 50-60FPS with some AA.
The online pay monthly service just sounds strange considering this is obviously more DS than Wii. How are people going to connect to the service while out?
I'm hoping it will be viewed more as a replacement for the 3ds.
I've never owned a handheld. Not because there aren't any good games - there are some like Phoenix Wright, Bravely Default and Persona 4 Golden that I am interested in - but because I have never seen the point of playing any game that matters at low resolution on a tiny screen.
Having a low resolution mode on the go and a full resolution mode when displaying on a big screen is something I think should have happened a long time ago (unlike that Playstation TV thing…).
Nope. Nintendo should give up making hardware and should just develop their mobile games for phones and their other ones on proper consoles/ pc.
cheesemp
Not until the price drops. £279 is serious hardware money and I'd only want it for Zelda…
So the £80 for the Zelda collectors edition might not interest you then :D
I've never been so sure in my life of a product failing since Kellogg's released their cereal “Bits O' Auschwitz”
err….. Nope….
I can think of better things to blow nearly £300 on.
I've been itching to get a Wii-U for ages, but Nintendo have a habbit of just turning things off and ditching their old consoles so it's never given me confidence to put my money on the table especially if say the Virtual Console just disappears (which is what I bought the original Wii for). A big problem with the Switch is that the games are a whopping £50… I wouldnt pay that for BF1 like EA were asking so I wouldnt be getting these, and their depreciation value will be high.
The price of the hardware actually doesnt put me off at all, but the ongoing costs of an online subscription and wildly high game prices do.
I won't be pre-ordering but will be watching the final product with hawk eyes. Nintendo have always made brilliant single player games, somehow they tap into my dyslexic and autistic mind.
Nope. I think they made a device at cross-purposes; a Jack-of-No-Trades.
At £280 ($340) in the UK, with no games, that's just too darn expensive. I love the concept, but unless the price hits ~£200 including one good game, I'll give it a miss.
Probably, but only when there's a brand new Mario Kart and a Zelda game that won't come to Wii U. I've got more physical Wii/Wii U/3DS games than I've ever had at any one time for any console or PC, so I think we like Nintendo in our house :-)
Will I buy? No.
Why not? First, pricing. Second, I neither need nor want a portabke, battery-powered console, so I'd be paying a premium for features I've no interest in at all.
XBOne? Perhaps, if MS allow me to physically disable cameras, mics, and subject to my privacy audit.
PS4? A little more likely, subject to a similar privacy audit.
But I'm not bothered enough about either to have even looked at them for at least a couple of years.
Switch? I just don't see it.
Friesiansam
flearider
why we all have pc's
Couldn't agree more.
Because a PC is hardly portable and local split-screen is hardly included in a lot of titles anymore?
But at that price yeah i'm not buying it.
I pre ordered one friday morning. Not had a Nintendo console for a while (I skilled the failure that was the Wii-U) so i am curious what they do with this one. I don't think it's too expensive - I think they got the launch price about right and they will still sell out at that price. Worth a punt to play the new Zelda :)
Reading about it some more, I'm looking forward to seeing what is done with the haptic feedback and IR camera. The main reason I have consoles is for alternate style interaction that doesn't exists on the PC.
It's a high price and doesn't even include a game in that base price. Wii Sports wasn't exactly the best game of all time but it was something to keep people entertained a while before other stuff came out. But you gotta pay £50 for a game on top of that £280. I personally don't think the hardware price is too much. It's everything else that bumps up the price far too much. Shame, at £200 and slightly cheaper games and other hardware and it probably would have been a sale for me.
Haha no I won't. It's wiiu all over again, game support will soon dry up thanks to the weak ass mobile gpu. And £300 for a glorified 720p tablet with no game and rippoff accessory prices. On top of that they want money for their crap online service. Nintendo are living a fantasy land and I can't wait for them to fail.
Not a chance, not owned any nintendo device since gameboy advanced and from the direction these are going it looks like I never will.
Depends if there are any games I want to play on it. To be honest I don't really care about t what console is more powerful. I did want to play uncharted 4 so I bought a PS4. If there's something compelling on the new Nintendo box I'll buy that too.
I am a PC fan all day long , no consoles for me.
raven1001
Haha no I won't. It's wiiu all over again, game support will soon dry up thanks to the weak ass mobile gpu.
The Wii-U had a DX9 class GPU which must have been a pain for people trying to port to it. This might not be any more powerful, but easier to port to would make a difference. I wonder if games will come out that are docked only or hand waving to portable use though.
The price does seem high, I wonder if that is Nvidia or Nintendo.
Although I game (on the PC and quite frequently), I'm not really the target audience for a console. If I were it certainly wouldn't be this one.
Also, someone above loosely compared this to the nVidia Shield TV and how it failed in the market. I'm still firmly of the belief, that the Shield TV is much more a streaming device than a games console and really ought to be targeted as such by nVidia. Bundling the remote with the new version is a laudable first step, though.
DanceswithUnix
The Wii-U had a DX9 class GPU
The Wii U has a DX10.1 class GPU. I imagine the most painful part for ports , hardware-wise, is the 1GB RAM.
DanceswithUnix
The Wii-U had a DX9 class GPU
DX10/10.1 or OpenGL 3.3.
ET3D
The Wii U has a DX10.1 class GPU. I imagine the most painful part for ports , hardware-wise, is the 1GB RAM.
Interesting, so it does. I didn't realise there were two GPUs on the Wii-U, one for Wii compatibility and a VLIW5 one. Somehow I got the impression they had just stretched the Gamecube GPU again, like they did with Wii.
Ease of code porting did seem to be a problem on the Wii-U though, do we have a spec for the Switch ram size? A quick google didn't turn anything up for me.
jigger
Thats a lot for a tablet. With a game you're very close to PS4 Pro money. I think Nintendo might have some problems selling these.
The Nvidia shield failed spectacularly at half this price. I think the problem is the console market is driven by kids and people obsessed with performance numbers and this might not appeal to either. You never know though, Nintendo are probably the only firm people will over pay for because of the games.
dont forget, im sure theres enough (more than enough) nintendo hardcore fans who is willing to pay that price… (I wouldnt)
My biggest problem with this, is full price (60$) games for 720p. I might sound like a “crybaby”, but the pricing is weird, consider X-box one, PS4 and PC games costs the same, with higher and better performance overall.
Mski
My biggest problem with this, is full price (60$) games for 720p. I might sound like a “crybaby”, but the pricing is weird, consider X-box one, PS4 and PC games costs the same, with higher and better performance overall.
But better resolution and graphics don't necessarily make a better game, and it will be the games that sell the console. IMO of course.
b0redom
But better resolution and graphics don't necessarily make a better game, and it will be the games that sell the console. IMO of course.
It will provide the highest resolution Zelda and Mario Kart possible. For some that will be enough.
I don't see my parents getting one, so it won't be the runaway success the Wii was.
Shane74
No chance, I'll buy the 4k 144hz HDR monitor announced at CES instead. ;)
Should last me a decade, Get my money's worth!
I've not looked into it, but I think those monitors will be more than £300!!!
Lots of comments about 720p gaming, making it inferior to other consoles… it does 1080p when docked and plugged into the TV. The handheld console is 720p, with a 6.2" screen, which isn't too bad.
If I get the money, I would.
Stu C;966
Shane74
No chance, I'll buy the 4k 144hz HDR monitor announced at CES instead. ;)
Should last me a decade, Get my money's worth!
I've not looked into it, but I think those monitors will be more than £300!!!
Lots of comments about 720p gaming, making it inferior to other consoles… it does 1080p when docked and plugged into the TV. The handheld console is 720p, with a 6.2" screen, which isn't too bad.
900p when docked.
Mski
Stu C;966
Shane74
No chance, I'll buy the 4k 144hz HDR monitor announced at CES instead. ;)
Should last me a decade, Get my money's worth!
I've not looked into it, but I think those monitors will be more than £300!!!
Lots of comments about 720p gaming, making it inferior to other consoles… it does 1080p when docked and plugged into the TV. The handheld console is 720p, with a 6.2" screen, which isn't too bad.
900p when docked.
With The legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild! Sorry.
In short: no.
In detail: £50-60 a game, £75 for a pair of Joy Cons to play multiplayer, £28 for the dock that charges Joy Cons, £70 for the “pro pad”… And 5 launch games. Everything is poorly priced (they're charging £5 each for glorified wrist straps!) the online service sounds awful (voice chat and parental controls via phone apps? A SNES/NES classic that is only available for a month each time?) and the games that there are either have better versions coming to other platforms or are re-issues. No. I'll get Breath of the Wild for Wii U (apparently the difference is a few less frames, so…) and be happy until a price crash, thanks.
No, No Way, Never Ever.
Its way too… Naaah, its crapy console and going with ngridia thats why the price is high. Going X86 would made them a choice but Arm is too damn weak.
A console with Zen and Radeon would shine on. But we have to wait for that…
I might if the games offer something different from PC and PS4. Would have to be after a hefty price drop though.
Iota
Not at that price point.
:) same
As others have said, not at that price. The subscription aspect is a turnoff too, but as I'm not interested at that price, or even near to it, I haven't bothered looking into the implications.