Using Amazon's prices as representative street prices, instead of MSRP, the Xbox One S is $234, the PS4 is $279.
Full retail games for all the consoles are the same price.
So a Switch with Minecraft and Rocket League (assuming you paid list, not a sale price) would still leave you with $163 in change from the other consoles alone to buy games with.
There are plenty of reasons to have an Xbox and a PS4 instead of a Switch, and 'I want to play Forza' is certainly a valid one.
But 'a Switch is more than an Xbox and a PS4 put together' is not one of them.
There are 403 games in the Switch download shop. (Okay, some of those entries are duplicates - like a game, and game-plus-DLC. But not that many. And one of the things is a non-game.)
There are 37 Switch-exclusive games out, and 15 more that are Switch or 3DS only, no other console/PC.
I can't think of another console that has had this many games in its first year. Granted a lot of those are arcade and indie ports, but there's certainly no lack of games to play on the thing. And there's certainly some crap in there (hogod, Vroom in the Night Sky), but not all that much, either.
WIMP is fine with a stylus as long as it's a good one.
The one on my 8" Windows tablet can be set so that touch is a pointer, and click is either a double-tap *or* press and hold *or* one of the buttons on the pen barrel.
Usually I keep it set so that I can drag with press-and-hold and use one of the barrel buttons for right-click.
Of course, the stylus does take a battery. One AAAA battery. Keep a spare, because they're not very expensive but holy hell are they hard to find locally if you need one right away.
The same reason non-pirates don't: because the vast majority of playback devices do not have hardware acceleration for vp9 and opus.
And the savings in file size isn't worth the longer encode times and higher CPU use if you have to transcode on the fly (for instance, if your media server is streaming to a device that only supports h.264.)
However, they cost more than 16gb, so developers are putting 16gb on the cart and requiring the customer download the rest of the game, pushing the cost of the storage onto the consumer.
NBA2K18 requires 24 gigs of downloads before you can play. And its saves are five gigs each. (Which is utterly nuts.)
Doom at least does it sensibly - you can play single-player off the cart, mutliplayer is a free 9 gig add-on download.
It's well over a week. I usually charge it after the last day of my work week and there's still 20% or so left. It charges in about an hour from a USB 2 port on my PC, faster if I use a phone charger.
Compare to the Apple Watch, which is rated for 'All Day (18 hours)'. That's ridiculous. (And it drops to 3 hours if you're using some of the fancier features.) The Samsung Gear is 1.5 to 3 days depending on how it's set up.
Longer battery life would be nice, but 'once a week' isn't onerous charging, to me. Daily would be freakin' annoying. I do normally take my watch off when I go to bed, but I don't want to HAVE to remember to.
Did you have the black and white or the color screen model?
I haven't noticed any screen tearing on my Time, but I don't exactly do much fast-motion on it, either, so it might be an issue and I just haven't tripped it.
They aggregate it and charge you once for ALL your charges for the entire month.
So if you back eight people at a dollar per content upload, and they upload three things each that month, instead of charging $24, they will now charge $32.88 - in one transaction, on the first of the month.
This really screws over people who back lots of creators at low levels.
Most people are content with a 2.1 (or even plain stereo) sound setup, and while they might think surround sound is nifty, they find running the wires and positioning the speakers to be more of a pain in the butt than it's worth.
You play as a kid that turns into a squid and run around with splat guns or paint rollers or ink snipers or Gatling guns and the goal is actually to cover more of the arena in your team's color than the other team's, and you can shoot each other with the ink guns.
It's a very chaotic and offensive game; finding a defensable position is possible, but won't help cover territory.
Public random matches are short, but you can enter ranked play and team ranked play. (Neither of which I use, because I'm not very good at the game.)
Splatoon 1 is for the WiiU, Splatoon 2 is for the Switch. I don't know if many people are still playing the first one, though.
Third-party clients can connect to AIM just fine. My Adium is connected to it.
There was an issue earlier this year when they disabled a very old insecure auth method and blocked clients that used it, but all the clients had to do was update to the new (like, five year old) method.
The Plex server is a downloadable app for Synology NASes. It means the NAS itself runs the server software as well as holds the files, so you don't need another computer running all the time.
Plex is a LOT easier to set up than MythTV. It doesn't require a more-or-less-dedicated box, and there's a lot less fiddling involved.
If digital retailers are not allowed to handle different regions differently:
Does this mean GOG.com and Steam will be allowed to sell video games with Nazis in them with Germany, or does it mean the German ban on Nazis in media is now effectively EU-wide?
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Because the Steam ports of console games are often messy, buggy, unplayable shit.
That's some interesting math.
Using Amazon's prices as representative street prices, instead of MSRP, the Xbox One S is $234, the PS4 is $279.
Full retail games for all the consoles are the same price.
So a Switch with Minecraft and Rocket League (assuming you paid list, not a sale price) would still leave you with $163 in change from the other consoles alone to buy games with.
There are plenty of reasons to have an Xbox and a PS4 instead of a Switch, and 'I want to play Forza' is certainly a valid one.
But 'a Switch is more than an Xbox and a PS4 put together' is not one of them.
There aren't many games out?
There are 403 games in the Switch download shop. (Okay, some of those entries are duplicates - like a game, and game-plus-DLC. But not that many. And one of the things is a non-game.)
There are 37 Switch-exclusive games out, and 15 more that are Switch or 3DS only, no other console/PC.
I can't think of another console that has had this many games in its first year. Granted a lot of those are arcade and indie ports, but there's certainly no lack of games to play on the thing. And there's certainly some crap in there (hogod, Vroom in the Night Sky), but not all that much, either.
Windows since XP and MacOS since like... 9.0 have included voice assistive technologies.
You just have to turn them on.
If the OS's built in speech recognition and control don't do what you want, buy a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 series 4 GB RAM version.
Add in the matching Bluetooth keyboard and, for extra photo editing fun, the 2048-levels-of-pressure active stylus.
The problem is that it's a 'corporate' device, so Dell doesn't make it easy to buy just one of them.
WIMP is fine with a stylus as long as it's a good one.
The one on my 8" Windows tablet can be set so that touch is a pointer, and click is either a double-tap *or* press and hold *or* one of the buttons on the pen barrel.
Usually I keep it set so that I can drag with press-and-hold and use one of the barrel buttons for right-click.
Of course, the stylus does take a battery. One AAAA battery. Keep a spare, because they're not very expensive but holy hell are they hard to find locally if you need one right away.
The same reason non-pirates don't: because the vast majority of playback devices do not have hardware acceleration for vp9 and opus.
And the savings in file size isn't worth the longer encode times and higher CPU use if you have to transcode on the fly (for instance, if your media server is streaming to a device that only supports h.264.)
Nintendo does offer 32GB Switch cartridges.
However, they cost more than 16gb, so developers are putting 16gb on the cart and requiring the customer download the rest of the game, pushing the cost of the storage onto the consumer.
NBA2K18 requires 24 gigs of downloads before you can play. And its saves are five gigs each. (Which is utterly nuts.)
Doom at least does it sensibly - you can play single-player off the cart, mutliplayer is a free 9 gig add-on download.
Getting next to no business because so many people don't carry cash at all any more? Check.
It's well over a week. I usually charge it after the last day of my work week and there's still 20% or so left. It charges in about an hour from a USB 2 port on my PC, faster if I use a phone charger.
Compare to the Apple Watch, which is rated for 'All Day (18 hours)'. That's ridiculous. (And it drops to 3 hours if you're using some of the fancier features.) The Samsung Gear is 1.5 to 3 days depending on how it's set up.
Longer battery life would be nice, but 'once a week' isn't onerous charging, to me. Daily would be freakin' annoying. I do normally take my watch off when I go to bed, but I don't want to HAVE to remember to.
Did you have the black and white or the color screen model?
I haven't noticed any screen tearing on my Time, but I don't exactly do much fast-motion on it, either, so it might be an issue and I just haven't tripped it.
You can tell the time at a glance on a Pebble without touching it.
In the dark, even.
The Pebble hit it right - it did just enough, and the battery lasted a long time on a charge.
None of the crap the fancier watches do is worth having to charge them so frequently.
Yeah, they're discontinued. But it's still the best damn device for notifications, and the battery life is stellar.
They aggregate it and charge you once for ALL your charges for the entire month.
So if you back eight people at a dollar per content upload, and they upload three things each that month, instead of charging $24, they will now charge $32.88 - in one transaction, on the first of the month.
This really screws over people who back lots of creators at low levels.
The game costs $40 to buy.
There is a $150 edition, but that's actually THREE copies of the game, plus some other crapola.
The game actually measures 'Effective Actions per Minute' and disregards spam clicks.
A 'casual player' is considered to be about 50 apm. 'proficient' players are about 150.
Selecting a building, selecting a unit, and training a unit would be three actions. Selecting a unit and commanding it to move would be two actions.
Most people are content with a 2.1 (or even plain stereo) sound setup, and while they might think surround sound is nifty, they find running the wires and positioning the speakers to be more of a pain in the butt than it's worth.
You play as a kid that turns into a squid and run around with splat guns or paint rollers or ink snipers or Gatling guns and the goal is actually to cover more of the arena in your team's color than the other team's, and you can shoot each other with the ink guns.
It's a very chaotic and offensive game; finding a defensable position is possible, but won't help cover territory.
Public random matches are short, but you can enter ranked play and team ranked play. (Neither of which I use, because I'm not very good at the game.)
Splatoon 1 is for the WiiU, Splatoon 2 is for the Switch. I don't know if many people are still playing the first one, though.
Splatoon.
It would be hard to get more fun and less realistic than Splatoon.
Of course, it's a vastly different style of 'shooter'.
Third-party clients can connect to AIM just fine. My Adium is connected to it.
There was an issue earlier this year when they disabled a very old insecure auth method and blocked clients that used it, but all the clients had to do was update to the new (like, five year old) method.
I use the keyboard, damnit.
The Plex server is a downloadable app for Synology NASes. It means the NAS itself runs the server software as well as holds the files, so you don't need another computer running all the time.
Plex is a LOT easier to set up than MythTV. It doesn't require a more-or-less-dedicated box, and there's a lot less fiddling involved.
On a touchscreen, actually. Edge has a reasonable tablet/touch UI. Chrome and Firefox used to, but they removed them.
If digital retailers are not allowed to handle different regions differently:
Does this mean GOG.com and Steam will be allowed to sell video games with Nazis in them with Germany, or does it mean the German ban on Nazis in media is now effectively EU-wide?