I thinking mostly about the battery life, and if you can eventually replace them when they die.
I can fire up an original NES and plug it into a modern TV, and it will play perfectly just like when it was new, with no diminished performance. Can't do that with Switch if the batteries are dead and non-replaceable. Everything these days has nonreplaceable batteries, I guess we're just meant to throw devices away when the batteries die.
The Gamecube certainly wasn't underpowered, it was on par with the Xbox for on-screen performance and superior in power to the PS2 (which was also notoriously difficult to program for).
N64 was more powerful than PS1, SNES was more powerful than Genesis. NES vs Master System is debatable.
It wasn't until the Wii that Big N said "you know what, we're getting off this graphics race and doing something weird and inexpensive instead!"
We haven't seen the actual connectors in detail yet, knowing Nintendo it's probably going to be quite sturdy.
Or they may be using a wireless setup, even with the controller bits attached. Otherwise the controller sharing shown for Mario Kart and that NBA game won't work.
A cheap second-hand monitor of a decent size with HDMI input, plus your choice of streaming device, is a much better solution than a so-called smart TV, for most people. The built-in smart TV apps suck ass anyway, compared to Chromecast or AppleTV or Roku.
I just set up a 23" monitor with an old 1st-gen Chromecast for my workbench to catch up on various Youtube etc. shows. Cost me less than $75.
TV remote controls used to be ultrasonic, and worked by striking small aluminum rods of slightly different length, to produce different (inaudible) tones.
While those remote controls only had a few basic functions, I see no reason why this couldn't be replicated for a 104/105-key keyboard.
Again with the utter misconceptions and feeble attempts at machismo.
Plenty of pits 'round here. But you seem to misunderstand the whole point of a pit. You're out to hurt people, you have malicious intent. Proper pits are for getting physical with other people, not against them.
You probably think crowd-killing and spitting are A-OK at concerts, too. If you want to fight, just admit it outright, instead of trying to dress it up.
It's a two-way respect kind of thing. Some artists love it, some don't. Similarly, some people just have to record literally everything, while some people prefer to live in the moment.
A quick snapshot? Sure.
Recording the whole damn show? You're an idiot. Your video is going to be utter shit, and you're missing the actual show to record it.
It's abundantly clear that you have no idea who I am or what I do in my spare time, and how I participate in concerts.
Your assumptions about my person are laughable at best, and it only further cements your obvious desperate attempts at appearing like a 'tough guy' online.
Sure, you and I know when to have the phone out, and when not to.
But apparently Joe Q. Average doesn't, and thus measures like this are apparently needed. And since it would be a massive allocation of resources to screen everyone present for whether they intend to pull out their phone, the lowest common denominator is chosen.
Don't forget the whole "getting pissing drunk, thinking they own the place and start groping everyone in sight".
The baby boomer men are bad, but the women are even worse. Shut the fuck up lady, and stop grabbing my ass and getting all up in my face with your ass-old tits, while joking with your equally drunk girlfriends.
All they're doing is stopping you from using your electronic pacifier for an hour or two. It's fine, you'll survive that harrowing situation, I'm 100% sure.
Do you really that's the only way people find out about concerts? Are you completely ignoring Facebook events created by the organizers/artists? Bandsintown? Actual word of mouth from talking to actual people?
If you cannot "word of mouth" a concert without having to upload a crappy photo or video, maybe that's because no one listens to what you say.
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I'm concerned about those tiny-ass half-controllers though. Not sure how that'll play out with adult sized hands.
We survived the original NES controllers, we'll survive the NES Classic controllers, so I guess we'll survive these too.
Either way, I think it's a really neat idea to make it so you can share "one" controller as two smaller, simpler controllers for some games.
I thinking mostly about the battery life, and if you can eventually replace them when they die.
I can fire up an original NES and plug it into a modern TV, and it will play perfectly just like when it was new, with no diminished performance. Can't do that with Switch if the batteries are dead and non-replaceable. Everything these days has nonreplaceable batteries, I guess we're just meant to throw devices away when the batteries die.
The Gamecube certainly wasn't underpowered, it was on par with the Xbox for on-screen performance and superior in power to the PS2 (which was also notoriously difficult to program for).
N64 was more powerful than PS1, SNES was more powerful than Genesis. NES vs Master System is debatable.
It wasn't until the Wii that Big N said "you know what, we're getting off this graphics race and doing something weird and inexpensive instead!"
How can you be so sure there's not an additional GPU in the base station?
Probably something ARM-based, and since it's Nvidia-powered, probably the latest iteration of the Tegra SoC.
We haven't seen the actual connectors in detail yet, knowing Nintendo it's probably going to be quite sturdy.
Or they may be using a wireless setup, even with the controller bits attached. Otherwise the controller sharing shown for Mario Kart and that NBA game won't work.
A cheap second-hand monitor of a decent size with HDMI input, plus your choice of streaming device, is a much better solution than a so-called smart TV, for most people. The built-in smart TV apps suck ass anyway, compared to Chromecast or AppleTV or Roku.
I just set up a 23" monitor with an old 1st-gen Chromecast for my workbench to catch up on various Youtube etc. shows. Cost me less than $75.
TV remote controls used to be ultrasonic, and worked by striking small aluminum rods of slightly different length, to produce different (inaudible) tones.
While those remote controls only had a few basic functions, I see no reason why this couldn't be replicated for a 104/105-key keyboard.
And that's before we even consider the effects of upbringing on a personality.
Exactly, this stinks of eugenics.
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Again with the utter misconceptions and feeble attempts at machismo.
Plenty of pits 'round here. But you seem to misunderstand the whole point of a pit. You're out to hurt people, you have malicious intent. Proper pits are for getting physical with other people, not against them.
You probably think crowd-killing and spitting are A-OK at concerts, too. If you want to fight, just admit it outright, instead of trying to dress it up.
It's a two-way respect kind of thing. Some artists love it, some don't. Similarly, some people just have to record literally everything, while some people prefer to live in the moment.
A quick snapshot? Sure.
Recording the whole damn show? You're an idiot. Your video is going to be utter shit, and you're missing the actual show to record it.
Well, that misconception is 100% on you.
And have bouncers running around the venue, disturbing the show and possibly causing the culprit to start complaining loudly?
I think they chose the best compromise, to ensure the show could go on without interruption.
It's abundantly clear that you have no idea who I am or what I do in my spare time, and how I participate in concerts.
Your assumptions about my person are laughable at best, and it only further cements your obvious desperate attempts at appearing like a 'tough guy' online.
In that case, I think everyone would prefer if you would just stay at home at interact with no one.
Sure, you and I know when to have the phone out, and when not to.
But apparently Joe Q. Average doesn't, and thus measures like this are apparently needed. And since it would be a massive allocation of resources to screen everyone present for whether they intend to pull out their phone, the lowest common denominator is chosen.
Have you ever been on stage, and tried to perform for a completely unresponsive audience? It's an extremely shitty experience.
You have no idea who or what I am.
And I could say the exact same thing.
But unlike you, I don't have to get violent to feel like a man.
Don't forget the whole "getting pissing drunk, thinking they own the place and start groping everyone in sight".
The baby boomer men are bad, but the women are even worse. Shut the fuck up lady, and stop grabbing my ass and getting all up in my face with your ass-old tits, while joking with your equally drunk girlfriends.
I think it would be best for everyone if you just stayed at home, with your anger issues.
Yeah, I see no issues with people snapping a couple of photos to send to their friends and family.
The real issue is people who insist on recording everything, while missing the actual show.
Invasion of privacy? How so?
All they're doing is stopping you from using your electronic pacifier for an hour or two. It's fine, you'll survive that harrowing situation, I'm 100% sure.
Do you really that's the only way people find out about concerts? Are you completely ignoring Facebook events created by the organizers/artists? Bandsintown? Actual word of mouth from talking to actual people?
If you cannot "word of mouth" a concert without having to upload a crappy photo or video, maybe that's because no one listens to what you say.