Another device running a Tegra X1 (but running at full capacity. not downclocked) is the Pixel C tablet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_C
The battery life on the Switch: 2.5 hours when running demanding games, and 6.5 hours maximum when running small games like 2D pixelated old games.
The Pixel C tablet that has the same chipset and at full speed, has a battery life of 5 hours when running continuous benchmark (meaning, the heaviest software there is), and has a maximum battery life of 13 hours (when lightweight software) like wifi browsing or wifi video streaming. anandtech.com/show/9972/the-google-pixel-c-review/6
There is ZERO excuse for Nintendo's new device to be so underpowered, and for a handheld device to have such a SHIT battery life even though the chipset is downclocked.
You're gonna have to carry a bunch of powerbanks to charge your Switch while you're playing.
Not to mention the resolution of the tablet vs. the switch.
Hudson Richardson
2560x1800 resolution high quality panel, against a shit quality 720 panel with shit tier capacitive touch and way more featuers
Nicholas Wilson
Think you're lost friend.
Liam Rodriguez
Nobody fucking cares.
This is not Sup Forums
Mason Phillips
Sup Forumsintendo is in denial and doesn't understand hardware
Gabriel Taylor
this is technology, I'm not talking about video games, go be autistic elsewhere
Levi Stewart
I'm not really sure hardware ever mattered with Nintendo. They've always had worse specs than everyone else. As long as the games are fine and the general user experience is fine, it will sell well. A number of people are going to buy this just for Breath of the Wild.
Hunter Green
Still not confirmed what's going to be in the switch, that article is from last year
Carter Lewis
...
Connor Hughes
Some basic calcs I did: Docked switch will be ~60% worse than a ps4 (non pro) Mobile switch will be ~40% weaker than a flagship smartphone
And this PoS will be gobbled up by nintendo manchildren for $350
Luke Howard
Daily reminder the new shield was scrapped so as not to compete with Switch Daily reminder that we will not have a Nexus 7 successor because of the Switch Daily reminder it's okay when nintendo does it
Alexander James
>Daily reminder that we will not have a Nexus 7 successor because of the Switch
wut? What does Google care?
Landon Nelson
Nintendo has ALWAYS been the company to release something underpowered compared to everything else out, but $100-200 cheaper.
N64, SNES, etc, etc.
It's been going on for decades.
Josiah Wood
>What does Google care? >google needs to care for a Nexus 7 successor to be had The shield was the spiritual successor of the nexus 7. It doesn't matter from which company. >right size >right hardware >right price
Hunter Carter
>but $100-200 cheaper. top kek faggot. this thing is more expensive than a PS4 (normal, not pro) while also being way slower than a PS4
Cooper Reyes
and also handheld and 1/4 of the size
your point?
Benjamin King
N64 had stronger cpu/gpu than ps1 but less memory and the cartridge was also a limiting factor
Luis Murphy
>It doesn't matter from which company.
What are you on? Can I have some too?
Jaxson Sanchez
>mobile hardware with no battery life either be a console or a viable handheld. this is neither
Xavier Torres
PS1 came out 2-3 years earlier
Xavier Brown
Kek grow up faggot, this has nintendo written all over it, it fully follows their strategy for the past 2+ decades, everyone knew this was going to be the case MONTHS ago, why you're throwing a tantrum because it's been confirmed is beyond me.
None of the announcements last night surprised ANYONE who was paying attention.
Ryder Foster
>the niche filled by the nexus 7 can only be filled by a new nexus 7 from google+partner company >a reasonably priced and sized performance tablet can only be made by google+partner company Retard
Evan Ross
>None of the announcements last night surprised ANYONE who was paying attention. top kek, nintendo can literally fuck your mom and dad on live tv and you're still ok with them
Blake King
No one is forcing you to buy a switch user.
Jayden Bailey
>something underpowered >SNES >N64 my sides These weak consoles started with the wii, really.
>$100-200 cheaper Except now it's significantly more expensive. And wiiU is still the price of a ps4.
So it has a small battery and 720p screen which is cheap af, while a ps4 has a much more expensive HDD, apu etc.
Colton Gomez
What's retarded is you thinking that Google cares about either the Shield or Switch and won't make another 7 inch tablet
Isaac Richardson
>you can't criticize things, just ignore them lol literally hang yourself
Landon Peterson
not that guy but two days ago Sup Forums was spamming that this will be 200-250$.
300$ is way too much especially with the absolutely retarded controller prices
Ian Phillips
how big is the battery on switch? I'm sure after year release nintendo gonna made new revision like putting 10.000mah battery so it won't get downclock,
Caleb Watson
Vote with your wallet, that's a valid form of protest.
bitch online about it just makes you look butthurt. Waaaaaaahhhh I want things to be produced and sold at cost because no one deserves to make a profit.
Brody Taylor
Not only does your reasoning not make sense but Shield wasn't even a spiritual successor to the Nexus 7, unless you think every 7" tablet is a spiritual successor. The Shield was marketed to gamers, launched at $100 more, and weighed far more than most tablets of its size.
Josiah Reed
>Sup Forums was spamming let me just stop you right there
Sup Forums wasn't spamming shit
Sup Forums hasn't had a Nintendo switch thread regularly until literally the day or two before the event.
Actual technical discussion that occurred on Sup Forums when the switch was first rumored pointed at $250-350, with some retards saying it will be $199 cause they're retarded.
Bentley Bennett
fuck off fanboy >just don't buy it >just ignore the jewery of nintendo, it's okay when nintendo does it
Jose Hernandez
No you're the retard Google doesn't care about the shield. It's an Nvidia thing. Google is not likely to make another 7 inch tablet, because (a) Nexus as a brand is kill and (b) they killed their 7" and 10" line and settled for 9" (b) does not really matter because any company can make a good 7"-8" tablet that would fill the void left by the Nexus 7
Lincoln Turner
Nintendo knows its demographic just like apple. Drones will eat it and ask for more.
Gavin Campbell
Lol I'm not buying it because $300 is too much money for a shitty gaymer handheld.
That being said, I 100% see where the costs go and as someone who works with manufacturing of electronics, I fully understand WHY it costs as much as it does. It's just not a product that interests me.
Aaron White
>Vote with your wallet This
Levi Hughes
>I 100% see where the costs go that's because you don't know shit.
Juan Butler
All the reviewers who have played it have praised how awesome the display looks
Wyatt Stewart
Yeah brand new custom controller with slide on screen and docking station, totally 100% already been done before, just gotta go dust off the blueprints and start producing it.
Fucking moron R&D alone costs MILLIONS of fucking dollars for brand new tech like this.
You're obviously a high schooler, just get the fuck off Sup Forums already and go back to Sup Forums.
Tyler Turner
The 7 was their most successful tablet. Their 9" trying to compete with the iPad was a failure. Just because they've offed their Nexus line doesn't mean they won't make tablets anymore. It's already rumored that HTC will make one just like the Pixel.
>does not really matter because any company can make a good 7"-8" tablet that would fill the void left by the Nexus 7
Not really debating that am I?
Jason Peterson
>unless you think every 7" tablet is a spiritual successor. No. >Nexus 7 >great price for the shit it packs inside >Other 7" inch tablets >shit internals; some may have good resolution but shit hardware to drive it >Shield Tablet >balances resolution, hardware, and price That it was "marketed to gamers" was only to highlight it was packing a strong GPU
Jackson Rodriguez
>They've always had worse specs than everyone else GCN had the best specs of the generation, it was just crippled with mini DVDs
Nicholas Lee
I think it started with the DS. Even by the standards of the time - against the PSP and e.g. iPod/iriver/cowon/archos/... shit, it was reeeeal stingy on the hardware front
But at least the DS had great games and super battery life
Luke Bennett
So we get an overpriced gadget which can run copy pastas with better graphics of games that are in a comatose state because that shitty input quantity right there has been the standard for the past 2 gens and doesn't allow any game to evolve in terms of gameplay mechanics.
Great.
Remember when console gaming was good? It was a time when console controls added more buttons and input with each advancing gen. The moment that stopped, the moment they turned useless.
Aaron Ramirez
LOL no, it did not. Now you're speaking out of your ass.
William Russell
>docking station it's literally a piece of plastic to hold the console, with a USB C to HDMI and power cable. >custom controller a shit tier tiny controller with a couple of buttons, apple style force feedback and meme sensor
Jose Nguyen
nope it was the xbox
Asher Adams
Keep telling yourself that, Microsoft
Angel Russell
Most people didn't need the premium hardware that cost $100 more and the added weight the Shield had. Way to ignore the points. Also they had overheating issues. So much for good hardware.
Nathan Fisher
Lol, the dock that doubles the GPU performance of the Switch is just a piece of plastic?
Fuck off you're so obviously retarded. Holy shit.
Henry Cox
(You) wrote > Sup Forums hasn't had a Nintendo switch thread regularly until literally the day or two before the event. > the day or two before the event
and I wrote > two days ago
which is one day before the event. you're fucking retarded.
Austin Kelly
xbox was the most powerful 6th gen, you redarded nintendrone
Landon Phillips
>the dock that doubles the GPU performance of the Switch it doesn't double you retard, there is no hardware in the dock, the switch just underclocks its own hardware when undocked. you literally don't know shit about the hardware lmao
Jonathan Hernandez
>he disagrees with me, clearly he's a fanboy Top kek
Jaxon Ward
The point is how do you think it overclocks just by being plugged into the dock?
Nigger faggot, it has cooling in the dock
Dylan Torres
yeah a 486Mhz single core 180nm CPU vs the xbox with a 733Mhz single core 180nm CPU.
Hmmmm wonder which was better....
David Perez
>overclocks it doesn't. are you retarded? it has no cooling, no overclocking.
docked: tegra runs are normal speed undocked: tegra runs are slower speed
it's not for heating, but for battery life that is already shit when it's underclocked
Brody White
>m-muh megahertz
Leo Reed
>fix overheating issues >reduce price by $100 Yeah it wasn't the Shield Tablet that took over the memespot, it was the Shield K1
Carter Roberts
makes WiiU look like NES
Jacob Ortiz
I mean, one and a half years, but feel free to suggest it was twice that amount of time.
Cameron Butler
>it's not for heating Bullshit, fucking absolute 100% bullshit.
If it's a battery life issue they could just let you run it at full speeds all the time, MOST people wouldnt care about the battery life because MOST people are near outlets often enough.
It is 100% about cooling. retard.
Andrew King
Wow a fucking fan, that was hard.
That said it doesnt overclock. It just goes to the normal clocks, and the Shield TV has no problem running those.
Cooper Cook
>256 cuda cores
Brandon Garcia
xbox gpu was leaguse ahead than NGC it was more powerfull than gf3 ti
Caleb Wright
>If it's a battery life issue they could just let you run it at full speeds all the time, MOST people wouldnt care about the battery life because MOST people are near outlets often enough. there is no hardware in the dock faggot. underclocked running a normal game, the battery life is already 2.5 hours. running at max speed = no battery life whatsoever.
Matthew Green
>my redmi note 3 pro is nearly as fast as nintendo switch
Nvidia has no problem running this thing at full clocks. Also fucking phones are a lot more powerful than the underclocked switch.
Julian Ortiz
I doubt the K1 sold anywhere close to the Nexus 7. People just buy Fire HDs now.
Lincoln Morgan
Are you actually trying to use a Verge article from OCTOBER as proof?
Fucking kek
Luke Hughes
give a single source saying the dock is anything other than a USB C to HDMI+Power piece of plastic. go on. >your source is not good because I don't agree I have never seen so many retarded manchildren being autistic
David Fisher
HAHAHAHA i love reading specs battles, little kids this days are entertaining.
Joshua Butler
>Nintendo CONFIRMS >b-but october!
Are you really this retarded?
Kevin Wood
The Switch isn't even out yet, and you're claiming all sorts of garbage that hasn't been confirmed OR denied
Why not just wait until things are ACTUALLY fucking confirmed, instead of sperging out like an autist about how it costs too much despite the fact you don't even know the full specification of what you're buying.
Aaron Jones
>the saturation of tablets were the same in 2012 and 2013 than in 2014 and 2015 Doesn't change the fact that the shield (k1) takes that sweet spot of size, price, and performance
Hudson Perry
The article even fucking says, nintendo WOULDNT confirm if it would add performance or do anything else.
Josiah Moore
>The Switch isn't even out yet, hey retard, people are already playing it at events (one is live right now) and nintendo has been giving all specs.
>I don't know so it doesn't exist you are BTFO
Caleb Campbell
>mfw I overclock the k1 to match shieldTV speeds and it just werks I mean it gets pretty warm even with a THICC case, guzzles battery life like your mom, but it werks
Jace Anderson
Not about the dock which is what we're specifically talking about.
Ryan Kelly
"The main unit of Nintendo Switch is the unit that has the LCD screen, which the two Joy-Con controllers can be attached to and detached from. The main function of the Nintendo Switch Dock is to provide an output to the TV, as well as charging and providing power to the system." - NINTENDO
So cooling is not a primary thing it does, if at all.
Tyler Barnes
>little kids this days are entertaining.
Leo Edwards
The success or failure of this will be based on how quick the battery charges and/or how cheap battery packs are.
Having said that, most of their target audience are kids who only use it while sitting in the back of the car while mom takes them to get some mdconalds or adults who will take it with them to the shitter to lay a log on the fire.
Mason Butler
Sound like less of an Nvidia shill please.
Connor Jenkins
the dock also, you're just being a sperg
Jose Allen
>cheap battery packs are. non removable
battery going bad? buy a new console
Jack Smith
Again, from an article in october which even admits nintendo wouldnt confirm more about the dock, so again GG
Find me something from the past 24 hours
Jackson Hernandez
>implying it's hard to win the 7"-8" range It's almost like winning by default
Adam Gutierrez
cite your source then nigger faggot.
Julian Nguyen
Spot on
If I want pure hardware I play with PC. Xbox and PS are both just shitty PC options at this point.
Wii was super popular with shit hardware just because of the game experience.
I hope they capture that again. Having the same unit for gaming at home or easily on the go is certainly appealing. Will see how it plays out.
Benjamin Williams
games and functionality are more important than a pissing contest about raw computing power
Caleb Turner
cite yours "hurr it overclocks" "there's hardware in the dock" "there's cooling in the dock"
fucking retard
Daniel Perry
>because of the game experience. ....Which was bad gimmick shit, fooled the masses, sure. The only thing nintendo has going for it is its rehashed exclusives.
Eli Hughes
You're the one claiming that they're showing off the dock today and yesterday.
If what you're saying is true, it shouldnt be hard at all to find proof...right?
Kevin Green
yes retard. it's a fucking dock, it uses a USB-C port only, the console has not opening for cooling, the dock is for charging and TV out. these are all facts
Jeremiah Brooks
it was proven back in october retard
Anthony Gonzalez
>making all kinds of wrong claims that have been proven wrong >hurrrrr spoonfeed me