That will depend in my case on the decision from Nintendo to add SNES games to the online subscription ;)
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New regular Switch model with upgraded battery life announced! Same price, launches end of August (Old model: 2.5-6.5 hours, New model: 4.5-9.0 hours)
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That will depend in my case on the decision from Nintendo to add SNES games to the online subscription ;)
I just noticed the Mickey Mouse Joycons. Hot damn, they went all outHave people seen the Disney Tsum Tsum Switch releasing October 10th?
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Do I want to wait an extra month to import this and not get the ugly grey joycons... Hmmmm
I'm not going to carry a separate monitor with me in addition to my switch lol what a messy set up that would be compared to a single 9 inch - 10 inch switch tablet in table top mode
Nvidia Shield news:
There will not be a release date. It just will be out and ordering online will be a lottery for a little while.
You mean the new model? It's expected to rolling out mid-august. No official date given. It's there when it's there.
Sure. I'm sure when someone comes across one in the wild there will be posts.
Dammit, you ninja'd me. It's using the tegra x1 T210 B01. Is that the same exact model as the switch revision according to the clockspeed profile leaks?
I am assuming the shield is using the same one as the revised switch.
5.5 is still such a wild increase for BOTW.
While it's not what I wanted, I still kind of want to upgrade later this year.
Guess I can justify $300 if the joy con are built better but I kind of wanted the lite for portable play. Maybe whichever gets a Zelda release
While it's not what I wanted, I still kind of want to upgrade later this year.
Guess I can justify $300 if the joy con are built better but I kind of wanted the lite for portable play. Maybe whichever gets a Zelda release
It passes that mark where it starts to have an acceptable amount of battery life and you could take it out on trips without worry. 3 hours always felt constrained, like it was a portable device for household use which you could take outside but you had the lingering thought you would to have to look for a charging point or take a portable battery with you. 5 hours is just stupidly impressive. And that's just for BOTW too.
I was going to skip this... but after playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 on a plane and seeing my battery get devastated, I'm going to probably just spring for this as a quality of life thing. I take too many plane trips at this point.
New 3DS range is 3.5-6 hours.
New Switch is 4.5-9
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Not really, the new switch is "confirmed" in the firmware to be the t214.
No, New regular Switch, the one this thread's about.
Switch lite is also near 3DS range adding 30 minutes-1 hour on average over the original Switch battery life
And unless I'm misremembering T214 was found in the firmware to be the exact same thing as T210 B01, right? Something along the lines of a comment saying "change all instances of T214 to T210 B01"?
The New Switch is 4.5-9 hours, you said 4.5-7 above.
I'm ready for someone to get one these to see if it has the same clocks so I can decide if I want it or not
It will use the same clock profiles, so yeah performance will be the same unless Nintendo sneak something in.
I think I'll probably jump on this with Fire Emblem out and AI Somnium Files coming shortly. I considered the lite, but if the joycon issue isn't solved and the lite uses the same design, there's no easy recourse when they fix the design. Plus, my first kid is on the way, and someday, they'll probably appreciate my decision :P
Gonna make the wait for the new model harder, but I won't give in to this bait. I will wait for the updated chipset and give it about another 6 months/a year. If we don't have a new upgraded/"pro" model by then I'll get this one. Right now I don't usually use the whole battery when I play because I'm always playing at work or home or have my charger with me. So we'll see.
I feel like its chewing through battery faster than almost every other switch game.
I thought I was going mad there. I played iFE for about an hour undocked on medium brightness, and the battery drained so fast.
Interesting, people with hacked Switches could probably tell us very easily.
I don't think that that's why they'd crank up the clocks.
I think they'd allow games to request and use higher clocks while undocked if the game needs it - battery life be damned.
This is actually a thing that I've hoped for. I think allowing this allows all Switches to become 'Pro' midway through the cycle.
I kinda hope they do crank up the clocks, or at least allow devs to use higher clocks than what we previously knew of. That would actually make the new one the kind of upgrade people were hoping for, even if they do this for the OG Switch too.
not just that, it barely lets it keep an equilibrium when charging. like when the game is running, even when it's on power supply, the switch is BARELY JUST charging.
Yeah, I'm super baffled as to why Fire Emblem chews through my battery almost as quickly as playing Splatoon 2 online does. Doesn't seem like it should be that demanding - the environments aren't that detailed, there are still loading times between areas, and there's rarely significant action on screen.
Yeah, I was playing fire emblem handheld this weekend and noticed the battery draining extra quick, felt like I only got an hour and a half or so from a full charge. Kept playing with it plugged into my Google pixel charger and it struggled to gain any additional charge, but floated at about the percent I plugged it in at.
2022 is a long ways away. A Switch Pro at best will be New 3DS level. These new models strongly suggest a Pro model isn't coming until 2021 at the earliest imo and Nintendo said they want switch to last longer than a normal gen
Might as well buy a switch now and play all the games you want. Play them in their prime. You never know what life/gaming will throw at you by the time Switch Pro or a Switch 2 comes out which seems like they are several years away
Cause cranking up the clock speed is much easier and cheaper than optimization.
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