Just over an inch shorter? That is hardly anything. I have no idea how anyone can consider this portable if they don't consider the original portable in the first place. The price is compelling though.
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Nintendo Switch Lite announced at $199, launches September 20th, "dedicated handheld" (smaller, has D-Pad, has gyro, no HD Rumble, no dock/TV output)
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This is great for those holding out for a portable only switch, I know there are many out there that never or rarely use docked mode.
I'll hold on a little longer for whatever their premium/pro one is though.
I'll hold on a little longer for whatever their premium/pro one is though.
the huge bezels annoy me
Dpad looks great, though I dont know... it feels like some of these games are meant for tv
Dpad looks great, though I dont know... it feels like some of these games are meant for tv
The original was way too big, so anything that gets the system smaller is progress.
I filtered on eShop recently to show just games and it was around 1000 (EU), there are many many dlc etc. that are included.
Black is officially designated as the development console color.
Yep, all of Era got together and decided we all want a portable only, then we all voted to change our mind.
Do these people think before typing?
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A bunch are designed for TV in a bad way, with text that is far too small to comfortably read in handheld mode. Rocket League, Football Manager, a bunch of others.
Combination between Nintendo fanboys and Incels, a.k.a hardcore misogynists and school shooters. Really classy shit.
I'm not sure many would really want to play 4 player split-screen on a 5.5 inch screen. 6.2 was too small as it is.
What an awful hot take. Nintendo Switch Lite doesn't exist to correct design mistakes of og Switch. It exists to add a cheaper entry point into the echo system.
This is the strangest thread I've seen on this site.
By the sounds of things, some of you just want a regular Switch? If so, just purchase a regular Switch?
Or were you perhaps thinking that the Switch Lite (Mini) was somehow going to be an upgrade to the regular Switch?
I'm beyond confused by some of these posts.
This seems great for younger kids. I'd be 100% down for getting my Newphew this. He had a blast with the Nintendo 2DS.
By the sounds of things, some of you just want a regular Switch? If so, just purchase a regular Switch?
Or were you perhaps thinking that the Switch Lite (Mini) was somehow going to be an upgrade to the regular Switch?
I'm beyond confused by some of these posts.
This seems great for younger kids. I'd be 100% down for getting my Newphew this. He had a blast with the Nintendo 2DS.
If the original is classed as 'way too big' then this is still big imo. They should have cut down on the bezels around the screen even more for this to really be classed as portable in comparison.
It's a cool product but I'm definitely not the target audience for it, as I'm one of the few who plays exclusively in docked mode and have a GCN adapter hooked up to the dock for Smash.
Be interesting to see how the marketing "switches (LOL!) to put the onus on single purpose. TBH the main things I've learned about the Switch is that I don't really use the Dock except when we have kids visiting and that I always feel a surge of disappointment at the IQ on my TV anyway. It looks "better" on the portable screen, but the bummer is that most of my favorite games are actually about scale and spectacle - Zelda, MK, Skyrim etc and that I would still like a powerful "landlocked" Nintendo console, but I'm old and wizened.
I think it looks neat, but the colors aren't for me. A dark gray one to match the existing Switch would have felt like nice continuity of platform, but it's not really for me either. The only genuine disappointment for me is the battery life, which is actually kind of surprising. I guess that thing is doing a fair amount under the hood with a real GPU and a not trivial CPU but it's fair to compare the battery to some phones out there.
Still I suspect it will do gangbusters and also gives Nintendo a rational opportunity to do a full relaunch and put the spotlight back on it.
Does it support external controllers and is there a wee stand?
I think it looks neat, but the colors aren't for me. A dark gray one to match the existing Switch would have felt like nice continuity of platform, but it's not really for me either. The only genuine disappointment for me is the battery life, which is actually kind of surprising. I guess that thing is doing a fair amount under the hood with a real GPU and a not trivial CPU but it's fair to compare the battery to some phones out there.
Still I suspect it will do gangbusters and also gives Nintendo a rational opportunity to do a full relaunch and put the spotlight back on it.
Does it support external controllers and is there a wee stand?
What was wanted is a more portable console that makes legitimate tradeoffs in service of price and portability, not artificially disabling platform level features Because Capitalism.
Agreed. A lot of the complaints seem to boil down to "Why is it not exactly the same as the current Switch".
Fortunately for people that want something that is exactly the same as the current Switch, there is the option of the current Switch.
I would wonder the same about someone using the term "Nincel" tbh. Agreed with the rest of the point though.
Agree, but anything is better than nothing when the thing is too big to begin with.
From my quick search, no thanks to Nintendo's basic search options, I see the Just Dance 2018 & 2019 games also don't support it and a game called Little Friends: Dogs & Cats, but I don't have time to search the entire library to see which icons are shown at the bottom of the game's page. That's why I'm asking if there's a complete list.
Unfortunately, we don't have Black Friday sales where I'm from. I think I'd be okay with handheld-only if not for the lower performance...
I'd get that if it was black. I gotta admit, it has received a lot of quality JRPGs that might convince me.
On the NA eShop I'm seeing 2256 games. I have no idea how many of them are DLC or bundles or rereleases but I can't imagine it's too many. They officially announced there are over 2000 games in that ad yesterday, I don't think they would lie about that.
What's the Canadian price tag? Anyone know?
I have pretty bad joycon drift and was thinking of getting new ones for a while now but I'm wondering if I may as well just get this instead since joycon are approx $100ish (Canadian price at least).
I definitely don't need the Lite but boy do I want it.
The Yellow and Grey (and Pokemon!) ones look fantastic.
Wish there weren't the tradeoffs but I do like the price.
Very interested in this but I'm also unsure how I could transfer save files and all that over. I assume it wouldn't be super simple to play a game simultaneously on both?
I have pretty bad joycon drift and was thinking of getting new ones for a while now but I'm wondering if I may as well just get this instead since joycon are approx $100ish (Canadian price at least).
I definitely don't need the Lite but boy do I want it.
The Yellow and Grey (and Pokemon!) ones look fantastic.
Wish there weren't the tradeoffs but I do like the price.
Very interested in this but I'm also unsure how I could transfer save files and all that over. I assume it wouldn't be super simple to play a game simultaneously on both?
It probably means that there's other stuff that will work such as the ethernet adapter.
Ah, I misunderstood then, I thought you meant functionality rather than size. However even for the size, although the difference is small, I wouldn't call it negligible. "Pocketable", "portable" and other such terms are wildly subjective and relatively small size differences can make a device more portable to a large number of people.
Amazingly yes.
I'd suggest anyone thinking about purchasing this for the d-pad alone should wait and see instead. Nintendo's record with Switch d-pads has been poor, and with this model, if you get a fucked up d-pad, you can't easily do anything about that. Also, if you want a d-pad on Switch, there's less expensive ways than this to get one. Even the most expensive way (paying someone to mod a Joycon for you) is still a lot cheaper than a whole new Switch.
Surely the 3DS did. There was definitely over a thousand DS games.
