Nintendo Switch Preview Trailer Released

As promised the preview trailer for Nintendo’s next home console has been released!

The Nintendo Switch is an all-new console from Nintendo, releasing March 2017

https://youtu.be/f5uik5fgIaI

Features and Information

  • Releasing March 2017
  • Switch can be played docked at home, as a handheld device or, as a portable home console
  • Numerous configurations available for controllers
  • Capable of running games like Skyrim, both docked at home and on the move
  • Split screen co-op in games like Mario Kart is possible on the move
  • Splatoon, Mario Kart and a new 3D Mario appear to be making their way to the new console in addition to the previously announced Zelda title

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    • its not even 2 hours the trailer is out and we already see stuff like this. theres been 27 maddens. 25 call of duty games including spin offs SINCE 2003! .? hello they act like ps4 and xbox one dont have repetitive games

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    • You know, poeple are entitled to their concerns. I think the real problem is that they do not have the staff to accept the ideas of dedicated gamers. I am only saying this out of my concern for Nintendo, and I love Nintendo as if the company is my personal God of art. That was what I have been seeeing in video games since I was at least six…art.

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  1. Nintendo has also announced that it will release a more traditional Switch Pro controller, mirroring the Wii U’s Pro controller. Thank the lord. Hallelu!

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  2. I’m hella excited for this. One thing I’m scared for, however, is that since the detatchable controllers (seem to) attach mechanically is that it might break due to wear and tear

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  3. Something that concerns me greatly: I hope you can buy a second handlend part individually. My brother and I each get our own handheld, and I know most families do, so it’d suck if to get another handheld part you had to buy another console part. I can’t be the only one who’s worried about this, it’d be horrible if I had to share the handheld part with my brother.

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      • I know so many people who would be p*ssed if you couldn’t. Me included, this looks great, but if you couldn’t individually buy another handheld part, sharing that with my brother would ruin alot of the experience for me.

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    • The console and handheld are the same thing, what you think is a console part appears to be a charger and what allows connectivity to a TV.

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      • So what, nintendo is just abandoning all the families with more than one sibiling who each get their own handheld? This is a majority of the people I’d assume.

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        • No I’m assuming they’re expecting each sibling to get a separate one because it’s literally one device that has an adapter to charge it and play it on TV

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        • Time to whip out some copy and paste action!
          Here’s my preliminary list of reasons, it’s not finished yet:
          1. Ash-Greninja is nowhere to be found in the datamine, meaning it’s stored somewhere else. Before you say “these are pokedex stills, of course it isn’t there”, Mimikyu and Wishwashi’s form changes are in there, so it makes no logical sense to not include Greninja’s form change.
          2. The 6 (counting the two after Mimikyu as one because of form changes) missing models cannot be totems. Firstly, these are pokedex stills, and if totems are just pokemon with an orange aura with no real unique features, they would not have a pokedex still. Secondly, we know of 7 trial captains, and there are only 6 totems here (again counting the two after Mimikyu as one), so even in the highly unlikely event that they are totems, there are STILL missing models here.
          3. This list does not include a pokemon that resembles the strange souvenir, nor does it include a pokemon that resembles the statues on Mahalo trail.
          4. The datamine does not include any stills for Charizard (who we’ve seen in trailers and is a pokeride pokemon) or Horsea (who we’ve also seen in trailers and is on an alolan statue).
          5. GameXplain claims they found MULTIPLE new pokemon in the first two hours of the game, and the leaked pokemon don’t look early game, as most are evolutions and the rest look late game. Remember, this is only the first TWO HOURS, so to find more than 1 new pokemon demonstrates how this can’t be complete.
          6. Marshadow is in the mythical pokemon section, which would mean that Solgaleo and Lunala are lacking a third legendary to the trio.

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          • 1) Those are confirmed to be the Alola Pokedex stills, Greninja isn’t in the Alolan Pokedex

            4) The Pikachu in Unova and the rare Pokémon in Kalos

            6) They could easily be ambitious renditions and/or randomly made. I’d even argue the statues are based off of humans

          • I’m not saying what we’ve got is everything, I’m saying some of your reasons are flawed:

            1. It has to be stored somewhere, that’s an indication that these ‘pokedex images’ are incomplete and might actually be there to stop people digging further.
            3. There’s nothing to say there is a pokemon that resembles the strange souvenir. The Riddler’s leak doesn’t count either since he’s got other things wrong.
            4. Charizard exists only as a ride pokemon, he’s not in the regional dex. Same with most of the ride pokemon.
            6. There might not be a third or it might not break the rule. Kyurem wasn’t immediately after Reshiram or Zekrom. Giratina was 2 Pokemon down from Dialga and Palki, Arceus was even further down.

          • These are loose connections like I’ve said, nothing definite. I would assume that the strange souvenir was a Pokemon, it’d be very weird if not.

          • I’m pretty sure it only ever existed as a hint from G6 to where G7 was going to be set.

            Either that or it’s supposed to look like Marshadow.

    • Just another random, inexplicable, agrravating decision on GF’s part

      Also I know I’m heavily repeating what myself and others have said, but I want to put the “Johto didn’t have fossils” and “Hawai is a volcanic island” dud excuses people are giving to rest once and for all.

      “Johto didn’t have fossils”-Johto was basically Kanto.5, and we’ve had fossils every gen since, indicating it’s a pretty established pattern (as you’ve said). And no, stopping this pattern it makes no logical sense whatsoever as they’re purely stifling they’re own creativity.

      The geological argument: Now this one I’m just not gonna let pass anymore:

      a)Hawaii has a bunch of subfossils species, and apparently a few standard ones too… So yes it does have some form of fossils, not that that even matters, because …

      b) When the hell have game freak ever cared for biogeography or geological realism? This version of hawaii has red pandas and koalas. But they’re randomly going to decide not to put fossils because Hawaii doesn’t have proper fossils? I don’t buy it.

      c)Most importantly, if you take a look at the Alolan pokedex, it has 4 fossil lines from previous generations. Now unless we have to buy those fossils, that just kills the geological argument right in it’s tracks.

      Sorry if I come off as agressive :/ , I’m just sick of people making the same excuses that don’t even hold up to cover from one of GF’s usual bullshi¨t decisions.
      GF dropped the ball with fossils just like they dropped the ball with the number of new pokémon and the pre-release reveal ratio. Let’s not let them get away with it.

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      • I considered that, but I felt ones that shared types might be classed as the same UB in each version, making 6 UB with 2 sharing a number, and I figured it might be those 2 steel ones, so I didn’t want a type clash

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      • Oh yeah sure, but I didnt’ feel like speculating that, I did speculate the Guardians names though, on another thread.

        Tapu Au or Tapu Whenua The Psychic one
        Tapu Ahi or Tapu Kanaku The Fire one
        Tapu Katao The Ghost one

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    • The crab is probably Water/Fighting, like its human counterpart Hala specializes in Fighting types (he also has a Crabrawler)

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          • They could easily be Chimeras of Pokémon or are just called that because they appear to look like human/Pokémon crossbreeds

          • Regardless, they are connected to specific humans in the game. Its not a mere coincedence that Beauty and UB-01 look like Lusamine and Lillie.

          • Oh no sure they resemble them, but that doesn’t mean they are them, only 3 look like they’re related tbh. I really don’t feel Hala would randomly be one, One of them may be related to Wicke, and another to Faba. And possibly Plumeria.

          • I never said they were them, I said they were counterparts. They come from another plane of existence, where Pokemon and humans are most likely the same thing.

          • But still, Hala feels like a Stretch. It’s more than likely Skull and Aether Admins.
            But even if they were counterparts, wouldn’t catching them and using them feel weird to you?

          • Yet another reason I really don’t like the UBs. Get rid of the UBs and I’d happily put up with all the other weird changes we’ve had, but the UBs just don’t sit right with the rest of the world.

          • What does that have to do with Beauty looking like Lusamine? The evidence is right there lol. Even if its version exclusive, it doesn’t change the fact that the resemblance is uncanny.

          • Chimera:
            – Anything composed of very disparate part
            – A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
            – An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes

          • Zygotes are cells that form babies.
            Twins that look the same are known as ‘monozygotic’ because they are made from single zygotes that split, thus making the foetuses look the same.
            Twins that look different from each other are ‘dizygotic’ because each one is formed from a different zygote.

            At least I think that’s how it works, my time spent learning Psychology was years ago. And yes, biology like that is relevant to learning Psychology.

          • Alot of the time when you speak it feels like you’re talking down to people I dunno if that’s on purpose but it feels degrading.
            But what I meant is, Zygardes Cell and Core form to make Zygarde, obviously more than 2 but I thought the similarity of how it sounded was funny.
            And yes I know that.

          • Because I tried to explain it in plain English?
            Would you prefer I just tell people to ‘google it’ or send them to wikipedia instead of trying to explain it myself?

            I took ‘sounds like’ to be in the homophone sense, not in the similie sense. I suppose it is sort of similar, it might well contribute to Zygarde’s etymology.

            That last sentence was preempting “so you did psychology and you’re suddenly a biology expert?” which I’ve had said one too many times.

          • I try to talk to people like people while explaining, though sometimes it comes off as talking down to them. I do struggle with that. I’ve seen you mention Psychology a lot and I know how they’re related. I get that you’re trying to make it clear but it comes off like that, though I admit it isn’t easy. Specially when theres people not willing to actually listen.

          • I don’t get what the difference is, I’m just reciting the facts as they are, formally and with no room for ambiguity.

            I don’t think I mention it that much, only when it’s relevant somehow (i.e. any chance I get to insult Freud). You’d be surprised how many people don’t know what “twin studies” are.

            And my main subject of study is programming so I’m very used to people not having a clue what I’m talking about.
            And there are people here who are quite young (e.g. <17) and who are from different topics (i.e. they have different curriculums) so I don't like to assume too much knowledge of any topics in case I have to backtrack.

          • The difference is one makes people more likely to listen and the other makes people more likely to be annoyed. Even if your intentions are good it can still give a derogatory feeling. Part of it too might be because I feel like I’m talked down to by know it alls a lot, so it’s not 100% you, I just mean try and be a little more, nicer, instead of direct. Though I know that’s not easy. Specially when people have no clue, and also not face to face.

          • I think you’re reading more into what I said than there is.

            How do I even make information sound ‘nice’?
            Do I add more ‘lol’? Do I add emoticons?
            Is it because I used the word ‘thus’?

            Seriously, I don’t get it.

          • I’m not quite sure how to word it, but sometimes it feels like you’re insulting intelligence, it just feels a bit condescending. But you’ve given your reasons for why it’s like that, and I agree, it is hard to explain things to people without sounding like that tbh, like maybe start of with a positive, but then explain like “That sounds cool, however”. As I said I suck at explaining, it was just getting a bit annoying. Sorry for bothering you about it.

          • I don’t mind it being brought up, but you haven’t really given me much to go on.

            If you can’t explain precisely what it is that gives you that impression and can’t really suggest something specific to change then I don’t really have much to go on and I can’t really do anything about it. Especially since you’re the only one who has brought it up.

            You don’t have to apologise for it, I just wish you could’ve given me a clearer idea of why you get that impression.

            Again, most people I know wouldn’t know what a zygote is, let alone how they work.

            (As an aside: ‘cool’ is a word I would very seldom use.)

      • I don’t see where Water comes from tbh, it doesn’t do a good job of displaying it and Crabrawler proves they’re willing to do terrestrial crabs

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  4. Please tell me that the portable part can be bought separately and work on its own. I’m not gonna waste so much money on a console just to play a Pokémon game.

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  5. So I was joking around with my friend about it but now I kinda want Nintendo Overwatch skins if the game ever gets ported to the Switch

    D. Va-Kirby and Robobot Armour
    Symmetra-Samus
    Winston-Donkey Kong
    Soldier-Captain Falcon
    Tracer-Bayonetta

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  6. OK I JUST WOKE UP AND HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING.
    YOU CAN FINALLY PLAY 2K SPORTS ON A NINTENDO CONSOLE??? WHAT I CAN NOW GET RID OF MY XBOX CUZ OF THAT

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  7. OH MY GOSH I JUST GOT OFF WORK AND NINTENDO SNATCHED MY WEAVE COMING OUT THE DOOR! SKYRIM!!!! ZELDA!!! ALL THEY NEED IS DRAGON AGE AND I AM SET!!! OTHER COMPANIES BE SHOOK! I feel like my PS4 may have just had a best before date stamped on it for march 2017 (~ ̄▽ ̄)~

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  8. I am HYPED. I hope others are to, this thing looks like just what Nintendo needs.looks like 3rd parties are going to be supporting it too.

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  9. just a thing to note: they put the right joystick in a much more comfortable position. also, I’m super hyped for that splatoon port/sequel, team WSWR will splat another day!

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  10. I hope so much that the eShop becomes more like Steam. Letting developers easily put their games on the Switch with a Green Light-like process would be a god send. That alone could put it ahead of competitors

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  11. I gotta be honest my hype buzz is dying down
    Work is boring… Draining vitality… Just want to sleep for three weeks straight….

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