Nintendo Switch Preview Trailer Released

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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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          • Which country are you from? UK?
            Don’t know if you guys have ever used something like that to discipline misbehaving kids. Well, maybe waaay back then.

          • Yeah, Britain. (Specifically England.)

            We had a similar thing, but instead of a rudimentary ‘strip the branch of its leaves’ we had specially carved “canes”, and the practise was called “caning”.
            It was typically only used in schools, not by parents, and the cane was thinner than a ‘walking cane’.

            I don’t know when it was outlawed but it was some time in the last 50 years.

          • Ironically ‘candy’ is also a very American term. As is the association of candy canes with Christmas.

            And while I think of it, so it Trick or Treating on Halloween.

          • You guys just call candy “sweets,” right? I honestly have no idea how candy canes got associated with Christmas, but then again I don’t think Christmas as we know is what it was supposed to be.

          • most of our christmas traditions are pagan, with a few other cultures sprinkled in here and there so who knows

          • Anything plant-related is almost certainly pagan. The modern form of Christmas is mostly part pagan, part christian and part aethiest.

            However you look at it though, it’s only worth it for the special christmas episodes of various TV series. (Admittedly last year was a bit of a let down though.)

          • Yeah. People understand what ‘candy’ means because of the external influence, but ‘sweets’ still remains primary. (Where I live at least, it might be different in the big cities.)

            It’s probably related to commercialism, like the red santa thing supposedly being a result of coca cola’s influence.

            According to Wikipedia they weren’t mentioned in associated with Chritsmas until the late 1800s and they were more popular in America because of heavy production in Georgia.

          • they had caning in north america too, around the same time the switch was popular, the cane was usually used like you said in schools and some religious schools continued using them long after everyone else stopped, like the nuns used the cane on my dads knuckles to make him use his right hand instead of his left because they thought it was of the devil

          • The cane was used in many countries, but which ones I have no idea. Presumably everywhere with some form of British influence has used it at some point.

            I’m guessing he came from a place with an Irish influence?

          • I mean, yea we are of irish decent but we live in canada, thankfully in the past 30 years all of those schools no longer exist here

          • It was the reasoning behind the caning that gave it away. Ireland still holds quite heavy Christian beliefs in comparison to the rest of the UK. (The conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants is still somewhat present.)

            Aparently caning wasn’t outlawed in public and state-run schools in Britain until ’86, and wasn’t fully outlawed until ’99 for England & Wales, 2000 for Scotland and ’03 for N. Ireland.

            In some ways I wish we still had it, detention was never much of a punishment, nobody saw it as a deterrent.

  10. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Remake will probably be on the Nintendo Switch, seeing that Pokemon is now focusing their attentions on that. And if that’s the case, then Gen 7 will be the first gen pokemon game to be on two separate Nintendo consoles. It’ll probably be able to trade with Sun and Moon to and from between the Switch and the 3DS.

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      • same could be said for the DS with Gen 5 when Gen 4 was released on that. I wasn’t impressed. That should’ve waited until 3DS. Nah, I think it’s better releasing it on a console in which is not backwards comparable with the DS, rather than buying the same product again, just like Twilight Princess. Besides, The Pokemon Company have revealed so that they are already at work on it.

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        • If they’d released G5 on the 3DS it probably would have looked worse. They needed a lot of time to rewrite the game engine to work with the 3DS’s hardware.

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          • Then why is it refereed as Generations then?

            Gen 1 – Gameboy
            Gen 2 – Game Boy Color
            Gen 3 – Game Boy Advance
            Gen 4 – DS
            Gen 5 – DSi (DS)
            Gen 6 – 3DS
            Gen 7 – 3DS (Switch)

            The Gen 5 I can understand, but a DSi is not a Gameboy Color as it can easily function to and fro between DS and DSi with DS games. Isn’t really backwards comparable as it is the same console. Also why two Gens on the 3DS? For a generation to work, it must be on a separate system altogether.

            From what is said, Game Freak has now started focusing with the new console. Could be the G4 remake. Could be Gen 7.5 or even G8. We will never know until the next year.

          • The DSi was still as DS, the processor was almost identical. The DSi was to the DS what the New 3DS is to the 3DS.

            Pokemon generations are not tied to the console they are played on.

            And it’s backwards ‘compatible’, not backwards ‘comparable’.

    • Man, I don’t wanna have to spend $400 on a console I won’t use on my TV just to play Pokemon. I couldn’t afford more than one pro controller for my Wii U, and I couldn’t even play cheap old Wii games because I had no Wiimotes. Got frustrated at my lack of money and sold it. Never even finished Bayonetta 2 🙁

      I know you can take the Switch apart and carry it around, but it looks a lot less replaceable than a 2DS (which is what I use).

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  13. That thing isn’t a touch screen right? I’m not crazy am I? Though it would be nice if it was if only because then maybe Wii U and 3DS games could potentially be digitally compatible

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      • They seem to very purposefully show that you never use both screens at any given point in time so I have my doubts.

        ‘Tis a shame. Looks like my (3)DS and Wii (U) libraries will be stuck on my 3DS and Wii U. Good thing I went digital. Cut down on old video game clutter.

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    • Lol It is so very interesting how millenilals have this trope where we just sorta magically have everything we could ever want and live in fancy apartments in major cities. Ironically enough I am moving to LA with my two best friends next year lmao

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  17. For the people who responded to me yesterday about the Dittos, I’m going to try to distribute them evenly, if you’re all cool with that. I will respond back to the old responses you all have given me with my FC and Ian. Of course, I will need all of your info as well. There really isn’t anything I need specifically; so, just give me whatever (I like fighting and normal types) or a 5-6iv adamant/jolly Buneary

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  21. On today’s episode of Ithsme is in denial of the leaks being complete, I bring you this video:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArNdThqpWMw
    Watch the section called “pop up images”. Do you see the section image (looks a little like the squirt bottle, so it’s obviously modeling a Pokemon. Except, something’s off. Maybe I’m just blanking, but we have not seen anything like that Pokemon just yet. Unless I’m missing something here, then this is a Pokemon we haven’t been shown.

    SIDE NOTE: During the “in closing” section, what are those dark small images do you think?

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    • Wait, what image are you talking about?

      Also, those little black images are all the different body types of Pokémon, which you can use a search function in the Pokedex 😀

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        • Sorry, had to complain about that, that explains why people could reverse engineer so easily. There are tools that read symbol tables and can use them to produce assembly code with functions , so copying it to PC and getting decent assembly code would be a 5 minute job with the right tool to hand. Then they’d only have to read the function names until they saw something that sounded interesting and read further to figure out what it does. Only marginally harder than reading the original source code. In fact the right tools could turn the assembly into C to make it even easier.

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        • can we just take a moment to talk about those Sun and moon flutes for a second, like I wonder if we get them and call the legendaries with them (which would mean they have no story like XY’s legendaries)

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          • I don’t see how having flutes suddenly means ‘no story’.
            Lugia and Ho-oh had wings.
            Groudon and Kyogre had orbs.
            Palkia and Dialga had stones.
            Reshiram and Zekrom had orbs.
            Xerneas and Yveltal had nothing.

          • Was just an observation doesn’t mean its correct. The reason I say this is because so far we haven’t really heard anything about either of the legendaries but we have heard all about the UB’s and the Tapu pokemon, and it seems like they will have the main story focus in the game so far (again seems like, doesn’t mean it will) and XY they were kind of just called forth randomly from a machine reviving them. Im ready for GF to prove me wrong, it was just a feeling I had.

          • It wouldn’t be a surprise if they just told us all about them beforehand. Misdirecting our attention to the UBs stops people questioning the legendaries.
            I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time we didn’t know the purpose of the legendaries until actually playing the game.

            It won’t be like XY, we already know they have actual shrines dedicated to them and their own special moves and forms, both of which have had attention drawn to in videos.

            (When they appeared in full 3D)
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oO_P4GX_RA

            (And the first time their abilities were shown)
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHSl9xdxfyI

            Signs point towards purposely drawing our attention away to keep them mysterious. Like how the in Jaws the shark itself waits until the final act before it actually apears ‘in person’.
            Seeing the effect of a being before seeing the being itself is a well used trope for a good reason.

          • Just saying, it’s certainly possible.

            Especially because of the shrine thing, Xerneas and Yveltal didn’t have shrines like all the others. Dragonspiral Tower, Cave Of Origin, Whirl Islands, Tin Tower, Spear Pillar.

            X & Y just got dumped in a lab under a henge, no shrine/ruins.

            That’s 2 big things (that and the flutes) that Solgaleo and Lunaala have running for them. Not to mention the prevos/altformes.

    • I feel like I sucked you down into this conspiracy theory with that game explain comment and now you’re gunning for it harder than like anyone else here, I don’t even have to look for evidence anymore XD. Be the face of this revolution Ithsme! Convince them all!!! lol (hunger games music starts playing)

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      • I’m in it to the end; there’s no brakes on this train, it’ll either crash in a blaze of glory or keep going on forever!
        ———
        Seriously though, I just think it’s fun poking holes in this lol.

        plus I need REDEMPTION FOR KOMALA

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  24. awwwwww nothing like a quiet, almost rainy afternoon in a dark, ice cold basement watching Roku Netflix and doing some Wow archaeology

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