did you make sure you got the one with the right radio frequency bands for your service provider, @Archy

Nintendo seems like they're giving up on stationary consoles and going full mobile(with a dock). Also giving up on gimmicks.

docking is my fetish

idk the new console seems like a throwback to the game and watch vs form factor which is fine and good

i was a young tyke when I had many a fun day with my donkey kong vs ice hockey game

was awesome at primary school; was envied

I think VR is a pretty bad, so im not suprised.

vr is bad now the way 3d printing was bad 6 years ago

or maybe they're the same; they're both nascent technologies that have a lot of headroom to improve yet

remember that VR was basically abandoned for years

and then oculus decided to rethink the whole core design and rebooted it

VR/AR will get there in the sooner future; i agree w/ you that the current stuff is still gimmicky

We'll see, there's just no good way to control most games so far. And they're useless for desktop use due to low resolution, and overpriced, at least for 1080p

And no games.

there's a lot of unexplored room for asymmetrical multiplayer gaming using a headset

and tablets

What would be good would be a screen replacement.

Depends on what you're looking for.

Resolution, size etc?

we've definitely beaten the horse damn well and dead with games on a 2d plane

including 2d projections of 3d environments (fps)

Not really anything more you can do with 3d, it's just immersion

but especially with esport taking more of an accepted role in society, there is room for games that use stuff like VR along with people playing support using smart devices, deep analog controllers and such that start to blur the line between a traditional electronic game and traditional sport / performance

That's far out, man.

which is exciting to me tbh since maybe it can be a cure to some of the ills in the current gaming arena

i mean, DDR amirite

there's plenty of precedent for it

Dance dance revolution..?

just needs to be more of a team accessible thing and for the hardware to be put out by a risk-taker with deep pockets like nintendo

yeah dance dance revolution. more spectator sport than most, one of the most watchable things

Sure, it's a niche arcade thing. Where VR like vive fits

the dev process and the kits just still aren't so mature yet you know

i'm sure i'm not that special in thinking about this stuff, but getting buy-in and work done towards making neato things is risky and arduous in the beginning

anyways switch is an incremental thing towards more localized social gaming

Then they could use very powerful machines so 4k screens are viable and have threadmills so you can acctually move somewhat propperly, but it'd be a very limited arcade thing.

How is switch more localized than previous nintendo?

that's difficult to say; i may have misspoke, but at least from their marketing material, they do seem to be trying to recapture a more seamless local multiplayer experience

Gaming in general has become much less local, online is now the standard and ps4/xbone has few splitscreen titles.

i specifically mean a local group vs an online team, in the same vein as a team of folks playing CS or league

with the emphasis that the experience locally is assymetical ala "keep talking and we don't explode" or whatever

and less throwaway than people locally on the screenless controls manipulating a single cursor or a turret and using their lower level of attachment to a display to use their cognitive skills in other aspects of the "competition", e.g. strategy or planning, support and comms, etc