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Jason and all other potential buyers, watch the video below. It’s a drop test of the switch, and it fairs extremely well. The up shot is, the screen looks to be plastic, so it won’t break easily but the down side to that is it does scratch easily. But scratches are are better than shattering.
So put a tempered glass protector on it, if or when one is avalible and you’ll have an almost industrials body.
The pads didn’t hold up so good, but apparently are cheap un like ps4 £50 controllers!
Warning you will wince
Many of us here got an example of these times win8 tablet machines, mainly out of morbid curiosity than actually wanting to use it, and of course we’re all strange geeks that by to s of crap.
I updating my one the other day and it currently sits at 20gb full 9gb remaining iirc.
Though I lived with win 7 on a 30gb ssd for about 6 years. I did have a 16gb ssd that I booted mint off.
If your a zelda fan, which I am it was always going to be good. And non zelda fans was going to review it, so the reviews was always going to be near on perfect. If they had been closer to 90 which normally is a good score, I’d be seriously worried about it.
Been reading all the reviews of the switch this morning, waiting for the hangover to lift, and at this point it’s one big circle jerk, of game reviewers and early fan adopters.
There is a few things people are moving about, but they are the same teething issues all new things have, ie people finding things to pick holes in. Ie the ps4 and Xbox and do this…… Calm down they will come.
I really like the ifixit findings, the thing should be very serviceable, as it comes apart easy and is modular, so there will be a good trade in broken switches and it also leasing my anxiety of spending £300 on a handheld for a 9yo.
Quick question. You probably can’t answer it, and you definitely won’t want to test it, but once the screen is broken, do you reckon as long it’s use the lcd, it will work as a console? It should do, and knowing 90% of broken ones will be screen damage, it will be nice to know that the don’t hobble it, to not work as as console if the screen breaks.
Normally this would be a no brainer but Nintendo are the origanal horrible company and I wouldn’t put it wast them, as it would be simple for them to do it.
Where did you buy your Jason, did they offer Inc protection? Game store used to offer the best 2 or 3 year unlimited warranty on DS for iirc years £20 or £25, that was a no brainer. And we used that cover to its fullest. I reckon upto £50 on this would be a instant yes, over £50 Id have to think on it. Then in 12 months time kick myself for not getting it lol.
Nice, or should I say not nice. had food poising once for a butty shop, never ate at one since.
The funny part is, dorris was pregnant at the time, and we was due to go out. I got home, as you said “leaked from both ends” I’m the bed! And she turned around and said I’d done it on purpose as I didn’t want to be seem out with her being g fat!
Women!
So do you plug a digital box on to the cart end and it pumps the signal out over coax?
What are the channels on it for, 21-6x? What do they do?
If they can make a curry, they can stay as long as they like. Even though most ‘Indians’ are from Bangladesh lol.
Love a Ruby.
No I’m Sparticus. Lol.
I did get one from another top formite. However I just had to check my msg to check it wasn’t you. My mind was playing tricks.
How come there is a ‘2’ at the end of your UN bob?
I’d ha e to imagine Lee there is some plug in /filter for vlc or the like that mimics an old style tv. After all instagram was made huge by putting old style filters on photos, it also helped that in the early days of iPhone the photos wasn’t great, so a filter that made it look old actually enhanced the picture quality. Shame it took so long to migrate to android as alot of their cameras are still crap today.
I use to love that my old HTC Desire used to turn off (to standby) black, by mimicing how old sets went off, which the white like in the uk centre, that then moves in to a single center point (pixel).
I can’t recall now if it was a stock htc sense feature or an early CM mod feature. But not the less I liked the retro nod.
But I recon you’d have better look with a software filter solution than a physical one.
Instead of a pie zero I’d stick a pi3 in it, as then you’d have a quite capable retro looking Linux machine inside the TV.
Man I wish I didn’t bin that old hand held TV now. I’d of used a pi zero W on that (didn’t exist then), as that will run off a battery bank and there would of been loads of space for a large battery.
How are you getting a picture to that old TV Lee? Isn’t analogue transmission turned off now? And how do you get a digital signal in it?
I agree, it amazes me that MS is still doing it. They have spent alot of money to build a brand. I think there endgame is now the games for windows, get all the xbox games work on pc and phase out the physical medium.
Basically try and out do steam, or at the latest a competing platform. If they can get EA to give them some exclusives on digital fifa,or a exclusive on that war game (name alludes me) it will give alot of people a reason to install, or use the Windows store.
Google once said about the then Market Place, the hard part is getting people to input there payment details, once they have done that and you have friction free transactions, people will not only buy, but use the free stuff more. And that is what Ms needs, a reason for you to give them your details.
I’d say the strength of sales, or lack of it, of the U, indicates the Wii high sales don’t represent its success.
Wii fit is what sold the Wii, it was a massive gimmick that was soon seen through. Though as I said, mario was good on it as it always is.
If you want a Mario player it’s a good by, but Mario is Mario is Mario. Since Mario 64 they all feel the same, just more shiny. As is Mario cart, of anything it doesn’t have the charm it once did.
Just cos your house is using the wii doesnt mean it’d a success, obviously some are using it, but it’s a known flop.
I use and like alot of things that are seen as flops.
The cube for me one one of the best consoles ever to be a flop, I loved the thing, but even then it was Mario and zelda that wad carrying it. Both was brilliant on that machine. Loved my cube. Our wii actually had more cube hours played than wii games.
Paper Mario on the wii I liked, but that too wasn’t a hit.
Nintendo is a one trick pony imo, they keep trying but ultimately they always have to lean on ip’s from 1980s.
Do you own a 3ds Jason? We never got one, we had a hand for of ds’s, the kids never asked for the 3ds, they had moved onto tablets and phones, however my nephew asked for a 3ds for Xmas, and they where almost £200, he never got one.
I was amazed somthing so old, wad selling for so much. Iirc correctly the DS was about £120 when new, and was in a league of one, we’ll 2 bit the psp wad much dearer and not not that decent for it. We had one psp, it’s UHD days, it got “shelved” quite quickly, the DS though live a fullfiled life, even had age cards and turned them into media players, the kids used to watch films on our early adventures on the continent.
I liked the DS alot. The previous I like more though, gameboy advanced I thing it was called, the first flip game boy. Bit again it was Mario that carried that, for its short life.
It’s amazing how much cash I’ve given Nintendo, I’m defo no hater, just not the fine I once was.
I’ll be getting at least one Switch that’s for sure, but that’s cos I’m a sucker for shiny crap lol. I’m now hopeful that it will live up to it’d hype though.
I have to disagree about game making with passion etc you said. I’d call it regurgitation of old ip’s, relying on fans blind loyalty to defend it.
There are many great game developers out there making brilliant games,with new ideas.
Yes Jason, they defo do cockup form time to time, but imo you only ever find out how good a company is when they cockup.
For me Amazon cocks up the best atm.
Over hyping never ends well, it lets down more people than not. Leading to less future sales though damaged relations.
Whenever i recommend a product I’ll alway highlight the items pit falls, I’ll always under sell it, while saying it’s great and will fit your needs.
Otherwise of i just sell the high points, leaving out the low, the buyer will always be underwhelmed. If they know going it, and you under sell the good bits, the buyer will be far happier with the same product.
It’s all about setting a realistic image of the product.
Part of my uni course tonight marketing, and everything I said above is the oppersite to the complete rubbish they was teaching. It was the worst subject I was ever forced to sit through.
I went the first two seminars, realised all the answers was common sense, never went another and aced the BS touting exam. Marketing, is BS on an industrial level. So one needs to teach these (all) companies it’s about setting expectations.
Under sell over deliver, and the customers will come via word of mouth. Apple with all the hate we give the do this, yes they have thier dog and pony shows, preaching to the choir, but their advert are very subtle,very little info and pretty pictures. It’s up to the user to decide if they like it. The product speaks for itself. Not to me, but to 100s of millions.
But with apple being a religion, they do have an easier job than most at selling.
AMD have for 10 years under delivery, so this hype all but the old school fan boys just don’t believe it.
Nintendo are probably on their last chance with the switch, if this one doesn’t deliver, they are finished as a hardware firm, to much hype with little end product. The wii promised loads, and sold loads, but no one actually used them or bought games, as we all realised we had been duped. So no one bought the Wii U.
The switch is trading on the DS success and Mario and Zelda. However if Zelda and mario are the highlight (ie no other decent titles on a decent sale) and if the hardware isn’t what the massive hype is hyping it as. Nintendo will be trading on creating mario games for android and ios within 2 year.
I actually think a Nintendo market place app for Android* would be a real winner and make alot more money than the switch, with relatively small outlay.
They would need a different approach for ios as you can’t have your own market place on Apple and would need to cut apple in with 30% of all sales. They could avoid this on android. But 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing if they don’t launch on ios.
I’ve had this a couple of times, uk Mail was the worst. This is why I use Amazon for anything of value, and think the prime fee is worth it. The next day delivery is good, but it’s their CS that keeps me renewing.
Other places are upping their game, but atm know one can touch Amazon. As you say withing in seconds they call you, and dead over backwards to help.
I think uk mail is now dead. Good riddens.
I once had a nail gun go missing, delivered to an imaginary neighbour. they delivered a second the next day. about a month later the origanal showed up. I contacted Amazon, they called back and said keep it, gave it the BiL for Xmas.
Just before Xmas I skipped a hand held black and white, probably 6″ square portable. If id of known then you wad into this stuff I’d of sent it you.
Nuts of sated from the mid 80s.and probably been in out loft since then judging by the dust and dirt on its origanal box.
Just finished updating my 32gb windows thing and in total win 10 takes up 19gb with a few applications added.
Which funny as is the same as win 7 and apps took up on my 30gb ssd thinkpad x200t all thoughs years ago.
So what we have discovered here is that us ‘geek’ between us hold all the keys!
I meant marked up as pit with kits for sill prices. That’s what happens with the frost 3, or maybe 2, you could only by then included with “starter ” kits. For twice what the kit was worth. Just people cashing in.
I actually have a project that a pi zero with wifi is made for. Ill need about 10 of them so at £10 a pop it’s not bad at all.
Lol.
Google emails me every 6 months to asked if my EOL info is up to date. If I don’t login to a my primary Google account for a certain length of time it will email, my wife in my case, an email that will give her access to my main account, and it has an attached email with all the account info she needs for stuff, and instructions on what files to keep, and what to do with work files.
Well tbh it says, let your brother….. And he can sort the files out.
Every time Google emails me I look over the info in the email and ammend them.
When way wife got ill, her brother was pit on the EOL mailing list. Just incase.
I’d recomend you all do somthing similar. There are a few companies that offer this. But I settled on Google because they are not going to fold over night, and off they decided to retire the service they will give you plenty of notice.
Also if you dont want to send someone the keys to your Google account, you can tell Google to but it in hibernation for as long as you wish, then delete the it if you dont return in that time.
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