Poll of the Day > Nintendo Switch got a battery upgrade, 4.5-9 hours!!!

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-Komaiko54-
07/17/19 4:17:39 PM
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697601/nintendo-switch-new-model-battery-life-improvements

Holy SHIT
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-Komaiko54-
07/17/19 4:28:34 PM
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Zangulus posted...
From what Im hearing theres almost no way it will be that big of an improvement


There websites says that games like BOTW would last 5.5 hours
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/compare/

And yeah, that's good enough to justify buying a new console to me
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Taily_Po
07/17/19 4:28:50 PM
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In all honesty, half the time I have it plugged in anyway so it shouldn't make much difference.
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T0ffee
07/17/19 4:40:02 PM
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And just like my disastrous luck, I JUST BOUGHT a new Switch and got it delivered literally yesterday.

And NOW they say they have a new model.

Fuck.
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Viking_Mudcrap
07/17/19 4:43:07 PM
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lol Nintendo can fucking die after how they did Pokemon Sword and Shield.

They are an insult to the industry, hell any industry.
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-Komaiko54-
07/17/19 5:07:26 PM
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Viking_Mudcrap posted...
lol Nintendo can fucking die after how they did Pokemon Sword and Shield.


I don't follow Pokemon, what did they do?
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WastelandCowboy
07/17/19 5:09:08 PM
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Viking_Mudcrap posted...
lol Nintendo can fucking die after how they did Pokemon Sword and Shield.

They are an insult to the industry, hell any industry.

Game Freak - not Nintendo.
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Sephiroth C Ryu
07/17/19 5:15:31 PM
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Viking_Mudcrap posted...
lol Nintendo can fucking die after how they did Pokemon Sword and Shield.

They are an insult to the industry, hell any industry.


You have Nintendo confused with GameFreaks.

One of them is a decent company. The other is one of the laziest existing gaming companies who still have a major franchise. Despite being in a world where first person shooters (which are among the easiest games to throw together with "out of the box" components from your standard game engine) AND yearly sports games are a thing.

I don't even know what you are talking about with Sword and Shield. But I will gladly agree that it will likely be, at the least, lacking in its ability to be modern in any real way.

Dragon Quest at least has an excuse because it is both TRYING to be retro, and because the company that makes it also makes non-retro games (to the point where certain fantasy titles of theirs actually try TOO hard to be "new and different"). And thus, we can trust them when they say "no really, we could modernize the crap out of this game, but we actually do want this to be our retro series and will focus our attempts at creativity elsewhere."

If Nintendo has a fault with Pokemon, its that they are too willing to let GameFreaks do their own lazy thing. But you know, its probably better that they do that, in the end. After all, what is the alternative? Hmm, lets see, what are people's opinions of Bungie Entertainment and the Halo Franchise again these days? Oh, right. Yeah, better leave the occasional bad game company alone rather get too involved and than risk getting into a habit of over-managing and ruining the good ones too.
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SilentSeph
07/17/19 5:19:08 PM
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Mine is docked all the time but this is a nice option to have.
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GanonsSpirit
07/17/19 6:30:56 PM
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-Komaiko54- posted...
I don't follow Pokemon, what did they do?

They're not including all the Pokemon, despite the fact that they're just lazily porting over past-gen Pokemon from Ultra Sun/Moon.
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Bulbasaur
07/17/19 6:40:49 PM
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Zangulus posted...
-Komaiko54- posted...
Zangulus posted...
From what Im hearing theres almost no way it will be that big of an improvement


There websites says that games like BOTW would last 5.5 hours
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/compare/

And yeah, that's good enough to justify buying a new console to me


Yeah. Thats Nintendo selling it. Theyre going to give you big numbers to get you to buy it.

If it had a bigger battery sure. But Id be really surprised that an SoC could nearly double the battery life.

well when you consider how every company does battery tests, it makes sense.

backlight at the lowest, airplane mode on, on just the dashboard.

it will never reflect real world usage, no
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DeathMagnetic80
07/17/19 6:42:40 PM
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I play mine docked like, 90% of the time anyway, but that's cool for new adopters of the system.
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Bulbasaur
07/17/19 6:43:09 PM
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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

I don't even know what you are talking about with Sword and Shield. But I will gladly agree that it will likely be, at the least, lacking in its ability to be modern in any real way.

they aren't adding every Pokemon to the games because it's too much work to create new 3d models, despite the fact that the Pokemon they are adding are just imported models from the current 3ds games.
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GamerGirlzBesty
07/17/19 6:49:22 PM
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you shouldnt play for 4 hours anyways

spend more time with your bestys

teehee
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adjl
07/17/19 6:58:36 PM
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Diablo's really the only game I've ever run into battery issues with, since it chugs battery life. The rest, I don't usually play for long enough in a single session to run into issues (or if I do, it's docked). If I were considering buying a Switch right now and this news came out, I'd hold out for the upgrade, but I don't see myself replacing my current Switch with this.
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Sephiroth C Ryu
07/17/19 8:41:08 PM
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Bulbasaur posted...
Sephiroth C Ryu posted...

I don't even know what you are talking about with Sword and Shield. But I will gladly agree that it will likely be, at the least, lacking in its ability to be modern in any real way.

they aren't adding every Pokemon to the games because it's too much work to create new 3d models, despite the fact that the Pokemon they are adding are just imported models from the current 3ds games.


Ah, that thing.

Yeah, they have to make some new models for the actual new mons.

But yes. I don't care if there are a thousand of the things now. They should be wealthy enough by now to at least make the necessary modded models for their new attempt at a replacement for the Mega system.

Otherwise, DON'T DO IT. Seriously. Of all the ways they try to reboot it, they go with that, yes? And then decide, oh yeah, lets not bother with the older pokemon that are not in the current gen game itself. Its not like there are other ways we could make an attempt to innovate, right?

Its not like we could, oh, maybe make the battle animations more interesting? Like, just make some movement animations so that we get even a somewhat repetetive sequence of movements accompanying moves that at least sometimes look like something as decent as you'd see in the first anime? Not like they could actually try and make a really proper modern RPG worldscape either, right? Not like they could just finally fix their damn "4 moves only" system by at least changing it to "you can only EQUIP 4 moves for any given battle, but you still remember the other moves to experiment with at your leisure, or can swap any learned move out as you see fit. Oh, and allow HM moves out of battle as long as you have the HM itself and at least one pokemon with it, since that is ALWAYS annoying to deal with outside of the one or two that actually are also good combat moves."

Its quite... pathetic. That GameFreaks has somehow managed to innovate less than Dragon Quest. A series which literally makes it it's mission statement to remain a retro RPG. Is still more innovative in how much it improves things, than pokemon. Whose biggest innovation is a mobile phone app of questionable entertainment (but is at least substantially better at getting you to actually go out and move your legs to some extent).
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Taily_Po
07/17/19 8:44:02 PM
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Sephiroth C Ryu posted...
Its not like we could, oh, maybe make the battle animations more interesting? Like, just make some movement animations so that we get even a somewhat repetetive sequence of movements accompanying moves that at least sometimes look like something as decent as you'd see in the first anime? Not like they could actually try and make a really proper modern RPG worldscape either, right? Not like they could just finally fix their damn "4 moves only" system by at least changing it to "you can only EQUIP 4 moves for any given battle, but you still remember the other moves to experiment with at your leisure, or can swap any learned move out as you see fit. Oh, and allow HM moves out of battle as long as you have the HM itself and at least one pokemon with it, since that is ALWAYS annoying to deal with outside of the one or two that actually are also good combat moves."


You can retrieve old moves and you can use TMs an unlimited number of times now so effectively you have that already.
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Sephiroth C Ryu
07/17/19 8:57:07 PM
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Yeah, from some shop-keeper type NPC, in a specific city, right?

Great. I can do whatever in the endgame. The time when I don't really care anything about stuff except for the elite-whoever, multi-player, and whatever legendary god pokemon is in the entry in question.

4 moves is fine if that is merely how many they can have "equipped" at a time. But its stupid to forget them. Especially seeing as these guys are apparently incredibly smart after all. And many moves are literally things they are supposed to do by instinct anyway, or variations on something they can usually do by default. Keep it to 4 moves equipped per battle. Allow us to change what moves are equipped ANY DAMN TIME WE WANT.

What, a new player 10-20 levels into the game wants to go back and play around with seeing if that old tail whip attack is actually worthwhile for one battle? Let them open a menu, swap out a move for that old attack, all while they are literally standing still in the middle of a field of grass in the middle of a route between cities. Yeah, let them. 4 moves made sense back in the day because yes, an RPG type thing, on the gameboy. Things have advanced. The 4 moves alone is good because it helps promote certain degrees of competition in the multi community. But why make it hard for players to actually experiment without at the least getting the endgame Fly HM that lets them go wherever whenever? Why make them pretty much have to go and look up online for which moves are actually good if you keep them around until you get the complementary move?

So no, Taily Po. You do NOT have that already.

Yes, it wasn't an issue in certain games where the story mode was easy as hell. But that itself is just another laziness.
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LinkPizza
07/17/19 9:06:18 PM
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I think Im fine without 1000 Pokmon in one game. That seems like too many, anyway...
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Cruddy_horse
07/17/19 10:49:07 PM
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Slightly related question, are there any portable Switch chargers like there are for phones?
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-Komaiko54-
07/17/19 11:15:56 PM
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Cruddy_horse posted...
Slightly related question, are there any portable Switch chargers like there are for phones?


Get a usb charger, they work fine for me
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LinkPizza
07/17/19 11:28:51 PM
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Cruddy_horse posted...
Slightly related question, are there any portable Switch chargers like there are for phones?

The one that comes with the pro controller can connect to regular USB ports. And that can charge a Switch. Not the fastest, though. You can probably find some on Amazon, as well... Some will be built for it and work better...
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T0ffee
07/17/19 11:39:25 PM
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Found this when I was researching for chargers for my own Switch.

https://imgur.com/TY02Z8g

Basically, you want a charger that has USB-C with Power Delivery.
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