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[Ozyton]

There's going to be a presentation tonight, about 9 hours from this post. (2300 Eastern Time)
Countdown clock.

If I remember right, we are supposed to be be told "everything there is to know" about the Switch at the presentation.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Plus there'll be the Nintendo Treehouse episode afterwards, not to mention the hands-on events later.

And other things like a 72-hour GameXplain video analyzing every frame of the presentation.

[Wiles]

I think I'll wait for the Coles Notes version of the presentation

[Neonivek]

Nitpick: the Vita failed because of atrocious marketing on Sony's behalf.

There are a few reasons. The lack of good non-port games for much of its life... compounded by the fact that it is very expensive to develop games for the VITA because of how powerful it is... Then with low initial sales it basically was a lost cause because there is no way for most companies to make back their money unless they made budget titles.

It wasn't just marketing. Sony needed to get more companies onboard and to make the handheld a success.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

My main concern--assuming that it'll get the gamedev love consoles do--is how long the handheld part can hold a battery for. I mean... If I can play Skyrim on a Nintendo Switch on a plane for like 4 hours... Maaaaaaan, I'll give you the deed to my house.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If there's one thing that Nintendo has basically never failed at, it's battery life. This is obviously a bit different than their usual handheld fare, but I'm sure it's on the design priorities unless everybody who works at Nintendo was replaced by lizard-people.

[Egan_BW]

That is impossible, as they were already lizard people.

[SOLDIER First]

Obviously not. Lizard people are above such things as dying of disease.

[Egan_BW]

That's what they want you to think.

[uber pye]

one more hour!

HYPE TRAIN TO LEAVE IN 45 MINUTES!

[SOLDIER First]

That's what they want you to think.

Mr. Iwata actually ascended to a higher plane of existence??

[Egan_BW]

...Kinda. Every Switch will contain a small fragment of his soul. This is how they got the console so OP, you see.

[Nighthawk]

And the gamers cried: "Nintendo, why more motion controls?!"

Seriously, though, they should've learned by now.

[Ozyton]

It seems like the only thing that looked like it took those motion controls are the party game and the fighting type game.

I will be surprised if the party game doesn't have anything like JS Joust on it.

E: I had predicted the $300 price point, not sure why everyone else was saying $250

[endlessblaze]

Whoa. Presentation just ended. I missed a little but that last look at breath of the Wild at the end.

Whoa....that was Intense. And awesome. And now we have a time for how long like has slept (or did we already have that) 100 years