Trying the Nintendo Switch #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and staying here at the

Nintendo switch of it in New York City

to take a look at the brand new console

of course the big shout to Nintendo for

inviting us out here and let's go take a

look

the idea of the switch is very different

from traditional Nintendo consoles so

well the way you did have a tablet it

was more of a controller there's really

nothing going on on the tablet itself

instead everything was being beamed from

the actual console whereas here the

switch is the console the switch is

rocking a 6.2 inch capacitive 720p

touchscreen it's actually a really nice

looking display and of course in the

demo lighting it's hard to really get a

great sense of it but it looks sharp it

looks colorful it looks bright a big

step up over the Wii U so we don't have

the exact specs on it right now however

according to Eurogamer it's an under

polished version of the Tegra x1 this is

the same processor that's inside the

Nvidia shield what that means is while

it's definitely going to be a really

powerful system and more powerful than

the Wii U is not going to be on par with

something like the Xbox one or ps4 it

looks like it has two modes one for when

it's running on battery power and one

when it's docked to a TV so the battery

power mode runs at about half the clock

speed of the dock mode which does make

some sense would you consider that's

pushing at 720p display versus a 1080p

TV however depending on the game that

could mean a performance difference in

fact it should it's a lot slower than

your battery life it's decent Nintendo

claims the range between two and a half

and six nap hours on a charge which is a

really really big range so to give a

little bit more context they say that

when you're playing Zelda pretzels a

wild you should expect around three

hours on a charge not great but it's

decent and the cool thing is the switch

now uses USB type-c which means that you

can use a battery backup or even a

generic charger and completely be able

to use it on the go

the switch talk itself is fairly

straightforward so it takes advantage of

that USB type-c connector to not only

charge the switch but it also takes the

video and runs it out via HDMI there are

a couple of other features like you have

a couple of USB ports on the switch dock

so if you want to plug in something I

can eat the net adapter you can do that

but for the most part it is a very

straightforward adapter dock thing the

switch still uses physical media for

games but instead of this you know you

gain cards like the 3ds so you also do

have 32 gigabytes of storage built in

and you can expand that via microSD but

don't expect to keep an entire game

library on your switch so if your name

is Ken and you're really into waifu

games you'll probably be really pleased

to know that the switch is now region

free no matter what country you're

playing games from they all work Ken

please don't ruin my video right now

don't no no no no come back come back

I'm sorry I'm sorry I said not waifu

games theorem there are more platelets

of switch the more I really kind of

understand why it's such a weird hybrid

between a handheld and a proper game

console so it has a toe 2.11

AC Wi-Fi and you can play traditionally

online which you can also play up to 8

switches locally with multiplayer that's

not something you would normally do with

a console once this time you and seven

buddies got a bunch of Xboxes together

and had a LAN party the online component

of the switch is a little bit unclear at

this point so at launch it should be

fairly similar to the Wii U you can do

online multiplayer and not much beyond

that however later this year it's going

to get some amazing new features such as

voice chat and lobbies and other things

that Xbox Live has had for a very long

time it also shares a yearly

subscription with xbox live which is

wonderful I'm not totally against this I

think Nintendo has been really weak on

the online side forever so the idea that

they start charging maybe it's going to

be a more upgraded more robust service

but we'll have to see if it's come with

some other perks like you get a free NES

or SNES game each month which you

actually may or may not actually be able

to keep and there's some smaller things

like you get discounts but the big thing

is is this actually going to be worth

the price and we'll have to find out

later this year and you're making can

work really hard right now I'm just

getting close don't we it was that

autofocus it was like Kenneth bleed oh

well the switch has a touchscreen what

really pulls it together are the joy

Kong controller so he can either be

attached to the sides of the switch you

can use them independently or you can

use them together as part of the

accessory I'm surprised how much I like

to joy Khan controllers by themselves

not attached to anything

as most people kind of separates them

because you're not really losing

anything and you can move your hands in

a sort of weight

I'm pleased having my hands together on

a controller this is actually

surprisingly nice but we're ready we can

actually attach these to the grip

accessory so we just slide it in it

clicks into place you can see it pops up

right there and there we go so now we

should begin with the grip the grip

itself doesn't really do a whole lot of

doesn't add any additional control so

everything is still on the actual joint

on itself

and see what food pitches over to the

fish display makes me have to switch in

tabletop mode running mario kart 8 a lot

so the idea here is that we can take off

either one or both of the controllers so

for example if I wanted to two-player I

could hand someone the other controller

trying to reach me while you shoot that

seems really tricky I sneeze like a bad

idea I think controller right now so the

joyed con controller by itself is small

it almost reminds me of an NES

controller so what happens is because of

switch display 720p all the games will

run at 720p obviously on actual display

but when you actually hook it up through

the dock to a proper TV you can go up to

1080p for example Mario Kart does run at

1080p 60 each game takes advantage of

the controls a little differently so

some rely almost entirely on the motion

control so you put one in each hand you

punch some games will allow you to use

it sideways more like an NES controller

and still other games can use it more

like a traditional controller when you

actually have it in the grip for the

most part it works really well so you

have NFC in one of the controllers they

each have the HD Rumble feature which

has actual individual haptic feedback

and different partials a controller and

what was really cool was just how easy

it was to dock so you can fly it right

into the actual switch take it off using

separately it's all using a single

button on the back it seems very robust

let's actually plugged in but super easy

to take off Nintendo definitely did the

controller's right here on the game side

of things there's a lot coming out for

the switch this year however at launch

it only has four title luckily one of

those is the Legend of Zelda breath of

the while I got to spend about 20

minutes playing it and it looks good so

technically it's very similar to the Wii

U version I didn't have them both

side-by-side to compare but they look

very similar the switch might be running

at a slightly higher resolution on the

TV but for the most part you're getting

a very similar experience if anything

the performance might be a little bit

better I also got to try arms which is

the game that's coming out the spring

and no it's not about these arms it's

about the arms of the game I guess I

don't know it's a cool game it's very

very simple so it's literally all the

motion controls with a couple of buttons

on the actual joique on so essentially

you have one each hand and you punch so

you can use them left and right to be

able to walk around and jump and all

that kind of stuff but for the most part

it really is about throwing punches

whether they're straight with a curb

whatever you do it's emulated in the

actual game it honestly reminded me a

little bit of wheat sports a game that

is very different really shows off what

motion controls can do

come on I have a ton of debt but of

course I don't get to play it for a few

minutes so we'll have to see when it

actually comes out there's also splatoon

too now I actually didn't get to play a

lot of the original splatoon but from

what I did I really enjoyed and splatoon

too seems very similar so you get

additional characters additional weapons

but for the most part it's a very

similar game just poured it over to the

switch a lot of cool games coming out

for the switch including Mario Kart 8

deluxe a brand new super mario odyssey

game

there's Skyrim as well as FIFA however

almost all these are coming out later in

the year at launch you're really going

to be mostly playing Zelda well I mean I

won't leave the Nintendo to switch

launches on March 3rd for $300 so that's

a decent price point my opinion yes you

can get a ps4 or Xbox one for cheaper

however this which is a completely

different value proposition it very much

is a gaming tablet that you can talk

with your TV versus the other way around

so what do you guys think about the

switch honestly I've got to say I'm more

impressed I was going to be specifically

by the controllers but that will be sure

to let me know what you guys think in

the comments below anyway guys thank you

so much for watching and I will catch

you on the next one