RobotMoses
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Same here.
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Nintendo Switch accessories (Hori/Officially licensed by Nintendo)
- Thread starter yoonshik
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Dark Ninja
Member
Yeah they will probably drop local multiplayer off one copy. Proper Splatoon local multiplayer had the same issue on the Wii U. I bet a ton of games will end up doing this and just doing multiple switch local multiplayer. If Hyrule Warriors gets ported it will also have the same issue for co-op.
A credit card.
Yeah but that doesn't help your case of justifying an ethernet port on consoles.
Jaded Alyx
Member
...... Sigh 😥
frankie_baby
Member
It'll be a hell of a lot closer to 1-3% than 30%
Falchion
Member
Please point me to where I was justifying having it? My question was genuine curiosity from the niche labeling. I even said its not a big deal to me.
Xdrive05
Member
This thing will probably be very breakable too, what with that internal fan and all that. I mean people break their phones all the time just by dropping them, and phones have no moving parts.
I wonder if they designed some kind of internal rubber padding to shock proof it, or something like that? Kids are gonna fuck this thing up royally.
I wonder if they designed some kind of internal rubber padding to shock proof it, or something like that? Kids are gonna fuck this thing up royally.
CrazedProfessional
Member
Nintendo vs Capcom Arcade Stick.
Buggy Loop
Member
Lol, the threads we'll have on friday after the presentation.
"Switch less powerful than PS4 Pro, 720p, no ethernet port, no 500>GB of storage...
IN 2017?"
"Switch less powerful than PS4 Pro, 720p, no ethernet port, no 500>GB of storage...
IN 2017?"
Capcom already has their hands full with Street Fighter V & Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
MADGAME
Member
lmfao, glad I saw that. Great minds think alike friend. But let's be honest though, it isn't gonna happen brethren. At least we got Dolphin I guess..... but it just isn't the same.
Can't disagree with anything you said, unfortunately!
The Single Player isn't really barebones in terms of content. It's an glorified arcade mode with a little of story thrown in but it does a great job of difficulty scaling and gives you a good amount of practice of the mechanics. Unlocking accessories and titlea are fun too.
They can fuck off then. A fighting game with no local multiplayer is a waste of space and effort.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Not about to defend not having Ethernet access built in. I've never used Wi-Fi on PS4. Ethernet is really preferable, especially if you're playing online titles.
No one here is labeling ethernet port usage on computers as niche. The niche labeling in this thread is only applied on anything other than personal computers.
I have no problem with genuine curiosity but it's kind of off-topic to what this whole thread is discussing.
Too bad for no Ethernet port, let's see if there's an adapter for it.
Playing Pokken or Smash with an arcade stick... Yeah no.
Playing Pokken or Smash with an arcade stick... Yeah no.
It probably is, I just like seeing real data on it. Unfortunately maybe the fact Cisco doesn't even have a comparison between ethernet vs wifi in their updated white paper is a major indicator of your niche labeling. (The older white papers used to compare the 2, with a forecast of wifi overtaking ethernet in 2015). The new white paper seems to only compare fixed internet vs mobile internet, which isn't the same thing.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/complete-white-paper-c11-481360.html
You are right that its off topic, I'll stop discussing it here.
You're in the thread showing the adapter for it...!
Papacheeks
Banned
But almost most devices that hook to your tv have ethernet? So people calling it niche makes no sense. If ethernet port was so niche than why hasn't anyone who makes these stop putting them in them?
Amazon, apple, roku, even hard drive companies are not adding ethernet ports to their regular desktop external drives.
TheGamingBox
Banned
while we at it, how do ethernet switches work?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Just do multiplayer like the Naruto games do.
CrazedProfessional
Member
An F Zero fighting game by Arc System Works.
CrazedProfessional
Member
A 3D Soul Calibur Arena Fighter with Zelda characters by Namco Bandai
The best selling versions of those streaming devices (Chromecast, Amazon Fire Stick, Roku Stick) don't have Ethernet.
Delusibeta
Banned
Ethernet chat: I honestly can't see Nintendo saving much more than a couple yen per unit by omitting an Ethernet port. That said, I'd imagine Nintendo (and Hori) would make quite noticeably more money by making Ethernet adaptors for the few people who are willing to pay the extra money for the improved internet performance that a wired connection grants. Plus, there's precedent to consider (literally every Nintendo console with online capabilities required an adaptor if you want to plug an ethernet cable into it).
In short: it's blatant profiteering that few people will care about (because for 99% of people, 5Gz Wi-fi is more than enough). That said, it's substantially less of a issue than when the Wii pulled the same trick.
In short: it's blatant profiteering that few people will care about (because for 99% of people, 5Gz Wi-fi is more than enough). That said, it's substantially less of a issue than when the Wii pulled the same trick.
Apple devices that previously had ethernet ports just got them removed in their latest version.
And again, most of these devices that even have a ethernet port you are mentioning are used for streaming as one of their main hooks.
Did you even read the post you quoted? 😅
TwistedFreeze
Member
Wait, Why wouldn't the Switch support local multi-player? I mean, I'd be shocked if it didn't support multiple controllers
CrazedProfessional
Member
A Balloon Fight bullet hell shooter by Treasure.
Of course it does.
GustyGardens
Banned
The arcade stick is likely for Tekken given the relationship between Nintendo and Namco, and the release window for the game.
Profiteering off Ethernet adapters is one of the stupidest conspiracy theories around. It's like all the people saying adapter sales were the reason that headphone jacks were omitted in the iPhone 7. They don't make that much money off adapters. Especially not when Nintendo's last two consoles let you use any ethernet adapter you'd like and weren't proprietary.
Stop it. Just stop. It's not about big adapter money. Stop stop stop stop stop
It ain't SFV
The issue is not that it wouldn't support local multiplayer at all, but that it might require two consoles and probably two games.
Speaking of which, I wonder if Switch games would be too large to pull off single cart multiplayer a la (3)DS.
TwistedFreeze
Member
But why would anyone even be speculating that a game on the system lacks local multi-player or would require multiple Switches?
That sounds rather unlikely to me. It's more likely that you should be fine if you have multiple controllers. Only if you're lacking that would you need to have multiple Switches with multiple game copies
Delusibeta
Banned
Honestly? If Nintendo didn't think they would profit from making ethernet adapters, they wouldn't make them. Ditto Apple and their many, many dongles.
Where did this idea come from?
Yeah let's laugh consumers for hoping Nintendo would produce a home console with features they want.
He's suggesting that in order to have local multiplayer on those games you would need more than one Switch to make that work. I'm saying if you can't do local multiplayer without an additional console for a fighting game then that defeats the purpose of local multiplayer.
frankie_baby
Member
I'd imagine some games could in theory stream necessary data over local WiFi as and when needed if Nintendo allowed it
TwistedFreeze
Member
No way that's happening. I doubt Nintendo's newest console will prevent you from just using multiple controllers
Pokken requires two screens for multi. Wii U had that, Switch doesn't. It's just a Pokken thing.
The profit is minuscule, and this isn't even directly from Nintendo, it's a third party. Apple's money from adapters isn't even half a percent of their earnings. It's next to nothing for them.
LordRaptor
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And when there aren't many to be found because nobody at any stage considered wired internet dongles anything more than a niche product, "artificial scarcity"
...IN 2017
GustyGardens
Banned
I always forget that Street Fighter is a console exclusive.
TwistedFreeze
Member
Oh okay, so it's likely just a one off thing then
The damn thing comes with two controllers.
frankie_baby
Member
Nintendo will profit from them but the amount will be peanuts (especially with them being non proprietary) and probably less than the profit they'll make from not including ethernet in the console