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[Tregard]

Nintendo Direct announcement incoming

 

[emb]

Man, I wannnnt one!

 

[Futureman]

so how did this bro get a Switch? I guess he hasn't said?

 

[Jonneh3003]

So how much are we willing to spend to convince our friend to open the thing and finally tell us what the hell is inside it?

Would be cool for Digital Foundry to fly out to see hiphop, didn't they do this with the PS4 Slim?

 

[Remapped88]

Nintendo with a OS that's nice and snappy? Very nice!

 

[Joqu]

Oh, I really like the look of it. Elegant and responsive.

I hope we get some nice themes, I want that 3DS Hanafuda theme on Switch. But the black theme will do nicely in the meantime.

 

[Buttonbasher]

thanks hiphoptherobot
You did what NINTENDONT

Yeah how dare they not show us the Wi-fi setup screen.

There should have been a dedicated Direct to that alone, to be honest.

Shame, Nintendo.

 

[GinoFelino]

thanks hiphoptherobot
You did what NINTENDONT

That would be a great honorary tag

Yeah how dare they not show us the Wi-fi setup screen.

There should have been a dedicated Direct to that alone, to be honest.

Shame, Nintendo.

Don't you dare 'no fun allowed' this wonderful thing

 

[casey_contra]

I would also like to know, hopefully hiphoptherobot sees this

"Can you turn the system on from the detached Joy-Con? From the home button, for instance?" - Re-asking for a new page haha

 

[Marty Chinn]

so how did this bro get a Switch? I guess he hasn't said?

Local store sold it to him.

 

[Naked Snake]

Can you post pics (or better yet SCANS) of the instructions manual and any other documents in the box?

 

[jax]

Local store sold it to him.

What store though

 

[SinCityAssassin]

Unusually snappy for a Nintendo product. So happy. Thanks hiphop!

Why do you think they kept doing this.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

They nailed it.

 

[the_milkybar_kid]

Naming it gaf, nice touch. It's got to be a curse having the unit and nothing to play?

 

[Painraze]

The dude needs to disassemble the machine so we can see the guts. Sell the videos to DF.

 

[Danis Saur]

Looks beautiful, those sounds... and the avatars are cool.

 

[Galang]

The intro music. I'm slain

 

[KingBroly]

Tag this man.

No.

Tag this guy.

hiphoptherobot
just some guy

 

[Jonneh3003]

Naming it gaf, nice touch. It's got to be a curse having the unit and nothing to play?

For sure, I didn't have a memory card when I got my Vita and you can't even boot any physical games without one. It just sits there taunting you.

 

[Dandy Crocodile]

What store though

Y'all do realize if he says Nintendo can cut their distribution with the particular retailer and dramatically hurt business, right...
Heck I'm sure they've got their people on it trying to track how this happened as we speak.

 

[LiK]

How soon before we hear him talking about being contacted by Nintendo?

I love that he didn't post on YouTube. Smart.

 

[BitStyle]

Dark theme is life

Thanks, hiphoptherobot

 

[Milly Osworth]

Shinya Takahashi and Yoshiaki Koizumi did it! A Nintendo OS that's actually good!

 

[Resistance100]

It's real! Now the hype train can begin

 

[alr1ght]

hiphoptherobot
Caused 1 million heart attacks in Kyoto

 

[SinCityAssassin]

How soon before we hear him talking about being contacted by Nintendo?

 

[spyroflame0487]

I'm really glad Splatoon caught on so much that it's a dedicated icon for Nintendo. I know Pokemon isn't solely owned by them, but are there Pokemon and Kirby icons too? Can you show us some more of them?

 

[TAS]

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for this. I'm so happy we can choose the dark theme too.

 

[Rootbeer]

It's beautiful.

And just think this is BEFORE the day 1 update. There could be plenty of changes since these left the factory.

 

[Relaxt]

That sure looks androidish.

this

 

[orichalcos]

#3dprinted?

Btw, i like the minimalist UI.

 

[notaskwid]

Y'all do realize if he says Nintendo can cut their distribution with the particular retailer and dramatically hurt business, right...
Heck I'm sure they've got their people on it trying to track how this happened as we speak.

Of course he realizes it, he'll email Nintendo himself after said store is known.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Don't you dare 'no fun allowed' this wonderful thing

Go tell my dad, I don't even mind.

Nah, the video's cool. People have just been so up in arms about Nintendo not releasing a video of the damn menu, which has been lunacy to me. "WHY HAVE THEY NOT DONE A DIRECT OF THE OS UI?"

 

[bobbychalkers]

I don't know why it took this long for us to see this but damn that shit is smooth....

 

[Kthulhu]

MRW:

 

[Thraktor]

Things move quick and it's clean. I'm happy with that. Way better than how slow navigation is on the Wii U and 3DS.

Does it support 5ghz or only 2.4?

According to the FCC filings it does. It supports 802.11ac 2x MIMO with 80Hz bands, so a theoretical maximum of 867Mb/s on 5GHz and 400Mb/s on 2.4GHz. Of course actual wifi speeds never reach the theoretical max, but it puts them on par with high-end phones and tablets, which is pretty big improvement for Nintendo (even the recent n3DS only supports 54Mb/s 802.11g).

 

[WiiRevolution1]

Theres no Activity Log...and Zelda doesn't have an ingame timer...which means I'll have to use a timer and manually add up my playtime.

My god Nintendo. Why did you remove the AL? This is fucking ridiculous.

 

[Mediking]

So we can choose icons instead of Miis? How does that work?

 

[The Omega Man]

Yeah how dare they not show us the Wi-fi setup screen.

There should have been a dedicated Direct to that alone, to be honest.

Shame, Nintendo.

Yes? drop the exaggeration, maybe not a direct but a freaking introduction to what we are going to be greeted with when we turn our brand new devices on, is that too much to ask?

 

[JJH]

Shits on Wii U from great heights, but I'm curious what the multitasking and UI looks with games in the background. Thank you so much hiphoptherobot.

 

[UntemperedLink]

Its at times like these I love being part of the videogame community, the collective hype and excitement over what is really a quite mundane (although widely used) feature, warms my heart!

 

[ReyVGM]

I love it that Nintendo is still adding options to reduce burn in for people with Plasma TVs.

 

[Kouriozan]

Mii?!

Not a focus anymore but yeah it's here, also the Mii Maker on the Switch will be super limited apparently.

 

[komorebi]

Bless your dark soul with light, hiphoptherobot. Seeing this is like...whoa, it's real, and it's fucking IMMINENT. Can't wait.

 

[Jonneh3003]

Theres no Activity Log...and Zelda doesn't have an ingame timer...which means I'll have to use a timer and manually add up my playtime.

My god Nintendo. Why did you remove the AL? This is fucking ridiculous.

Activity log is in the parental controls app.

 

[notaskwid]

Go tell my dad, I don't even mind.

Nah, the video's cool. People have just been so up in arms about Nintendo not releasing a video of the damn menu, which has been lunacy to me. "WHY HAVE THEY NOT DONE A DIRECT OF THE OS UI?"

Apparently because there'a almost nothing to show.

 

[Kthulhu]

Theres no Activity Log...and Zelda doesn't have an ingame timer...which means I'll have to use a timer and manually add up my playtime.

My god Nintendo. Why did you remove the AL? This is fucking ridiculous.

Probably because most people don't use it. Why would you want to anyway?

 

[TalentAlwaysWins]

Does this confirm anything we don't already know?

 

[Sendou]

So we can choose icons instead of Miis? How does that work?

You have a pre-set list of icons (characters from Nintendo games) that you can choose to represent your account rather than using a Mii. Also it's optional if you want to make a Mii this time around.