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NateDrake: Switch Final Devkits being shipped, Battery should be 3DS-like (5-8 hours)
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Is that riki choshu on your avatar?
what does that have to do with anything, thread is about the Switch
Colonel Mustard
Banned
Mods aren't above having no earthly clue what's going on or what they're talking about. Look at Y2Kev during the election.
As always. Thanks for the info, Nate.
WaterAstro
Member
I would hold my breath on battery life for a portable computing device. It will depend on the game. If it's a game that runs hot, the battery will disappear.
We'll need to see real application tests before there is any celebration.
We'll need to see real application tests before there is any celebration.
Not sure what your point is. Most(none?) of the people who fuel pre-launch console rumors during these periods generally create the threads themselves.
It's a tablet
Right?
5-8hrs is the range I've heard they are targeting. Hearing final dev kits went out in mid-November was an interesting detail and I thought people would want to hear about the battery range they are targeting. Lock the thread. I didn't post the video on the forums.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Sorry about how this had to blow up this way, Nate. Respect the work you put in and the way you handle this sort of thing.
Jawbreaker
Member
So it's going to have better battery life than a 3DS?
Dark Cloud
Member
Don't you communicate with other mods? Is this how mods carry themselves on this website?
LelouchZero
Member
5-8 hours? Awesome!
I'm hoping for 1.28-1.536TF of FP16 computation capabilities, hopefully it can somewhere close to that. 1TF isn't too bad though.
I'm hoping for 1.28-1.536TF of FP16 computation capabilities, hopefully it can somewhere close to that. 1TF isn't too bad though.
The Giant
Banned
It's called keeping the brightness level down.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
How is your question about talking to other mods (Stump is an admin) relevant?
Sword Of Doom
Member
That's weird cause I get way more than that with mine
There are undoubtedly many mods who could have informed him about NateDrake had he asked rather than entering this thread guns blazing.
nephilimdj
Member
I really dont know what wizardy they would use to power this for 8 hours
Unit looks tiny
Unit looks tiny
I'm really looking forward to you explaining how Switch isn't a tablet.
Dark Cloud
Member
Why are you questioning me? Did I blow up on Nate?
Askherserenity
Member
I think people are just getting very upset that all these Switch rumors have turned out to be true for some reason.
is the vita a tablet?
that should help you out here. just because something has a touch screen doesn't make it a tablet.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
He's an admin that just took a shit on a member of this forum who has proven himself to have reliable info in the past. It's out of line.
Devilgunman
Member
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Didn't NateDrake also claim that Switch would be an AMD powered x86 device even after we knew it wasn't true?
Yeah, I won't believe anything what that guy's pushing out of his pie hole.
Yeah, I won't believe anything what that guy's pushing out of his pie hole.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
That was supermetaldave.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
You're thinking of a different person, I believe.
Nah wrong guy, you're probably thinking of Super Metal Dave or whatever his name is. NateDrake has been saying its been Nivida every since I remember him leaking Switch stuff.
Form factor. Tablets didn't just burst into existence when Apple needed a bigger iPhone.
lolwut no he didn't.
Dark Cloud
Member
See this is what I'm talking about. You ask a question, then assume it's true then you say he's talking crap. Grow up and get your facts straight.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
He most certainly did not. That was Supermetaldave (who posts as Treveleyan9999 or here) and people like PlayerEssence.
NateDrake was one of the people who was adamantly against that being the case. He committed to Switch being a hybrid and Pascal-powered in July. He's very frequently in touch with Emily Rogers, Laura Kate Dale and people like that, and gathers/investigates independent information of his own. I can get being skeptical of people who have shakier track records or rumour handling, but Nate has done nothing to warrant that kind of type of thing.
Embarrassing. But at least you're not an admin.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Oh damn, disregard me then, I'm sorry.
I would be okay with 5 hours max. I was able to squeeze that much out of any of my 3DSs, so if battery life is comparable to that, it's acceptable for me.
Dude, chill, everyone makes mistakes.
Edit: Wow dudes, you really gotta stop getting so hostile over an honest mistake. I'm sorry I remembered it wrong, no reason to act like I stabbed your dog or something..
Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe his rare input (paired with the fact that I'm not good with juggling internet names) is what made me think of SMD instead of NateDrake.
SinCityAssassin
Member
That was SuperMetalDave64. Entirely different person.
Silent_Ocarina
Member
Uh, NakeDrake has given NeoGAF all of maybe two or three tidbits of info regarding Switch. He doesn't even tell NeoGAF half of what he hears because he doesn't like spreading rumors or misinformation or even teasing people. Automatically painting him as some kind of attention-seeker is really doing him a disservice considering the discretion he uses when actually passing along information.
Damn, you did get in before me.
Hopefully they offer an option with 0 battery life where the space is filled in with more GPU.....that's all I really care about.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
well im glad I clicked this thread! 👀
ProtomanNeo
Member
With everything else looking as good as it does so far, the battery life was the last piece of the puzzle that looked like Nintendo could potentially skimp on. If this is true then Nintendo is taking no prisoners with this machine.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Let me clarify:
- We sometimes verify people that claim to actually be in the industry, but it's pretty rare.
- The manner of verification is to give them a cursory ask of who they work for and/or if they are reporting something second hand, who their source works for. In some extreme cases this has involved a follow-up on Linkedin. We can only verify that someone is theoretically in a position to know the things they're saying, not that what they're saying is true. It is not possible to verify a priori that something is true--no one moderating GAF is doing so in their capacity as a game developer (although a few moderators here are developers) or a game journalist (although a few moderators here are journalists)
- The main purpose of verifying people is so when they make claims, and then those claims don't come true, we know it was because things changed rather than them being full of shit. So for example if the battery life ends up being 3-5 hours or 8-10 hours, then this claim is wrong, but how will you know whether it's wrong because the information was wrong and you shouldn't have trusted it, or because it was right but things changed?
- Unfortunately because we're pretty good at blocking or banning sources that end up completely incorrect, we create an incentive for fakers or people exaggerating what they know to make vague claims and teases. One of the things that frustrates me the most about this category of rumours is that even if they're a GAF member, there's no way to hold them accountable.
- It's not clear how we would verify a random YouTube video maker. They have no public identity to verify, they don't claim to be in the industry so we can't connect them to a company, and if they had any evidence they were willing to share they'd presumably have shared it in their video, right? So what would you have us do?
- I don't think anyone should believe anything that can't be disproven, and the vague and more Nostradamus-like the claim, the more likely you should consider it bogus.
- I do think you should trust mid-to-large size commercial journalistic outlets rather than random freelance fan journalists.
- Most of the "actually trustworthy" "insiders" who provide information are still pretty unprofessional in terms of how they choose to relay information that they haven't adequately confirmed, or in terms of misrepresenting their certainty, or their source's certainty, or their own ability to verify their source's credibility. I don't think it makes sense to dig in deep against specific people, but by far the biggest category of people we've had to deal with is not people totally making up fake stuff, it's people who have very poor discretion about trusting their sources and overplay their hands. That's my sense of what happened with Verendus, for example (although I can't know for sure), as well as other past NeoGAF would-be insiders like thuway and famousmortimer.
Mr. Nice_Guy
Member
That would be a dream come true.