Sorry, I also want to call out this from Razer: http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-edge-pro#4
It had a doc, it had the side controllers, it had a gamepad, it had a touchscreen.. So this is nothing new from Nintendo - Evolution, rather then something totally new.
I am guessing its using same/similar tech as some of the tablet/laptop dock based ones which have a stronger GPU in the core and other in the tablet. You also have the Razer laptop that can take advantage of the housing and Graphics card when connected to it.
So I would assume that the Switch doc has a more powerful GPU to push the pixels out then on the handheld which will not need to.
Other take aways:
- Movement - Looks to be all gone, no tennis actions here
- Pure gaming - nothing media or playback
- Very small carts - can these hold all the game data?
- Clearly you will have the main storage on the doc so only some games or one game can be on the go with you.
- The voodoo with all the remotes is interesting, a doc for the controller ports but both sides are connected independently (thus each will have their own battery, and they small so how long will that last folks?) but there is a controller and they can be used as two seperate controllers.
My first thoughts is how Nintendo will handle the input lag and sync with those. The video on the plane looks to be the worst senario, you may get you moving forward but the shoot be 1 second delayed due to a sync issue.
Looks amazing, very revolutionary in many ways which is Nintendo over pure power.. BUT lots of questions they need to answer and soon!
This is all done as its out in March so they must have solved all the possible issues... OR it could be janky as hell on release and flop.
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