Funk Butcher went ahead and took the plunge and bought a Nintendo Switch and he bought a case and a screen protector with it (and we’ve found one with both a case and a screen protector! Don’t tell Funk!)
Nintendo Switch Official Case
Enjoy a full home-console experience anytime, anywhere with the Nintendo Switch Accessory pack
This pack includes a carrying case and screen protector
Turns out new Macbook/Pro’s can charge your Nintendo Switch and vice versa – with some tweaking.
Now don’t worry don’t have to go editing code or taking apart your shiny new pieces of tech.
As both systems use USB-C to charge you can plug a Nintendo Switch into the Macbook Pro and, if the system is on, it will charge the Macbook Pro, but, if the system is off the Macbook Pro will charge the Switch. All you need is a USB-C to USB-C cable!
Can even use a wall charger for a MacBook/Pro to charge to switch, extra power should, theoretically charge the console faster.
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
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This week the Nintendo Switch and Super Mario run got an exclusive display on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and boy does it look cooool!!
Check the video below to see what all the fuss is about!
Click here to listen to the guys talking about this on the show!
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It looks like Super Mario Run (hitting stores on December 15th at £10 and we cannot wait!) will only work if your iOS device is connected to the internet due to privacy concerns! One of the main reasons for this being that Nintendo The are worried about the game being released firstly in so many countries and secondly on devices that they don’t have any control over and problems over all modes working together.
Nintendo apparently tried to create a work around and have just the World Tour available offline but this caused many problems with other game modes in the app like the Toad Rally.
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto said:
“We wanted to be able to leverage that network connection with all three of the modes to keep all of the modes functioning together and offering the game in a way that keeps the software secure…..This is something that we want to continue to work on as we continue to develop the game.”
See below Nintendo’s full statement.
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Click here to listen to the guys chatting about this on the show!
Nintendo full statement:
Online connectivity allows us to offer a variety of features and services that enhance the play experience. Super Mario Run is not a static experience, but rather one that players can continue to return to again and again to enjoy something new and unexpected. For example, online connectivity can offer the following:
Access to other users’ play data and scores for automatically generated Toad Rally challenges.
In-game events that will offer players new challenges and rewards for a limited time.
Linkage to Nintendo Account to access save data from multiple devices. For example, if players have Super Mario Run on their iPhone and iPad, they can share one save file across the different devices. However, this save data cannot be used with different devices at the same time.
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So Nintendo have announced their next console and boy is it a game changer!
It’s kind of a home console, portable handheld console in one, what was teased a several months ago via patents has finally come to fruition and safe to say us here at How To Kill An Hour are definitely interested!
While you are at home on Nintendo’s newest console, Nintendo Switch, rests in the the dock which connects the system to a tv which of course acts like a regular console. But then simply by lifting the console out from the dock the system automatically will switch to what Nintendo are calling ‘Portable Mode’ and you’ll be having the same experience that you had on the big screen but now on the go, all in glorious HD.
You play via the detachable ‘Joy-Con’ controllers that sit either side of the Nintendo Switch console. There are a multiple ways that a user can hold and use the Joy-Con controller, for example, one player can use a Joy-Con controller in each of their hands, two players can have one each or multiple controllers can be connected to the console by numerous of people so there are plenty of ways to play games with Nintendo’s newest console. The multiplayer options don’t stop their either as it is possible for numerous people to bring their own Nintendo Switch’s together to play local multiplayer with one another!
The controller is always interesting with Nintendo and this one is no different (as you can see via the image above) the controllers can be clicked back into place on the console, or if you prefer, be slipped into a Joy Con Grip accessory. The Joy-Con’s can also connected to an optional Nintendo Switch Pro Controller (a more traditional controller)
They can easily click back into place or be slipped into a Joy-Con Grip accessory, mirroring a more traditional controller. Or, if preferred, the gamer can select an optional Nintendo Switch Pro Controller to use instead of the Joy-Con controllers. Furthermore, it is possible for numerous people to bring their Nintendo Switch systems together to enjoy local multiplayer face-to-face competition.
See below for Nintendo’s announcement trailer!
To hear the guys talking about Nintendo Switch please click here!
