The Nintendo Switch announced

[cyborgmermaid]

How do you stay connected on that without a data plan?

[Lambdafish]

How do you stay connected on that without a data plan?

Wifi hotspots, like any other handheld console that can connect to the internet (pretty much all of them these days)

[Kosmos992k]

Don't hold your breath waiting for it...

Holy crap, PS3 support is dropped. The minimum PC spec is raised. Then Nintendo drops a hand held gaming unit pretending to be a real game console, while sitting in an HDMI I/O docking station, and suddenly people want to roll back the spec changes so Nintendo Switch can join in.

[ZhaneX]

So besides a bigger screen, what's the difference between this and PSV Remote Play?

Not to mention I find the idea of the sort of specs they could fit into a tablet and its dock to be rather questionable.

[Ametrine]

I think it depends on what Stormblood's new minimum specs are. SE is putting the Dragon Quest MMO on this thing, and it is quite a bit more powerful than PS3, I mean, it's a handheld enabled device that can run WiiU games, after all.

So, FFXIV could end up on it, it could not.
And maybe I just prefer larger UI elements, but that screen looks plenty large enough for FFXIV.

But, honestly, this feels far more like a 3DS successor to me with the bonus of being able to seemlessly broadcast on a TV. I'm already sold on the thing with the confirmed Splatoon sequel, but wowie.

I like what I see!

[era1Ne]

So besides a bigger screen, what's the difference between this and PSV Remote Play?

Not to mention I find the idea of the sort of specs they could fit into a tablet and its dock to be rather questionable.

Mobile Hardware is pretty strong today and they would be even better, when they do not have to care about heat as much and not at all about battery life. Which in my opinion the docking station mode of the Switch will provide. Now the main difference between this and PSV Remote play is simple to explain. With Remote Play you need an PS4 and Vita, because the PS4 is calculating the game and then sends an video to your PS Vita. This means you need wifi and you should be getting more latency then the solution the NS uses, since it is calculation the game and then via HDMI sends the picture to the TV in tv mode and in mobile mode the switch uses its own build in screen to show you the results of the calculation done beneath it.

[Kotemon]

You'd probably need to have a GUI setting for TV and a stripped down one for mobile play given the screen size. Also depends if it uses common memory or something in house.