Speaker 1: Well, we have talked about all the hype surrounding Nintendo Switch,
Speaker 1: to the pre orders, the people lining up today, finally
Speaker 1: they have hit the shelves. It's where we start our
Speaker 1: tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.
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Speaker 1: Al Mark Saltzman, Top of the Afternoon. To you, sir,
Speaker 1: and are you a Nintendo Switch guy?
Speaker 3: I am. I have the new Nintendo Switch too in
Speaker 3: my grubby little hands. Yeah, it came out today. I
Speaker 3: was in New York yesterday and I saw when I
Speaker 3: was in the back of my uber, I saw all
Speaker 3: these people lining up outside of game stops and Best
Speaker 3: Spuys and all that. So, yeah, it looks like it's
Speaker 3: still in demand. I mean, Nintendo's got that secret sauce.
Speaker 3: They know how to create a system that just gets
Speaker 3: everybody bonkers. I mean, it's the This is the successor
Speaker 3: to one of the best selling game consoles in the
Speaker 3: history of the industry. I think the original Game Boy
Speaker 3: was the biggest, but yeah, so this is the successor.
Speaker 3: This is it's whatever whatever made the Nintendo Switch eight
Speaker 3: years ago so sought after. They've improved everything, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: so a bigger screen. Oh, first of all, let's just
Speaker 3: take a step back. It's called the Nintendo Switch for
Speaker 3: those who don't know, because you can switch between a
Speaker 3: handheld console and one that you can dock and play
Speaker 3: on your big screen TV. You get the docking station
Speaker 3: in the box. So that's why I think it's the
Speaker 3: versatility is one of the reasons why it had become
Speaker 3: so popular eight years ago.
Speaker 2: Is there what is that way mark to compare that,
Speaker 2: to compare the computing power that's in a Nintendo Switch
Speaker 2: to to what other consoles were in the past.
Speaker 3: So Nintendo tends to not play that game, and that's
Speaker 3: usually you know PS five versus Xbox Series X, like
Speaker 3: that's the they go for all that processing power that
Speaker 3: It is true that Nintendo has upped its game Punintendo
Speaker 3: in terms of specs. So it's got twice the resolution
Speaker 3: for the screen. It's a better looking screen and a
Speaker 3: bigger screen. This is on the device itself. It's got
Speaker 3: spatial audio. Now, it's got a faster processor. They don't.
Speaker 3: They're kind of mom on the deets, like what exactly
Speaker 3: is the processor and how many hurts is it rendering
Speaker 3: images and all that, But that's not what Nintendo gamers
Speaker 3: tend to want. They do have twice the hurts or
Speaker 3: the response times, and measured it hurts where it can.
Speaker 3: The higher the number, the smoother the gameplay is. So
Speaker 3: now it's at one hundred and twenty, which doubles the
Speaker 3: typical sixty frames per second rate that some consoles have.
Speaker 3: But Nintendo plays, you know, they march by the beat
Speaker 3: of their own drum, and they don't care about what
Speaker 3: Xbox and PlayStation are doing. And they've got those exclusives
Speaker 3: like you know, those characters like Mario and Donkey Kong
Speaker 3: and Princess Peach and Link from the Zelda series. That's
Speaker 3: what they want. What they have at it, and they
Speaker 3: are playing a bit of catch up. Here is for
Speaker 3: the first time, I built in microphone so you can
Speaker 3: chat with people who you're playing with or against, not
Speaker 3: with you in person. This is something you've been able
Speaker 3: to do for years on Xbox and PlayStation, but Nintendo
Speaker 3: has this Jenna se Qua. They make it really fun
Speaker 3: and almost like a little wink and a nudge nudge,
Speaker 3: like when you pull up your friends pictures or icons
Speaker 3: on the Nintendo Switch to you know, you can see
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the screen, who's like what they're
Speaker 3: doing at that time, and then you can click and
Speaker 3: then immediately connect with them. So it's kind of fun,
Speaker 3: you know, playful, which is very much in line with Nintendo.
Speaker 3: The Joycon controllers on each side of the screen now
Speaker 3: magnetically affixed to the console. You don't have to like
Speaker 3: find I don't know if your listeners are going to
Speaker 3: know what I mean, but there's with the original Nintendo Switch,
Speaker 3: there are these little grooves that you had to perfectly
Speaker 3: align the the game pads in it and slide it in.
Speaker 3: It just magnetically attaches just across the board. They made
Speaker 3: it so much more fun. And yeah, whether you play
Speaker 3: with somebody beside you on the same device or on
Speaker 3: the same TV or online, I think they've hit a
Speaker 3: home run with this.
Speaker 2: I mean time will tell, but Nintendo says they expect
Speaker 2: to sell fifteen million of these to even I think
Speaker 2: that's a conservative estimate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think with the tariffs and all that they
Speaker 3: were bracing for a higher price, but it is what
Speaker 3: they were expecting. At four point fifty for the regular
Speaker 3: console and then five hundred if you want the game
Speaker 3: Nintendo It's called Mario Kart worlds, you know, Mario kart
Speaker 3: racing where you can throw bananas on the track and
Speaker 3: all that. It's really fun. They have They've made it
Speaker 3: open a little bit more open world so you can
Speaker 3: even drive around and not particularly you know, partake in
Speaker 3: a particular race, driving around with friends, like in the desert,
Speaker 3: look for secrets and easter eggs, and take pictures of
Speaker 3: one another within the game. So yeah, I think they've
Speaker 3: they've done a good job. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, it's the games that are the most important.
Speaker 3: So hopefully there will have it'll have a rich library
Speaker 3: of games. It's a little sparse to start, but there's
Speaker 3: some good ones coming. And parents will like to know
Speaker 3: that the Nintendo Switch to plays all existing Nintendo Switch games,
Speaker 3: whether it's a digital download or on a little card
Speaker 3: a little cartridge.
Speaker 2: This is a weird trivia thing that I that I
Speaker 2: knew about. Doug Bowser is the president of Nintendo America,
Speaker 2: and Bowser is King Koopa in the Mario series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fascinating. So there was a clip of me on
Speaker 3: The Tonight Show last week where Jimmy, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I sent this to your producer, but I don't know
Speaker 3: you don't have to play it. It's short, but.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, of course we will.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's basically Jimmy Kimmel, right, not Fallon.
Speaker 3: I always get those two.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends which one.
Speaker 3: It's Night Shows Kimmel, that's Fallon. Hey, I had alike,
Speaker 3: I get it. Yeah. Anyway, Jimmy Fallon is making a
Speaker 3: joke about he's he's like kiddit sing with the band
Speaker 3: leader and says something about how the pope's name something
Speaker 3: about his name is like pizza or something. And then
Speaker 3: he said and then the band leader said, and I'm
Speaker 3: sorry I forgot his name too, quest luck. He's thank you,
Speaker 3: He says, what what what's next? You're going to tell
Speaker 3: me that the president of Nintendo of America's name is
Speaker 3: Doug Bowser because Bowser is, of course a character in
Speaker 3: the Nintendo world. And then you see a clip and
Speaker 3: then and then Fallon says, actually, take a look at this,
Speaker 3: and then you see me, uh, interviewing. I say, we're
Speaker 3: joined by Doug Bowser, and it is that is the
Speaker 3: name of the president of Nintendo of America. Is a
Speaker 3: funny clip. So all my friends were texting me, going, dude,
Speaker 3: you're on the Tonight Show. I'm like, well, really not really,
Speaker 3: but it's cool. It's funny. Yeah, that's funny clip if
Speaker 3: they gave from that, yeah, it wouldn't that be nice.
Speaker 3: That was a big setup for not a huge sort
Speaker 3: of punch. Now it was fun, it was fine. It
Speaker 3: was fun.
Speaker 2: You've been on The Tonight Show a whole lot more
Speaker 2: times than we have.
Speaker 3: I would love to see Gary, Gary and Shannon on
Speaker 3: the Tonight Show. I think that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: That makes one person, but it takes a journey of
Speaker 2: a thousand miles. Takes one person to make a thing.
Speaker 2: So the way switch to is four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: nine dollars, that is that seems kind of expensive for
Speaker 2: forty nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's inflation. I don't even know how much the
Speaker 3: original Nintendo switch was. I think maybe two ninety nine,
Speaker 3: going back, you know, eight years, so it's it's a markup.
Speaker 3: But PS five and xboxes are not cheap either, especially
Speaker 3: with what's going on with tariffs, so and some games
Speaker 3: are going to be expensive. I mean this has been
Speaker 3: online a lot of people buzzing about this that they
Speaker 3: could be as much as you know, eighty ninety dollars.
Speaker 3: We could see a hundred dollars games one day, you know.
Speaker 3: So times are changing, It's not it's not cheap to
Speaker 3: be a gamer these days.
Speaker 2: No, got out of that business a long time ago, unfortunately.
Speaker 2: So hey Mark, thanks as always, appreciate your time. Likewise,
Speaker 2: thanks Mark Saltzman. Make sure you follow Mark on Twitter
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