With every new announcement, it’s sounding more and more as though the Nintendo Switch is meant as a portable console that can be docked rather than a full on home console.
The latest indication of this is the news from Nintendo that the console won’t support any streaming services at launch.
In a statement sent to Kotaku, Nintendo said, “All of our efforts have gone toward making the Nintendo Switch system an amazing dedicated video game platform, so it will not support any video-streaming services at launch. However, support for video-streaming services is being considered for a future update.”
“We have nothing to announce at this time”
The answer was one of a number sent through in a statement. Other questions focussed around the return of Miis, backwards compatibility, and the continued existence of the Virtual Console.
Unfortunately when it came to the latter series of questions, Nintendo’s response was a consistent “We have nothing to announce at this time.”
As a result we don’t know whether the Switch will be compatible with existing Virtual Console purchases, we don’t know whether existing Virtual Console games will be available, and we don’t know how the promised SNES online functionality will work.
With just over a month left to go until the new console launches, it’s worrying that Nintendo doesn’t yet have answers to these questions.
Sourse: techradar.com
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Love to know how they think they are going to do that with a broadband service that maxes out 76mb if you somehow have a perfect connection and not many other people using it nearby. 99% of the population will simply not have the bandwidth to be able to stream 4k content because this country's broadband speeds are still in the dark ages. There are third world countries with faster average broadband speeds. The only provider in the UK that even gets remotely close to decent speeds is Virgin, and even then you get an upload speed that barely rivals a baked bean can and some string, it would at least allow 4k streaming, again assuming you aren't in a congested area or on a package that restricts your data usage to 3 emails and a low rest photo per month.