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The joycons seem to attach as easily as a MagSafe connector… but I hope they don't detach as easily! I wonder if the handheld ergonomics were battle-tested to prevent accidental joycon detachment while gaming.
Nintendo has a clear focus on a younger audience so I have to assume they’ve got this figured out.
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Sorry, you're right. I forgot because literally nothing supports it other than maybe wifi password entry and navigating some menus.
And the eshop. And at least one of the games I play regularly uses it in several places for text input.
Hehe. Ok, but, question:
Do the other interactions in the game use the controllers?
Because if so then you're still necessarily holding the controllers and not the screen.
I get this is Nintendo, so it'll never be fixed, but I honestly hate having to buy Nintendo hardware just to play the three or four big-name platform exclusives per generation. It would be so much better for consumers if they would just abandon the hardware and be a regular games company
I think the same thing. Metroid is good, but is it $250+ good? Meh. Microsoft more-or-less does the same thing with Windows in the personal consumer market. With Office being online these days, the primary motivation for a lot of people to buy a Windows license for a computer instead of using Linux or buying a Mac is gaming, along with pure inertia. This will be a problem with everything until games are FLOSS.
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I prefer just "playful" to "mature but still playful". Something about the straightforwardness of "this is a toy for people of all ages, but it is still a toy" speaks to me.
Your taste/view is as valid and correct as mine. If these things could be standardized, we would have only one design for every category of item, possibly from different brands. Since it can't, we have this thing called design and art, which is a good thing :)
I'll probably get it, lol! Honestly, I'm a little disappointed. I was hoping for some wacky stuff!
Edit: Seems odd to get down voted.
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The rumour has it the older joycons can still be used wirelessly, just not physically connected.
So how are you going to charge them then? Have the old Switch 1 lying around as a charging station?
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Nintendo sold an all-gray Switch 1, that’s the one I got. Yes this console does feel like a more “grown up” Switch but I don’t think it’s a sign of chasing after Steam Deck; switch has sold 2 orders of magnitude more copies than Valve ever will. If anything it’s following the same pattern as Wii (white) WiiU (dark) for the successor to be a bit more serious and grown up looking. Kids who got their Switch 1 when they…
> If anything it’s following the same pattern as Wii (white) WiiU (dark) for the successor to be a bit more serious and grown up looking. The Wii U also comes in white. My grandparents own one. Likewise, I wouldn't be surprised if the Switch 2 came in more colors than what's shown, just like the Switch did.
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> The only real issue the Switch had was being able to keep up with some of the games put on it with FPS but it still had beautiful games (like Tears of the Kingdom) A bit of an aside, but... Tears of the Kingdom looks just awful to me. My kids played Breath of the Wild and when they got Tears of the Kingdom I walked in and was astonished at the graphic quality. I think I had just finished Doom 2016 at the time and I…
To me, Nintendo is more about gameplay then graphics and i hope it stays that way.
Bright-colored controllers were so much better. Also the way they were attached before is much better. Switch 1 was the work of art. This one looks like the work of A/B testing and “we are losing customers as they choose Steam Deck over us, so let’s make it look like Steam Deck”
Nintendo sold an all-gray Switch 1, that’s the one I got. Yes this console does feel like a more “grown up” Switch but I don’t think it’s a sign of chasing after Steam Deck; switch has sold 2 orders of magnitude more copies than Valve ever will. If anything it’s following the same pattern as Wii (white) WiiU (dark) for the successor to be a bit more serious and grown up looking. Kids who got their Switch 1 when they…
In the first year Nintendo sold 13.2 million Switches. In the ~2 years since the introduction of the Steam Deck Valve has sold somewhere between 5 and 6 million units.
Nintendo had a enormous, loyal, and obsessive user base and decades of history selling portable consoles. The Steam Deck is Valve's first portable console and it's running a new OS that no one is used to. It also cost $100 more than the Switch.
Furthermore--now that the platform itself has proven itself--Valve is going to allow 3rd parties to use SteamOS on their own portable consoles. If those 3rd parties have similar successes I think Nintendo will become a minor player in the portable console market in comparison.