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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by 10729287 »

chungy wrote: post #206
nerdjon wrote: post #109

Happy to see that Nintendo is treating the switch more like how they traditionally handled their mobile platforms instead of their consoles. Iterating instead of throwing out everything with each new version. There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas. But a stable Nintendo just being able to continue putting out great games has it…

Nintendo has tended to maintain at most 1 generation of backwards compatibility, though you can get some fuzzy ideas of "generations" in a few cases. Game Boy Color: plays original Game Boy games Game Boy Advance: plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color games Nintendo DS: plays Game Boy Advance games Nintendo DSi: plays Nintendo DS games Nintendo 3DS: plays Nintendo DS and DSi games Nintendo New 3DS: plays Nintendo DS, DSi…

>Nintendo New 3DS: plays Nintendo DS, DSi, and (old) 3DS games

I know HN doesn't have any room for sarcasm but I couldn't not laugh trying to remember what were the NEW 3ds games. Sure the second pad made the 3DS way more comfortable to play, and 3D was a bit better, but we all got scammed here regarding games supporting this new hardware.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by CitrusFruits »

Johanx64 wrote: post #279
talles wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nintendo is not Nintendo-y enough for a while now. The switch system UI is bland and on launch the gray switch was the one being presented.

It's so odd to see Nintendo who hasn't competed on hardware specs for decades to release new console without atleast some gimmick(s) to sell their severely underpowered hardware. Absolute zero gimmicks and zero excitement. I personally dont care for gimmicks, but I expect them from Nintendo.

People are speculating that you can use the controllers like a computer mouse. You can see an allusion to that towards the end of the video.

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Post by peterleiser »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #123

Huh. I guess updated ergonomics / QoL stuff and confirmation of backwards compatibility counts as enough of an update over the last hardware refresh. But zero info on anything that could actually make this worth a buy. Granted, this feels like Nintendo who will do anything to not get dragged into PS/XBOX flops discussions. But without any real upgrade or even games announcements, I suppose most people will keep holdi…

"This year we put a 12 on the box"

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by pjmlp »

Hasu wrote: post #267
pjmlp wrote: post #203

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One complaint from a catalog of how many games?

Tears of the Kingdom is far from the only Switch game with performance issues. Off the top of my head, the newest Pokemon games (and the next newest, to a lesser extent) run like shit on the Switch. I've heard complaints about other games too. It was underpowered when it was released in 2016, so it really shouldn't be that surprising.

Again, from how many?

And if we are going to start counting frame drops as argument against focusing on gameplay instead of triangles per second, there is no safe platform then.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by rikthevik »

manojlds wrote: post #223
rpdillon wrote: post #205

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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…

State of the art imo is Metroid Prime

Beautiful art direction to be sure.

But let's be real, it's Super Metroid. :)

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Post by Insanity »

bayindirh wrote: post #149
VyseofArcadia wrote: post #127

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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 :)

De gustibus et coloribus… :)

I am personally not a fan of the toy-like aesthetic of the colourful switch. But having a choice between both styles is ideal.

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bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #351
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #334

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The problem in both cases is that the consoles were actually missing a key piece of hardware: the ability to read the disc or cartridge. If you're a hacker-type person who has already digitized your gamecube collection (or, let's be honest, downloaded the games illegally) then this doesn't matter. But for regular consumers, there needs to be a way to verify ownership. Nintendo could have made some titles available di…

Downloading roms is all it takes to be regarded a hacker-type these days? I feel words keep losing their meaning …

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Post by bluefirebrand »

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #351
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem in both cases is that the consoles were actually missing a key piece of hardware: the ability to read the disc or cartridge. If you're a hacker-type person who has already digitized your gamecube collection (or, let's be honest, downloaded the games illegally) then this doesn't matter. But for regular consumers, there needs to be a way to verify ownership. Nintendo could have made some titles available di…

Downloading roms is all it takes to be regarded a hacker-type these days? I feel words keep losing their meaning …

Downloading roms? Probably not

Modding your Wii-U to run those roms?

I feel that probably qualifies someone to be regarded as a hacker -type

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by nerdjon »

chungy wrote: post #206
nerdjon wrote: post #109

Happy to see that Nintendo is treating the switch more like how they traditionally handled their mobile platforms instead of their consoles. Iterating instead of throwing out everything with each new version. There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas. But a stable Nintendo just being able to continue putting out great games has it…

Nintendo has tended to maintain at most 1 generation of backwards compatibility, though you can get some fuzzy ideas of "generations" in a few cases. Game Boy Color: plays original Game Boy games Game Boy Advance: plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color games Nintendo DS: plays Game Boy Advance games Nintendo DSi: plays Nintendo DS games Nintendo 3DS: plays Nintendo DS and DSi games Nintendo New 3DS: plays Nintendo DS, DSi…

Based on that list, they have tended really only to do that on mobile platforms. It was one of my favorite things about the platform, but it always felt like this was partially thanks to the older hardware still getting games well into the new hardware's life in many cases. Major games, I believe Pokemon has done this a few times?

Most of their home consoles were complete departures from previous hardware.

NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube all did not work with prior games were fairly different (ok admittedly the outward difference between the NES and the SNES were minimal but still no compatability).

So honestly I think it was more notable that the Wii could play Gamecube games than the other way around as far as Nintendo's track record goes.

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