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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by PaulHoule »

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

It's a beautiful game, one of the first to use programmable shaders, and one of the earliest that doesn't look dated at all. The shaders make everything look smooth without looking blurry.

Loading screens are hidden, it's not like the contemporaneous PS2 game Mafia where you wait a few minutes to load, spend a few minutes driving across town on a mission to shoot up some people at a restaurant, get yourself shot up, then have to wait for it to load all over again.

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Post by delecti »

vel0city wrote: post #370
delecti wrote: post #95

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All it does it confirm that they have something there. The Wii used a sensor to detect where it was pointing, the Switch had an IR camera for a variety of weird gimmicks, the NES and SNES had light-detecting "guns". Hell, it could even be an IR blaster like the Wii U Gamepad had, and not a sensor at all. We just don't know yet.

The trailer shows the joycons sliding on that side with an additional attachment (see: 1:10). It seemed pretty obvious they were trying to hint at some kind of mouse-like optical tracking on a flat surface. https://youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ?t=70

That could well be what those are, but to me they just looked like the wrist-straps, like the original Switch has. https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/joy-con-strap-gra...

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jncfhnb wrote: post #361
VyseofArcadia wrote: post #116

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Yeah, I am not a big fan of the Switch UI. They really took out the "surprise and delight" compared to the Wii U and 3DS. Very bland and straightforward, and yet somehow awfully slow and laggy.

I disagree. I find it delightful. The sounds are awesome.

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Post by JohnBooty »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #215
actionfromafar wrote: post #167

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Screen estate all to the edge of the device can be annoying too, just a wrinkle on your clothes will then cover a bit of the screen.

It's not a tablet. It has physical controllers. You don't use a switch by grabbing the screen.

well, first, the Switch does have a touch screen.... =)

but I think parent poster is referring to the somewhat common situation with portable devices where you're watching/playing in bed and the device is propped up on a pillow or blanket or something

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Post by KwanEsq »

jader201 wrote: post #293
nonethewiser wrote: post #253

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Practically, yes, this is the main differentiator. But still it would be interesting to see some specs. Is the GPU 15% better, 50%, what? The switch came out 7 years ago... there is opportunity for some fairly serious performance improvements even in the mobile form factor. Clearly it's the same basic platform. And I think that's fine - they've really cornered a pretty big niche of mobile (ish), motion controls, fami…

> But still it would be interesting to see some specs. Is the GPU 15% better, 50%, what? This is obviously more of a teaser than an actual full trailer. They announced a Nintendo Direct on Feb 2, so I’m sure full/most details will be covered then.

They announced a direct on 2nd April.

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Post by endemic »

bogwog wrote: post #124
xnx wrote: post #64

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The Wii was a huge success and the Wii U was a step toward the Switch, which combines the best of both of those consoles.

> which combines the best of both of those consoles. Minus the dual screen of the Wii U, which was awesome. It'd be cool if the Switch 2's dock could work independently of the console, so that you could have a reverse Wii U- experience with it. The dual screen setup can be a neat gimmick for gameplay, but it's biggest strength is the convenience that comes from having a second screen closer to your face. You can have…

I really loved some of the multiplayer games on Wii U that took advantage of the gamepad. Completely brilliant to have one "special" player with the gamepad + second screen vs. the rest of the plebs with Wiimotes.

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Post by legostormtroopr »

lenerdenator wrote: post #315
tmvphil wrote: post #303

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.

> This will be a problem with everything until games are FLOSS.

I mean there is nothing stopping that right now. You can give up your time and learn game programming and asset design and make a game and give it away for free.

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Post by wslh »

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…

> I am curious about the specs, but honestly don't care much.

The specs seems to be leaked here https://thegamepost.com/nintendo-switch-2-full-specs-appears...>

TL;DR

- CPU: Arm Cortex-A78C 8 cores Unknown L1/L2/L3 cache sizes

- GPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere 1 Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC) 12 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) 1534 CUDA cores 6 Texture Processing Clusters (TPC) 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores 2 RTX ray-tracing cores

- RAM: 12 GB LPDDR5

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Post by Insanity »

marpstar wrote: post #102
xethos wrote: post #77

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I still like Famicom > Super Famicom as the best successor name, but having to go back that far to find some competition for naming probably says something.

"Super Switch" would've been pretty bad-ass.

They can go the DBZ route and continue of of there. “Super switch 3, 4”, “Legendary super switch” etc etc.
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