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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by _fat_santa »

duxup wrote: post #8

I was pretty skeptical about the original Switch but bought it on a whim after being laid off. It quickly became one of my favorite gaming consoles. The ability to play anywhere didn’t seem like a big deal until I could do it. I have zero interest in being tied to a single spot like the traditional console experience now.

The Switch was the first device where i saw how well the mobile + docked system worked and it was my favorite device until I got a Steam Deck. The Deck is killer IMO because it takes the same form factor of the Switch, gives you more power and no restrictions on games.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by mobiledev2014 »

KwanEsq wrote: post #394

Shame the link isn't to https://www.nintendo.com/successor/ so it would attempt to pick a video with the most appropriate date format.

Definitely, I watched the UK version shared somewhere else and thought the direct was 2 months earlier than it was!

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by mingus88 »

bogwog wrote: post #150
wodenokoto wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was honestly a bit disappointed this wasn't revealed in a Nintendo Direct. "Nintendo Direct: New games in 2025" would have been the perfect setup for a "and one more thing"-moment.

> "and one more thing"-moment That's so cliche and cringe nowadays, but the reason they didn't wait to do that is probably because of all the leaks. The specs, the name, photos of the console and internal components all leaked. Even the fan renders people were making turned out to be pretty damn accurate ( https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/1i008os/nin... )

Calling anything “cringe” is pretty self-referential. This slang just makes me imagine a bunch of genZ folk wincing nonstop with the heads in their phones. Must be exhausting.

As long as the internet has existed, we have been lampooning corporate keynotes. The gaming industry does this every cycle, trying to hype up incremental updates as if it’s the best thing to ever get released. See you again in a few years!

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by erwincoumans »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #198
duxup wrote: post #8

I was pretty skeptical about the original Switch but bought it on a whim after being laid off. It quickly became one of my favorite gaming consoles. The ability to play anywhere didn’t seem like a big deal until I could do it. I have zero interest in being tied to a single spot like the traditional console experience now.

The Switch is genuinely one of the last pieces of hardware I was really excited about, and I can't say that about much anymore. It's extremely well put together, I've repaired mine a number of times with no issues (honestly opening anything made in Japan is a joy, the engineering is so good) and the specs leave a lot to be desired, which is unfortunate, but at the same time, you wouldn't know it while using it. The X…

Except for the drifting joycons problems. We had to replace many. Hope Switch2 fixes that drift.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by KeplerBoy »

RajT88 wrote: post #175
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.

Speaking of - does anyone know of an HTPC frontend which duplicates the look and feel of the Wii menu?

Who even runs HTPCs these days?

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by sefke »

fredoralive wrote: post #400

Kinda tells us nothing, but I guess they got fed up with their supply chain leaking absolutely everything about the physical device before they could announce stuff. I guess the direct will be interesting when they show some actually software and we can get a bit of a handle on what the device can actually do (although the MORE POWER type people are going to be disappointed, probably).

At least we know for sure that it's backwards compatible with the old Switch.

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Post by Clamchop »

riskable wrote: post #298
sigmoid10 wrote: post #139

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I really wonder how big that market can be. I mean, for people who still haven't gotten a switch or steam deck or anything similar until now, how likely is this going to change their mind?

I don't care what hardware is inside the new Switch 2. It cannot compete with the Steam Deck because the Switch 2 is still made by Nintendo . Made by Nintendo means that it'll be a super locked down device that only plays games made by Nintendo or a rather small list of 3rd party game makers. Developing for the platform is expensive and requires an extremely lengthy certification process. This means that all the game…

Illegal emulation is not a fair play here.

Nintendo's "moat" is their exclusive IP and single-screen multi-player party games, which other platforms have largely forsaken. Their competition is still mostly PlayStation and Xbox, too. (Steam Deck sales are a rounding error.) So portability is still an edge for now.

I do hope Steam Decks become more mainstream, though.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by _fat_santa »

mobiledev2014 wrote: post #301
donatj wrote: post #88

A little sad about the lack of a rail compatible with charging existing controllers. Hopefully it's compatible with current gen controllers anyway given how expensive they are. One of my favorite parts about the Xbox Series generation of consoles is that it's fully compatible with the previous Xbox One controllers. It would be amazing if they could get their multi-gen multi-console save-sync to work nearly as well as…

I might throw a party to smash my joy cons. Some of the worst quality control in my long history of owning hardware, and from a company previously famous for that trait. Good riddance.

It always shocked me that for how bad the joycons were, the "Pro Controller" was one of the best controllers I've ever used. I don't know how they managed to nail one and get the other so wrong.
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