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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by guybedo »

Instead of commenting on the switch 2 characteristics, i just want to take some time to celebrate Nintendo, and to say how happy i am this company still exists although it went through difficult times.

As some comments point out, Nintendo is the only console/video games company that's been trying to do fun things instead of trying to come up with the most powerful console in the universe.

This is the gaming i like, i don't care for 3000 fps and 1000Ghz consoles, i just want to have fun :-)

So, yeah, thanks Nintendo, i'll be buying this Switch 2.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by lotsoweiners »

larusso wrote: post #614
nerdjon wrote: post #380

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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,…

First Wii was able to play Game Cube Games. WiiU was backwards compatible to Wii. All theses consoles used nearly the same chipset anyways.

I was always amazed the Wii with its full size discs could play the GameCube mini discs.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by tshaddox »

joshstrange wrote: post #439
irrational wrote: post #435

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Isn't the point of owning a switch to play games that aren't on the Steam Deck? Zelda, Mario, etc.?

With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.

Switch emulation works surprisingly well, but it has its quirks and some titles are barely playable. I love emulation primarily because it's necessary for long-term archival of game libraries, but emulating modern systems is not a super user-friendly process (not to mention the qualms around piracy).

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Post by freedomben »

vachina wrote: post #274

Cool, a new steam deck, but it can only run some games at a lower FPS.

and incorporates cutting-edge "security" controls to keep the system secured (against the user of course, because the owners of the device nowadays are the primary security threat, regardless how technical they are). Otherwise, what if grandma gets tricked into installing a Steam game or *gasp* an open source operating system onto her switch?

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Post by robertlagrant »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #608
EA-3167 wrote: post #598

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The good news is that the best Nintendo platform is also the best mobile platform: The Steam Deck. It plays Nintendo games better than Nintendo consoles do, and as a bonus, it plays everything else.

Have you ever tried to dock a Steam deck to a TV? Have you ever tried to use physical media with a Steam deck? Have you ever tried to get 5 hours of battery life with a Steam deck? Have you ever put a Steam deck in your pocket? (I do have big pockets, but at least with the Switch Lite, it's possible.) Nintendo will be just fine. I personally will never use a platform that can kick me out on a whim, or could screw me…

> I do have big pockets, but at least with the Switch Lite, it's possible.

Can you dock a Switch Lite with a TV?

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by saguntum »

Hopefully game saves will sync between Switch 1 and 2. It would not be great to have to restart games with 80+ hours or drag 2 consoles around with you to access your full Switch 1 library. I'm mildly optimistic given Switch 1 has online save backup capability for a lot of its games.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by tshaddox »

maronato wrote: post #632
joshstrange wrote: post #439

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With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.

Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund. I’m yet to hear a moral argument for emulating current games you don’t own unless you’re poor and need to choose between buying Zelda and starving.

What if I emulate current games that my friend owns, but I make sure to never play the same game at the same time as he does?

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Post by klausa »

lotsoweiners wrote: post #648
chungy wrote: post #206

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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…

You probably know this but most of those aren’t really generations. Game boy color, DSi, new 3ds are just upgrades of the same generation kinda like PS5 vs PS5 Pro.

All of those have games exclusive to them.

3DS has like ~15, though some heavy hitters (Xenoblade and Fire Emblem), DSi has like 6 no-names (and, technically, a whole lot on DSiWare); but there are many GBC-exclusive games.

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