Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

Post by jacobgkau » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 11:22 PM UTC

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Ability to play smaller discs was normal in most CD-ROM and DVD players for many years before the Wii. A few people (probably half of whom have HN accounts) used to give out mini-CD business cards...sometimes even with truncated edges so the disc was not entirely round: https://www.duplication.com/cd-business-card-duplication.htm

Yeah but most of the optical drives that support this have trays or are top loading. It’s a little more counterintuitive to have a postbox-style drive (I don’t know what they’re actually called) that supports different sized discs.

Post by twostorytower » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 11:23 PM UTC

anal_reactor wrote: post #195

1. Looks boring. I want my washing machine to look boring, not my fun entertainment device. 2. It's literally the same thing they released 8 years ago, except the electronics are new. In 8 years they did zero creative progress. "People don't want cars, they want faster horses". 3. Switch was already huge, this thing will be giant, so it will be portable as in "portable fridge". This will probably sell well because Sw…

Post by VikingCoder » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 11:29 PM UTC

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Let me just say what I'm seeing here... Folks can correct me, or add their own observations * Screen is bigger * Seems like it has a new texture * USB-C port (on the bottom?) * Another USB-C port (on the top?) * Headphone jack * Pull-out stand, supports multiple positions * Bigger controllers * New coloring on the controllers * The built-in top buttons on the hold-it-sideways configuration appear to be nicer * The co…

This is the comment I was looking for. Entirely because the trailer makes it super unclear to me if they fixed the "port on the bottom" issue. There's definitely one on the bottom. It looked to me like there might be 2. But that the other way they fixed this issue was by changing the stand so it could lie better in a way that one could charge while playing. NVM, just saw it in one of the flips around. There's definit…

Post by jonwinstanley » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 11:31 PM UTC

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One of my favorite video essay's on this is "Nintendo - Putting Play First" by Game Makers Toolkit [1]. It goes into when making a game, Nintendo first determines the mechanic they want to focus on; jumping, throwing a hat, shooting paint, etc and finding out how to make it fun, then building and iterating on the idea. It's how they can keep putting out essentially the same games but are completely different. 1. http…

GMTK is popular, but he's mostly talking out of his ass. He's got zero industry experience and most gamedevs I know personally clown on his takes constantly. Unless he references specific Nintendo interviews where they talk about their design process, I have doubts about this video containing an accurate description of how Nintendo does things.

Post by jonwinstanley » Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 11:34 PM UTC

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It's interesting how many people see the Switch as being in its own category rather than acknowledging it as the winner of this console generation (which I completely agree it is). Most people think the “console” battle is between PlayStation and Xbox, and that PlayStation is the winner. This is probably a big win for PlayStation’s marketing team.

I kinda think that way when buying. The Nintendo console is the Nintendo console. If you want what they do, you're buying it. The other two are where the competition is and where there's a decision of which one , not buy this single product or don't . They're much closer to being interchangeable than the Switch is with either of them.