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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by jdlshore »

dmonitor wrote: post #702
ecliptik wrote: post #524

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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.

You should have watched the video before you shat on it.

Yes, he references specific Nintendo interviews in the video. Frequently, in fact, and in detail.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by paines »

That was a pretty boring annoucement. Yeah its cool how the elements on the device appear, but it gets boring when this is shown for both sides of the attachebles controllers. They have the opportunity to show e.g. exclusive games which would now look and perform super duper on the new hardware, because of a better resolution opr maybe HDR, but nothing like that? Or a comparison of the old one with the new? I think its a bit thin...

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by eredengrin »

Manuel_D wrote: post #743
Dylan16807 wrote: post #615

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"You need to buy the game" hardly makes it a gray area.

Even if you buy the game you need to bypass encryption in order to dump the game data to run it on an emulator. A big part of why Nintendo prevailed in their lawsuit against Yuzu is that they proved the emulator could not be used without extracting encryption keys and bypassing copy protection. So no, there's no legal way to use a switch emulator. At least not for playing commercial switch games, I guess you could th…

> A big part of why Nintendo prevailed in their lawsuit against Yuzu is that they proved the emulator could not be used without extracting encryption keys and bypassing copy protection.

Not a lawyer but as I understand it, the case resulted in a settlement and as such no legal determination was made. They didn't prove anything in court and no precedent was set regarding the legality of emulation.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by anal_reactor »

twostorytower wrote: post #823
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…

I guess you never got a PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5? Sometimes, the internals are the right thing to upgrade. And there definitely is some hardware innovations. I look forward to learning more!

I got an Xbox 360 strictly because I wanted to play Guitar Hero. To me, home consoles are like PC, but worse, but more convenient for a non-technical user.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by juanpicardo »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #57
drooopy wrote: post #47

I'm so glad that they named this the "Switch 2" instead of going with something really stupid like "Switch U". It's simple and it immediately explains to the consumer what the product is.

Switch 2? Switch to what?

2 switch 2 switch 2

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by Dalewyn »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #926
Dalewyn wrote: post #712

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>Where you touch it when not in use doesn't matter. Being able to easily grab something is always important, especially anything portable. I'm going to pull it out of a bag, move it across a table, etc. and having microbezels gets in the way of that by reducing the useful grabbing space. Smartphones are the epitome of horrible here. With silky smooth glass and/or sheer aluminum/plastic on all sides with nanobezels (o…

> I'm going to pull it out of a bag, move it across a table, etc. and having microbezels gets in the way of that by reducing the useful grabbing space. I think this is a weird you thing. You're allowed to touch the screen. It's not made of lava.

Screens are smooth and decidedly fragile compared to the rest of the chassis. You especially don't want to put much if any pressure on it, which you might need to do for a firm grip.

You also probably don't want to put too much handgrime on the screen, further incentivizing an unsecure grip.

Seriously, big bezels are great. I don't care how great something looks as decor if I can't handle it practically.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by orloffm »

piyuv wrote: post #525
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…

Early leaks said screen was LCD, hoping for them to be wrong

I would pay extra 100$ for an LCD. OLED screens' PWM give me headaches. I'm using an iPhone SE because of that.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by cehrlich »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #833
makeitdouble wrote: post #426

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The current Switch had an alternative monochrome (grey) version from the start, so I guess there's a chance the alternative version of the new one would be colorful.

It's been a while, but from my recollection that was the main version at launch. It's what I got, anyways. I don't remember the red and blue joycons showing up until later.

Not sure which version was more popular, but I bought a red/blue switch on launch day. And anecdotally I'd say I've seen more of those than the grey one over the years.
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