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Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by ycombinatrix »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #493
_fat_santa wrote: post #401

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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.

From a usability perspective, the Steam Deck is pretty good but the Switch blows it out of the water. Fast boot times, you don't need to restart it all the time, games don't crash frequently, controllers just work, it just slots into its dock, a much simpler UI, and no need to futz around with Proton. The Steam Deck is cool but I waste infinitely more time dicking around with it than the Switch, where it just works.…

From a usability perspective, I can play Halo on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can play Doom on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can offline Spotify music on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can SSH into my server from a Steam Deck.

The Nintendo Switch is cool but it is infinitely less useful than a Steam Deck. From a usability perspective, it's quite poor. The Steam Deck is the best console I've ever owned :)

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by saulpw »

joshuakcockrell wrote: post #436
jncfhnb wrote: post #361

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

Have you scrolled through the Switch store? The UI freezes for seconds at a time while network requests lock up the main thread.

And you can only buy one game at a time, and have to enter your password in for each one? I like to do all my game research and shopping in one evening and buy 3-4 games at a time. If there's a way to do this I would love to know how!

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by maxgashkov »

_fat_santa wrote: post #401
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.

It's nowhere near the 'same form factor'. I'm taking switch to me in almost every trip and I have taken steam deck once and had regret it deeply (too bulky, too noisy, hot and barely lasts a couple of hours).

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

hbn wrote: post #957
ActionHank wrote: post #360

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Some new games will work on S2, but not S1, most S1 games will work on S2. Glad they didn't go MS route of forcing compatibility for games releasing the higher powered platform to run on the lower powered platform.

I assume when they said that only most games are compatible, the exceptions would be the ones that require the OG Switch's physical hardware. From what I heard Ringfit and Labo were only compatible with the OG Switch (not even the existing Switch OLED) because they're designed to fit specifically with its design.

My read of "certain games may not be fully compatible" wrt Ring Fit and Labo would be that they'll still potentially work with older joycons.

Labo VR is the only one I can think of that definitely won't work.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by SecretDreams »

felideon wrote: post #918
SecretDreams wrote: post #499

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Which is also a gray area. I personally am fine with it for older, depreciated consoles. But I won't emulate current gen games unless I'm also buying the game.. especially on the Nintendo platform where the games still have some "magic" to them, compared to the more generic games on other platforms that prioritize graphics over seemingly all other attributes.

Just so you know, it’s _deprecated_.

It was a solid autocorrect typo on my part, mb. But fair callout!

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by blharr »

philip-b wrote: post #900
freetime2 wrote: post #734

I've had a lot of frustration with Switch joy-cons. Not only drift, which has claimed a number of them, but also issues with the console not recognizing when they are attached, and one pair that for some reason the switch won't recognize when trying to use in the horizontal orientation. No doubt my kids have subjected it to hard use and probably a drop or two, but still frustrating. It looks like they've added some r…

I've owned a switch for 5 years and never had any problems with joycons

You are lucky. This has been an issue with many switch owners. Nintendo, at this point, seems to have acknowledged it and will fix or replace joycons (potentially outside of warranty)

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Post by skhr0680 »

rpdillon wrote: post #879
mingus88 wrote: post #270

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Exactly. If you want to be dazzled with AAA titles running at 120Hz/60fps/4k then there are plenty of ways to spend your money. Frankly that segment of the industry feels like a treadmill of never ending upgrades for the same basic game. My whole family shares and island in animal crossing, firing up some arcade brawlers on the couch. We’ve been playing the hell out of our switch for years and never once have we comp…

My main issue with the art style is that it's very flat, with large areas of a single, solid color, when more shading would add a sense of nuance and depth. A character's face, body, or hair will have a single light color, and a single dark color. This isn't about 4k, 120Hz, or huge polygon count, it's about basic shading to convey that things are 3d. I've played mostly 20+ year old games for years, and don't own a g…

BOTW and TOTK are clearly influenced by the look of Ghibli movies, especially Nausica and Laputa. I guess it’s meant to look “2d”.

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Post by sarchertech »

ikr678 wrote: post #919
sarchertech wrote: post #604

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> They also have a much friendlier refund policy. I can see why steam has an easier refund policy. It’s easy to buy a game that doesn’t work well (or at all) on your hardware. But the switch shouldn’t have this issue, and that’s basically only reason I would ever return a game.

Steam has a refund policy because consumer law requires them to have a refund policy.

I’m unaware of any law that would require steam to have a more customer friendly refund policy than Nintendo does, which was the point I was addressing.

Re: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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Post by 3836293648 »

nothercastle wrote: post #978
3836293648 wrote: post #904

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That's not true. There's a couple of forests that are as dense as gameplay can reasonably allow.

Most of the environments are empty planes with a 1-2 trees I think they needed to use a lot of tricks to have more than that. It might have also been an ai pathing issue

Most of the time isn't the limitation? Maximum is the limitation. Look at the forest on the plateau. Look at where memory 11 is in BotW. Look at the lost woods.

Sure, most of the time there are just a few trees, but when they want to they blow right past that

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