Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

Post by jirf_dev » Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

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Did clicking on the Rent my PC tab really try to benchmark my GPU through my browser, or did I accidentally click another button on that page inadvertently that triggered that? If the former, that's a terrible idea. If the latter, that button really needs a confirmation and explanation of what's about to happen. I'm viewing on an Intel Mac and it hung my entire computer for like 15 seconds. I didn't even connect that…

It does. Sorry about the experience, we will try to improve it. Having user confirm it is not a good option, because every click is a hassle. What we could do is first run a very short version of a smaller benchmark, and if that takes too long, don't run the main one. Then the worst case you will have a 100ms lag at this point, which is way better than 5 seconds of reading.

Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 6:05 AM UTC

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I hope it has at LEAST 12 GB of RAM. Hopefully 16 or 24 GB.

Most brand new laptops are not even there.

Post by depsypher » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 4:27 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…

I can't tell you how much respect I have for this mindset. Like them burning a heap of money on Metroid Prime 4, for years, and then coming out with an announcement along the lines of "sorry guys, this sucks, so we've chucked it out and started again because we only do things right, see you in another 3-4 years when it's ready." It pays dividends, because they just don't ship junk, so everything they DO ship sells ex…

Post by teamonkey » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 12:34 PM UTC

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Developers are asking for it. It shares a market with bigger consoles but in terms of capabilities it's closer to a tablet. It's hard to cross-port from PC/PS/Xbox to Switch because it is so far behind. Not impossible, of course, but if you're choosing to target Switch from the start you're often committing to building your game on all platforms without using some modern technologies or new engine features. If you're…

Those developers should spend less time with Unreal and Unity, and dust off some Michael Abrash books.

Post by ikr678 » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 12:15 AM UTC

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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.