Been like 8 years I kind of thought it would be a little different but the if it ain't broke don't fix it approach has made a lot of money for people in the past I suppose.
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Maybe this is what the average normie wants, but this feels like Nintendo's least innovative console yet.
The biggest turnoff for me is that it has no Oled screen. Why downgrade to an LCD from an Oled Nintendo?! Steam deck Oled it is then ☁️⚙️
OLED screen comes 2-3 years later, right around the time consumers will actually entertain the idea of purchasing the same console again.
Thank fuck it has a good naming system and they stuck with a winning formula this time. Let's just reuse this hardware design for another decade or two until AR and holodecks are ready to take over
Yeah, unless something really cool comes along, let's stick with "Switch". Maybe add some extra feature if something makes sense, but let's keep the hybrid system for a while.
I'm excited for backward compatibility. Finally, I can experience the Korok Forest at 12 fps instead of the standard 8.
Hopefully they let the OG switch titles run with more horsepower.
It would be simpler for them to drop the clock cycle on the new hardware down to match the original hardware when running the BC titles, that way they don't have to do as much testing to look for side effects.
They can add better upscaling at a minimum.
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I don't have the slightest clue what anybody expected in a redesign. They've kinda got a winning formula for what they're trying to accomplish with the device, the sequel probably wasn't going to look all that different.
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I am not sure about the exposed connector on the side of the system that inserts into the Joycon. I could see a kid jamming the controller onto the system at a bad angle and breaking it.
I’m very curious what they’ve done to prevent people accidentally forcefully removing it during gameplay. The sliding lock was annoying at first, but if you’ve ever gripped the controller hard at a pivotal moment it’s probably good that it didn’t rip away or even stress the parts.
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As soon as I saw that I thought "there's this generation's joycon deadzone"
More like this generations Nintendo DS hinge crack.
The joycon drift can happen regardless of how well you treat the analog sticks
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So basically the same thing with upgraded hardware?
That can be a good thing. Iterative improvement is vastly underrated.
That's what I said. Really though, that is basically what all consoles are. They just used to get really dramatic upgrades because the period of time they released have been big growth periods. These days? Everyone has conformed to the same thing and given up on proprietary stuff. Then I thought about how this really is odd for Nintendo since they genuinely strive to offer something unique and new each time. Then I realized it's also called switch 2 so I don't feel like they did anything wrong since what did I expect to change when they are literally telling you what it is which is pretty much defined already.
In the end, I think it's a smart move. It's the least disruptive path and probably the cheapest route for them to continue on and as long as the thing is really powerful I think it's a good idea to continue the brand for another 5 years. I do have my doubts that it will be powerful so that we'll just have to wait and see. Nintendo has never been big on offering up the most powerful hardware, so I expect it to be a few years behind already.
They just used to get really dramatic upgrades because the period of time they released have been big growth periods.
That was most of the tech industry when I was growing up. When I was 13, a computer with a 66 Mhz processor and 32Mb RAM was a beast of a machine, and only 6 years later in '99, we had broken the 1Ghz CPU barrier and were typically installing 256Mb to a whole Gigabyte of RAM.
These days, I can still decently run the majority of modern games on a 12 year old machine. The "home computer revolution" that started in the 80s has most definitely flatlined and nothing very interesting is happening anymore. Kinda the same thing that happened to smartphones. Where now taking shit away (like the headphone jack) is considered "innovation".
Edit: There used to be a joke in the 90s that when you bought a new PC, it was already obsolete by the time you carried it out of the store.
That joke still applies to mostly everything now 🤷♂️
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