Do we know anything about the types of sticks they're using this time? The original Switch's shit starts drifting so quickly... It's why I sold the system and just kept my games. My PC and PS5 controllers haven't broken once, but I went through 4 pairs of joycons in less than a year.
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I do believe there are replacement sticks available nowadays that should mostly eliminate drift.
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Yeah, I found them. They're made by a company called Gulikit. I know the joycons are faulty little things, but I will hand it to nintendo that they're the easiest controllers to work on currently. No soldering needed to replace the sticks.
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Hm, Mario Kart 9 seems to look pretty similar to MK8. I had hoped for a new art direction / style.
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Did it even say it was MK9?
It’s doesn’t say Mario Kart 9 but that does look like new character models to me. I’m expecting them to drop the numbering system and go back to subtitles anyway though.
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Honestly, I'm a little concerned. Nintendo almost always tries something new and innovative. This just looks like a hardware upgrade, which is good, but not what keeps them ahead of their competitors. The Steam Deck is already encroaching on the Switch's territory, and it's only a matter of time before Playstation and Xbox try something similar (assuming Microsoft doesn't just give up on consoles and just make PCs). I was expecting something no one else would try, like a duel-screen that could function like a Wii U and a DS.
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gotta wait until April to see any games? damn lol
On the bright side it confirms backwards compatibility which is big.
There is a note in the trailer that some Nintendo Switch 1 games won’t be fully compatible, wonder what the differences are that makes a game compatible or not
There is no IR-sensor. So maybe the 3 games using them are not compatible.
I am expecting something similar to PS5 backward compatibility, I think there were 11 or 12 games, out of thousands, that had compatibility issue, and even then some of those are playable, just crash now and then.
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Please have analog triggers, pleeeaaasssee
Doesn't look like it
Bigger screen and new ports? Awesome!
Still looks like Switch 1.5, not 2...but I'll wait until I see hardware specs and games
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I like the design a bit more, but it's nothing new, rather an upgrade to the switch. That's fine for me. As long as tge switch 2 is a bit more durable i would be happy. Let's see if that will be the case.
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