Switch 2 Announced, it will be full revealed in April
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Interesting how they haven't changed the form factor really. It'll be interesting to see what's better about it and if it's worth while to buy. I find Nintendo consoles are usually the ones to buy, if you're into consoles.
Am I wrong for thinking the Switch was the only worthwhile console of the last generation? Other than having to wait a while for some good exclusives like GoW or Ghost of Tsushima what value did the PS5/XBS have.
I personally haven't bought any consoles since G7 (had 360 & PS3). Switch seemed like the only one that would be worth the purchase (I think G8 seemed pretty bleh overall when you have a decent PC, I could run RDR2 not on highest stats but good enough).
No, I think that's pretty much it. I can't think of a reason to buy any console most of the time, but Nintendo at least sticks with (most of the time) games everyone can enjoy that doesn't go hard on lefty bullshit
I didn't buy a console last gen, sticking with my PS4 while building a new PC.
When I have enough spare cash I'll probably pick up either the new switch or the old switch depending on whether or not it has backward compatibility.
Depends on what you consider last generation as the Switch lasted across two others.
Compared to PS5 and whatever Xbox is? Absolutely it was the only one worth anything.
Compared to the PS4 and I guess the Xbone? I think it had solid competition until very late when Sony started selling off exclusives to Steam.
Meh, I bought a switch during the launch week.
That fucker died a week after the 1 year warranty expired. I couldnt find anyone IN ALL OF CANADA who had the skills to replace the charging chip. (was a cherry on top after getting poisoned at arca)
Sold the piece of junk on ebay for a couple hundred canadian. Pretty sure that youtube repair dude bought it. After telling me he couldnt accept any delivery from canada, for some weird reason. He was my last try at trying to find someone to fix it.
Fuck nintendo, glad it broke.
I will have to say, nintendo games have incredible resell value. When I pawned off alot of my shit off after realizing i couldnt keep a job. I nearly got all my money back for my 3ds collection.
If I had put it on the local market, I would have got 50$ for the lot if I was lucky. Got nearly 400$ for the haul, (mostly rpgs) on ebay. Nowadays im so poor I cant even afford buying a cheap 5$ game.
I havent been able to afford a brand new 100$ + tax game in over a year now :(. Starfield was my last purchase, and I wasted my money on that one.
Because Nintendo never drops price or puts anything on sale while its "current" and then barely re-releases anything until selling it at an absurd price later on their e-shop or as a full priced remake.
Which is then compounded by the fact that "collectors" are currently hyping up a huge bubble on retro games and have driven prices so high through legitimate manipulation tactics that Nintendo games literally increase in value overtime despite that not making sense.
The only reason people don't complain about this as hard as they should is because Nintendo also makes the easiest consoles to emulate, so basically no one even bothers buying their older games to begin with.
That sucks. Mine has worked for however many years, no issues.
Looks like a magnet attachment this time, adding a usb c to the top, some QOL improvement. New Mario kart game possibly with launch. Wonder what the graphic specs are going to be.
The magnet attachments to me are a significant improvement. The slide in system is terrible and the grooves are small so using the motes as individual controllers requires the extra plastic bit so the top buttons were functional. This time they stick out more and is a larger controller
If the leaks are true about the specs, this might be a more difficult battle for Nintendo with the state of the market thanks to all the other handhelds out there like the Steam Deck. The Switch 2 will still sell well, but I think it will still see less numbers than the original for a looooooong time.
Same same, but different. Also, still the same screen bezels from 2015.
Yeah they could learn a lot from the handheld emulator market like the Retroid Pocket 5 and Odin Portal. They look really great, and Nintendo is lagging behind a bit when it comes to the actual main body of the device. The joycons look pretty good though. Hopefully the sticks are hall effect to prevent stick drift, they could have been a bit bigger too but I mostly play docked with a controller anyways.
Has Treehouse been dissolved yet? No? Well, maybe you'll get some money from me next time, Nintendo.
Form factor was fine anyway. Don't fix what works. I mean there's things I personally didn't like, but I'm not really one to use it handheld much. I like that they aren't changing to a different form and making everyone toss their Switch games for a decade of Switch 2 remakes of old games.
I might would be interested if the new specs are much of an improvement. Although, my existing Switch is modded and I don't game nearly as much anyway. I won't be an early adopter by any means.
I'm interested to see how powerful it is.
Leaked specs from a while back suggest its around the lower end of the PS4 range, based on the Taiwan made SoC that its using. My only gripe was that it added a paltry amount of RAM. It went from like 4GB to 6GB when it really should be 8. Interestingly, it was apparently ready to go more than a year ago, but Nintendo held back on announcing anything to give the manufacturer time to ramp up to full mass production of the boards, so they could have a big enough stockpile of systems for launch day and avoid shortages.
I hear the delay was more to avoid the Yen crash they knew was going to happen last year since one of their board members works with the Bank of Japan.
I'll take the upside that console generations have had longer lifespans for 2 decades now. Even phones are getting half-sane support periods, still not at the 12 year span to stem manufactured consumerism. I haven't looked at the leaked specs yet, but I hope Super Switch Mii (best names I saw in other comment threads) is not grossly underpowered at release this time around. Then, another 8+ years where innovation happens on the software side.
If hardware as a whole can get past the upscaling/frame-generation fad, some developers might rediscover lost low level engineering arts of pre-Zoomer games. Or, at least clean up some of the engineering bloat of modern engines and content slop of failed triple-As. When we're ready, an actual post Moore's Law computing breakthrough will make it's way to the consumer side.
I'm also boycotting Nintendo because of their worse-than-Disney policy on copyright. Steam Deck and emulation will be enough for me after I'm done with my Switch.
I guess Nintendo quit at innovating. You can usually count on the company to try something entirely new in a different generation even if the 'odd numbered' generation resulted in a bomb but the generation after it resulted in a hit. Maybe some new (((investors))) have made themselves at home in Nintendo?