Not too surprising they didn’t change much. The switch was a huge hit so fixing things like the joycons, adding a stand, etc. was the way to go.
My guess (hope) is that the only new titles exclusive to the switch 2 are ones that the original switch wouldn’t have the processor strength to play and that they won’t arbitrarily wall them but we’ll see.
Unfortunately games have been struggling on the Switch’s hardware for a couple years. There were a few parts of the newest Pokémon game that felt like a slideshow presentation.
Oh I don’t want them to hold back new games performance just for the OG switch, that was pretty underpowered even when it came out. I’m hoping the switch 2 gets a good upgrade in the area since it’s needed.
More for indie games and things like that was what I was thinking.
That would be nice! Hopefully I would be easy for devs to do both.
Pokémon
Is that still scarlet and violet? Because if so, I don’t think that was a problem with the switch.
That’s the one I am thinking of yeah! Was it just a case of dog water optimization?
I think so, there isn’t much else that can explain the classroom scene where half the class are all playing the same goofy animation at 5 frames per second, mostly in sync. It would have looked better to have them not moving at all, so at least some of the jank was a stylistic choice on gamefreak’s part.
Like, hyrule warriors lagging at ulti in splitscreen mode, you mean? They already released that for switch 1 🤣
Now we can finally play it lag free 🥳well, hopefully 🤪
Or we just continue to play lag free on steam deck 😜
It’s basically the same. And it makes sense, it seems that’s what people want. But also, can Nintendo ever go back to the old ways? If ever they make something that isn’t a Switch, they’d have to develop two pieces of hardware, since they’re likely going to want both a home console and a handheld device. I think things might be like this forever.
Being Nintendo the fact that it is basically the same is the actual surprise.
I feel like the nes->snes, gb->gbc->GBA, ds->3ds, and wii->WiiU were all pretty similar advancements.
In all of those except nes->snes you had backwards compatability, and the wii->WiiU had hardware backwards compatibility (which the switch 2 doesn’t, at least for controllers).
I personally dont get why they went with Nvidia again, they make cheap mobile processors and I doubt this one will be any different. Imo they should have gone with a low end AMD APU based on Ryzen 9000.
Who would switch from arm to x86 when the whole market is moving into arm direction?
Backwards compatibility
They could have implemented a simple compatibility layer to play Switch 1 games
And rewrite the whole OS from scratch instead of using a battle-tested codebase existing since GBA?
Hall Effect Sensors pls.
Sadly, I don’t see any amount of effort being put into longevity. That’s far too consumer-friendly from any of the big 3
Credit where it’s due, switch is pretty durable except joy-cons, and they are pretty easy to repair yourself
I shouldn’t have to repair their crappy self-inflicted stick drift though. This easy to repair argument is like saying “It’s okay, the giant shit on your kitchen floor hasn’t dried so it’s easy to mop up.”
What, do you think Nintendo is made of money?
My switch 1 is gathering dust, mostly because of the awful controllers. Looks like they made the controllers bigger, and the magnetic slide looks much better than the switch1. I hope they significantly reduced the stick drift problem. I hope they allow 3rd party controllers to turn on the device.
I’ve had every Nintendo console since the gbc and suspect I’ll eventually get this too, but they’ve got an uphill battle vs the steamdeck for me. Really going to depend on the first party games.
I always play with pro controller or powerA gamrcube wireless
Should have called it the Nintendo Top.
Nintendo Dom
I was kinda hoping for a smaller console, not a larger one.
