Switch 2 official reveal
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Having it connect via magnets instead of a slidey clip seems really obvious in hindsight, but I also realize even Apple didn't start putting magnetic accessory connectors on things until a couple years after the Switch was out.
Also does the color they used for the edge and joystick ring of the right joycon seem disturbingly flesh-like to anyone else?
Also does the color they used for the edge and joystick ring of the right joycon seem disturbingly flesh-like to anyone else?
So we get a bigger screen. A stand (that still looks pretty flimsy to my eyes, but we'll see). And instead of "sliding" joycons, we get plug-in Joycons...that's probably a improvement. And the biggest thing...it's backwards compatible! That's DEFINITELY good news! (Although, the note about not all Switch games playing on the Switch 2 is a little worrying, but we'll just have to see what they mean.)
And thank goodness it's just called the Switch 2, instead of...I dunno...The Switch Snap or something. It's a lot less confusing for people who don't follow every detail of these things.
Otherwise, it's kind of hard to get too excited for this, without seeing any of the games. But, at least it's finally revealed after a year of knowing this thing existed but Nintendo wanting to play coy about it.
Ah, I'm sure they'll come out with a bunch of different colors eventually. And it's not too bad. Personally, I'm getting more "creamsicle" than "flesh" from the color they're going with, but maybe it's just my monitor.
And thank goodness it's just called the Switch 2, instead of...I dunno...The Switch Snap or something. It's a lot less confusing for people who don't follow every detail of these things.
Otherwise, it's kind of hard to get too excited for this, without seeing any of the games. But, at least it's finally revealed after a year of knowing this thing existed but Nintendo wanting to play coy about it.
...Well not BEFORE you pointed that out. Gee, thanks.
Ah, I'm sure they'll come out with a bunch of different colors eventually. And it's not too bad. Personally, I'm getting more "creamsicle" than "flesh" from the color they're going with, but maybe it's just my monitor.
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Personally I think we only got this quick teaser video about it, because they were frustrated with all the leaks and felt they needed to show something to try and shut them up.
Betcha they removed the lidar sensor on the bottom of the joycon that was only used for that minigame in 1-2-Switch where you go OMNOMNOM at it.
Okay! So we know its going to be bigger, No more detachable losable parts for the joycons, Joycons use magnets now, and we might get a new Mario Kart. The biggest thing is definitely the backward compatibility! I have a good size library of Switch games, around 30 or so, and I will want to be able to play them on the better hardware. I am interested if Minecraft Dungeons finally gets less laggy and loady.
I have been holding off getting an OLED switch as second switch for my kids for a while now to see if the Switch 2 was coming soon. If the Switch 2 is coming out in 3 months, I might be able to keep holding off, but if it isn't until this fall, then I am going to have to at least get a switch lite for them to play. Heck, I might just get the lite now to hold us over the three months.
I have been holding off getting an OLED switch as second switch for my kids for a while now to see if the Switch 2 was coming soon. If the Switch 2 is coming out in 3 months, I might be able to keep holding off, but if it isn't until this fall, then I am going to have to at least get a switch lite for them to play. Heck, I might just get the lite now to hold us over the three months.
Same here. I was expecting a new name altogether.
Used for Resident Evil and Labo as well.
I think a couple other games too.
Also.. not a "Might get new Mario Kart" WILL get new Mario kart.
That is 100 percent NOT any previous MK footage.
Oh right, all the Labo stuff is going to be obsolete just because the new hardware is too big to fit. So that alone might account for the disclaimer.
As far as the name discussion, I was hoping for it to be called the SwitchUP. And the slogan could have been "UP your game."
As far as the name discussion, I was hoping for it to be called the SwitchUP. And the slogan could have been "UP your game."
I don't really get why I keep seeing people astonished by the BC here. Nintendo is renown for it. All their handhelds did it, and all their console did it; up till the Switch. CDs weren't gonna be a good idea for a handheld device, and while they probably could have kept some of the 3/DS games; in this case since its both console and handheld a clean break was probably the best choice. But still, that was one system with somewhat good reason to not have it. So it really shouldnt be a surprise that Switch 2 is BC.
Lets not forget Sony has dropped MORE BC, and people still think Sony is gonna have BC all the time, or are going to add it.
Sure, if you ignore everything before the Wii. The SNES, N64, and Gamecube offered no backwards compatibility with their predecessors. The Wii and Wii U have been the only Nintendo consoles that have had any BC. By the point Nintendo started doing it for a console, Sony and Microsoft had already been doing it for a while. Nintendo was late to that particular party, and is the only one to have had a break in the console chain since then in going from the Wii U to the Switch. Also losing the handheld chain going from 3DS to Switch didn't help either.
It still should have been a foregone conclusion, but it's easy enough to see why the impression has stuck around.
You discount the Handhelds in that, where every system after the orignal gameboy brick was at least BC with the generation before it.
Also I'm not sue how well dual screen games would play on a single screen system without modifcation.
yeah, becuase Gamers have the memories of goldfish apparently.
I was specifically referring to the comment about all their consoles, as indicated by the bolding in the quote. You differentiated between handhelds and consoles, and I followed suit. Although, as also mentioned, the handheld BC chain was also broken with the Switch, so even that wasn't so ironclad anymore.
And yeah, backwards compatibility from the Wii U to the Switch was never going to happen. Even setting aside the disc/cartridge divide, that second screen is too integral to the Wii U system design, and so for much of the software released for it. That disclaimer about some games maybe not being compatible would end up reading more like, "Certain Nintendo Wii U games may be compatible with Nintendo Switch."
Shouldn't this, like, go in the general Nintendo thread since we've already talked about it there
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I mean, it's an announcement trailer for a better Switch. I think a LOT had it built up to this big event, but it is what it is. As always, the software will be the determining factor MORE that whatever technology or gimmicks the system might integrate. April will be a heck of a wait...
I'm also not reading much into the software disclaimer: it's likely a legal blanket for those few games that might be completely compatible due to changes in the controllers. It's also not unprecedented: The Switch Lite can't play a number of titles off hand because it doesn't have removable joycons.
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I mean, it's an announcement trailer for a better Switch. I think a LOT had it built up to this big event, but it is what it is. As always, the software will be the determining factor MORE that whatever technology or gimmicks the system might integrate. April will be a heck of a wait...
I'm also not reading much into the software disclaimer: it's likely a legal blanket for those few games that might be completely compatible due to changes in the controllers. It's also not unprecedented: The Switch Lite can't play a number of titles off hand because it doesn't have removable joycons.
It's funny people bring up the software disclaimer on things like the switch.. Yet on the PS5 it'll literally tell you to stream or play certain games on PS4 because their performance are so bad on the PS5.