Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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残念。 said:
It depends on what you want out of a screen. It's motion clarity is butt cracks, but the colors and brightness is much better than the switch's screen. I prefer the switch 2's screen over it, but that's not saying much because the first screen was awful too.
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What about Nintendo do the right thing from the start and release the Switch2 with a OLED?.. this garbage screen is not okay. We know Doug Bowser was the former vice president of global business planning at EA. So its clear as day that this guy had a finger in the planning of the Switch2. The shitty screen on the Switch2 was only done for cost cuts so they could get more profits. Greedy bastards.
 
Hermiöne Granger said:
What about Nintendo do the right thing from the start and release the Switch2 with a OLED?.. this garbage screen is not okay. We know Doug Bowser was the former vice president of global business planning at EA. So its clear as day that this guy had a finger in the planning of the Switch2. The shitty screen on the Switch2 was only done for cost cuts so they could get more profits. Greedy bastards.
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You know it would only cost more with an OLED and you probably wouldn't buy it either way, so whatever I guess.
 
Soggy Floppa said:
I'm starting to believe they threw the Switch 2 together in a couple months and used the absolute cheapest parts they could find.
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73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
The console itself feels like it's made from the cheapest plastic known to man. Even their nso gamecube controller feels cheap, on the same level as the Chinese knockoff controllers
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Its probably due to the weak yen. They probably cheaped out on parts to keep the cost down
 
Soggy Floppa said:
I'm starting to believe they threw the Switch 2 together in a couple months and used the absolute cheapest parts they could find.
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I have a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, the screen has a touch of ghosting as well, but price wise, its less than half the cost of a Switch 2. Nintendo REALLY cheaped out on this one.
 
73_Autistic_Fuck_54 said:
I wonder how well these switch 2 models will hold up over time
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The consoles (at least the first few batches) will make it 2-3 years. They apparently really went cheap on the components, especially the battery, so you can expect that to be the Achilles' heel for life expectancy. Even if they make the battery user-replaceable, actually finding replacements to buy will be a pain in the ass if it's anything like the Wii U tablet controller was by the time batteries started failing.

The joycons? They're as crappy (or worse) as the Switch 1 joycons -- still no hall effect sensors, held on mostly by wimpy magnets, easily broken, and non-replaceable batteries. Those will start exhibiting stick drift within 6 months for some users and 1-2 years for the rest based on usage. And they break if you look at them wrong just like the old ones.
 
残念。 said:
What the hell are you doing to your joycons?
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I'm not doing anything. I never used them on my Switch 1 and didn't buy a Switch 2. But they're tiny plastic toys. They break. Go watch any "gamer rage" video on Youtube to see how often equipment gets trashed by petulant players pissed and painfully punishing poor plastic products (couldn't resist, sorry).
 
moocow said:
I'm not doing anything. I never used them on my Switch 1 and didn't buy a Switch 2. But they're tiny plastic toys. They break. Go watch any "gamer rage" video on Youtube to see how often equipment gets trashed by petulant players pissed and painfully punishing poor plastic products (couldn't resist, sorry).
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so intentionally breaking controllers will break the controllers?
 
Amaranthy said:
so intentionally breaking controllers will break the controllers?
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...or subjecting them to any kind of stress, dropping them, or handling them like many gamers expect to be able to. I'm saying they're more brittle than the rest. Not every kind of physical stress is intentional. Go drop a Wavebird on a tile floor and it'll work fine when you pick it back up. I wouldn't count on a joycon to do the same.
 
moocow said:
...or subjecting them to any kind of stress, dropping them, or handling them like many gamers expect to be able to. I'm saying they're more brittle than the rest. Not every kind of physical stress is intentional. Go drop a Wavebird on a tile floor and it'll work fine when you pick it back up. I wouldn't count on a joycon to do the same.
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I think joycons are quite a bit more durable than you give them credit for. I've had many young wild family members each with their own switches when the thing was new and they weren't easy on those things. The worst that ever happened was stick drift, which is par for the course. The switch felt cheesy, but those things took some major shit.

Judging by Jerry rig everything's video of him wailing on the switch 2 with a wrench and it refusing to die, I have little doubt that these will last at least as well as the original switches. Only time will tell though.
 
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残念。 said:
I think joycons are quite a bit more durable than you give them credit for. I've had many young wild family members each with their own switches when the thing was new and they weren't easy on those things. The worst that ever happened was stick drift, which is par for the course. The switch felt cheesy, but those things took some major shit.
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Seconding this, I currently have two pairs of Switch 1 Joy-Cons (one from the ACNH edition Switch, another being the Skyward Sword special edition ones) and those two have yet to experience any sort of stick drift. The only time I've ever experienced it was with my first Switch's left Joy-Con and that one I repaired myself.

The only thing I think the average consumer will immediately notice are screen "scratches" and that's actually the weak anti-shatter layer that's getting scratched rather than the screen proper
残念。 said:
Judging by Jerry rig everything's video of him wailing on the switch 2 with a wrench and it refusing to die, I have little doubt that these will last at least as well as the original switches. Only time will tell though.
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I think more people will experience the usual "launch day console woes" due to the amount of units that Nintendo has been sitting on, some of those Switch 2 consoles that have been sitting in a warehouse since November 2024 more than likely have issues like funky batteries and faulty USB-C ports.
 
Hold on, gamer rage is real and common? I always assumed it was limited to mentally unstable lolcows and people playing it up for laughs.
 
GlupShitto said:
Hold on, gamer rage is real and common? I always assumed it was limited to mentally unstable lolcows and people playing it up for laughs.
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Very common, especially in competitive games. Younger people experience it with single player games, I used to rage out occasionally at hard games but now I just say fuck it and quit.
 
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