I don't know if you "need" it, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have. A lot of TVs come with limited connectivity now, just one or two HDMI ports, so if you can play your vidya and stream your animes on a single device, it's definitely a plus for some people. Switch 2 also has a nice big screen, much bigger than most phones, so it might be a nice device to watch Netflix in bed on or whatever.
Yeah but why would you need to stream off your game console to a TV when every TV in 2025 has the streaming apps built-in?
I don't know how many people are like me, but I personally did not connect my smart TV to the Internet because it's just another avenue to serve me ads. The software in them also becomes obsolete very rapidly and a lot of the apps stop working after a couple years and most people are gonna keep their TV longer than that.
Back then there was DLNA on the PS3 and PS4 so you could stream all your MP3 and DivX from your PC to your PS that you had connected to your TV. Then you could say fuck off to all the paid streaming app shit, but the Sony bastards removed the DLNA feature from the PS5.
Chris Wray Backtracking as always i see
I used to set that place on fire, it was fun times.
The two things that I keep noticing from all these videos is not just how empty the open world looks, but how similar it looks to 8. Sure, if you pause the videos around and do side by side comparisons (What basically Digital Foundry did in their review), sure, you can see some improvements in textures and LODs, but in the moment to gameplay, they look almost identical, I would dare to say 8 looks a bit better.
See it with your own eyes on a nice 4k set with HDR, it looks and runs phenomenal. The tech is not the issue, it looks way better than MK8 to me. The lack of content, weird design of races and the empty open world are the main issues. There is no fucking point to the open world, it only makes the game worse without benefits. While all of this could be fixable, it becomes a joke with the long development time, unlimited Nintendo resources and price of the game. I would be very pissed if I had not gotten the MK World console bundle.
Oh I'll try it, I'm just waiting for the emulator.
Well that's not good, because the Switch 1 also had an emphasis on enhanced versions of old games charging full price for them. What happens when Nintendo runs out of old games?
More remakes
Definitely seeing more of these video crop up
Why is that bad? Mario Kart 8 looks great.
We need that badly, the lineup is so dire.
Right, it's not strictly needed but it should have streaming apps, why not. Hopping over to YouTube in the same device to look up something about a game is very convenient. It should have a browser too, but those are being phased out it seems.
It does, but a 2025 game shouldn't look like an 11 year old game from 2 console generations back.
That's marketing speaking through you. Games looked great a decade ago and most improvements since have been marginal at best.
I agree, that doesn't mean it shouldn't look better. Hell, games looked great in 6th gen. If graphics never advanced beyond Xbox or maybe 360 I'd be satisfied, but the fact is they can make it look better and they're selling you stronger hardware, so it should look better.
The game world is larger though. I'd rather have a bigger world to explore than better graphics.
