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

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skykiii said:
and a worse color scheme.

And the second controller has a microphone that almost no games use.

And both controllers are hard-wired to the system and have fucking short cords.

But hey it can connect to the Famicom Disk System if you care about such things!
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Everything you mentioned there was rectified with the AV-famicom. It's basically a nes top-loader, except it supports composite and let's you use all the Jap exclusive add-ons like the disk system.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Except where I live the Switch 2 is almost twice the price of the Switch OLED. It's a real bummer.
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I've heard it's awful in some region. It's 40% more expensive here to get the Switch 2 compared to the OLED. Then we could consider the value of the Mario Kart World bundle as well.

The OLED has taken the backseat in retail displays. They have the demo kiosks out for the Switch 2. Nintendo is making it very clear that it's the next Switch and this is what they want consumers to buy. That giant 2 in the logo that's plastered everywhere, even on accessories, looks ugly as sin. On a bunch of the retail signs, they have a "NEW" ribbon going across the corners. I'm surprised they didn't just call it the New Nintendo Switch 2 given prior naming schemes.
 
Nintendo owners really dislike the MIG Switch accessory to the point where they will overwhelmingly defend the corporation for not wanting to be stingy and being able to force you to buy digital and physical versions of games that go up exorbitantly in price.

Also, those Digital Card Keys they have implemented seems only good on paper than actually in reality.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Also, those Digital Card Keys they have implemented seems only good on paper than actually in reality.
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This comes up a lot, and yeah, it's a bad design, but they're there to replace the "card with a serial number on it" meme in current game sales. They're replacing that "serial card" with something that can be resold that functions similarly. Unfortunately, the downside is that you get the "worst of both worlds": you have to download the game and spend the space on your device, while you cannot play the game without the card in. So, it's an imperfect resolution to a worse problem. I'm hoping the consequence is that everyone flocks to the "real" cards.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Nintendo owners really dislike the MIG Switch accessory to the point where they will overwhelmingly defend the corporation for not wanting to be stingy and being able to force you to buy digital and physical versions of games that go up exorbitantly in price.

Also, those Digital Card Keys they have implemented seems only good on paper than actually in reality.
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The MIG Switch is very handy as constantly switching Switch cartridges gets old quickly. As for the piracy stuff, I can easily afford to buy my games nowadays. But when I was younger, me and my friends had no money and piracy is what we'd resort to. I had one of these DS R4 Flashcarts because I couldn't afford to buy many DS games. We would play local multiplayer games using our flashcarts, because as much as Download Play was cool, you almost always got a gimped version of the game. You pirate games because you can. It's not complicated, there's no ethical dilemma to it, no "Actually I don't like Nintendo so it's okay to pirate their games" or "Think of Nintendo, that poor little company".

The virtual game cards look cute on paper, but in practice it's a headache. I need to "insert" my virtual game card on my system, but to play it on my second system, I need to eject the virtual card, and load it onto it onto the second system. Why is this so complicated if both systems are owned by me? Say I own a Switch and a Switch Lite. If I take my Switch Lite out, I need to think about ejecting and loading software between both systems. And of course you can't sell your games, because fuck you. It's like physical cartridges except it's not.

I can "family loan" a virtual game card for 14 days, I do like that part. But what if I want to give the game? At that point, you're better off having the physical cartridges.

That whole shit reminds me of how in Splatoon 2, you were forced to read through the characters blabbling about what stages were on, and how you couldn't play some game modes at specific hours, because Nintendo said so.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Might as well ask the question, who the fuck the Switch 2 is for?
* It's not a handheld due to massive size and tiny battery life.
* It's not strong enough to even compete with previous gen.
* It doesn't run a good chunk of Switch 1 games.
* It doesn't have any worthwhile games.
* It's full of technical issues that will only be patched in later releases.

Even with the argument of buying it for some potential good future game you might as well wait for that game to come out.
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I mean...
* It's not a handheld due to massive size and tiny battery life.
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The size doesn't bother me but the lack of a proper controller grip cramps my hands. Battery life is an issue but I'm already carrying around a few external 10,000+ mAh battery packs for my phone.
* It's not strong enough to even compete with previous gen.
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At this point Nintendo know that its systems sell due to their exclusives rather than multi-platforms, as long as they keep pumping out said exclusives and the games look "decent" then people will flock to 'em.
* It doesn't run a good chunk of Switch 1 games.
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See the above as far as this is concerned. That said the way they labeled Pikmin 3 Deluxe's Switch 2 compatibility was an obvious failure on their part.
* It doesn't have any worthwhile games.
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Eh... I'm fine with Mario Kart World right now, DK Bananza comes out next month, and some of my Switch 1 games get a nice performance boost.
* It's full of technical issues that will only be patched in later releases.
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This is something I agree with you on, it's also worth mentioning that there also the usual "launch console woes" that happen and will require some Switch 2 owners to send their consoles to Nintendo for repairs or, if they paid for an extended warranty from the store they bought their Switch 2 from, exchange it for a new console.
Tachibana said:
The MIG Switch is very handy as constantly switching Switch cartridges gets old quickly.
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I didn't even bother looking at the MIG Switch, I just looked for a third party accessory that functions as a multi-card reader (the accessory listed is a newer model with eight card-switching slots, mine is an older model with four card-switching slots and four storage slots).
 
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Thought this might be interesting to note. Currently neither Sakurai or Nintendo are using AI to create games, nor have plans to, but do speak to implementing AI generation in some method such as scheduling. Personally, I am curious as to if this is a warning or not for future Nintendo releases.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
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Thought this might be interesting to note. Currently neither Sakurai or Nintendo are using AI to create games, nor have plans to, but do speak to implementing AI generation in some method such as scheduling. Personally, I am curious as to if this is a warning or not for future Nintendo releases.
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I have no problem with AI as long as it's not used for major things like character models. If the grass is made by AI in the next Mario Kart or something I don't think it'll be that big of a deal, maybe voices for minor characters, or generating everything for betas with intention to replace it all.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
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Thought this might be interesting to note. Currently neither Sakurai or Nintendo are using AI to create games, nor have plans to, but do speak to implementing AI generation in some method such as scheduling. Personally, I am curious as to if this is a warning or not for future Nintendo releases.
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If it happens Reddit will explode from the resulting double think paradox.
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I have no problem with AI as long as it's not used for major things like character models. If the grass is made by AI in the next Mario Kart or something I don't think it'll be that big of a deal, maybe voices for minor characters, or generating everything for betas with intention to replace it all.
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Just using it for animation will immediately make Pokemon animation less of a complete shit show, the issue is that to use AI in a productive way you need the studio to already be good technically.
 
Markorian said:
If they spent as much time actually playing the games they pirate, like I do, instead of bragging about how much they pirate and how much better they are for doing it and how everyone should be like them, and go out of their way to directly taunt corporations, maybe corpos wouldn't be locked in as much of an arms race as they are with piracy. A lot of the blame falls on zoomers who can't into the slightest amount of opsec, it was a rom site holocaust the moment an ios compatible emulator came out and crusty ipad kiddies just had to spend every waking moment bragging about something everyone else has had access to for many years.
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As someone who basically never doesn't have a massive collection of roms immediately available (I am old and hate new media), one of the most obnoxious things in the world to me is how gleeful people are about pirating games.

"Time to sail the seven seas, fellow gamers! Yar har fiddle dee dee! TPB intensifies!". Fuck you. You sound like a 12 year old who just discovered Command Prompt and now self identifies as "the hacker" in his group of prepubescent idiots. Just play the fucking games.

Downloading roms hasn't been this easy since the wild west internet when you could start a geocities page called xSSJ4Vegetax's Rom Planet and upload Dejap translations of SNES games and nobody cared because nobody over the age of 20 knew what it meant. You are not cool. You clicked a link on Reddit. The only person who finds you impressive is your 7 year old brother.
 
analrapist said:
This comes up a lot, and yeah, it's a bad design, but they're there to replace the "card with a serial number on it" meme in current game sales. They're replacing that "serial card" with something that can be resold that functions similarly. Unfortunately, the downside is that you get the "worst of both worlds": you have to download the game and spend the space on your device, while you cannot play the game without the card in. So, it's an imperfect resolution to a worse problem. I'm hoping the consequence is that everyone flocks to the "real" cards.
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I assume that the key cards are cheaper to make and that may be a draw. But ideally I'd like to see people turned off enough by them that fewer games come out utilizing them. But I'm being rainbow stickers here.
 
Megaton Punch said:
As someone who basically never doesn't have a massive collection of roms immediately available (I am old and hate new media), one of the most obnoxious things in the world to me is how gleeful people are about pirating games.

"Time to sail the seven seas, fellow gamers! Yar har fiddle dee dee! TPB intensifies!". Fuck you. You sound like a 12 year old who just discovered Command Prompt and now self identifies as "the hacker" in his group of prepubescent idiots. Just play the fucking games.

Downloading roms hasn't been this easy since the wild west internet when you could start a geocities page called xSSJ4Vegetax's Rom Planet and upload Dejap translations of SNES games and nobody cared because nobody over the age of 20 knew what it meant. You are not cool. You clicked a link on Reddit. The only person who finds you impressive is your 7 year old brother.
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I agree it's cringy to brag about pirating old games, but if you are posting on an Internet forum, you are likely in the top 10% in terms of computer literacy. The vast majority now don't even know where a file goes when they download it. If you can torrent a TV show, they think you're a god damn wizard. Most people, even in offices, can't do anything much more complicated than opening an app from the app store and using it. It's mind boggling.
 
Megaton Punch said:
As someone who basically never doesn't have a massive collection of roms immediately available (I am old and hate new media), one of the most obnoxious things in the world to me is how gleeful people are about pirating games.

"Time to sail the seven seas, fellow gamers! Yar har fiddle dee dee! TPB intensifies!". Fuck you. You sound like a 12 year old who just discovered Command Prompt and now self identifies as "the hacker" in his group of prepubescent idiots. Just play the fucking games.

Downloading roms hasn't been this easy since the wild west internet when you could start a geocities page called xSSJ4Vegetax's Rom Planet and upload Dejap translations of SNES games and nobody cared because nobody over the age of 20 knew what it meant. You are not cool. You clicked a link on Reddit. The only person who finds you impressive is your 7 year old brother.
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To go on a very unpopular tangent, my main issue is that once you are 18 you have no reason to pirate unless you are dirt poor, or it's some bullshit situation where the game is strictly not possible at consumer price or needs some extra bullshit to work that isn't worth the price.

If a game doesn't worth the price or actively hates you then don't play it. There are loads of better games for cheap.
 
My biggest problem with emulation isn't a moral one, choice paralysis is a real thing. I find that I don't spend much time with emulated games, and I spend more time scrolling through lists of titles than actually playing. If I just buy a single game I want to play, I'm much more likely to stick with it and enjoy it for what it is instead of constantly comparing it with what else I could also be playing at any given moment. I honestly can't stand looking at my steam games list. There's so much on it but I can't find something to play. I don't browse steam sales anymore because I can buy 10 10/10 games for a dollar and never play them, there's no point.
 
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