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I pref older visuals where fidelity and ultra detail was not a thing, so “things” had to be generally recognizable - hence a difference between “EQ” and “M&M” visuals and modern games.
I have the feeling that they might include the free upgrade to their yearly subscription. Just like you get free expansion pass when you have their most expensive subscription.
450 and LCD is a deal breaker imo.People that will buy this are the people who buy nintendo games. People like the party games, new mario whatever, the next zelda/metroid/insert Nintendo IP here. More often than not these IP's new games will generally be good. Maybe you outgrown them or tastes changed but the sales numbers say people like them.
For what it is, the Switch is a good selling console. I played it a lot in portable and hooked to the TV. It offered things xbox/ps didn't and it got my money. I will buy this one also. I haven't played a steamdeck and with limited time I can just play steam games on my PC and I don't get nintendo IP's on steam.
I don't think it is hard to think having a Nintendo, xbox/PS, and a computer is out of touch with the adult gamer. Sure the price stings but with how president inflation handled things who is really surprised? Not sure why so many people have sand in their front hole about a console they already knew what it was going to be.
People that will buy this are the people who buy nintendo games. People like the party games, new mario whatever, the next zelda/metroid/insert Nintendo IP here. More often than not these IP's new games will generally be good. Maybe you outgrown them or tastes changed but the sales numbers say people like them.
Was just at the Nintendo store in Tokyo. It was filled with Japanese children and Western adults. I think Nintendo has a good idea who their audience is and can potentially get away with this pricing.
Zelda BOTW was excellent - TOTK was eh... I really did not like the sky or depths and the story was so nintendo-cant-just-make-a-direct-sequle it was frustrating. Nintendo you cannot just say "BACK A THOUSAND YEARS X!" as your excuse for "threat"... they even did that in stupid Skyward sword and skyward swords entire "Point" of its setting was to be THE FIRST / OLDEST / ORIGIN story, and you STILL HAD "Oh in the wayback!" and ancient ruins and crap... arrghhhh
It's close to the power of a base model PS4 with storage that's as fast as Series S|X. You're not going to see 1080p120 on anything that isn't pixel graphics, and the real reason for supporting 120Hz refresh rate is so that it can be used as a container for 40 fps rendering along with VRR to smooth things out (unless Nintendo is retarded like Sony and uses a VRR range that only goes down to 48Hz). Combined with support for DLSS, it will make games look decent but that's about it. 4K60, same thing. The only way the system is hitting that is if the game looks like Balatro or they're using DLSS in performance (1080p internal resolution) or ultra performance (720p IR) mode.The specs seem good, at least. 1080/120 is probably the right move over pursuing higher resolutions. But then it also claims to have 4K/60 which I find hard to believe. Even PS5, which is more powerful than this, has issues getting to that level. Most games in resolution mode on PS5 are like 4K/40, think framerate modes are more like 1440/60? With the rare 1440/120 game like Nioh Remastered.
In other words, if they said 1440/60 and 4K/30, that would be believable, and even then I'd question it since it'd be on the same level as PS5. This sounds like it's ahead of PS5 which it isn't. Unless it doesn't have any Ray Tracing or something. I don't really know tech stuff.
I believe this will be the case as long as Shigeru Myamoto is the gatekeeper for Zelda. It's his brainchild and his inspiration was based on his own childhood where he got lost in the woods once and was really scared, so his concept for Zelda is basically "it's just an adventure, go explore and find your path" but as the franchise grew the audience requires more and more lore and worldbuilding and I think he honestly doesn't really care much about that. In the dev videos of the past, he never really mentions much about the story or revelations of lore, he is more excited about how you can climb mountains or explore the sky or the depths and how you can go anywhere you want (he was extremely impressed by Skyrim and that's the main reason BOTW and TOTK are so different because that's basically his version of Skyrim in Hyrule). Of course over the decades his teams have managed to include more story in the Zelda games, but by comparison with a lot of other big name franchises, the story remains very simple and basic most of the time, except maybe A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask which felt really fleshed out, the rest has been :
What if Zelda but you're in a dream world?
What if Zelda but everything is under water?
What if Zelda but you can become flat on the walls or floors?
What if Zelda but you have a talking sword?
What if Zelda but you're super tiny?
What if Zelda but you're a wolf?
What if Zelda but you go everywhere by train?
What if Zelda but you play as the princess and can create objects with a magic rod?
And to be fair, it works. Those games sell like hot cakes and most of them are super fun to play.
PS : if you're a fan of BOTW story, play Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, really fleshes out what happened between the emergence of the Calamity and the time Link had to be put in stasis for 100 years, but with some twists and turns that I thought really brought interesting stuff to the story of the franchise.
Wait so the current upgraded Switch has an OLED but the new Switch 2 will go back to LCD?450 and LCD is a deal breaker imo.
Yes .Wait so the current upgraded Switch has an OLED but the new Switch 2 will go back to LCD?
The video output row for Switch is semi-realistic except that very few games actually did 60 fps either handheld or docked. For Switch 2 it's complete nonsense on par with Sony talking about the PS5 being 'ready for 8K TVs'.Not sure how accurate this is
This is one of the reasons why I feel like I might as well wait for a revision. Yeah the new LCD is 120hz but I have a hard time seeing many games really taking advantage of that.Wait so the current upgraded Switch has an OLED but the new Switch 2 will go back to LCD?
Yes .
Yeah given the track record of the first Switch, why in the ever loving fuck would I buy the Switch 2 at release when I can wait for the Inevitably upgraded screen version?This is one of the reasons why I feel like I might as well wait for a revision. Yeah the new LCD is 120hz but I have a hard time seeing many games really taking advantage of that.