Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

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Utnayan said:
That's a solid attempt but not the point I am trying to make.

Here is a product with an OLED Screen, double the storage capacity, 35% more accessible RAM, Triple the RAM speed, Wifi6E and double the processing speed: Steam Deck for an additional $100.

I get it - Nintendo Exclusives and this is how they have always run their business - but people are still getting fucked with completely overpriced hardware and a pay wall to use voice chat with what is nothing more than an OEM discord with a Bungie style value prop to charge $79.99 for games that are no where near reaching the cost of today's development budgets. If people buy it I would do the same - they make money hands over fists.

Also 8-Bit back in 1985 was equivalent to what was seen in $2,000 arcade machines in Arcades and bowling alley's and mostly like for like.

This wouldn't be for the general consumer but for the folks here, people should just buy a Steam Deck and emulate the shit out of Switch 2 titles and would be far better off.
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No disagreements there. Straight, we should be able to more efficiently produce this thing at x cost is warranted. Looking at it from a historical console, accessories, and games perspective, inflation has increased things to such a level that we are still somewhat below the console prices of old.

Nintendo will 100% give you 4 year old tech and charge you slightly under something that is 5x better. No OLED at start is criminal. What looks like only one actual new game in Mario Kart is also bonkers.
 
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Utnayan said:
That's a solid attempt but not the point I am trying to make.

Here is a product with an OLED Screen, double the storage capacity, 35% more accessible RAM, Triple the RAM speed, Wifi6E and double the processing speed: Steam Deck for an additional $100.

I get it - Nintendo Exclusives and this is how they have always run their business - but people are still getting fucked with completely overpriced hardware and a pay wall to use voice chat with what is nothing more than an OEM discord with a Bungie style value prop to charge $79.99 for games that are no where near reaching the cost of today's development budgets. If people buy it I would do the same - they make money hands over fists.

Also 8-Bit back in 1985 was equivalent to what was seen in $2,000 arcade machines in Arcades and bowling alley's and mostly like for like.

This wouldn't be for the general consumer but for the folks here, people should just buy a Steam Deck and emulate the shit out of Switch 2 titles and would be far better off.
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I keep saying the handheld market isn't where it was back in 2017 for a good reason. A lot has changed over the past 8 years and the Switch really stood out back then as there wasn't much in the way of good high performance handhelds especially anything with any real platform backing back in the late 2010's. Steam Deck really changed all of that pretty dramatically, and the Switch managed to stay highly popular simply due to its existing popularity and install base before that released as well as it's relatively low price point. Basically the Switch 2 is going to get cross-shopped in a way the original Switch wasn't.

I just think the market is really in a different place today for Nintendo to have a repeat of the sort of success they had with the first Switch, especially given how they really haven't changed much about it, heck they're still refusing to add analog triggers for some reason. I think the Switch is naturally going to standout to kids far more than a Steam Deck would, which seems to revolve around an older crowd, but how many kids are going to get their parents to buy them a new Switch 2 at $450 remains to be answered. It could be like a Wii U situation where a lot of parents looked at it and said "we already have a Wii at home" or in this case "we already have a Switch at home."
 
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did they say anything more about the game cube controller thing? unironically replaying wind-waker with the kid is what i'm most looking forward to on this thing.
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it will work but non switch 2 controllers will not be able to turn the system on, so that sucks

maybe with HDMI-CEC just switching inputs will wake the switch 2 on if its docked

i wonder how long it'll take for switch 2 emulators to start running. 6 months? 2 years? i imagine faster but no clue, might take a while to even just jailbreak a switch 2. It would be hilarious if it happens insanely faster though, since a switch 2 is roughly a PS4 level of performance it should be emulatable on any decent 30xx+ PC
 
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I see nobody is asking the most important question about the Switch 2 so far on this thread...


...and that question is, "When are they going to release another version of Skyrim on this bad boy?"
 
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Tasty The Treat said:
I keep saying the handheld market isn't where it was back in 2017 for a good reason. A lot has changed over the past 8 years and the Switch really stood out back then as there wasn't much in the way of good high performance handhelds especially anything with any real platform backing back in the late 2010's. Steam Deck really changed all of that pretty dramatically, and the Switch managed to stay highly popular simply due to its existing popularity and install base before that released as well as it's relatively low price point. Basically the Switch 2 is going to get cross-shopped in a way the original Switch wasn't.

I just think the market is really in a different place today for Nintendo to have a repeat of the sort of success they had with the first Switch, especially given how they really haven't changed much about it, heck they're still refusing to add analog triggers for some reason. I think the Switch is naturally going to standout to kids far more than a Steam Deck would, which seems to revolve around an older crowd, but how many kids are going to get their parents to buy them a new Switch 2 at $450 remains to be answered. It could be like a Wii U situation where a lot of parents looked at it and said "we already have a Wii at home" or in this case "we already have a Switch at home."
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The Wii U's constraints around its tablet killed that system. I would consider this similar to the 3DS with pricing, which may have been brought up already. Their price point will drop if their sales are shit.
 
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