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Goodbye NX, hello Switch

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Kind of a no duh reveal, but they finally confirmed the next switch will be backward compatible. Pg 49 of their report:

Also looks like they will be investing more in the nintendo account.

Although, it does just say "Nintendo Software" will be playable, entirely possible that they don't include a compatible cartridge slot, so that only digital games would be backwards compatible. That would be pretty dumb of them if they did that though.
 
Should probably make a new thread for it. Bigger is welcome, the current joycons are a bit small for my hands when using them single, not that I ever really use it...my son will play splatoon or pokemon every so often, that is about it these days.
 
So much meh energy. And I sincerely hope the spec leaks prove to not be true because worse specs than what the Steam Deck was offering for $400 three years ago is not a good look for comparable money.
 
Sonikku said:
So much meh energy. And I sincerely hope the spec leaks prove to not be true because worse specs than what the Steam Deck was offering for $400 three years ago is not a good look for comparable money.
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Nintendo never could compete on spec.
 
Sonikku said:
So much meh energy. And I sincerely hope the spec leaks prove to not be true because worse specs than what the Steam Deck was offering for $400 three years ago is not a good look for comparable money.
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Ouch seriously? An 800p gaming system for $400 doesn't not sound too promising. Especially given how poor the OG Switch aged. I had to hack mine and overclock the memory to get a reasonably steady 30 fps docked on Tears of the Kingdom. Ran like trash at stock.
 
sdifox said:
Nintendo never could compete on spec.
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But they could compete with a portable experience no one else was offering, and for a lower price than their competitors. I don't think anyone expected hardware that fits in a Switch to be comparable to a PS4. Now Steamdeck offers an apples to apples experience with better specs and likely similar money. If Nintendo charges the same price it would be even worse by comparison, so they better keep it at $300. Because frankly, that same steam deck can emulate switch games too.
SteveGrabowski said:
Ouch seriously? An 800p gaming system for $400 doesn't not sound too promising. Especially given how poor the OG Switch aged. I had to hack mine and overclock the memory to get a reasonably steady 30 fps docked on Tears of the Kingdom. Ran like trash at stock.
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That's because Nintendo massively underclocked it for thermals when they had the thermal headroom to go higher. That and it only had 4gb of ram to get it through seven years. (Nintendo apparently wanted to just do two but Capcom urged them to double it. )
 
$400 isn't out of line given inflation in recent years and as long as that includes a dock and other nice to haves it's probably fine.

The main issue will be software. Metroid is long overdue for a new entry and I've enjoyed the Prime series. However, Metroid has never been near the popularity of Mario or Zelda series games. Elden Ring is a nice launch title, but who hasn't played it by this point.

But their unique titles are also their selling point. They don't need them right away as long as they're eventually released and will move hardware. The simple truth is that a game like TotK at 30 FPS is better than most games at 90 FPS.
 
Mopetar said:
$400 isn't out of line given inflation in recent years and as long as that includes a dock and other nice to haves it's probably fine.
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Meh the majority of inflation is just corporations raising their prices to increase profit. People gotta stop acting like these aren't just price increases no matter how much our crooked media beats the drum of inflation to manufacture consent for corporations price gouging us. That's a huge jump in price. The PS5 price increase vs PS4 was defensible since PS4 was pretty weak hardware even by 2013 standards while the PS5 was pretty strong by 2020 standards, but this Switch 2 sounds woefully underpowered again.
 
Is it at least guaranteed to do 1080p/60 fps in most titles?

I see that the screen is a bit bigger and the joycons are too. I haven't used my switch at all much honestly unless we had friends over and they wanted to play a party game.
 
It’s gonna be “fine” now and $400 and pretty darn slow in 2032 and still $400.

That’s my prediction. Pretty solid for the power envelope but I wish yet again that Nintendo would push a little - like use a more modern TSMC process - and give us a little more hardware to live on for the next near decade. A couple hundred mghz and more shaders wouldn’t hurt anyone.
 
At this point it's probably gonna be asking a lot from Nintendo to not needlessly underclock the processor by some absurd amount.
 
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