Can’t believe it’s not OLED
They will release an OLED Edition 5 years after so you can buy it again.
Lcd would be fine at a higher resolution imo. But… Are they staying with 720p again?
720p is pretty solid on small screens when you’re holding it ~2-3ft away. 1080p would be more ideal for sure, but I wouldn’t be that disappointed if it means better battery and performance.
Yeah I can see that. I feel like 1080lcd may be the best compromise.
It is very hard to get low resolution small oled screens. Cell phones use pentile displays that are about 60% the actual RGB resolution of the input they need. You would be looking at it needing to be outputting in the 4k range on a 1440p ish display to use off the shelf parts.
If you wqnted to have a 1080p RGB oled it would need to be about 11" and that is too big. It would also have burn in issues with any reasonable brightness.
I can’t believe it’s not butter
It hasn’t been announced yet. Up to this point, everyone is just guessing.
As much as 512gb…
Of flash memory… I think I bought a 2TB flash card for my steam deck.
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I really wonder if a Switch 2 will do as well as the first Switch.
More and more handheld gaming PCs are released by the time the Switch 2 comes around. Yes, a Switch 2 does have the advantage of access to Nintendo games (if we ignore Emulators) and I would imagine lower price, but I haven’t touched my Switch since I got the Steamdeck. I even sold an extra Switch Lite I had.
I rarely, basically never used the Switch plugged into a TV. I only played it in handheld mode with a skin that made it more comfortable to hold than a flat brick. Nintendo games rarely drop in price and sales don’t reduce prices by much VS PC games that often go on sale and older games drop to very low prices on sale.
I’m certain there’s a market for a Switch 2, I’m just wondering if it will do as well as the first Switch in the current market with more options.
Most people who play Nintendo Switch do not even know what a steam deck is. The vast vast majority.
It’s revealing to keep in mind that the Switch sold 125 million units, and the most optimistic estimates put the number of Steam Deck sales around 3 million. Keep in mind that the Steam Deck never aimed to sell as much as major consoles, but that still shows how niche it is in comparison.
Do you have numbers to back that up or are you just speculating. Personally I’d find it weird that someone who games especially on a mobile platform with somehow have not heard of the steam deck. Between social media and targeted news feeds I don’t know how they not hear about it.
This is your notice that you are very much in a bubble. Most gamers have no idea what a steam deck is.
For 99+% of the Switch’s target demographic, there aren’t options.
They have never heard of the Deck, the Ally, or any of the other handheld PCs. They know three things about gaming: Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox. Those last two don’t let them play Mario, Zelda, or Smash Bros., and they certainly don’t let them play on the go, so they essentially only have one option.
I love my Deck and I hope to see the handheld PC market continue to grow and evolve, but it’s just delusional to think that it will ever get to a point where it will have even the slightest impact on the third-best-selling console of all time (or, more to the point, its successor).
I’d buy a Switch 2 if it played first party Switch games at 2K/60fps. Specifically Pokemon, Zelda, and Xenoblade.
Unless GF massively update their engine then I feel like Pokémon in 2K would make your eyes bleed
It’s painful enough looking at it on the current gen switch
They better create more solid joycons, drifting be damned.
For me I think they should create more ergonomic controllers. The reason I never touch the switch of my son is because of how painful it is to plsy with. The stick are way too low. The dual sense is an amazing controller. Something like the Sony Q looks nice.
Yeah I can’t play for any length of time without using the pro controller. My hands cramp and my finger hurt from the tiny buttons.
I hope they get rid of them. They make the handheld in ergonomic and ruined the amazing wiiu controller scheme they had. I have never had a good time using joycons and they cause too much compromise.
They should keep support so things like ring fit work, but they need to go or not be made for kind of symmetric 2 player.
I just need them to confirm existing cartridges work and I am there buying it day one…
lcd
Ffs.
OLED or no thanks.
Switch 2 OLED coming in 2028
Just to make sure, that was my point. I bought a $110 (on sale) 2tb card and expanded the memory. Games are becoming much bigger, maybe not Nintendo but the point stands. It’s irritating buying an expensive purchase then having to buy more. Idk it kinds feels like I want them to offer a “complete device for the time”. Comparable hardware to other entertainment systems.
Where did you find a 2tb micro SD card? I didn’t think they existed.
I can’t speak to their performance because they seem to be all one brand (and not a major one like SanDisk) but they ARE out there.
Only a matter of time before that territory is breached by the major player though. Nintendo themselves even have a branded 1 TB SD card (made by SanDisk ofc).
I could just be dumb, but I hope that it’ll still use the switch cartridge. Like how they did it with the DS line up until the 3DS when they changed it. I could see them potentially doing that too. If it does I’ll finally jailbreak my OG switch with the tegra exploit. Just been too much of a scaredy cat to do it.
I was thinking this earlier today. If they do make the switch 2 compatible with current switch games, physical and digital, it’ll be a damn near instant day 1 buy for me.
Make it similar enough under the hood to the switch that ryujinx just need an update to play its games.
I mean, hey great!
less than 1tb seems pointless
If it has a SD slot, 1TB seems like overkill. The top Steam Deck only has 512GB.
Games are hitting 150gb+ these days… 512gb ain’t shit
Switch games aren’t; the large ones are 20-50GB. And you can just toss in a 1-2 TB SD card if you need more storage.
Right, the console that has the worst hardware doesn’t have big games, shocker…
It’s a cheaper console targeted more for kids and casual gamers. Having a high end with 1tb is fine but I’m happy having SD expansion.
I’m fine with a 32Gb Switch, I just don’t want it to run at 720p 30fps
Will definitely be skipping this one. I almost never use my Switch as it is. At home, I use the PC. I can emulate single player games like Breath of the Wild. On the go, I’ve been enjoying mobile games on my phone (surprisingly) or I use my laptop. The Switch hasn’t been a big draw.
Are they going to make it simpler to deal with controllers so I can play remotely with my mom? It’s so frustrating to try and talk her through reconfiguring her controllers over the phone.
It will be the same, it has to for compatibility.
Plenty of people forget that Nintendo needs to hit a price point on this device. So there are some things we might not think are ideal but need to be the way they are to make financial sense. Things like storage size, screen tech, are two of the areas where a compromise might have been needed. Also let’s not pretend that there aren’t good LCD screens that could be used, OLED isn’t the be all and end all.
LCD is serviceable but it does feel a bit funny to go back to that when Nintendo and its top fans spent the last couple years saying “No, but you don’t get it, buying another one just for the OLED is absolutely worth it”
