‘Switch 2’ is targeting March 2025 and was delayed to avoid shortages, new report claims

And scalpers

You arent their target market, nobody on Lemmy is. Their target market is pre-pubescent kids and their parents who want their kids toys to "Just work" the parents who just buy the games on the shelf at the store, and the associated merch.

They make great games and to play them you need their hardware, why would they dilute that? This way they get to hit you twice and control their own market pricing. I know "emulators and piracy" right? Those people werent buying shit anyway. Why accomodate them?

Why would they? What Nintendo is doing works really well for Nintendo. They’re over 100 years old (which is considered a young company in Kyoto!) and are not about chasing the best and shiniest, but what works best for their continued long-term survival. They will always do their own thing and at their own pace.

Also their games already play infinitely better on the computer. They could actually have my money if I could buy em as applications instead of popping em into Yuzu!

The steam deck is way too bulky and battery life is way too short to be a viable handheld for mass market rather than just enthusiasts. Also I will pass on having a console with DRM like Steam rather than physical media.

Nintendo doesn't sell their consoles at a loss so that is one reason why they won't put it on PC even though it results in the worst experience.

I disagree. A Switch Lite is much better for a 6 year old than a big and clunky Steam Deck. I own a Steam Deck. It’s a fine device. But Nintendo works with their own hardware. I’m not even sure we would have a Steam Deck if Nintendo didn’t make the Switch and showed how much demand there is for dedicated handheld devices. Also Nintendo is better at taking risk with hardware designs than Sony and Microsoft. Other consoles makers just keep making the same box, just a bit better every generation. If anything Sony and Microsoft should just give up their hardware, and make PC games. Nintendo at least take some risk and try to do something different on the hardware front.

I work hard for my money. I do not like spending it on games that barely function. I stopped buying 3rd party games of any variety on switch because of how many times I was burned by awful performance.

Even 1st party games now. I liked TotK a lot, but frankly it’s difficult to love a game when multiple areas are plagued with nausea inducing frame drops.

Like how has it become acceptable to even publish a game that can’t hold stable 30fps at not-even-real-1080p? Not asking for the world here.

I’d be half inclined to buy a switch 2 if they told me it could actually run my switch 1 library with any faint semblance of competence. But I think I’ll probably pass on this one, especially with the steam deck and other competitors right there. I doubt the switch 2 will be a price-for-performance powerhouse. Would love to be proven wrong though

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They won't. Nintendo has gone on record many times they didn't care about competing at all in hardware. They think that if a game is fun, that's all that matters. Ignoring the fact that if the game runs poorly or looks poorly then it will directly affect the fun factor, which makes ports at risk.

It'll probably be an updated Nvidia SoC, but still bottlenecked my Nintendo (like the current switch is) because mobile battery life is all they really care about.

Be so nice to be freed from sub 720 and sub 30 fps.