Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer [Official]

Doesn't look like it

When the DS became the best selling gaming handheld we got

• DS OG 2004
• DS Lite 2006
• DSi 2009 (removed Gameboy slot)
• DSi XL 2010

They then went on to make the 3DS in multiple iterations including one where they just removed the 3D functionality and sold it again as a DS and the most recent model in 2017 was...

• New Nintendo 2DS XL

When they have a successful and well selling portable console they slow down on the innovation and go full into embrace the ecosystem as long as possible with minor improvements and if we use the DS as an indicator we have a decade of this.

The controllers are also mice

Just play it on PC. It looks better at 4k too.

I’m very curious what they’ve done to prevent people accidentally forcefully removing it during gameplay. The sliding lock was annoying at first, but if you’ve ever gripped the controller hard at a pivotal moment it’s probably good that it didn’t rip away or even stress the parts.

It seems like the colored area on the side of the joycon fits pretty snuggly into the recess. I’m not sure if you could put it in at any other angle than the one that would marry them up

As soon as I saw that I thought "there's this generation's joycon deadzone"

I had exactly the same thought.

This is so big of a design flaw, I wonder if it's not accepted as a way to sell more...

That can be a good thing. Iterative improvement is vastly underrated.

I mean, there wasn't a lot wrong with the switch to begin with.

That's what I said. Really though, that is basically what all consoles are. They just used to get really dramatic upgrades because the period of time they released have been big growth periods. These days? Everyone has conformed to the same thing and given up on proprietary stuff. Then I thought about how this really is odd for Nintendo since they genuinely strive to offer something unique and new each time. Then I realized it's also called switch 2 so I don't feel like they did anything wrong since what did I expect to change when they are literally telling you what it is which is pretty much defined already.

In the end, I think it's a smart move. It's the least disruptive path and probably the cheapest route for them to continue on and as long as the thing is really powerful I think it's a good idea to continue the brand for another 5 years. I do have my doubts that it will be powerful so that we'll just have to wait and see. Nintendo has never been big on offering up the most powerful hardware, so I expect it to be a few years behind already.

I am still holding out hope for something really cool from the software side.

Looks like it. I agree with the yt comment. They just wanted to get it out so the rumors don't take control.

Looks like some games may not work via the warning at the end.

I already have upgraded hardware that can run switch games. It's called a computer. I built it mostly using parts being sold at offices that were going out of business. I only needed to buy a GPU and a decent PSU. I found a free open source OS, booted it up and installed an open source program called ryujinx. And I barely have any issues playing games on it.

Imagine if Nintendo, instead of wasting all this time, money, rare earth minerals, and contributing to global heating by manufacturing these rather pointless consoles, simply developed games that could be ran on a computer or decently powerful smart phone.

They could focus on making games.

@someguy3

Mouse theory?

Does it? They did show the controllers in the sensor down orientation, but the mouse theory is too wacky.

I do believe there are replacement sticks available nowadays that should mostly eliminate drift.

Edit

Yeah, I found them. They're made by a company called Gulikit. I know the joycons are faulty little things, but I will hand it to nintendo that they're the easiest controllers to work on currently. No soldering needed to replace the sticks.

Allegedly it will be Hall-Effect-Sticks.

The drift that joycons get is almost always just caused by dirt/gunk under the joystick flaps. If you spray a little electrical cleaner up under the flaps it fixes the drift immediately. Might have to repeat it 1-2 times a year.

It's always bothered me how big of deal joycon drift is when it has such an easy fix. Obviously it would be better if I didn't happen at all, but it seems silly that people are throwing away good controllers that only needed a 5 second cleaning. Only thing I've ever had to replace any of my joycon controllers over is problems with the rail connections to the switch, where it swaps back and forth between wireless and direct connected. But my original 2016 joycons are still going strong, just stuck as wireless only joycons.

I made this FOSS template for easy reuse.

def describe_nintendo_creativity(nintendo_game_name, new_version_number):
    print(
        f"Hm, {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number} seems to look pretty similar " 
        f"to {nintendo_game_name} {new_version_number - 1}."
    )

describe_nintendo_creativity("Mario Kart", 9)
describe_nintendo_creativity("Pokemon", 21)

A thing I just thought of is that it'd be super cool if - by using the joy con as a mouse - they had a track creator mode where you could share custom tracks.

Did it even say it was MK9?

Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted. Won't mind if there are any added features, but I am happy with a "powerful" switch.

Did they say for sure that there will not be any game announcements before April? I was hoping, since Nintendo has officially announced the system, developers would start listing it as a release target for their games. Even Nintendo might have a new game trailer and put a sneaky "for the Switch 2" at the end.

On the bright side it confirms backwards compatibility which is big.

Huh. I thought it was February because Eurogamer linked the US trailer. I had to go double check. You're correct.

Specs have been leaked before, starting way back in 2021 regarding the T239 SoC variant.

Since then, especially recently with the motherboard leak, people have pieced together specs that make it ~11x more powerful, but that's looking at raw numbers and trying to fit that into something we currently know.

Knowing Nintendo, it will be underpowered and underclocked to preserve cost, battery life and make it as stable as possible for the long run.

Something different this time is the DLSS tech though. This might make games run easier no matter the raw numbers by allowing a lower native resolution without losing (much) visual acuity.

But that's more a story for 3rd party developers, honestly, so I digress. I'll say I'm cautiously optimistic about the potential of the hardware.

None of the fan projects would even be possible without Nintendo in the first place, but you do you.

Great games, shitty company. Unfortunately, because of the first thing, a lot of people ignore (and even defend) the second thing.

The only reason everyone is whelmed is because of all the leaks.

Had no one known anything, we'd be talking about the bigger size, new joycons and such.

Since there are no surprises we are just confirming what we already know.

Yeah I thought they were going to do more than just “here’s what it looks like!” we’ve already seen what it looks like from the leaks

I haven't been following the leaks, but from the comments here, it seems it will be by DLSS, that is AI upscaling.

Seems like there are two which is cool

Me too!

It does!

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