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Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it’s been pushed to q1 2025
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Nintendo is talking about Switch 2? When did that start?
There’s been a good amount of evidence they’re working on it. Then some rumors of a dev kit being shown to publishers. And then the distinct slowdown of releases and announcements of major Nintendo IPs. So likely the plan was to announce the new console in the spring or summer for a winter/Christmas release.
They always start working on the next console as soon as one nears completion and release. It’s just a question of how far along with the plans they are. If they have an approximate quarter then the hardware is probably mostly ready
I feel like it was the past month or two? There’s supposed to be a Nintendo direct soon which might tell us more. Lots of speculation as of now. Only thing that I’ve read is that it won’t have an oled screen
Only to its partners, there were many reports that they showed a devkit behind closed doors a couple of months ago.
Switch still feels like such a fresh system to me. I’m in no hurry for an upgrade
If it’s 100% backwards compatible, as it should be, I won’t mind upgrading and passing down mine to my young child or perhaps donating it to a children’s hospital.
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Luckily I’m one of those short sighted fools who prefers to buy games digitally, so that may still work out for me.
I’m ready to quit hearing jealous PlayStation and Xbox owners gripe about the lack of power in the portable they wish was fast enough to subdue their midlife crisis 😅
I think I’m going to download all my digital purchases into SD cards and hopefully they’ll still be playable when the OG switch reaches EOL.
I hope that works! I never got into digital downloads on consoles in any big way, how companies make games from the online shop inaccessible once the console goes end of life is a damn shame! It feels like the more and more consoles move toward digital only, the less we’ll have viable retro consoles in the future.
Also, I wouldn’t know how to back the sd cards up in case they break. You can’t exactly do an image and duplicate them. It doesn’t work so well with SD cards.
Uh, you very much can take an image of an SD card, the same as with any other block device.
You can have errors when you write it back into another SD card and end up with a corrupt card. That was from experience a long time ago.
Maybe the tools are better adapted now?
That’s going to be a function of your SD card reader and the quality of the card itself. If you’re really concerned, copy it to your HDD, then read again and verify. And then when writing, do a verify step as well.
If you have write errors, you have a bad card.
But the filesystem is just FAT, isn’t it? You should be able to copy at the file instead of block level.
Not with a Nintendo Switch SD card I would think?
The only difference there is the specific formatting, it can still be cloned
If this were universally true then SD cards would be completely useless, as regular writes would fail in the same manner. Bad card, bad slot, or bad tools.
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Sure just use Yuzu
I noticed there’s now a Batman Arkham Knight port on Switch. As you might expect, like a lot of other AAA ports, it doesn’t run so well. Seems there’s demand for these games on there, indicating a lot of players only end up with one console. Even if Nintendo can work with their low-power devices, I get the impression third party developers will generally need more to get Unreal Engine going smooth.
Delayed from what exactly
It says in the post description, it was originally set for Q4 2024 but now it’s going to be in Q1 2025 allegedly
Delayed from what exactly
I don’t think the request is obvious when it’s worded that way, could you elaborate?
And it will be outdated and underpowered at launch and probably like $400 minimum
You don’t buy Nintendo for pure computing power. I prefer Nintendo consoles for the portability and game library.
I also have a pc with a 3070ti for more demanding games. Games that Xboxes and playstations runs like shit anyway.
I don’t understand why it would be preferred over a steam deck, especially if it is at that price point.
Size. Not everyone has ginormous hands. The steam deck feels big and unwieldy despite being fairly light. I also don’t like the ergonomics of the steam deck, and I would miss the colours and so on. But also not everyone wants to emulate Nintendo games. Half the fun of animal crossing was sharing experiences with other players online. Same with smash bros. Emulation isn’t at a point where I would consider it to be for the masses and certainly not for a lot of kids these days.
The steam deck is a great device and there should be competition in this space of portables. But not everything about it is perfect for everyone.
I like how the switch had two Zelda games that are still more mechanically impressive than all the open world games on “better” systems.
All that proves is Nintendo writes great software.
It doesn’t make their hardware not criminally underwhelming.
Also those games have a lot of typical nintendo stubbornness like not realising they’re still putting the buttons on the wrong way around.
Nintendo put the buttons in their order 2 decades before the Xbox even existed, if anything Microsoft is putting buttons on the wrong way around. Unless of course you’re referring to something other than the order of X Y A B.
I’ll be surprised if it even approaches the hardware power of the PS4/XBO. It won’t matter. Fan boys will eat whatever they’re given, and ask for seconds.
ohh nooo, games that are actually fun
Found the person who does not understand the switch and what it is. Who is a 700 dollar pc gamer but wishes they could afford a 4070 TI since they are using a 1030 or a Voodoo4 3dfx card. All video cards that are almost as much as the switch alone other then the troll card which on eBay is going for over a 100 bucks for a 20 year old gfx card right now
What’s the troll card?
“I will decide what the Switch is”
Oh, the arrogance. Also I don’t play games on my PC. Now don’t you just look silly.
Calm down, Susan, everything will be OK.
looking forward to the next wacky controller concept
I was just looking at Switch games in the store this weekend. Even games that came out when Switch launched are still nearly $60. The console is slow and laggy. Nintendos online networks are laughable and cheesy. It’s such a barebones and cruddy system with overpriced games and it never drops in price or popularity. People make no sense to me.
While not the 1st household Nintendo product the switch was the 1st device that I bought for me I think imdone with Nintendo. I’m not interested in another device that will likely try to drop me in the hole close to £100 to keep playing the games I already own.
My wife bought me bayonetta3 which is where she drier. Kicked in for me. I would play the new zelda game but the new controller cost doubles the price and there isn’t enough games for me yo sink that cost again
What in the fuck are you talking about? Who charged you $100 brexitpence to keep playing games you already own?
And why do you need a special controller to play either Zelda? They work fine with the controllers you already own.
Controller drift. Require new ones. They are expensive as hell. There for to enjoy new games I need to buy the game and new controllers.
I tried the replacement because of the class action suit but because I no longer have the receipt they won’t accept replacement
By the way brexit wasn’t my idea I hate those fuckers
Edit for context I’m still using xbox 360 controllers with my pc
I had the same problem. Never noticed the drift until tears of the kingdom and then it made the game nearly unplayable. Decided to buy a pro controller only to discover it sold out nearly everywhere with many being sold online for scalper prices.
However, once I found one it was a game changer. The thing fits very well in my hands and works well. I don’t regret buying it, but will be pissed if it does not work with the next console.
This but third-party. I love my 8BitDos.
Joystick drift can be fixed at home with like 15 dollars worth of replacement parts lol
It works so well I’ve done it several times! On the same joycons.
Speaking seriously, DO NOT OVER-TIGHTEN. Those ribbon cables are super brittle.Link me
I’d recommend that you get these ones, but you can pick them up plenty of places that aren’t Amazon too, just make certain you get the ones made by Gulikit, any others are probably as cheap as your originals and you’ll have to come back and replace them again in short order. The Gulikit ones use Hall Effect sensing rather than resistive contact pads that will eventually scrape down and break.
That kit at Amazon comes with all the tools to do the job and as the sticks are Hall Effect based, they’ll theoretically never drift unlike the ones that ship with Joy-Cons straight from Nintendo.
iFixIt has the process for doing the work: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Left+Joy-Con+Joystick+Replacement/113182 and https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Right+Joy-Con+Joystick+Replacement/113185
Ordered. Thanks for the info
I have gotten two sets of drifting Joycons replaced for free. If you are in the US make sure to check out their support page.
I tried that but the form wanted copies of receipts which I have long since lost (not in the us)
