09-18-2024, 02:51 PM
Latest Nintendo Switch 2 leaks suggest relatively unchanged design, but massively improved specs
Quote:Of these images, 10 are 3D model renders. They show what looks like a beefed-up version of the Nintendo Switch, with a significantly larger display and a large kickstand similar to that of the Nintendo Switch OLED. There are also some clear differences in the area where the controllers attach to the system, which now appears to be much more recessed.
Does anyone else feel like Nintendo gave up on being innovative in favor of manufacturing The Big PSP? At this point I'm only looking forward to this so that I can turn my Switch into a RetroArch machine.
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At this point just get a Steam Deck
nindo games will be 80 dollars
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I was honestly okay with the switch 2 price, I was expecting worse, but the game prices I just... no. It's too much at this point. I don't even game enough for this I'm so tired
04-03-2025, 11:47 AM
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Well there was that new monkey girl in the DK trailer
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I just don’t think it’s worth it, for how little I actually played my switch(1). But the dustblood or whatever new fromsoft looks nice
Nintendo confirms you will have to pay to use the Switch 2’s C button
Quote:Nintendo has made its own Discord-like chat app for the Switch 2, and it’s going to charge you for it. Once the free period is over on March 31, 2026, GameChat, and the C button that activates it, will require a Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) membership.
Why the Switch 2 is so expensive, according to Nintendo
Quote:Trinen didn’t specifically address recent global trade issues, driven by President Donald Trump’s trade war with practically every nation on Earth, but it was clear that these undercurrents of uncertainty had an impact on the Switch 2’s pricing. Nintendo actually moved its Switch production to Vietnam back in 2019 in an effort to avoid the heavy tariffs placed on China during the first Trump administration. Unfortunately for Nintendo, on the day of the big debut of the Switch 2, Trump instituted a 46% tariff on Vietnam. The high price for the Switch 2 might have been the result of some educated guesswork from Nintendo to allow the company to better weather the market conditions that the trade wars might bring. Clearly, that guesswork is ongoing, as pre-orders have been delayed due to the incoming tariffs.
Nintendo delays Switch 2 pre-orders in response to Trump tariffs
Quote:“Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions,” Nintendo said in a statement provided to Polygon. “Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”
Oh, also
Nintendo won’t tell us how the Switch 2 Joy-Cons will avoid drift
Quote:“As you may have witnessed and felt, the new Joy-Con 2 controllers for the Nintendo Switch 2 have been really designed from the ground up from scratch and they’ve been designed to have bigger movements and also a smoother movement,” said Tetsuya Sasaki, general manager of Nintendo’s hardware development division, to the crowd via translator. He offered no additional follow-up, only asking the reporters assembled if they could feel the difference.
Switch 2's first dual-mouse mode game is wheelchair basketball Drag x Drive
Quote:The game itself is 3 v 3 wheelchair basketball, and alongside some new accessibility options on the Switch 2 itself, appears to show Nintendo taking disability more seriously.
As for the console itself, Nintendo is expanding the existing Switch accessibility options.
"In addition to existing accessibility features on Nintendo Switch, to support players' wide range of gameplay styles," says Nintendo, "Nintendo Switch 2 offers a variety of new accessibility options including the ability to adjust font size, enable screen reader, and speech-to-text features within GameChat."
Sounds good, right?
Drag X Drive booth staff mention they’d been told to refer to them as “vehicles” and not wheelchairs
Quote:Journalist Laura Kate Dale recently went to the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience at London and tested out the new Drag x Drive game. What is interesting is she overheard the booth attendants say to another attendee that they had been told to refer to the wheelchairs, which the player zooms around in, as vehicles and not wheelchairs. Gaming journalist Chris Scullion mentions that he heard the same thing from a booth attendant.
@laurakbuzz.bluesky.social Wrote:At the London Switch 2 hands on experience today, and heard something that stood out.
Two staff on the Drag X Drive booth mentioned they'd been told to refer to these as "vehicles" and not wheelchairs.
I got clarification they'd been told to do so.
To be clear, I spoke to wheelchair users, including one wheelchair basketball player, before posting this thread, to confirm this felt off.
The official sport is called wheelchair basketball, and those I spoke to hadn't cone across "vehicles" as a term in this context.
@scully1888.bluesky.social Wrote:I was told the same thing, and not at that particular booth. Was playing something else and staff asked me what else I had tried. I keep forgetting the game’s name (I keep thinking ‘Drag x Drop’) so I said “the one with the wheelchairs is interesting”, and she replied “oh, we call them vehicles”
God. I don't have anything funny to say I'm actually just sad.
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