• devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wish people would stop craving and talking about a potential switch 2. It’s useless. For those who want to game now the switch works fine, is good hardware, has lots of games and new ones keep coming and it keeps selling new consoles. They could not release a new switch for the next 5 years and it wouldn’t matter at all.

    This is all about the nerds of the latest and hottest tech craving for something new. Most Nintendo players are not those type of people.

    And it’s obvious that whatever comes next will fully support and run the current the games the existing switch, if not they wouldn’t be releasing new games for it.

    So stay calm and keep playing.

    Useless noise, so annoying.

    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Just wanted to say that while I agree with the spirit of your comment, there are so many Nintendo first party titles that barely hit 30 fps, that a power bump would be nice.

      I’m not expecting 4k 144 fps, but just hitting a consistent 30 (or call me crazy, 60) would make me very happy. Playing Xenoblade at sub 720p, or Tears of the Kingdom at less than 30, is just unacceptable imo.

      I don’t even care about a Switch 2, just give me a Switch Pro or something, something that can play all the available games well.

    • Grangle1@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Nintendo has been more about innovation in gameplay more than graphics pretty much since the turn of the century, and aside from the Wii U it’s paid off for them pretty well, so why should they change that model? Further, this isn’t like the Wii days in which they got only shovelware or severely butchered versions of 360/PS3 games from third parties: the main difference in many third party Switch games compared to their MS/Sony counterparts is mostly just running at 30 vs 60 FPS with no other major graphical or gameplay changes.

      That said, Nintendo has been blessed to have mostly weak competition in the handheld console market up to now, so also hasn’t felt much pressure from outside in the handheld world until recently. Their handhelds have had quite the long lifespans: the Game Boy lasted from the late 80s to the 2000s before the upgrade to the GBA, and even after the Switch released the 3DS was still seeing relatively strong support until the turn of this decade, putting that at around a nine-year life cycle. I mention this because the Switch for many is as much a handheld as a home console. Now the Steam Deck and similar handheld PCs are giving Nintendo their first strong handheld competition since the PSP (among dedicated gaming machines, I don’t include smartphones). That handheld challenge may also be behind fans’ push for a Switch 2 soon and/or featuring more graphical power than Nintendo may have originally been wanting. But even then, they are mostly best off moving at their own pace and not trying too hard to keep up with the competition. It’s when they have tried to keep up that they hit their lowest numbers compared to MS/Sony, such as the GameCube and the Wii U. When they do their own thing and take the time to get it right is when they are at their best.

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      2 months ago

      It’s weird that fanboys still desire the latest tech from Nintendo. They haven’t given a damn since the GameCube.

      And you know what, i still like my graphical fidelity, but thats what the PC is for. Nintendo consoles are for the great gameplay loops they always manage to develop into there games.

    • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Tears of the Kingdom really made the switch show it’s age. It would have been nice to play it without the framerate drops.

      Guess I should have emulated it.

      • Kelly@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        It would have been nice to play it without the framerate drops.

        I felt the same at launch with Breath of the Wild.

        I would have been happy to play a more powerful hardware variant that focused on being a home console. Instead Nintendo offered more portable versions :/