similar aesthetics but with a larger screen and Joy-Cons
TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.
I feel like they meant to make this their switch pro, but the parts shortages probably meant they had to delay much longer than they liked. So as a result, I think they decided to make it a successor instead?
Though I wonder what the hardware is like?
While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.
- NES>SNES
- N64>GameCube
- GB>GBA
- DS>3DS
With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.
With the ds it was even more.
DS->DS Lite>DSi->3DS->2DS->New 3DS/2DS
N64 -> GCN is a stretch to me, but Wii -> WiiU isn’t
Branding aside, the GameCube had:
- four controller sockets built into the console
- a media format with much lower capacity than the competition
- a controller with one primary thumbstick and two primary face buttons.
These feel like vestigial N64 features
Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!
Mayyybe.
IMO what sets the GameCube apart from anything else is its controller. Those assymetric buttons are unlike anything, including N64. Plus the weird analogic triggers.
Okay, actually now that you bring all that up, yeah! The controller is very different looking but functionally, even the C stick/C buttons are similar
Same design as the leak a couple months ago. Idk I love my switch, but that’s really only because of some of the games. If my gaming laptop hadn’t died on me I’d be emulating. I have a feeling this console will be similar.
Please don’t support Nintendo. They have been super aggressive with lawsuits. They should go after people doing illegal things, but the palworld stuff and dmca people streaming games is pretty bad.
As long as Nintendo continues to support a physical format, I’m going to buy a Switch 2 and games for it. You’re free to make a personal decision about whether to support a company or not; everyone has to make their own purchasing decisions based on their values and priorities. I don’t support many companies that you probably do support, some that you may not even give a second thought to. Palworld, for me, doesn’t rank.
dmca people streaming games is pretty bad.
I agree but technically they are in the right. Technically game streaming is likely illegal and breaks copyright. It’s commonly accepted and often encouraged by most companies though.
I guess we’ve lost this battle, but down vote is not for disagreement. This comment provides an on-topic opinion and suggestion in a polite way, without any hate speech or trying to start a flame war.
No company is perfect. The only thing bad enough to boycott here is modern Pokemon games, until those devs learn how to code properly.
Eh? Where’s the line exactly? I’d much sooner boycott a company because they’re causing genuine damage with ridiculous lawsuits, than because they make bad games.
I’m buying a launch console to not play for future hacks for
piracyLinux ISOs. Considering they sell consoles at a loss, this is even more effectiveConsoles are not universally sold at a loss. Among the notable exceptions is the Nintendo Switch…
What? It isn’t about that at all.
It is about then filing a patent in 2021 for “aiming and throwing an item to capture a character”. Something that had been done in RPGs for decades. And they bribed enough officials in Japan to get it approved 1 month before palworld came out.
Then they used the full might of Nintendo legal bribery and lawyers to try to crush indie developers that dare make their “style” of game (which they have been floundering for a decade) better than they do.
Not to mention that they use threats to shut down completely legal emulation software that they themselves steal and use after refusing to preserve old games themselves.
