The Nintendo Switch

[mikeszekely]

Rumor, so take it with a grain of salt, but there's some buzz going around that preorders will open for the Switch 2 on Wednesday, April 2nd at 10:00am EDT.

[Scyla]

2 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Rumor, so take it with a grain of salt, but there's some buzz going around that preorders will open for the Switch 2 on Wednesday, April 2nd at 10:00am EDT.

I‘m unsure when and if I should replace my OLED Switch. I still have a big backlog of games and the performance of the Switch never was a concern to me since all the indie games I played run mighty fine. 

I’m not a fan of TotK (but loved BotW) so I’m not that excited for a 3D Zelda game but a Mario Odyssey 2 or M:Prime 4 might make a purchase worthwhile. Mario Kart games play mostly the same for me so Mario Kart 9 doesn’t have a big draw for me.

Edited yesterday at 07:02 PM by Scyla

[Mommar]

I'm buying one Day 1.

[azrael]

2 hours ago, Scyla said:

I‘m unsure when and if I should replace my OLED Switch. I still have a big backlog of games and the performance of the Switch never was a concern to me since all the indie games I played run mighty fine.

It's probably not worth it to upgrade if you have the Switch OLED. While the Switch 2's screen is likely a regular LCD with 120Hz, it won't look as nice as the OLED.

[Mommar]

The OLED doesn't look better anyway, just yellow tinted when next to a regular LCD.  

[Hikuro]

I'm going to hold off. I have enough on my plate as it is, and I got more than enough switch games and other games on other consoles to play. I'm gonna dive in hot and heavy like I said when the switch first released a decade ago. Plus this'll allow for any kind of bugs and faults to be corrected later on. 

[mikeszekely]

2 hours ago, azrael said:

It's probably not worth it to upgrade if you have the Switch OLED. While the Switch 2's screen is likely a regular LCD with 120Hz, it won't look as nice as the OLED.

So it's a choice between the vibrant colors and rich blacks of an OLED screen on a potato, or an LCD on a less-underpowered device (that likely incorporates DLSS)?  Bye, Switch OLED.

3 hours ago, Mommar said:

I'm buying one Day 1.

Same.  It's a Nintendo console.  Even if I do 90% of my gaming on PC I still love most of Nintendo's first-party games, and I'm confident that there'll be something I want to play at launch.

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Hikuro said:

I'm going to hold off. I have enough on my plate as it is, and I got more than enough switch games and other games on other consoles to play. I'm gonna dive in hot and heavy like I said when the switch first released a decade ago. Plus this'll allow for any kind of bugs and faults to be corrected later on. 

I barely got into the whole switch thing. So I’m ok with waiting. Besides, I guess Assault suit Leynos 2 is now available , so I’m gonna probably play the heck out of it.

[azrael]

On 1/16/2025 at 10:33 AM, azrael said:

I'm probably game as well. But I'll wait closer to end of year so bugs can be worked out.

Me? ☝️

[Mog]

So, have they done anything to fix the joy-con drift issue?

That was one of the things that kinda killed the fun for me.

[Seto Kaiba]

11 minutes ago, Mog said:

So, have they done anything to fix the joy-con drift issue?

That was one of the things that kinda killed the fun for me.

Various media outlets like Polygon have reported that the Switch 2's joycons switched to Hall effect sensors, which should eliminate the stick drift issue the Switch 1's analog sticks had.

[davidwhangchoi]