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 March 24 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]

 

[davidwhangchoi]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:13 AM, 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.

bestbuy canada confirming your post

 

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond revealed

 

Edited March 27 by davidwhangchoi

[mikeszekely]

22 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond revealed

Interesting, considering that reliable leakers were saying it wasn't going to be shown. I'm also surprised that it looks like it's still coming to the Switch 1. It's a must-buy for me (I wish 2-3 would get ports, too).

Dragon Quest I+II, Raidou Remastered, the Marvel beat 'em up, and that Pac Man metroidvania are high on my wish list  too, but I'll get those on PC.

The digital game card feature seems cool, should make it easier to share games with my kid.

[Mommar]

On 3/27/2025 at 8:14 AM, davidwhangchoi said:

bestbuy canada confirming your post

 

Except not.  Other outlets are saying the 9th.

 

On 3/27/2025 at 8:48 AM, mikeszekely said:

Interesting, considering that reliable leakers were saying it wasn't going to be shown. I'm also surprised that it looks like it's still coming to the Switch 1. It's a must-buy for me (I wish 2-3 would get ports, too).

It could be (SHOULD BE) one of the "Switch 2 Enabled" games mentioned in some of the promo material.

[Mommar]

They have Delta in the new Super Robot Wars.

 

[mikeszekely]

Mario Forza Kart Horizon.

Ah, so there will be a switch 2 version of Metroid Prime 4 after all. 

I may be the only person on earth looking forward to a new Daemon X Machina game. 

Yes to more Hyrule Warriors. 

I'm glad that the Switch 2 looks like it's going to have strong 3rd party support, it's just that most of it looks like games you could already buy on PS4/5/PC.

Edited yesterday at 01:48 PM by mikeszekely

[Old_Nash_II]

I liked Bravely Default HD, it's a shame that Golden Sun was once again forgotten at the party...

[Tking22]

Honestly, I was expecting $400, think I'll wait at $450, nothing at launch looks like anything I need. 

[mikeszekely]

17 minutes ago, Tking22 said:

Honestly, I was expecting $400, think I'll wait at $450, nothing at launch looks like anything I need. 

Oof. $399 was pricey but doable, but $50 less than a PS5 for a console that might be as powerful as a PS4 is pushing it.

EDIT: the $500 bundle with Mario Kart is looking like a better deal since Nintendo quietly announced that Mario Kart World will have an $80 price tag 

Edited 23 hours ago by mikeszekely

[azrael]

Here's the TLDR version of this morning's live stream:

As well as the full specs page. I wanna see a teardown of this.

Leaks say the CPU is based off the "Orin"-SoC, which is based off Ampere (that's the RTX 30-series generation).

36 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

Oof. $399 was pricey but doable, but $50 less than a PS5 for a console that might be as powerful as a PS4 is pushing it.

EDIT: the $500 bundle with Mario Kart is looking like a better deal since Nintendo quietly announced that Mario Kart World will have an $80 price tag 

*almost spit takes coffee* Yeah, I'll wait for Black Friday or the holiday season to grab one. You early adopters can bug test this.

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Not the Bloodborne sequel I wanted, but it looks awfully close:

[Old_Nash_II]

23 minutes ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Not the Bloodborne sequel I wanted, but it looks awfully close:

An acquaintance said that it might be like what happened with Demon's Souls for Dark Souls.
Bloodbourne is exclusive to Sony, and they made this for the rest

[Mommar]

It gets better microSD cards don't work, you need microSD Express now.  And a 1TB E press is $200.

[davidwhangchoi]

10 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Not the Bloodborne sequel I wanted, but it looks awfully close:

looks hot!

[Mommar]

14 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

I may be the only person on earth looking forward to a new Daemon X Machina game.

In theory I do, but they'll have to really fix the gameplay in order to win me back.

[mikeszekely]

1 hour ago, Mommar said:

In theory I do, but they'll have to really fix the gameplay in order to win me back.

That's kind of what I mean. So many people seemed to complain about the first one, but I unironically thought it was pretty good.

Hope it comes to PC. Switch 2 is coming in a little pricier than I expected, and that's before a bunch of new tariffs are set to go into place, plus Nintendo thinks at least some games should retail for $80. I'm thinking I might just splurge on new PC hardware instead.

[davidwhangchoi]

i'm looking at the mario cart bundle. seeing that mario cart is looking to be 80 dollars.