#Nintendo Switch (OLED model)

[cucarachachavez]

I think that a proper Nintendo Direct won't happen until next Year. It's going to be a long one, as it'll explain the Switch's successor and upcoming Game for the Switch as well. I still think that the Switch will live alongside its successor for a few more years. Nintendo has no other platforms aside from those two in the future.

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[raidenloml]

save me link from the legend of zelda franchise save me (frantically boots up my switch only to find it hasnt been charged in a month)

[psygull]

hello sandra. i want to play a game. in front of you is an OLED model Nintendo Switch loaded with a copy of DOOM Eternal. you have 15 minutes to play through the first level. there is a camera looking over your shoulder where i will be watching. if you don't beat it, that's okay, you are still free to leave after the 15 minutes are up. i want to see if the game looks fun before i buy it, and i couldn't find any letsplays on youtube kids

[mikeluigi64]

Thoughts and opinion on Switch 2

Before I start, do know I really like tech and generally, I like interesting implemtations of it, so I do have a bias towards handheld consoles in general because they have much more interesting limitations to start with. I'll get all my thoughts, up and down, on the switch 2.

I know the bigger screen does mean more internal area to work with, but how the hell did they manage to keep the thickness nearly identical to the switch 1? Actually impressive, I desperately want to see inside if it is all just because of smaller chip size.

Ok, so where do I properly begin excluding the shock that they pulled off the same thickness? Oh, the screen!

This screen is just a welcome addition overall. 1080p, better brightness and better panel tech that allows for HDR (Microsoft fix your god damn hdr implementation even nintendo has it) while being 120hz and VRR (Nvidia confirmed that it's using their implementation of g-sync via a blog post, here: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nintendo-switch-2-leveled-up-with-nvidia-ai-powered-dlss-and-4k-gaming/). It now matches and slightly exceeds a lot of displays on handhelds now, which funnily enough makes puts it in a similar position as the og switch screen back in 2017, but at least the baseline is much higher so I think this will make the eventual OLED either be more meh, or more better in comparison. It may be closer to the meh side, at least with the first impressions I'm seeing on youtube and seen through my 2013 gaming monitor with clear faded pixels which is it's own issue if I do end up deciding to get a switch 2. Still +$100 I'm calling it. However, the fact it's 120hz natively means that you can now run games at 40fps without screen tearing because it's a clean divisable number of 120, with it looking noticably better then 30fps but not as draining as 60fps or above, which is going to help with more title's battery life. Speaking of Nvidia, let's talk a bit about that blog post.

I do not know how much people like this or not (See recent RTX 40xx and 50xx launches to see how happy people are with Nvidia), but I think they are very much the ideal partners in crime with Nintendo this time around. As long as the Tensor hardware is power efficient enough as they claim, this will just be a boon for handheld gaming times, even if they're stuck at the same 2-6.5 hours as the launch model og switch. It also means it can be updated with time to improve games potentially, so if developers decide to take advantage of it and nvidia/nintendo makes it easy to just update the codebase of a game to get to a never version, we may actually have a case of games becoming more performant and/or better looking with time, assuming they are not running at native 4k already. That's neglecting the processing offloading for stuff like that goofy camera, microphone quality and other stuff

(seriously, if you got a recent enough Nvidia GPU try the Nvidia Broadcast app, it's does basically all the audio/video stuff nintendo showed recently, but now with a focused platform I think this is going to become excellent)

oh ya, it is odd that the stream from friend's framerate is like 12 fps, best guess there is because it uses the on board video encoder and decoded to handle it, and if each is a seperate channel, along with one for background recording/screenshots, plus whatever the games may need for their own dedicated use, I am not too surprised it got the cut on such a slim package. Suck though.

That leads into the dock.

I think the dock is fine. Does the job, has USB ports on the side to connect controllers and charge them (USB 2 tho, so I guess the camera attachement had to go to the top USB C port CORRECTION, I just saw MKBHD's recent switch 2 impression video, it can actually be attached elsewhere maybe. That's interesting, Photo attached below). I think it's as inoffensive as the Switch Oled dock, which does all it needed to do too plus ethernet. It's fine.

I guess while I'm here, let's touch upon the Microsd Express card slot.

Let me preface this by saying, I knew that the standard was compatible with SD cards of prior so I found it odd they didn't make it clear if it could be used to at least get video/screenshots off, but they did!

Talking about the microSD express cards themselves, I may be in the minority here, but I am very very happy to see this get adopted. For those who are not in the know, it's basically much faster flash (that can be made for slightly more then an normal SD card) that runs off of the reader's PCIe Gen 4, allowing up to 2gb/s of read/write. Which is Crazy, and if they're mandating it to be required for games, that means the current 800mb/s read ones on the market right now is what the console will be using and games will finally load up so much faster. And, unlike the original SD cards, higher capacities like a terabyte already exist AND are not insanely more expensive over base sd cards.(I mean $20-25 for 256gb sd cards to $60 for same but microsd express is still a jump, but do you guys remember how fucking much 256gb sd cards costed originally? It was like $150, and I think 256gb storage will get further milage then the original 32gb storage the og switch had. And 1tb already cost $200 for when it comes out with the switch 2. Those prices will drop unless, uh... not within the scope of what I want to talk about)

Since we're on storage, 256gb of UFS storage? Like on phones, that can go multiple gigabytes per second read/write? Hell ya, we bout to get load times not much worse then other modern consoles.

Let's touch upon the joycons now.

I like them, but as more in a sense of improvment over og switch joycons. Which, honestly, that's all they needed to do. The standout weird feature is the mouse on both, but I only see this as a plus. I want more of my PC games on portable systems, and as much as I want the steamdeck too, the switch form factor is still more portable. Just... please let the bigger joysticks be actually good and resistant to stick drift, I do not want to open them up just to replace the sticks with hall effect ones again. As a plus, I can't wait to see what insanity warioware is going to become now.

Oh ya, chat.

Surprised it took them 2 decades to finally do it, but they seem to have a lot of restraint there still, with extensive parent controls to help metigate any issues, so I'll only give them slightly less shit. Slightly. I'm going to call it though, there is going to be controversy about what eventually will occur over the gamechat. Can't wait!

Switch online services

I mean, it was inevitable. This, with the Wii games that's almost absolutely coming later, is going to be good. I suspect a pricebump is going to occur with the NSO that's going to make it cost almost a full game per year, but at least the retro selection is going to start going from crazy to insane, making it probably worth it. I just hope that the voucher program (shown below) gets expanded to more third parties, because as much as I like nintendo games for $50 a piece with this program, it needs to be way more expansive to make the $20 cost at this time to be online, let alone get the 2 vouchers for $100, worth it. If they do that, and keep on adding new actually fun (looking at you Zelda Notes... what the fuck are you) and nice to have to the service, I think it could become worth it in the near future.

I ALMOST FORGOT ONLINE DOWNLOAD PLAY, seriously that alone may be worth it because with both local and online, it means you do not have to force your friends to buy games they may otherwise never touch outside of playing with you. This is straight up a good, pro-consumer thing if others don't ignore it 24/7. I just hope the streaming quality will not be dogshit ahhaha....

(Shout out to nintendo actuallly using this a part to prevent scalpers, I don't like it much because I didn't pay for NSO on the og switch but at least this is a verifiable way to prevent scalpers. I just wish acconts from the Wii U/3ds era got special treatment :^) )

Since we're getting more into software, shout out to how sad the UI is still.

Nintendo, the literal bare minimun here is not just black and white customizable themes. You haven't done that for a generation. I would have much rather had the UI present from the DSi/Wii to Wii U/3ds era then this bland nothing soup. God. Now, onto the most devicive one, and the one that makes or breaks it for me. The games, and their prices.

Let's get a few things clear, the $90 physical switch 2 game thing (which I had fallen for too) is in europe. If you're a suffering US citizen, the price is $80 for what seems to be big, high budget nintendo games, with everything else being $70, at least from the list of prices I've seen online.

About Game key cards, ya it's just the 'download play' games on the switch, but instead of a piece of paper that's one time, it's a re-usable cartridge that allows multiple downloads on other switches and acts like a physical one otherwise. This, in my opinion, is objectively better, and is not the default option. Other games will be on the Cartidge like og switch, see Cyberpunk 2077 on a 64gb one (seriously how the fuck they did that).

This switch 2 edition is on a case by case basis, so if it is just an fps/resolution bump, it is likely to be free. If it has a bit more, like some added extras and they know people would pay for the fps/resolution, see botw and totk will be $10, and if the content has basically DLC + all of the above, it's $20. Also, lol at welcome tour.

Seeing all of that, I'm iffy. I'm worried that the panic and reactions from everyone will lock the prices for everyone else at $80 since the publishers will take any chance to push prices up further, but if $70 stays I would reluctantly accept it. Unlike some people on the other platforms may say, in the past before $60 standardization, we had other options to play games like with rental stores, actually being around friends, and frequent discounts and bundles to get inventory moving. That does mean nowadays, especially with no sale nintendo, this price is here to stay, and if this is the cost to actually keep games good and not need astronomical sales to make back development costs, so be it. I am just not happy knowing that a lot of publishers will be using machine created/generated stuff each year for that price or $80 and expect no issues with it. The only thing I am very curious about is the capabilities of the switch 2 being somewhere between a PS4 and PS5, but able to handle PS5 ports, potentially making it the best way to play a lot of newer games on the go until valve decides in 2030 to make the steam deck 2.

Now everyone's favorite issues, price. I think it's reasonable, sucks a bit but reasonable. We're now dealing in a world where Nvidia has their focus on AI stuff, and knows that Nintendo wants backward compat + better stuff, so Nvidia likely is changing way more on parts. This world also includes inflation (seriously, $300 in 2017 is now closer to $400, and now there's all the extra nicer stuff slapped on top to justify a next gen). This world also includes ungodly uncertienty because of a a group in the wrong place in the wrong time. Considering all of this, honestly, $450 is fine. It sucks, I know it has pushed a few friends out from buying it w/o someone assisting them in the purchase, but it's fine. It's going to be a great refinement, which is all a sequel console had to be. The thing you have to know, nintendo is doing the thing again with previous controllers being compatible with the current system, so in reality (especially with me and my hall-effect modded controllers) the price to play with others will not be much more. I touched upon this already, but the game prices are iffy for me, and it's absolutely going to prevent me from buying as many games as I had for the og switch, but it's an dampener.

I will need more time to simmer (and see how my finacial situation is going to be), but I am currently leaning to I will try to get it. I'm on the fence, and I have a good chance of flipping to waiting later, or just not getting.

I may add more thoughts as I think them and remember I can use tumblr like this, but I think this is everything I wanted to get out that has been simmering in my head for a bit. Oh ya I almost forgot the most important thing, Homebrew. I love homebrew, it has given me extra life and enjoyment out of my og switch. If there is another launch edition vuln that allows homebrew, I want in.

[mariacallous]

In the run-up to the Switch 2 launch, part of Nintendo’s focus has been on ensuring it can meet the demands of an audience hungry for a new console. And that new system comes with a hefty price—$450—which could go up even more due to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced last week.

But in an interview a day after Trump’s announcement, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser told WIRED the tariffs “weren’t factored into the pricing” of the console.

The company is “actively assessing” the situation and its impact, he adds. “It creates a challenge,” Bowser says. “It’s something we're going to have to address.”

Trump’s tariffs sent the stock market into free fall; prices on many products are about to go up, and companies in the tech sector will be turned on their heads. On Friday, Nintendo made the unprecedented move of delaying preorders in the US for the hotly anticipated console “in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.”

Part of the company’s business strategy, to this point, had been “to diversify the places where we're manufacturing our hardware and our accessories,” Bowser says. The company has already shifted much of its production to Vietnam and Cambodia and away from China.

According to Bowser, that diversification allowed Nintendo to move production around as needed during the Covid-19 pandemic. “That also applied to the early stages of tariffs,” he says. “The situation [on April 2] changed that.” Among Trump’s new tariffs: 46 percent on Vietnam, 49 percent on Cambodia, and 54 percent on China.

An additional price hike on the console would be problematic for Nintendo. The current top Switch model, the OLED, is $350, while a standard edition comes in at $300. The price was oddly missing from the console’s big announcement on Wednesday, a fact that hasn’t been lost on would-be customers already clamoring for Nintendo to “drop the price.” At the New York event, journalists were discouraged from asking hardware developers about the console’s cost.

Games have not been spared from high price tags either; Mario Kart World will cost $80. Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a tech demo masquerading as a game that explains the ins and outs of the Switch 2, will be an experience people have to pay for. (Notably, this got a huge laugh from the crowd present.)

Two former Nintendo public relations managers, Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis, have broken down the criticism around the pricing on their YouTube channel, as well as criticized how news about the price was presented to fans.

“Obviously it was intentionally omitted from the Direct for a reason but handled poorly in terms of the information being in all these different places,” Yang said, lambasting the decision to leave consumers to get answers themselves. “It’s a little bit degrading almost to the intelligence of the consumer.”

In the past, Nintendo products, including the original Switch, have been hard to find due to problems like chip shortages or global pandemics, but the company has taken efforts to “make sure that consumers can find a console when they're ready to buy the console," Bowser says.

Part of that includes a new loyalty program that aims to stop scalpers by requiring those who want to purchase the console to have an active Nintendo account. They'll also need to get a Nintendo Switch Online membership for a year and to have clocked at least 50 hours of gameplay. Console sales will be limited to one per person.

“We wanted to make sure that we were rewarding loyal players,” Bowser says. “Those that have been playing on [the Switch] for quite some time that we knew would be those upgraders—those that were eager to dive into play. That's why some of the gates, if you will, have been a part of the preorder process.” Other retailers, Bowser says, have their own systems to thwart scalpers.

The Switch 2 will soon move into global events, including those that are open to the public, ahead of its June launch. Bowser says that the company hopes to show its audience that “this is the next generation of platform” from Nintendo. The Switch 2 “obviously takes what you know and love so much from the Switch and then adds a lot of powerful features,” he says.

If tariffs force Nintendo’s hand, the company may find it harder to win over players than ever before. However, it’s unlikely Nintendo will face that dilemma alone. In an interview with IGN last Friday, ESA spokesperson Aubrey Quinn said that if people believe only the Switch 2 will be affected, “then we aren't taking it seriously. This is going to have an impact.”

The Switch 2 may yet be a bellwether for what’s to come.

[lunarlegend]

Nintendo diehards are already posting Steam Deck/Switch 2 comparisons on Reddit, so i just wanna say:

Steam Deck

- is a handheld PC. uses Linux but can launch .exe files (including Windows games)

- a Steam account is free. cloud saves are included

- games go on sale often

- you can play your games on multiple devices, back up your files, and copy your save data wherever you want. you can even add mods

- Steam Deck has EmuDeck. also free

- extremely easy emulation for any platform, where emulated games can be launched directly from Steam

- the OLED model in particular is lightweight and easy to hold, but feels sturdier than the OLED Switch

compared to Nintendo

- you don't actually own your games. even most cartridge games require updates to run and save to the Switch's internal memory

- you need a paid subscription to use basic features like cloud saves

- you cannot back up your data in any way

- Nintendo games are often overpriced, never drop in price, and rarely go on sale

- you need constant internet access if you want to play retro games via Nintendo Online

- no emulation. any attempt at modding gets your console banned unless you take very specific precautions

- they are literally planning to charge you to do a tutorial and use a chat feature on the Switch 2

[polyphonetic]

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[miriw3n]

Going the dumb phone route to isolate myself

Lately I've been having a craving for old internet and old media, not only because my social life is a dumpster fire (but yeah almost purely cause of that), but because I want to feel something tactile and real in my hands. So I'll document my journey and hopefully someone will find it helpful, the goal is to upload the raw unfiltered, uncurated images I capture of my life in this moment (no instagram cutesy filter, no high definition camera).

On that note, I got the Kyocera Gratina 4g phone and so far it has been awful. Getting used to the keyboard and the pointer has been extremely difficult, I still have much to learn. The phone has a camera, a very low quality one but it's something. Also installing apps and customizing, although daunting at first it's incredibly easy, so the software aspect is almost complete. I installed only tumblr, spotify, pinterest, aurora store, and via web browser. But I plan to install facebook and messenger too, only because I have a facebook group :p

Also in terms of gaming, the switch 2 console and game prices have definitely depressed me, so I think I'll stick with my Oled Switch and Mod my nintendo 3ds to have free games, I still need to buy an SD card tho.

And fitting with the Japanese theme of my old tech experiment, I bought my first ever tamagotchi, I decided to get the new angelgotchi that just released, I've been taking it everywhere and I even got the secret character! :3

Lastly I plan to get a digital camera, but I haven't decided yet which model to buy, I do own a Instax Fujifilm camera and it's a charm, but the photo cartridges are pricey, sooo maybe I'll get a fujifilm digital camera...? Idk if I find a cute functional camera I'll buy it and update you.

So that's all for today's entry, here is a photo of some of the devices mentioned in this video embellished in a cutesy instagram filter that I'll no longer gonna use.

[cucarachachavez]

The Next Nintendo Console:

Even when the successor for the Nintendo Switch is announced, I have no plans to get it at Launch Day, mostly because I don't think I'll be able to buy it in the future, but also because I want to focus on the Games that I haven't bought and played for the Switch. Also, I think that the Switch might live with its successor for a while, because there would be no other Nintendo Platforms in the future aside from those two (not counting Nintendo Switch Lite, and the OLED Model, as those are just variations of the Original Model), but that's just a wild guess.

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[unknownartistml]

Meggy and her OLED model of Nintendo Switch.

I wonder what game she's playing? (It's not Splatoon 2 or 3, btw.)

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New Nintendo Switch system update version 20.1.1 now live to fix an issue where some software would not start after updating to system version 20.1.0, full patch notes revealed

Nintendo has dispatched a brand-new system update for Nintendo Switch, which is now available for download worldwide. Official patch notes for the latest update version from the development team are as follows: Nintendo Switch System Update Information Applies to:  Nintendo Switch Family, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, Nintendo Switch – OLED Model Nintendo constantly aims to improve…

[cowbot-lumberjane]

The Switch 2 is going to suck because nintendo sucks. Its an upgrade in hardware that theyre going to use to split their already unified and extremely expensive market with because not everyone will be able to afford or even want a switch 2 over the one they already have. A Switch 2 lite is inevitable, so is a switch 2 OLED if it doesnt already have an OLED screen, but an asking price of 400-450 is fucking STEEP for something thats going to replace the thing they made their entire brand. They killed off any chance of another DS family system, and now its just gonna be switches forever. The switch 2 is gonna suck because its just the switch again, but now you have to pay almost 500$ to play anything new. Its going to have the same eshop full of dogshit AI generated hentai games, the same 3rd party support that has to downgrade games to put them on there (of which 10% will be done competently), and its gonna have the same overpriced online model with features gradually stripped away and paywalled behind the more expensive premium tier.

What WILL be new is an all new switch tax! Nintendo for sure is most likely to follow suit with the "new industry standard" of charging 70$ for games, prices which will never go down. And on top of that 3rd party devs and publishers are STILL going to charge 5-10$ more per game for switch versions. This console is fucking nothing. It wishes it had half the staying power the wii and the 3DS had. It does nothing new except expenses. Nintendo has finally joined the console race against themselves and have chosen to just go the way of every other "triple A" console manufacturer and do the same thing with some new guff inside.

Trash.

[kooldewd123]

okay, switch 2 first reactions:

more or less exactly what we've been expecting. even ignoring the leaks, "bigger switch" is basically what everyone's been saying for ages.

honestly kinda surprised they actually went for "switch 2" as the name. sure, it's the easiest and most logical name, but... nintendo isn't always the sort of company to make easy and logical choices. i was expecting to get. like. the nintendo squonch or something.

side note, but i'm pretty sure one of the third-party hardware leaks showed that exact logo and tried to pass it off as a placeholder. which is super funny in retrospect.

thank god we're getting a better kickstand. granted, that was probably a given since it was already on the oled model, but still incredibly good to see.

magnetic joy-cons! wonder how well that's gonna work out. larger size is definitely appreciated, though.

the joy-con holder is definitely altered since the joy-cons attach from the side instead of the top now, and i wonder whether the increased joy-con size will make up for the comfort value with the actual grip size being reduced.

don't particularly like them going with the black joy-cons as the seeming default and having the red and blue on the actual switch 2 itself. i really hope we get more colorful options, especially at launch.

april direct, huh? feels like an odd timing since we've had the february/june/september pattern down pretty consistently for a while. really makes me wonder what they're planning for the release window. super exciting to actually have a clear date to look for ward too, though.