Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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Never Scored said:
I don't know how many people are like me, but I personally did not connect my smart TV to the Internet because it's just another avenue to serve me ads. The software in them also becomes obsolete very rapidly and a lot of the apps stop working after a couple years and most people are gonna keep their TV longer than that.
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This is not the smartest way to go, as that internet connection is also how your TV gets firmware upgrades that can add or improve features, like VRR and HDR handling.
 
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No match for the FIFA boxes I’m afraid.
 
Kiwi Andy said:
After putting a decent amount of hours into MK World, this video is 100% accurate, the game sucks due to baffling design decisions. There is gold under the hood but it is covered in shit at the moment.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y9wvn2nKlq8
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Yeah I’ve noticed how barren the stages are, no stage hazards like thwomps or stuff to swerve around but what do you expect from the post Breath of the wild open world slop era?

Also is it true you don’t actually own a switch 2 like they pulled a ubisoft?
 
Buttigieg2020 said:
Nintendo does really well in France for whatever reason.
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Nothing complicated about it: French cultural supremacy surrendered to English and the Nips, after the trauma of their spanking in WW2 by the big American cock of nuclear weaponry, became fascinated by the remnants of Empire that beat them. The cross cultural exchange between France and Nippon was always a more "peer" relationship than their one with the broader English world.

English is to French like Nippon is to Korea, framed very roughly from a Nipponese standpoint.
 
I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
Also is it true you don’t actually own a switch 2 like they pulled a ubisoft?
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A kind redditor has broken down the relevant sections.

Looks like it depends on your region. In Europe, they can ban your console and revoke individual game licenses for TOS/EULA violations. In the US, they can do that plus 'render your console unusable in whole or in part.'

In practice, it's not really clear if anything has changed and I don't think they're going to be remotely bricking people's switches in Europe or the US. In Europe, it's because it's in violation of some consumer protection law. In the US, it's because the potential downside of getting a massive class-action along with an unfavorable judgment that sets precedent is high (US judges have been on a EULA punishment spree lately so Nintendo is probably worried about getting Apple'd). So I imagine they'll only go as far as to ban your console and leave it at that.

In Japan, you have no rights. Nintendo owns the Japanese government.

Buttigieg2020 said:
Nintendo does really well in France for whatever reason.
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The Fr*nchoid's inability to speak English insulated them from the wider European computer game scene so they were easy pickings for the first company to actually invest in making games in French.
 
Fcret said:
My impression has always been that Europeans don't care about Nintendo the same way burgers and nips do.
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Buttigieg2020 said:
Nintendo does really well in France for whatever reason.
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It depends on the country. During the 80s/90s and early 00s Nintendo had dogshit infrastructure in several Euro countries — in mine it was usual to see stores dominated by Mega Drive and later PS1/PS2 products while Nintendo stuff outside of the GameBoy was nowhere to be seen. This changed in the NDS/Wii era.
 
Buttigieg2020 said:
Nintendo does really well in France for whatever reason.
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Why would the French love a system that gives them easy access to interact with children?
Dammit Mandrake! said:
That's marketing speaking through you. Games looked great a decade ago and most improvements since have been marginal at best.

I can't believe you tried to current year me.
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So what's the point of the new system when Nintendo doesn't even attempt to improve their graphics?
 
CEO of Autism said:
It depends on the country. During the 80s/90s and early 00s Nintendo had dogshit infrastructure in several Euro countries — in mine it was usual to see stores dominated by Mega Drive and later PS1/PS2 products while Nintendo stuff outside of the GameBoy was nowhere to be seen. This changed in the NDS/Wii era.
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I also got the impression from message boards back in the day that PAL releases on Nintendo kind of sucked ass and they were always extremely late compared to the NTSC regions.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
They said that about Breath of the Wild, too. But the cycle is back around and now thay game is awesome and a model of a game/system launch.
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Nah, that game and its sequel fucking suck. Classic case of Jap fascination with the western open world trend, but no concept of what actually makes an open world game fun, oddly enough MKW seems to have an identical problem.
 
Fcret said:
Nintendo just announced (via their Nintendo Today app?????) that they're releasing a new Switch 2-exclusive spinoff for Splatoon and updating Splatoon 3 to have Switch 2 enhancements.

Splatoon Raiders appears to be a single-player survival adventure game. The Splatoon 3 update appears to be quite a lot of additional content.
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They're clearly worried. Its weird they didn't announce a date. I'm thinking pre-Christmas,, and have been calling it or AC a few times for that slot, but maybe it misses.
 
Americunt said:
Nah, that game and its sequel fucking suck. Classic case of Jap fascination with the western open world trend, but no concept of what actually makes an open world game fun, oddly enough MKW seems to have an identical problem.
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They throw out the core of a series to court the ubisoft dream, and what the players are left with is just that... a hollow open world. Pretty much everything gutted from nuZelda is what I actually enjoyed the series for. A unique arsenal of items, aesthetic dungeons and bosses, epic stories that build upon past entries, the lore, area themes and leitmotif... all these things have been sacrificed to an open world with G-mod gimmicks, mini-puzzles (shrines), and korok seeds.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
They throw out the core of a series to court the ubisoft dream, and what the players are left with is just that... a hollow open world. Pretty much everything gutted from nuZelda is what I actually enjoyed the series for. A unique arsenal of items, aesthetic dungeons and bosses, epic stories that build upon past entries, the lore, area themes and leitmotif... all these things have been sacrificed to an open world with G-mod gimmicks, mini-puzzles (shrines), and korok seeds.
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Spot on, the whole open world boom in the 2010s is a darker point in gaming history than the bloom and brown military shooters from the mid to late 2000s for me. Just a complete misunderstanding of what makes the concept of an open world tantalizing to players in the first place, shoved haphazardly into series where it doesn't fit at all.

An Open World isn't worth shit if there isn't meaningful sandbox interactions to be had in it ala GTA or Red Dead's wanted system. BOTW and MGSV are both perfect examples of games that would be better had they just been designed as a traditional linear game. I guess I shouldn't be shocked I'm getting negrated by tendies for this take tho.
 
Oh here we go again with the BOTW hate that I’ve come to expect from at this point.

I mean, I saw plenty of varied locations and meaningful sandbox interactions in it (to the point that it at times felt like an open-world immersive sim), alongside the abilities allowing for creative thinking ala the dungeon items, just in an open world setting. And honestly, given how much freedom they give you, I don’t see how a linear game design would’ve benefited the game, for as great as the dungeons and such were in the earlier games, they almost always had a very strict manner in how you completed them.

And I’ve also enjoyed the older style of Zelda games as well, so it’s not as though I don’t see where some of you are coming from. Just that I think that the complaints are really getting out of hand.
 
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