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Danann said:
Should this be renamed the the Nintendo General thread anyways?
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I ask this once every few months and it’s always met with a resounding “ehh not worth the trouble”.
whatever I feel like said:
I think he thinks that mine was somehow actually turned on for 24 hours a day, as opposed to just sitting in the dock, turned off, most of the time. If he doesn't own a Switch that might seem reasonable since the other consoles have soft sleep modes and really can just be turned on for days at a time.
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So does the Switch…
 
For what its worth, we did have a general Nintendo thread that coexisted with this one, with virtually indistinguishable content, for years before it finally died.

Edit: So my Switch has been on for seven years? Neat. And still won't effect the fan, which is what broke, since that only turns on when the Switch is actively computing stuff.
 
whatever I feel like said:
Not to dig too far back in time but I just googled it and the reason it baffles you is because its not true. PS4 has 113 million as of 2020 (and still sells, to this day) and PS4 has 59 million as of the end of 2023, so 172 million. Switch has a "mere" 140+ million.
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I think he might be included the sales of console+games+accessories, and I'm reasonably sure the Switch has the Sony consoles beat there.
 
whatever I feel like said:
For what its worth, we did have a general Nintendo thread that coexisted with this one, with virtually indistinguishable content, for years before it finally died.

Edit: So my Switch has been on for seven years? Neat. And still won't effect the fan, which is what broke, since that only turns on when the Switch is actively computing stuff.
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How is this post dumb? Everything I said in it is true.

Suck my sweaty balls, @SmallKiwi . Like what do you do, unhook your consoles and put them back in their box when you aren't playing? Thats fucking autistic, nobody but you does that.
 
whatever I feel like said:
Edit: So my Switch has been on for seven years? Neat. And still won't effect the fan, which is what broke, since that only turns on when the Switch is actively computing stuff.
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Yeah, it's like a phone where you have to hold the power button for about five seconds to make the system ask if you really want to turn it all the way off, otherwise it just goes into sleep mode.
 
Two Dollars said:
Yeah, it's like a phone where you have to hold the power button for about five seconds to make the system ask if you really want to turn it all the way off, otherwise it just goes into sleep mode.
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New phones don't even do that, the "power button" just launchs voice assistant and you have to do a button command to get the prompt to turn it off
 
whatever I feel like said:
So my Switch has been on for seven years? Neat.
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Unless its battery is completely flat and it's not connected to external power, yes, some of its components are always energized for the entire duration of the system's lifetime.

Even in "powered off" state (which in reality is just another power state as far as the hardware sees it), enough circuitry is still active to respond to the power button being pressed to transition to another power state (i.e. "wake up"). It's not a "hard" power button that connects or disconnects a power circuit. It just sends a button press event (short or long) to some tiny microcontroller that always has power.

The Switch has other power states, including "deep sleep" (which is probably what you're thinking of when you say it's turned off in your dock most of the time), "light sleep" (screen off, OS suspended but in a working state, WiFi radio available but not necessarily connected, etc.) and "alive" (doing stuff, playing games, etc.).

In particular, the unit can still download updates and notifications in "light sleep." Enough of its brains are alive to periodically crank up WiFi (or LAN if docked) and ping Nintendo to check, and transition back to "active" if needed. I forget whether it can pull OS updates in deep sleep or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't still wake up every couple of days for a quick check.

Betonhaus said:
New phones don't even do that, the "power button" just launchs voice assistant and you have to do a button command to get the prompt to turn it off
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In my experience it just wakes up or turns off the display unless you long-press it, which (on my Samsung at least) pops up a prompt offering options like "power off," "reboot," "sell your soul" and so on. Knowing Samsung though I'm sure there's an option to turn on that Bixby shit and glue it to the power button :story:
 
Betonhaus said:
New phones don't even do that, the "power button" just launchs voice assistant and you have to do a button command to get the prompt to turn it off
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My galaxy S23 used to give me 3 options when I held the power button down.
  • Power off
  • Restart
  • Emergency Call
A couple OS updates later, and now it has a 4th option called "Medical Info". Basically in the default contacts app that comes with the phone (that nobody should ever be using, but that's a different story), you can add what kind of illnesses you suffer from on your profile and it'll just show up when you hit that option when you hold the power button down.

I don't know why this is a thing to begin with.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
>When you're too fucking lazy to change a few words on the keyboard for a thread title
The absolute state of jannies
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Can we really expect any better at this point? We're past the 10th anniversary of the site, they ain't improving.

More to the point of this thread, I'd be disappointed if Arms didn't get a sequel early in the Switch 2's life. Kosuke Yabuki launched a brand new IP that outsold the average Kirby title purely on word of mouth and novelty, I'd imagine he'd be eager to expand the formula now that his responsibilities with Mario Kart have wound down.
 
RX-78 said:
Can we really expect any better at this point? We're past the 10th anniversary of the site, they ain't improving.

More to the point of this thread, I'd be disappointed if Arms didn't get a sequel early in the Switch 2's life. Kosuke Yabuki launched a brand new IP that outsold the average Kirby title purely on word of mouth and novelty, I'd imagine he'd be eager to expand the formula now that his responsibilities with Mario Kart have wound down.
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I'd prefer a Wild Arms sequel
 
I wish shit I actually wanted to play came out for the Switch. All the Nintendo titles slated right now look pretty fucking gay. The only thing I've been playing on there is World of Horror and it's practically a paperweight at this point.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
A couple OS updates later, and now it has a 4th option called "Medical Info". Basically in the default contacts app that comes with the phone (that nobody should ever be using, but that's a different story), you can add what kind of illnesses you suffer from on your profile and it'll just show up when you hit that option when you hold the power button down.
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The thought behind it is if you're our somewhere without someone who knows you or you're out camping or hiking somewhere and you suffer a medical emergency or faint or something, some good Samaritan can come along and get you help and the paramedics will know what you suffer from or what you are allergic to wothout you ever having to be conscious. Whether or not that actually happens, I don't know, but that's the intent at least. It's like an updated version of a medical bracelet some people wear
 
IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
I'd prefer a Wild Arms sequel
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Or anything but ARMS 2.

A-Stump said:
I wish shit I actually wanted to play came out for the Switch. All the Nintendo titles slated right now look pretty fucking gay. The only thing I've been playing on there is World of Horror and it's practically a paperweight at this point.
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Like what kinda games?
 
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