Nintendo Switch (Currently Plagued) - Here we shit post about the new Nintendo console, The Switch

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Are they even going to continue selling the current standard model? This seems like it is just a new revision with "Pro" branding to contrast with the Lite model.
 
Tookie said:
Are they even going to continue selling the current standard model? This seems like it is just a new revision with "Pro" branding to contrast with the Lite model.
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Months ago there were articles about them needing to remake the guts of the OG switch because they couldn't get enough parts. Both of which Microsoft and Sony are doing for the PS5 and XSX.

However it looks like Nintendo rebranded it and upped the price tag rather than just letting it be the same product.
 
Pissmaster said:
In all seriousness, I'm gonna wager a guess that the Switch OLED model is just a situation where it's getting to be equal or cheaper in price to manufacture them with these upgrades when compared to the standard Switch. The ethernet jack's bound to be something they threw in because that's gotta be just a few extra cents per Switch, and they know it'll bring in the types who are obsessive over their online connections and worry about USB polling rates.

That'd explain the laughable bump to 64GB. Even iPhones don't come with 32GB of internal flash anymore.
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They still have to worry about USB polling rates since it's part of the dock and still going through USB-C.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
Sega got fucking EXCORIATED when they did the exact same thing.
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And yet, Nintendon't gets a free pass because "MUH 64 GIGS. MUH ETHERNET PORT. MUH NEW SCREEN." Fuck off. Nintendo can be fucking retarded at least 50% of the time.
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Calm down, this ain't the 32x, it's more like if the Genesis Model 3 was an minor improvement to the model 2(depending on your view of the OLED, of course).
 
  • This "new" Switch
  • The half-assed "remakes" and ports
  • Dearth of first party content
  • The first/second party content that exists is completely phoned in 90% of the time
  • Switch Online in general
  • Fans and customers who will defend them to their dying breath no matter how shitty they are treated
  • Probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting

I used to try to justify this company's decisions and give them the benefit of the doubt, but lately I have found it nearly impossible. The cult-like devotion of the fanbase makes it even harder.
 
ForgedBlades said:
  • This "new" Switch
  • The half-assed "remakes" and ports
  • Dearth of first party content
  • The first/second party content that exists is completely phoned in 90% of the time
  • Switch Online in general
  • Fans and customers who will defend them to their dying breath no matter how shitty they are treated
  • Probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting

I used to try to justify this company's decisions and give them the benefit of the doubt, but lately I have found it nearly impossible. The cult-like devotion of the fanbase makes it even harder.
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At this point I'm just happy the cult keeps them going because I honestly only buy Nintendo systems when they can be cracked.
 
ForgedBlades said:
  • This "new" Switch
  • The half-assed "remakes" and ports
  • Dearth of first party content
  • The first/second party content that exists is completely phoned in 90% of the time
  • Switch Online in general
  • Fans and customers who will defend them to their dying breath no matter how shitty they are treated
  • Probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting

I used to try to justify this company's decisions and give them the benefit of the doubt, but lately I have found it nearly impossible. The cult-like devotion of the fanbase makes it even harder.
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Funny that you mention all that, this video goes into detail of some of the shady shit Nintendo has done and the fans that keep defending those moments.


Hard to argue with a lot of those points. Nintendo makes good games most of the time, but god damn have they acted like a bunch of pricks over the years.
 
Raiken said:
*Ahem* they did in Japan with the game boy light and did the most retarded thing and not include it in the color and waited again for almost another decade.
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Of all of Nintendo's decisions over the years this is one that just baffles me even now. What market data could they have recieved that determined it wasn't worth keeping in successive hardware generations until 10 years down the line? The fucking game gear started out backlit. Why did Nintendo make the choice and then reverse course?
 
Funny watching all the leakers now backpedal saying oh no it's 2022 now, none even have the balls to say they got bad info (they will never admit they made shit up).

It's a nice upgrade and seems worth the extra money if you don't already own the stream but if you already own a switch, not worth it at all.

Have a feeling we will end up seeing a Switch 2 in 2023 or early 2024 now. Hopefully, Nintendo won't skip out of DLSS whenever they make one, which would fix many of the issues the switch had with sub native games in handheld. However with more games starting being designed around using SSD hard drive, wonder if Nintendo will do anything about that,

Also, Joycon Drift will never be fixed, pretty much all controllers from the big three can have them even the Xbox elite controllers which cost $160, due to using the same shitty cheapo part. So unless someone makes a better part cheaper or the same price, don't expect it to change.
 
Product Placement said:
However with more games starting being designed around using SSD hard drive, wonder if Nintendo will do anything about that,
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SSDs present on consoles are only going to give the excuse for devs to throw more uncompressed game files, leading to titles costing above 50GB or 100GB more commonly. Loading times won't disappear whatsoever unlike what tech illiterates and marketers love to say, and eventually AAA games will have similar loading times than the ones installed on HDDs 10-15 years ago.
 
BananaSplit said:
SSDs present on consoles are only going to give the excuse for devs to throw more uncompressed game files, leading to titles costing above 50GB or 100GB more commonly. Loading times won't disappear whatsoever unlike what tech illiterates and marketers love to say, and eventually AAA games will have similar loading times than the ones installed on HDDs 10-15 years ago.
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With the PS5 so far, they have been doing a good job compressing files, with cross-gen games always being much smaller than they are on the ps4,

despite the title of the link, it's ps5 vs ps4, all round smaller, from only a few gigs to around 50%. But if Nintendo doesn't do compression tec, it really means nothing
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PS5 vs. PS4 Game Size Comparison Shows a Massive Difference

PS5 is the clear winner over PS4 if we compare the file size of games released on both platforms. Here's a list of games for comparison.
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Toolbox said:
Of all of Nintendo's decisions over the years this is one that just baffles me even now. What market data could they have recieved that determined it wasn't worth keeping in successive hardware generations until 10 years down the line? The fucking game gear started out backlit. Why did Nintendo make the choice and then reverse course?
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The honest answer is that they probably wanted to have fewer batteries in the system so they weren't shat on like the game gear. Going from 4 batteries to 2 was probably a bigger deal in japland
 
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