DF seemed pretty confident in saying none of the games shown were using DLSS. Maybe the build in the Direct and public demos were before CDPR added DLSS? Or they were wrong. They're usually good, but not perfect and they've been in the habit of downplaying Switch 2's capabilities for a long time.
@ottoecamn The PM didn't speak out against the game specifically. He said if tourists decided to deface shrines they should be dealt with according to the law.
@Suketoudara This is basically mirroring how they marketed Switch 1 in it's early days. Sell the new system to the older crowd with disposable income while the previous generation is sold to kids, parents and budget minded people.
@PikminMarioKirby The translations on the article are accurate. The narrative about this game's controversy in Japan and it's government are exaggerated, in particular the matter of the prime minister being 'outraged' at the game. Most people there don't care and Shadows sold modestly well for a western title.
@DashKappei We aren't. The price increase is because of inflation and poor exchange rates. The US will get an increase of it's own later, which will be due to the tariffs.
It was blatantly obvious from the price. Breath of the Wild remains £60 for the base game, the Switch 2 Edition is £70, so £10 for the upgrade. The DLC is what, £20?
It'll probably just be the same thing that happens if you hold the capture button during a game that doesn't support it, a little pop up in the corner of the screen for 3 seconds.
@TechaNinja allegedly there are only 32/64GB cards. Likely due to Switch 2 cards using the same type of tech as Micro SD Express for the high speeds. You cannot get Express cards for that size because it's not practical, you wouldn't get any savings on the cost.
Switch Ridge Racer reminds me of an old Doctre81 video. I think it was in development by the same Bandai Namco studio that was originally making Prime 4.
@-wc- Not "insufficiently attached to the point of falling off", but there's been times in handheld mode where one will be slightly dislodged and I would need to reconnect it. Can be a serious issue for online play obviously since the action won't be paused for those 5 seconds.
@datamonkey Not true, CD Projekt Red said they went for the highest capacity card for Cyberpunk, which is 64GB. If you mean SD cards, those are pricey. 256GB cards are £90 right now. I don't think many people want £150 games right now, so keeping the maximum size to 64 is appropriate.
@marktehshark69 I agree to be honest. If a Switch port of WWHD turned down the bloom and added back the cel shading it'd be perfect - that and 60fps to match the other recent re-releases.
@Bunkerneath Have you not heard of VAT? I'm assuming you're from the UK. The US retail price doesn't include sales tax, because it differs in percentage depending on the different states. Add 20% to that £347, and you get £417. Switch 2 pre-tax price is a little cheaper in the UK compared to the US.
@Jeronan @rjejr @Alpha008 Leaked specs from shipping data said Switch 2 GPU is 3 teraflops, which is 10x higher than the 300 gigaflops of Switch 1. The numbers Nvidia are claiming track.
@link3710 From a storage perspective it would also get ridiculous for NSO Gamecube on Switch 1 over time. At 1 to 2 gigabytes per game, plus the article confirms EU versions are included as well. Even just this launch lineup of 3 games will be about 6GBs, 20 when you account for the other 7 currently confirmed games. While cheap SD cards are obviously plentiful I'd imagine they're mindful of the 32GB of storage being all that many people have.
Well yeah, FF7 Remake is a 100GB game. No way that was fitting on a Switch game card. Not sure how this is worse than the download code only boxes? If you still need a card to boot the game, you can probably resell these games later on? You can't do that with a code.
@imgrowinglegs In theory yes, it's just less likely to happen because the sticks are much bigger than the Joycon. Unless it's using tech like hall effect, all analogue sticks have the potential to drift with time and use.
I love the implication that there's a team of people having to play through every single Switch 1 game, including all of the asset flip AI slop and hentai puzzle games (none of which are listed in the games with issues PDFs yet in case you're wondering). Those guys aren't being paid enough.
@Truegamer79 Not that the Switch couldn't handle GameCube. The way that Switch Online apps work is all of the games come downloaded at once. That's fine for NES games, but when GameCube games at 1 to 2GB each, that starts to become pretty absurd when most people will only have 32GB built in storage. Even with SD cards that's a significant amount you'll need to reserve for GameCube games.
To be honest I think the whole NSO retro app scheme needs a rethink for Switch 2 even with the increased storage. Let me be able to not have to download both PAL and NTSC versions of N64 games, etc.
First impressions are always positive even for a lot of bad movies, then the reviews drop. The keyword they always use is "fun" instead of good. Hell, that first embedded tweet outright says explicitly that it is fun instead of good.
@wiiware audience scores aren't anymore reliable than critic ones frankly.
One week after Sonic 4, same day as Godzilla x Kong. I feel that the audience overlap for these films is pretty big, so one of them will probably move to another date.
It was fine. Several new announcements and release dates for this year. I don't see much reason to be disappointed about a Direct when there's another one next week, particularly when we weren't expecting this one at all. However, it's starting to look over for Prime 2 and 3 remastered, same for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
Kit and Krysta are interesting to me when they're talking about the time where they worked at Nintendo. I find them less interesting when they're talking about Nintendo after leaving the company; there was some insight they could provide that set them apart from the usual commentary channels, but it only goes so far as the years keep passing.
@HammerGalladeBro Sticks appeared in some comic strips on Sonic Channel, which is how she's a part of the canon. Boom is a whole different thing.
@AlienX I think what happens is at the end of Rush in the dimensional rift, when Blaze leaves, instead of returning home to her dimension she ends up in Sonic's future. At the end of Silver's story in 06, she tells him to use chaos control to send her to another dimension, which ends up being her one.
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Re: Nintendo's On A Mission To Unmask The Pokémon 'Teraleak' Hacker
They're gonna drop seven nuclear bombs on their house.
Re: What's Palworld Dev's Defence Against Nintendo's Lawsuit? Pikmin 3, Apparently
@Glasso This comparison feels very bad faith
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Confirmed As The First Switch 2 Title To Use Nvidia's DLSS Upscaling
DF seemed pretty confident in saying none of the games shown were using DLSS. Maybe the build in the Direct and public demos were before CDPR added DLSS? Or they were wrong. They're usually good, but not perfect and they've been in the habit of downplaying Switch 2's capabilities for a long time.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Switch 2 Rating Spotted Online
@ottoecamn The PM didn't speak out against the game specifically. He said if tourists decided to deface shrines they should be dealt with according to the law.
Re: Paul Rudd Returns In An Awesome SNES-Style Switch 2 Commercial
@Suketoudara This is basically mirroring how they marketed Switch 1 in it's early days. Sell the new system to the older crowd with disposable income while the previous generation is sold to kids, parents and budget minded people.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Switch 2 Rating Spotted Online
@PikminMarioKirby The translations on the article are accurate. The narrative about this game's controversy in Japan and it's government are exaggerated, in particular the matter of the prime minister being 'outraged' at the game. Most people there don't care and Shadows sold modestly well for a western title.
Re: Digital Foundry Dives Into Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2
@brandonbwii No there's a 30fps mode too
Re: Digital Foundry Dives Into Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2
@larryisaman 40fps performance mode was confirmed
Re: Review: Lunar Remastered Collection (Switch) - Two Of The Most Charming RPGs Ever Get A Fair, If Flawed, Port
@Justifier Would it matter when the text will be very different to the Japanese voices?
Re: PS5 Digital Edition Now More Expensive Than Switch 2 In UK & Europe
@DashKappei We aren't. The price increase is because of inflation and poor exchange rates. The US will get an increase of it's own later, which will be due to the tariffs.
Re: Zelda: BOTW Switch 2 Edition Won't Include The DLC, Nintendo Confirms
It was blatantly obvious from the price. Breath of the Wild remains £60 for the base game, the Switch 2 Edition is £70, so £10 for the upgrade. The DLC is what, £20?
Re: Here's Why Switch 2 Joy-Con And Pro Controllers Don't Have Analogue Triggers
Dualsense Edge has switches on the back that let you make the triggers digital. Could have been done.
Re: Nintendo Says "Nothing Bad" Will Happen If You Press Switch 2's C Button Without A NSO Sub
It'll probably just be the same thing that happens if you hold the capture button during a game that doesn't support it, a little pop up in the corner of the screen for 3 seconds.
Re: "We MUST Resist Buying These Game-Key Releases", Says GamesMaster Host
@TechaNinja allegedly there are only 32/64GB cards. Likely due to Switch 2 cards using the same type of tech as Micro SD Express for the high speeds. You cannot get Express cards for that size because it's not practical, you wouldn't get any savings on the cost.
Re: "We MUST Resist Buying These Game-Key Releases", Says GamesMaster Host
@Jireland92 For Bravely Default it isn't about compression and more that there isn't an option for a smaller card for it.
Re: Feature: "We Really Want To Future-Proof" - The Nintendo Switch 2 Interview
@Princess_Lilly I'm not talking about controllers. Stick replacements.
Re: New Ridge Racer & Unreleased Retro Studios Project Crop Up In Leaked Switch Dev Kit
Switch Ridge Racer reminds me of an old Doctre81 video. I think it was in development by the same Bandai Namco studio that was originally making Prime 4.
Re: It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks
@-wc- Not "insufficiently attached to the point of falling off", but there's been times in handheld mode where one will be slightly dislodged and I would need to reconnect it. Can be a serious issue for online play obviously since the action won't be paused for those 5 seconds.
Re: It's Official, Switch 2 Joy-Con Will Not Feature Hall Effect Sticks
@KoopaTheGamer It would be funny if everyone was raging about no hall effect sticks, only for them to be using superior TMR sticks.
Re: Switch 2 Devs May Assign Specific Inputs To Pro Controller's Back Buttons
@axelhander It must be that they've not used controllers with them before. Rear buttons are great.
Re: Feature: "We Really Want To Future-Proof" - The Nintendo Switch 2 Interview
@Princess_Lilly 3rd parties like Gullikit will be there with Hall Effect replacement sticks eventually anyway.
Re: Feature: "We Really Want To Future-Proof" - The Nintendo Switch 2 Interview
@datamonkey Not true, CD Projekt Red said they went for the highest capacity card for Cyberpunk, which is 64GB. If you mean SD cards, those are pricey. 256GB cards are £90 right now. I don't think many people want £150 games right now, so keeping the maximum size to 64 is appropriate.
Re: Talking Point: Zelda: Wind Waker Is On Switch 2 - Do You Still Want A WW:HD Port?
@marktehshark69 I agree to be honest. If a Switch port of WWHD turned down the bloom and added back the cel shading it'd be perfect - that and 60fps to match the other recent re-releases.
Re: "DROP THE PRICE!!!" Scream Nintendo Fans During Nintendo's Treehouse Live Broadcast
@Bunkerneath Have you not heard of VAT? I'm assuming you're from the UK.
The US retail price doesn't include sales tax, because it differs in percentage depending on the different states.
Add 20% to that £347, and you get £417. Switch 2 pre-tax price is a little cheaper in the UK compared to the US.
Re: Nvidia: Switch 2 Has "10x The Graphics Performance Of The Nintendo Switch"
@Jeronan @rjejr @Alpha008 Leaked specs from shipping data said Switch 2 GPU is 3 teraflops, which is 10x higher than the 300 gigaflops of Switch 1. The numbers Nvidia are claiming track.
Re: Hands-On: Finally, Super Mario Party Jamboree Let's Me Scream At Bowser
Close enough, welcome back EyeToy.
Re: GameCube Games On Switch 2 Will Support An Optional CRT Filter
@link3710 From a storage perspective it would also get ridiculous for NSO Gamecube on Switch 1 over time. At 1 to 2 gigabytes per game, plus the article confirms EU versions are included as well. Even just this launch lineup of 3 games will be about 6GBs, 20 when you account for the other 7 currently confirmed games. While cheap SD cards are obviously plentiful I'd imagine they're mindful of the 32GB of storage being all that many people have.
Not as much of an issue for 256GB as standard.
Re: GameCube Games On Switch 2 Will Support An Optional CRT Filter
As long as it isn't a cheap scanline filter. The CRT and LCD filters on the other NSO apps were really good though so I'm sure it'll look nice.
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Price Has Been Confirmed
At that point just make it free lmao
Re: Nintendo's Switch 2 'Game-Key Cards' Somehow Manage To Make Codes-In-A-Box Worse
Well yeah, FF7 Remake is a 100GB game. No way that was fitting on a Switch game card. Not sure how this is worse than the download code only boxes? If you still need a card to boot the game, you can probably resell these games later on? You can't do that with a code.
Re: The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller - All New Features Revealed
@imgrowinglegs In theory yes, it's just less likely to happen because the sticks are much bigger than the Joycon. Unless it's using tech like hall effect, all analogue sticks have the potential to drift with time and use.
Re: Which Nintendo Switch Games Aren't Fully Compatible With Switch 2?
I love the implication that there's a team of people having to play through every single Switch 1 game, including all of the asset flip AI slop and hentai puzzle games (none of which are listed in the games with issues PDFs yet in case you're wondering). Those guys aren't being paid enough.
Re: Standard Micro SD Cards Won't Work On Nintendo Switch 2
@AnVold Regular SD cards are too slow. It's not stupid.
Re: Switch 2 Games Cost A Bit More Than You're Probably Expecting
Okay but how much will Japanese versions be? Most of them have English language support.
Re: Nintendo Is (Kinda) Returning To Region-Locking With A Cheaper Japanese Switch 2
Don't you just love tariffs?
Re: Halo: Master Chief Collection For Switch 2 May Not Launch In Its 'Complete' Form
@ElkinFencer10 I wouldn't count on separate physical releases from Microsoft.
Re: Rumour: GameCube Revival Planned For Nintendo Switch Online
@DaniPooo You can also choose between two versions for Link's Awakening.
Re: Rumour: GameCube Revival Planned For Nintendo Switch Online
@Truegamer79 Not that the Switch couldn't handle GameCube. The way that Switch Online apps work is all of the games come downloaded at once. That's fine for NES games, but when GameCube games at 1 to 2GB each, that starts to become pretty absurd when most people will only have 32GB built in storage. Even with SD cards that's a significant amount you'll need to reserve for GameCube games.
To be honest I think the whole NSO retro app scheme needs a rethink for Switch 2 even with the increased storage. Let me be able to not have to download both PAL and NTSC versions of N64 games, etc.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of The Minecraft Movie Are In
First impressions are always positive even for a lot of bad movies, then the reviews drop. The keyword they always use is "fun" instead of good. Hell, that first embedded tweet outright says explicitly that it is fun instead of good.
@wiiware audience scores aren't anymore reliable than critic ones frankly.
Re: Video: Metroid Prime 4 Looks Great, But Here's Why The Latest Trailer Isn't Switch 2 Footage
If you thought that trailer was Switch 2 footage, you probably didn't play Prime 1 Remastered.
Re: Halo: Master Chief Collection For Switch 2 May Not Launch In Its 'Complete' Form
@ElkinFencer10 They're like $10 each on Steam.
Re: Halo: Master Chief Collection For Switch 2 May Not Launch In Its 'Complete' Form
So basically exactly what happened with the PC launch of MCC, they'll drop the games one by one.
Re: Legend Of Zelda Movie Release Date Revealed, Coming March 2027
@Gamergirl4 That didn't happen.
Re: Legend Of Zelda Movie Release Date Revealed, Coming March 2027
One week after Sonic 4, same day as Godzilla x Kong. I feel that the audience overlap for these films is pretty big, so one of them will probably move to another date.
Re: Sony's Back On Switch With A Delightful New PSP Remaster
@LadyCharlie And this is the fourth one
Re: Nintendo Direct March 2025 - Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
@Dazman It looks like the remaster, but it doesn't look like a GameCube game.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Direct For March 2025?
It was fine. Several new announcements and release dates for this year. I don't see much reason to be disappointed about a Direct when there's another one next week, particularly when we weren't expecting this one at all. However, it's starting to look over for Prime 2 and 3 remastered, same for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
Re: Ex-Nintendo Duo Unsure Mario Kart 9 Will Be An Instant "Slam Dunk" For Switch 2
Kit and Krysta are interesting to me when they're talking about the time where they worked at Nintendo. I find them less interesting when they're talking about Nintendo after leaving the company; there was some insight they could provide that set them apart from the usual commentary channels, but it only goes so far as the years keep passing.
Re: Random: Sega Surprises Sonic The Hedgehog Fans With Official Timeline
@HammerGalladeBro Sticks appeared in some comic strips on Sonic Channel, which is how she's a part of the canon. Boom is a whole different thing.
@AlienX I think what happens is at the end of Rush in the dimensional rift, when Blaze leaves, instead of returning home to her dimension she ends up in Sonic's future. At the end of Silver's story in 06, she tells him to use chaos control to send her to another dimension, which ends up being her one.
Re: Random: Sega Surprises Sonic The Hedgehog Fans With Official Timeline
@Samalik "Magic book worlds and space amusement parks" are mentioned in the JP version of that cutscene. So basically the same line.