OrtadragoonX

The Switch 2. Specifically Mario Kart World Tour (playing online matches and attempting to get trophies for all the Knockout Tour cups in single player; already got trophies for all the Grand Prix cups), Pokémon Scarlet post game (hugely improved), Tears of the Kingdom (60 FPS is amazing for that game), Fire Emblem Sacred Stones on GBA NSO.

@Andee

Legendary tv edit that one is.

The TV early 00s edit of Saving Private Ryan is hilarious too. Nowadays when it’s shown on tv it’s usually uncensored, they just put a warning before it opens. But back in the early 00s it got censored just like Robocop did.

Ingrid? Boy we ain’t seen her since the PSP version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper.

Also, just so you guys know, that version had horrendous input lag.

@croz

For real. Most people these days would have never survived a Halo 3 or Modern Warfare lobby back in the day. I learned all sorts of racial slurs from being called them constantly when I popped people in the noggin with sniper rifles.

Alright now that I’ve had a day with it I’ll give my summary points.

Positives
1. The build quality is fantastic. It’s not quite Apple good, but it’s a huge improvement over the OG Switch build quality. Feels like a premium electronic instead of a toy.
2. The screen is fantastic for an LCD. It’s not an OLED no. But for those of us who never owned a Switch OLED it’s a giant leap forward.
3. The Joy Con 2 is a giant improvement in terms of comfort and usability. Wish the left one had a DPAD but I know why they set up like they did. The analog sticks are actually useable this time.
4. The kick stand is great and I finally feel comfortable using table top mode (which is important for one of the negatives I’ll mention)
5. The magnetic connection is a giant improvement over the rail system. It’s super solid.
6. OS allows you to manipulate the battery behavior. Should increase its longevity.
7. The resolution improvements is a godsend for 4K TVs, even on games that don’t run at native 4K.
8. I only tried Soul Calibur II on the GameCube NSO app, but it looks and runs great.

Cons
1. The battery life is pretty whack. Mario Kart only lasted about two hours before the low battery warning came on from a near full charge. And even playing the Game Boy Advance NSO app (started a playthrough of Sacred Stones, one of my favorite GBA games from back in the day) drains the battery surprisingly fast. I’ll definitely need to invest in another portable battery for this thing. Playing in table top with the top USB-C port is a god send.
2. The OS feels super samey as Switch OG. Even with the resolution bump. They didn’t really add anything to it.
3. You can’t turn it on with an OG Pro Controller. And that just screams laziness on Nintendo’s part. It wouldn’t have been that hard to update the firmware on the controller so it would work.

Overall, I really like this thing. The only big complaint I have is the battery life. But I also owned a Phat PSP back in the day and it’s about the same as that handheld was.

@AllBLK

It’s not great at all in terms of battery life.

But if you owned a Phat PSP like I did, it’s shockingly similar when you compare it to the PSP on its original small battery and playing UMD games or movies. Only time that thing got decent battery life for me was when I was listening to music on it with the screen turned off. If I played a game like Untold HLegends or Burnout on it, it would last maybe 2 and a half hours. Same with Switch 2 and Mario Kart.

@OrtadragoonX this is the fourth console I’ve bought on day one. I got a Dreamcast and a GameCube on their respective launch days long ago. And I got a PS5 on launch day.

@somnambulance

For sure dude. I’m crunk that they are finally rereleasing it. It’s my favorite final fantasy by a mile.

@Ploppy yeah I’m playing Tears (never finished it) and Mario Kart World Tour. System is super good.

Plus the transfer process was super smooth. Like better than I expected considering Nintendo’s history with those things.

Biggest improvement? Thing is way better built than the original Switch. I love the magnetic connection for the Joy Cons.

Plus the new Joy Cons are actually usable for me. I had to get Hori Split Pad Pros for my OG Switch because the OG Joy Cons were so small. It’s not super comfortable but definitely usable and I have no desire to replace them.

@abbyhitter

I did the exact same thing. I didn’t even plan on getting one but I went to Wal Mart early this morning to pick up some other stuff and they had 4 Mario Kart bundles in stock. So I just got one since I figured it’ll be a long time before I get another chance.

The only complaint I have about mine is that the battery life is… Meh at best. Like a 1st generation Vita or Phat PSP playing UMDs. Still it’s better than my Mariko Switch cause that thing was six years old with its original battery.

So you have to spend like 200 bucks to 100% this?

Damn Nintendo. You’re worse than BMW’s brain dead attempt to charge monthly fees for heated seats.

I’ll have to give this a try and redownload Scarlet. I never did play the post game or the expansion for it.

IMO, it’s got plenty of internal storage for me for the next few months. When the 512 or 1tb Express cards come down in price I’ll get one of those then.

Got to say I’m enjoying it so far. I didn’t plan on getting a Switch 2 on launch day but I just so happened to go to the local wal mart early as hell this morning for something else. And they had four MKWT bundles in stock. And I figured; why the hell not. Got to say I’m liking this thing so far. They mostly fixed all the nibbling issue my Switch Mariko had and the LCD screen is fantastic. I never had an OLED Switch so it wasn’t a downgrade for me, just an upgrade.

@kedireturns uhm, Sony’s controllers are based on the SNES controller layout. They openly admitted that decades ago.

@timp29

I don’t think it’ll touch Switch 1 sales. The Switch 1 had too many good things that are more or less once in a generation events going for it. Being basically the official console of COVID lockdown being the biggest one while already being established by that point.

I think Switch 2 can cross 100 million. But it won’t get to 150 million.

@MathByThePixel

I sunk hundreds of hours into it and never technically beat it. I never finished story mode because the final race on story might as well say “you can’t do this, you need the reflexes of a God to get through this”

The hidden circuit in Grand Prix was also basically unbeatable too. I loved every second of that game though. Favorite racing game of all time.

@Narrator1

That kind of breaks the meta for that game. Roll canceling is like the most important thing for characters like Blanka. It’s why he’s so high on the tier list because of how you can abuse it.

I’ll probably mess around with mouse mode. But I suspect I’ll most play the game with a pro controller or in handheld mode.

@N00BiSH

I had the original on Dreamcast. I was cracked on that game.

@GrailUK

Ooh ooh this is true love we’re making!!! Have a good time!

I think with BOTW the genius wasn’t the world itself, which was fairly bland when I look back on my play through of it back in 2020 shortly after I got my Switch. But rather, the genius of that game was the way it allowed you to traverse it. There were a ton of good traversal options that just made sense and were perfectly balanced.

I also remember loving how it didn’t hold your hand at all.

Tears of the Kingdom brillantly expanded on it, but I haven’t beat it yet. I’ve decided to put it on hold until I get a Switch 2 to continue my playthrough at the increased framerate.

Super Thunder Blade was bad when I was a kid and it’s still bad now. None of the Genesis Super Scaler conversions were very good. Impressive in trailers on tv when we were kids but horrible to play.

ESWAT is a classic. And Streets of Rage is still one of the best beat ‘em ups ever made. Certainly the best soundtrack of any beat ‘em up.

@Member_the_game

I don’t think they’ll bring 3D world’s weird control issues with it into the future. I think they’ll combine traditional Mario 3D gameplay and controls with the layout and world building they did for Bowsers Fury.

@Member_the_game

I suspect the next Mario 3D game will be a hugely expanded Mario: Bowser’s Fury type of game. When I played that I said “this is like a small demo of what the next 3D Mario will be.”

The lack of trophies is a good thing in my book. I’ve never liked them on the PlayStation side and it’s yet another thing to try and turn single player pursuits into a competition with other people.

@Olmectron

Yeah that’s weird. It’s based on Ampere, the 30 series anyway. I suspect that in terms of raw compute, it’s somewhere between a 3050 and a 3060.

@Hoodie718

We will be eating each other soon.

@TrogdorTheBurninator

I would imagine that playing on Switch2 irons out the frame drops. So it’s probably locked at 900p/30 fps the entire time.

This is the literally the only thing about Switch 2 that actually bothers me. This is the kind of greedy tone deaf behavior a crackhead would show.

@Axecon yeah it’s some nonsense.

@DonkeyKongBigBoy

A lot of it has to do with the ages involved. Gaming is way bigger now than when it was in the 90s. I grew up then and I vividly remember the insane prices of SNES and N64 games and how all over the place they were. That’s the reason the PS1 and Saturn adopting CDs was so important. It finally made a standard price (39.99 for the most part, although it jumped to 49.99 by the end of the generation) instead of that stupidity going on the N64, where some games like Resident Evil 2 costed almost twice as much as the game sitting next to it.

I mean that’s good. File sizes are perfectly manageable so far.

Unlike with my OG Switch, I’ll probably wait a year to get an SD Express card for it and just rely on internal memory. I just finished filling up my 256 gig card on my Switch, but that’s with a ton of games I don’t even play anymore loaded up on it. Just putting the games I want to play on the 256 gig internal memory would take up about 80 gigs on it for Switch 1 games. So not bad at all.

The fact they are charging for this is some straight crackhead behavior.

@RiasGremory

I vividly remember paying 79.99 for rogue squadron way back in 1999 on 64. 64 games were all over the place. That’s the reason I ended up with a way bigger collection of PlayStation one games they were half the price usually

It’s not awful. But it’s still nowhere near Nintendo’s best template, the GameCube.

Also if it goes on a sale reasonably quick I may pick up Cyberpunk and finally play that game. I was gonna a get it on PS5 but then I had the double whammy of kidney disease and then raising my son that sort of killed my ability to play home console games. I play my Switch only because I do my treatments at night and it’s portable.

If I get one for Christmas (that’s the current plan; going to sell my PS5 and Switch V2 to help pay for it) I’ll probably just get the Mario Kart bundle and just play Switch 1 games on it for a while, since I’ve got a bunch of Switch 1 games I need to finish. And Metroid Prime 4 whenever it’s out. That’s really the only game I want for it right now.

Yeah I don’t think that’s accurate. It’s more likely (based on the games I’ve seen so far) that it’s roughly equivalent to a low tier gaming rig. Which is fine anyway because most games aren’t even taking full advantage of low end hardware, much less the more powerful stuff.

@ibookboyuk

Yeah I won’t lie I abused it for DKC II recently.

I beat it on SNES as a kid back in the 90s and I do not have that level of patience as a 35 year old now.

@KBuckley27

It’s something the Japanese were always against. Hell in Japan you were lucky to get your necessary cables with consoles back then. The Japanese GameCube base package famously didn’t come with video cables.

That price is whack. No doubt about it. And the issue is that Nintendo games never go on sale.

It looks weird to me but I’m sure it’ll grow on me over time.

I won’t be getting a Switch 2 at launch (unless something crazy happens) so I’m glad they aren’t skimping on the OG version.

I like the fact it’s minimalistic. I like that about my current Switch. By comparison my PS5 is kind of a mess.

@kuu_nousee

I remember the early days of Rainbow Six Vegas which was also compatible with the camera. You could post your face on your character.

Nobody did that. Instead everyone literally posted pictures of their junk as their face.

@Tyranexx

The D-pad isn't fantastic. It's ok for 2D platformers I've seen (just beat DKC2 with it) and stuff like RPGs, but it's trash for fighting games.

@Gryffin

They're on my Hori Split Pads and I don't really use them. I have them programmed but I just never reach for them.