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@jojobar Dang. That's another one with a line put through it.

People need to keep in mind that repairability is important for things like preventing e-waste.

Feels like Nintendo needs a new methodology for this, cause this ain't it when innocent second hand buyers get stung. There has to be something better than just the comparing of two active game keys.

The righteousness in these threads is always amusing. I've known of cops going home and watching pirated movies. The world is flawed and is what it is.

Surprised some people are dunking on the guy's effort and choice of monetary expendenture.

His efforts have allowed Switch Lite owners to turn the thing into an OLED. Hell if they ever come back in stock I'd be tempted to get one and grab a dirt cheap unloved Switch Lite and do the mod myself.

An actual physical non-key card third party game? Sweet, I may actually pick this one up now!

Funny this article should drop, I've been replaying all the MGS games this last week. One of my favourite franchises of all time.

I honestly haven't used it much, other than a bit of MKW and Yakuza. It's a nice machine and mostly I just admire it sitting in the dock most of the time.

Mostly I wanted one for future Zelda and Metroid games and I figure the console won't get any cheaper anytime soon, so got one day 1.

If it's anything like the Switch 1, from a purely hardware perspective it probably has a fair bit more power than it actually utilizes. As we know, the SW1's Tegra runs quite a bit underclocked for longevity and battery life. Anyone with a CFW Switch knows you can push those clocks up quite a bit for a nice performance boost, at the obvious negative to heat and battery life.

Of course devs can only work with the standard console as it is out of the box. I'd love if Nintendo included a "Turbo" mode or something, but we know that will never happen.

@jsty3105 yeah I've never liked those either. I think digital should be digital, and anything in a physical box should be... physical.

Of course I am aware the irony is with Nintendo we've had it better than the other platforms typically when it comes to physical releases and big N are still at least doing their games on actual cartridges... for now.

@RiasGremory no the constant whining does not need to stop, people have a right to protest, especially when they are consumers pouring a ton of money into the industry.

Ultimately it may well be that the majority don't care enough and the market just keeps moving this way, which is a huge shame IMO, but if passionate people keep beating the drum and there's even a 1% chance it helps influence future directions by the third party devs, it's worth it.

I use a little CRT for my SNES. Sure CRT filters on an emulator is cool and all, but nothing quite beats the look and motion smoothness of the real deal.

Good news and not too surprising in the end. Over to you Nintendo, do your firmware thingy.

@SalvorHardin exactly what I was thinking. Should be a pretty rare occurance you'd think.

I'm surprised it doesn't already work that way

It wouldn't be so bad if most games were still physical, but we all know where that's going.

The console might not be technically 'bricked', but Nintendo, no doubt by no coincidence, has made nearly all functional aspects of the console online only. Once banned, it seems the sole online thing that still works is firmware updates. Probably likely just so you can continue updating the console and reduce the chances of it being hacked in future, just to rub salt in the wound and make it more likely to be e-waste.

I'm amazed how low those internal resolutions are, mostly because having played the demo myself I'd have never known.

Really does show what DLSS can do. With DLSS and no doubt some future miracle port type optimizations from devs in the future, I think we will see some impressive efforts on the platform.

Adding to the "please don't be a key-card" chant.

Granted when it comes to these things neither Nintendo nor Bandai Namco would ever see these comments, but still.

@Suketoudara interesting, thanks for going to that trouble, I was genuinely interested. I haven't been watching them for too long but the technical analysis stuff has seemed generally decent. But it sounds like like a lot of bigger channels they make some questionable decisions or leaps for views sometimes (like that built-in advert that was mentioned before in this comments section).

@Suketoudara definitely not a DF fanboy, I couldn't care less, but everything I've seen seems reasonable from them.

What misinformation and lies about the Switch 2? Please list them.

@Dunkin exactly. I can never understand being such a fanboy that one has to vehemently defend the thing we like no matter what. It makes no sense, and leaves the consumer open to abuse by the company that makes the thing if we don't give constructive criticism and demand better.

And yeah everything DF has done that I've seen is fair and reasonable.

@Tryskam I think it's probably something to do with the sunk cost fallacy. It's an expensive console, combine that with the excitement of the thing launching and I'm guessing there's a lot of people who feel the need to defend their 'thing', like they would defend their football team or their child.

I try to be more objective personally. The Switch 2 screen 'looks' decent enough, it will often get the job done for a handheld screen, but there will be times it will fall down - like playing fast side scrolling games like Super Mario World. There's a clear compromise made by Nintendo to cut costs and also keep power consumption down at the same time.

It's not great, but it is what it is. For a lot of the modern 3D games I think it will be OK, but personally for other games where the screen isn't suited I'll be using my OG Switch or my PC.

@Suketoudara it's constructive criticism and if there's room for improvement that will benefit the user, it's a good thing we have the likes of MVG (and he very much enjoys games I can assure you, but he has a lot of experience in the field and does a lot of tech stuff).

The main thing I noticed personally was the stick sensitivity in F-Zero. Although I don't know if that's purely a GameCube emulation thing, I find the sensitivity of the joystick is also really over the top in menus in something like Yakuza 0 (I have to use the D-Pad to navigate properly).

From what I've seen in comparisons it seems the blurring is mostly noticeable in older side scrolling type games like Super Mario World.

Anyway if I want to play those types of games I'll use my actual Super Famicom with a CRT or emulate them on my 3DS.

Switch 2 screen looks fine enough for most modern stuff.

@Michael0916 so?

The drums need to keep beating loudly about this. Yes I know some don't like anything to do with outrage or seeming negativity, but if we just lie down and take it whenever big companies make these sorts of changes that are anti-consumer and anti-preservation, it will keep happening and easily.

The servers of course likely won't switch off "in a few years" but it is a matter of when, not if, they do.

I think it helps that Nintendo's games tend to not have heaps of voice lines and textures that take up literal tens of gigabytes like some UE5 type games etc.

But yes still, impressive they keep sizes so compact.

Just please give us an actual release date soon. I'm amazed we haven't had any indication other than "2025", which don't get me wrong, is far better than nothing, but yeah.

@ATHFjman18 I mean, if it made some kids go outside and get some vitamin D, that ain't a bad thing

@joeyflannel Haha, very good point

I don't think I'd spend much time with it, but I love seeing people enjoy things at such a level of something that I myself may find mundane.

It reminds me of a video I saw on YouTube where one of the guys in charge of the art direction in the original Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was walking around a real life forest and admiring and getting inspiration from the colours of plants and moss. I don't think I've spent 10 minutes doing such a thing let alone over an hour that he probably was, but he was absolutely in his element and loving it. And I loved seeing that.

Just a perfect storm I'd say. Expensive console in the first place, limiting people's immediate outlay of cash for full priced games, game key cards, re-releases instead of much new... etc etc.

The situation will get better in time for the third parties I reckon, though I hope it includes a move away from key-cards. Or IMO key card games should be ever so slightly cheaper than the physical media.

Honestly still tossing up. Yes it looks superb. It's just at the current new game price points, I have to really weigh up if it's something I'm likely to sink lots of hours into.

I agree with the general sentiment about this DK, but nothing can top Samus for me. I just wish they would announce a release date

I see Nintendo really was holding a lot back, even in the play testings, cos this looks way better and more feature packed than I thought before.

I'm still just tossing up whether I actually want to dump over $100 AUD on it though, as good as it looks

@Zealv2 doubt it. There's literally hentai games in the eShop.

Just saw this video yesterday, was an instant subscribe for both informative content and unexpected deadpan hilarious jokes.

I always get a screen protector day one, even on used consoles/phones etc lol

@LazyDaisy Nintendo could break into a users home and kill their cat and/or dog and some fans would still defend the company first.

@Sambuc That's ludicrous, if you're just talking about end users. The prisons would be overflowing even more than they already are, including with little Timmy and his mother (being a bit facetious, but you get the point).

I want to give more love to SMK, but something about the graphics actually hurts my eyes even playing it on OG hardware and a CRT. At least, now as an adult, I don't remember it doing that as a kid.

A weird mix of Yakuza 0: Director's Cut, maybe some Split Fiction if I can pry my partner away from her otomes (on the Nintendo side of things), then otherwise on PC I've been replaying the Deus Ex games (currently on Human Revolution after clocking DX1 and DX2) and even playing a grand old oldie for the first time - Beneath a Steel Sky.

Not too sure yet what to think of this one. My worry is Nintendo doing a classic "look at this one cool new thing" and hyping it to oblivion that might get old a bit too quickly one playing it. It will be interesting to see some reviews.

But anyway my favourite DK titles are still the SNES Country series so far.

I already have the game on PC so have already enjoyed the game fairly cranked up and 60 FPS, so I probably won't double dip, but I have to say it's one of the best games I've ever played.

It helps I came to the game not long ago, after it's been patched and refined to high hell, so got to experience it at it's best unlike the early days.

Love my KK2 Pro controller, so hopefully it gets an update

So much for those boycotts...

I mean, it would be funny if Nintendo got sued over this, given how sue-happy they are

I replaced one of my OG Switch joycon sticks with one of GuliKit's hall effect replacements and it's been great ever since. Came as a pack of two so I still have the other one if the other joycon starts drifting.

Not sure how GuliKit solves the magnetic issue but I'm sure they will.

Ultimately I don't think it matters much. The important thing is it is a good step up from the Switch 1 (it had to be) and it has tech like DLSS as well. I think as devs get to know the Switch 2 more we'll be surprised what can be done on it. There were some miracles worked on the OG Switch, so it will be interesting to see what devs manage on the new one as years go by.

I'm not the biggest Mario Kart buff around (nothing against it, it's just something I purely play occasionally with my partner or friend and that's it) but even I was very impressed. It looks and plays beautifully.