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@sanderev

Yeah I’m being very optimistic but you never know. I’m curious to see what the release schedule looks like for the rest of the year and how reliant they’ll be on Metroid and Pokémon games which are also on Switch 1.

This whiffs of an attempt at creating a GAAS release. Doesn’t look very enticing to me at all.

@sanderev

Might have to fit Splatoon Raiders and Hyrule Warriors in there somewhere.

@ButterySmooth30FPS

That doesn’t seem like a show stopper. Getting SW2 to acknowledge attached joycons in the same way it can paired ones must be an extremely simple hardware fix and I’m sure plenty would take lack of touchscreen to get improved quality.

@Jedrus_Lilac

It’s not a case of defending it, it’s more just not caring. If most people are happy with the overall product and experience great. Doesn’t mean DF are wrong, just means that-as they say in the video-most people won’t notice anything amiss.

@cra1g0s

It’s something that definitely happens a lot.

SNES-processor
N64-carts
GBA-no backlight
GameCube-the discs
Wii U-many things

I played some F-Zero with the Switch 2 GameCube controller and it felt fine. Same as my actual GC in fact. Though I don’t have a CRT to test against, my GC is running through an OSSC.

The surprise for me here is that there are shops that take back or buy expensive electronics devices without testing them first.

The eye roll moment is that there are scumbags dumping systems that they’ve bricked onto shops and, indirectly, other punters

Apparently it’s beyond some people to think ‘interesting video, that’s their opinion but I’m really happy with my Switch 2 and this makes no difference to my enjoyment of said device.’

@SBandy1

They’d probably be pleased with that. Must mean they’re doing a good job.

@Dee123

“ Digital Foundry has nothing but hate for Nintendo”

This is just nonsense, provable as demonstrably untrue in seconds by, you know, looking at their content.

That’s fair enough, they’re obviously going to be looking very deeply into the tech. To my eyes it looks absolutely great and I’m enjoying the device to the point I haven’t played on any of my other 15 systems since I got Switch 2.

There are aspects of OLED screens that are undeniably better than LCD but the former would have meant higher cost, probably lower battery life and more issues with VRR. Not worth it IMO.

@Jedrus_Lilac

I can’t see Nintendo doing that. It’s Nintendo. They’re also quite happy to see the market move to digital. I wouldn’t be surprised if most publishers made as much money from someone waiting for a game to drop to £30 digital than buying a game day one on a 64GB cartridge for £60.

@JoeyTS

The storage thing will be an issue yes. I agree. But have you seen the prices people pay for storage on IPhones or Pixel phones? They’re also pretty used to deleting stuff to make space on all sorts of formats. It isn’t going to be enough to spark some huge move back to “full game” on cartridges. At least it’s non-proprietary storage.

@Samalik

They won’t use Switch 1 carts for Switch 2 games because they’re so much slower than the internal storage and SD Card Express. The latter is roughly 8 times quicker than the UHS-I cards Switch 1 uses.

@Jedrus_Lilac

Cartridges are expensive and eat into Publishers margins. Thats why the industry wants to go digital. So they’re not coming back in any meaningful way. If the Game Key Cards don’t make money they’ll ditch them and go digital only. If they can’t make enough money on any format they’ll ditch it.

@PS12345

I thought the review was fair enough. I’m just amused by you hoping it’ll affect sales in any way.

@KryptoniteKrunch

It’s very similar to the Switch 1 launch. Every time a good sales update came out they were telling us to just wait for the next one. Sales will stall when all the Nintendo fanboys have bought one…when it gets to 20 million….no 30 million….

@PS12345

Oh yeah that’ll tank sales straight away. All those millions of Switch 2 owners enjoying theirs will throw it straight in the bin now ‘that bloke on Digital Foundry doesn’t like the screen.’ That’s them told.

@Jedrus_Lilac

A few people moaning Online doesn’t mean much. Publishers won’t go back to cartridges, they’ll just go digital only or stop making the games.

@JoeyTS

That’s an inconvenience the mass market is well used to. There’s a lot of games already that instantly need either part of the game downloading or a day 1 update and it’s been like this on PS and Xbox for 20 years now. Then there’s Phones, where downloading Apps/games/movies etc takes time. People are used to it.

I say this reluctantly but this site is getting very clickbaity recently. This is another article based on the opinion of one person who realistically knows no more about Nintendo’s release schedule than I do.

@HugoGED

I have a PS5 and while you’re right that a lot of games don’t need a day 1 patch to technically work you’re still getting an inferior experience on a lot of games if you can’t update them. I mean, it’s a system where you need to go Online to register a disc drive to a digital system. Their EULA and digital purchase system is the same, probably overall worse for the consumer, than Nintendo’s

A few people care very noisily online. I guarantee the vast majority don’t care in the slightest. Most mass market consumers are probably baffled as to why Video Games haven’t gone digital like everything else.

@WOLF13

This question got asked about hundreds of ports on Switch and they all found a market.

@Rosona

Without a doubt, GKC+digital is better than digital only. But if GKC’s don’t sell they’ll stop making them. Worst case scenario is they’ll just stop making games for Switch 2 altogether but more likely is a digital future. The industry wants it and consumers in general seem happy moving towards it. Physical games aren’t going to make any big comeback any time soon.

@ParasolStars

“To me boycotting key cards is a double edged sword. Sure you're sending a message to publishers that we'll only support physical on cart releases, but also to them it's potentially saying with low physical media sales in general that the medium is dying so we just won't bother with with the cost of any sort of physical release period and keep everything digital. ”

This is exactly what’s going to happen.

@HalBailman

Agreed. Think there’s a lot of confirmation bias on here from those loud voices upset by them.

https://x.com/zhugeex/status/1935743330345763232?s=46

Nintendo systems have always been very first party focussed. Some third party games will do well, some won’t.

Probably points towards the end of physical releases over time. Publishers will just go completely digital only.

@JohnnyMind

That’s the thing though. Pirates don’t care. They decide they want stuff they aren’t willing to pay for and then try to reverse engineer some moral justification (where there isn’t any) after.

Let’s face it this is all about stopping piracy as that’s what these devices were often used for.

As someone who previously owned an Amiga, a Dreamcast and a PSP I’m all for it.

The bile aimed towards DF by some on here is laughable. They’ve done loads of good stuff about the Switch, they’ve always been very keen to highlight ‘impossible ports’ and really appreciated how much some devs got out of its relatively limited technology. They’ve done whole videos on the best graphics for the Switch both first and third-party.

@spiderman0616

The Xbox setup is very attractive. I’ve got a PS5 and a Series X and the latter gets far more use. Gamepass is great and really hooked me into the ecosystem. I’m increasingly thinking I may go PC/Nintendo next generation as several of the Sony exclusives I’ve liked this gen have come out on PC anyway. So much of my Xbox library will carry over it.

Great, that’s lovely corporate talk. Does anybody ask him why their ridiculous obsession with live service games has made their output on PS5 comfortably the worst out of any generation for Sony? Xbox is actually putting out better stuff even if it’s not (thing I don’t care about) exclusive.

Interesting, as my impression is a lot of the price complaints have come from the States. I’d be more confident of momentum being sustained during the Christmas holiday season if there was a big hitter being released-a 3D Mario, say-that we currently didn’t know about.

@Moistnado

That 40FPS in Cyberpunk is specifically for the combination of 120HZ screen and VRR. It wouldn’t run as smoothly on a VRR-free screen. Metroid Prime 4 will run at 120FPS too.

https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/06/asus-explains-why-the-rog-xbox-ally-doesnt-have-an-oled-screen

@ShyGuy176

Much improved

https://youtu.be/oNpwz96QK34?si=lJawgAUBNTg_lDhz

https://youtu.be/cumw-Em-fFM?si=GdB3UeLKbHooqq5e

It looks really good. I’d much rather have the VRR over OPED anyway.

Great game. Just so much fun. It looks very nice and has had a very welcome injection of personality compared to MK8. Grand Prix is great but Knockout Tour is the highlight, phenomenally addictive especially online. 10/10 soundtrack. Shine Thief is sadly missed though.

@NinChocolate

Correct. Nintendo could have gone digital only. They could have forced publishers into paying for Carts big enough to have ‘the game’ on there (which would mean the day 1 version without any subsequent updates, assuming it fit into 64GB) to appease collectors, they could have forced GKC releases to ensure retail presence while keeping costs low to encourage third party development. As it is they’ve offered all those options. Seems fair.

@JokerCK

“ this device obviously between ps4 and ps5”

That would tally with a Series S comparison

@NinChocolate

They’ve no choice but to use a ‘proprietary’ method for the carts, like every cartridge format in gaming history. They could hardly put a Blu-ray drive in it. The SD Card Express format used for system storage is not proprietary though.

@OldGamer999

That comparison with Spain is very consistent. Switch 1 sold 45k at launch in Spain. France and Germany have usually been stronger markets for Nintendo than the UK so it’ll be interesting to see if they show similar.

I know what you mean about Switch being much more visible over here than Nintendo have ever been previously. It seems they’ve finally got a cultural foothold in the UK and Switch 2 building on that momentum is potentially very significant.

@FX102A

I think that’s part of it as well. On GameCube launch day in 2002 I was 25, me and a work colleague picked ours up before heading to the Office where we were berated by someone 5 years older for buying a ‘kids console.’

Sega did it first, successfully positioning themselves as the ‘edgy, cool’ system to buy and Sony then ran with that.

@John_Deacon @bandyba

No worries. I have to confess I put that on here years ago and then saved it in Notes on my Phone. I just update and repost periodically. 😅

@DennyCrane

You were lucky 😀 At my school Sega dominated among Console users. I only knew one guy in my class who’s older brother had one while he had a Master System (also a cool system TBF). He lent it me a couple of times which is how I got introduced to Mario 1 and 3. Come to think of it I owe that guy a pint to say thanks if I ever see him again 😂

@NinChocolate

Nintendo isn’t using proprietary storage

@NinChocolate

Good. Having retail presence is a good thing. These can also be lent out easily and have resale value. They’re a good option.

@nintendorich

You’re right about Konami but Capcom have had a very different trajectory