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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 9 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.261s | source | bottom
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napolux ◴[16 Jan 25 13:30 UTC] No.42724828[source]▶
That's what I wanted. An improved Switch. Waiting for the specs
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1. ksec ◴[16 Jan 25 13:33 UTC] No.42724854[source]▶
Same here. Really hope it is more than what was rumoured, which was using some 6 years old tech.
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2. ryoshu ◴[16 Jan 25 13:38 UTC] No.42724916[source]▶
Nintendo never really uses brand new tech. It's their design philosophy. https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
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3. oneeyedpigeon ◴[16 Jan 25 13:41 UTC] No.42724960[source]▶
It's a philosophy that worked for them incredibly well with the Switch, so unlikely they'll totally reverse it for the Switch 2.
4. doubled112 ◴[16 Jan 25 13:48 UTC] No.42725050[source]▶
What was missing from games 6 years ago that current tech has made possible?

Besides more leaves on trees, of course.

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5. ksec ◴[16 Jan 25 13:54 UTC] No.42725118[source]▶
Previous Nintendo were on 4-5 years tech. The rumoured tech is 5-6 years. A difference between two cycles or three cycles.
6. xnx ◴[16 Jan 25 14:01 UTC] No.42725189[source]▶
Solid 60 fps in Tears of the Kingdom would be great.
7. bearjaws ◴[16 Jan 25 14:02 UTC] No.42725202[source]▶
BoTW definitely struggles in many situations FPS wise... And thats running the same resolution I ran on my PC in 2008, but now on my 4k tv...

It's kind of hard to look past it at this point.

8. astrange ◴[16 Jan 25 14:10 UTC] No.42725306[source]▶
HDR, other dynamic lighting things like raytracing, and ability to have lots of characters on screen.

Compare any Mario game to Astrobot and you can see the difference.

9. SecretDreams ◴[16 Jan 25 16:32 UTC] No.42727507[source]▶
> It's their design philosophy

I would say it's more about minimizing cost of the console and their first party games just so happen to be not intensive enough to need it... But some games would have absolutely benefitted from a bit better hardware.