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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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wirthjason ◴[16 Jan 25 13:38 UTC] No.42724913[source]▶
I wonder if they have a new control technique up their sleeve. Innovative gameplay and pushing new control ideas is one of Nintendo’s signatures. That said, being the switch 2, not a new console, maybe they kept it the same and just upgraded the processing and graphics hardware.

Looking forward to more!

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mcphage ◴[16 Jan 25 13:45 UTC] No.42725001[source]▶
It's probably too much to hope for to get more Labo sets, but a guy can dream, can't he?
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xnx ◴[16 Jan 25 13:58 UTC] No.42725149[source]▶
Forgot all about Labo. The amount of wild experiments Nintendo has shipped is admirable.
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1. mcphage ◴[16 Jan 25 14:10 UTC] No.42725300[source]▶
Yeah, definitely—it's my favorite thing about the company. Well, maybe second to their consistent level of quality. But seriously—the Labo piano used the IR camera to scan in waveforms to create new instruments. The VR kit had an elephant trunk mask to let you move around parts in a marble run game. Nintendo has a lot of wild experiments, and Labo takes that all to the next level.

And that's not getting into the quality of software for building the kits—way beyond any instructions that Lego has ever put out.