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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 2 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sigmoid10 ◴[16 Jan 25 14:15 UTC] No.42725360[source]▶
Huh. I guess updated ergonomics / QoL stuff and confirmation of backwards compatibility counts as enough of an update over the last hardware refresh. But zero info on anything that could actually make this worth a buy. Granted, this feels like Nintendo who will do anything to not get dragged into PS/XBOX flops discussions. But without any real upgrade or even games announcements, I suppose most people will keep holding off their purchase decisions for now.
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pjmlp ◴[16 Jan 25 14:24 UTC] No.42725480[source]▶
The great thing about how Nintendo approaches games is that it is about game design, not triangles per second.
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pebble ◴[16 Jan 25 14:28 UTC] No.42725558[source]▶
Coming from a modern console, the first hour of Tears of the Kingdom felt painfully sluggish.
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pjmlp ◴[16 Jan 25 14:30 UTC] No.42725610[source]▶
One complaint from a catalog of how many games?
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1. smugma ◴[16 Jan 25 15:37 UTC] No.42726685[source]▶
Why do people by a Switch? Mario (Kart), Zelda, and Pokémon.

Those three franchises represent a huge percent of sales. 70%?

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2. pjmlp ◴[16 Jan 25 15:46 UTC] No.42726826[source]▶
People that hardly know Nintendo yes.

People that know Nintendo, buy those and plenty of others.