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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: 0.001s | source
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donatj ◴[16 Jan 25 14:04 UTC] No.42725226[source]▶
A little sad about the lack of a rail compatible with charging existing controllers. Hopefully it's compatible with current gen controllers anyway given how expensive they are.

One of my favorite parts about the Xbox Series generation of consoles is that it's fully compatible with the previous Xbox One controllers.

It would be amazing if they could get their multi-gen multi-console save-sync to work nearly as well as Microsoft's so I could switch back and forth between my existing Switch and Switch 2 seamlessly but I doubt that's in the cards, this is Nintendo were talking about.

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mobiledev2014 ◴[16 Jan 25 14:57 UTC] No.42726056[source]▶
I might throw a party to smash my joy cons. Some of the worst quality control in my long history of owning hardware, and from a company previously famous for that trait. Good riddance.
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1. _fat_santa ◴[16 Jan 25 15:42 UTC] No.42726758[source]▶
It always shocked me that for how bad the joycons were, the "Pro Controller" was one of the best controllers I've ever used. I don't know how they managed to nail one and get the other so wrong.
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2. mobiledev2014 ◴[16 Jan 25 15:47 UTC] No.42726849[source]▶
That's their actual standard and hopefully it has returned to the "default" controller(s). I think they just flew too close to the sun in terms of trade-offs with the Switch 1 joy cons. Not possible to make them good enough at that price at that size at the time of release