Yeah, I think we should wait and see how prevalent the drifting is this time around before freaking out. Of course it’s going to happen to some people because every stick that uses this technology has some incidence of drifting, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be as bad as last time. I have lots of these kinds of sticks on lots of gamepads over the years and only the joycons have ever drifted.

Yeah, these PC handhelds are great for us enthusiast geeks but they will never have the same allure as a Nintendo handheld with Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Kart, and Smash to mainstream users. Nintendo’s exclusive games do have a huge pull. Switch 2 will eclipse the Steam Deck sales in mere weeks which I’m sure comes as little surprise to Valve.

Will be interesting to see how the new Xbox backed device sells since it should have more marketing muscle and the Xbox name behind it and actually be sold in common retail stores.

I’m betting that it will be a success and keep Nintendo’s shareholders pleased but that it won’t reach the heights of its predecessor with the higher prices and the fact that the hybrid concept doesn’t exactly have the same wow factor it did 8 years ago.

I can’t really blame Nintendo on playing it safe on the system concept this time though. Coming off of their biggest hardware success of all time, they’d have to have a pretty amazing innovation to risk trying something completely new. It’s just not that easy to always have a big idea like that. I see the Switch 2 like the Super Nintendo was to the NES… and that could work just fine so long as they deliver on the games.

Love my Deck and think the handheld PC format is awesome… but Nintendo has nothing to worry about. Switch 2 is going to far outsell these devices. It’s much more appealing to mainstream audiences, it’ll be heavily marketed, and it has Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon.

Yeah, they can definitely survive another underwhelming generation. They’re sitting on a massive war chest of money and now they have other successful revenue sources like the movies they’re doing.

I would hate to see an industry without their hardware innovations and fantastic software. I’m rooting for their leadership to be humbled and to abandon the full greed mode that they’ve activated, but I’m not rooting for their demise.

Like everything else since the advent of harnessing fire, it’s a double edged sword that can be used for good and evil.

I just don’t understand how they are struggling with something they invented themselves and already perfected in the mid-eighties.

I took NES and SNES controllers apart like two months ago to clean them. It’s pretty simple in there.

Yup. That is misinformation that was spread to me in the same manner and I gobbled it up. I’m much less angry since watching a YouTube video and learning about that in fact.

Yup. Life necessities and stealing as much entertainment as I can with good old piracy.

That is true. Regardless, I’m not paying $90 for video games when we’re in such hard times in my country. Steam sales and fit-girl is how I’m rolling into the foreseeable future.

I’m a patient person who doesn’t need a game at launch and will wait a year to get it at a good price. What stings with Nintendo is that they don’t lower game prices even years later though. Looks like I’ll be waiting quite some time before I play the next Mario and Zelda adventures. Unfortunate but I’ll live.

Been a Nintendo fan since the NES, bordering on obsession when I was a teenager and young adult. They’ve always made my favorite games. Looks like their new leadership has really shown its colors today though. The fucking hubris. I will not be paying these prices. $90 physical games? Iwata made sure games were $10 cheaper than the more powerful competitors, not $20 more expensive.

Burn in hell, Nintendo. I hope hackers work really hard to crack this system so I can steal your games. Otherwise I’ll emulate them sometime down the line.

Yeah, there was a bit too much “at an additional price” and “with a Nintendo Switch Online Plus account” for my liking. I get to what? Play a few GameCube games I can already play on my Steam Deck?

I’m sure they will eventually have enough games to entice me as I’m a big fan of Nintendo games since the 80’s, but it’s looking like I’ll be okay waiting for now.

Yikes. I think I’m going to pass for now at that price. Honestly the only game that interested me in that entire showcase was the Donkey Kong platformer where you go around smashing the fuck out of shit, but I’m not about to drop half a grand to play it.

I feel even less excited about the idea of buying this system than I did the Wii U. The scalpers can have at this one. I’ll consider it down the line when there’s more software that looks worthwhile.

Hah, literally 20 years since they’ve abandoned the spec wars.

This the same creator of Stardew Valley or just the same publisher?

And thus the prophecy of the underground lizard people is fulfilled

After using a Switch for nearly a decade, the docking experience with Deck is pretty awful in comparison. Make sure the firmware is up to date on the dock you have or buy a better one if that doesn’t work and you can certainly get it in a useable state without serious issues… but I sure do wish it was a simple as slotting it in and having everything seamlessly work like it is with Switch.

Hah. That is a very depressing end indeed.

They use it for basic everyday stuff like web browsing? I installed Linux on my mom’s aging laptop that she just used to sell stuff on eBay, browse, listen to music, back up photos, etc. Linux glides with ease on the machine when Windows slogged and she was able to understand the OS fine. Users today don’t really have to touch the command line at all unless they are doing something advanced. The GUI is just as easy to understand as Windows.

Oh trust me, I would… but it would hurt my family, and I do care about avoiding any additional pain to them. I’ll live out the prison sentence. Won’t be much longer.