I am a computer evangelist on time, but there are several consoles that have stolen my heart over the years: Game Boy Advance, Gamecube, and in 2017 Nintendo Switch. After skipping 3DS and Vita, it reminded me of how magical portable games. The switch passed some mobile technology/hand tablet from mid -2010 to Juggernaut games through a single hardware project and great games.
Switch I excited Nintendo again, with an enthusiasm that constantly decreased in the face of a warrior company against developers of emulators and non -otitic practices, such as the emulation of a classic game library based on subscription.
I do not know what the console supplementing the company could be differently than the iterative update to the original switch, one of the greatest successes in its long history, but after watching the debut presentation of Nintendo for the console, I found my worst concerns that they were realized: magic is not there.
The original Switch gave me something that I could not find anywhere else in 2017, while Switch 2 connects to the latest two generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, not offering anything that I can’t find on more open platforms based on computer, saving the exclusive games Stick of consols exclusivity, not a really desirable device.
Deck effect
After launching the switch 1, Nintendo was an extreme weaker whose hardware was threatened. He released a portable console without competition, wondering if dedicated conveyors come out in the face of smartphones.
Like tablets, they did not kill the computer at the beginning of 2010 thanks to the inability to match or exceed the functionality of the computer, it turns out that the phones are not one size for all solutions for games on the way. Mobile games are currently the largest segment of the industry, but at the back of experiences adapted to the touch interface.
Curdle consoles or games in the face of this terrible compact touch screen controller faximile that you always see and try to transfer Triple games to modern iPhone models, which several times tap the switch in terms of grunt processing Continue the flop.
Thanks to Dokk USB-C, Switch found a unique niche as a lower home console and excellent manual. In the case of recent flowering of portable computers, directed by the Valve steam deck, Switch 2 exhibits as a result of much stiffer competition. I have no doubt that the “failure” of Switch 2 will continue to transfer the entire market of portable PCs in terms of units sold, but as a critic and enthusiast product, no, well, well, enthuse I.
In addition to the first Nintendo party games, the promise on travel, Triple-a Gaming on Switch 2 sounds just as exposed to PC conveyors.
Switch 2 is distinguished from competition with a slim, slender frame and although it is LCD, its HDR screen with a capacity of 120 Hz sounds as if he could replace blows with the leading category steam deck. Otherwise, Nintendo seems to be in the same demanding limits in current technology as manual computers manufacturers. The quoted battery life of two to six and a half hours is a standard in the field, and its 256 GB of storage on board is only in the face of Miserly 32 of the original switch.
When it comes to graphics and game performance, early reports remind me of the original switch: some really shadowy wizards with equipment from First Party Nintendo Devs, with third -party standards updated to “portable” from terrifying, muddy ports of the original switch.
I can’t deny that I am impressed by 4K 60 FPS Studios (or 1080p 120 FPS) on the magnificent Metroid Prime 4, but it will certainly be the same number of protruding values as the excellent remake of Metroid Prime Perfect 900p 60 FPS on the original switch. Bloomberg Jason Schreier SWITCH 2, which Cyberpunk 2077 worked from the event, reported from the event at 40 FPS in performance mode, while Docked – Superior for the performance of the steam deck, but Handheld would be more comparing apples to apples, and this number does not arouse confidence.
Killer App
Apart from the first Nintendo party games, the promise on travel, triple-a gaming in Switch 2 sounds just as exposed as on the PC porter: games will look and work “well”, quickly chewing the battery. But I have never seen to take worse versions of graphically intense (or six months to five -year) games on the road to be a real draw of switches or portable.
For me there were three pillars of Switch dismissal: Nintendo First Party Games, Xbox 360 ports or earlier and India. The steam deck is an excellent machine for servicing the last two categories and I rarely dusted my change in the last few years, except for enjoying my own Nintendo offers.
I remember how I waited for months for Dark Souls and Hollow Knight ports to finally land on Switch in 2018. Meanwhile, with some exceptions, even unclear independent peculiarities, such as Betrayal at Club LowLunacid, or Flyknight Work on a steam deck with little confusion. As in the case of triple-a lower intensity games at the age of 10+ years ago, such as Metal Gear Solid 5, Deus Ex: Human revolution or mass effect -all games that would be great for Switch.
Nintendo emphasis on forcing your library in the offensive service of emulation of subscription is a complete disgust for me.
You don’t have to wait for the game port that will play on a portable computer, touches something really critical for me: the nature of the computer as an open platform with uninterrupted continuity back to the earliest games. Console ecosystems, such as Switch, leave us at the grace of publishers, in which games we can access to a much higher degree than on the PC, sharing the history of games in the way the publishers will exploit to sell American games that we have already bought to play on more available platforms.
Old games coming to GOG or Steam or in a different way are remastered by someone like a Nightive T -shirt, it is always good. But I could connect a USB board on the desktop, and even a steam deck to take advantage of my physical PC games, which managed to survive years, various movements and one particularly tragic flood in the basement. Thanks to emulators programmers I can do the same with ISO and ROM separated from my collection of console games.
On the other hand, the insistence of Nintendo to force your library in the offensive service of subscription emulation is a complete disgust for me, while the original compatible nintendo switch back compatibility still seems to be a little open question: Digital Foundry He pointed out that many switches of other companies have documented the problems already confirmed by Nintendo, with many others they seem to require additional tests.
Nintendon no
I fully understand the plug and playing consoles, something that is increasingly disappearing in the face of ubiquitous online services and patches on the first day. I am definitely against handhelds Windows, whose degraded, shit user experiences cause me a similar revival as this simulated gamepad touch screen.
But Steamos and Steam deck represent a sweet point in the style of console, cordial to the user Frontend without compromise on user control: I can load ROM, 20-year physical PC games, and even games from competitive digital shop windows on my steam deck with minimal technical knowledge. Similar freedom when starting Nintendo Switch requires jailbreaking system a positively medieval method in which you physically shorten the Rail Joy Con using paper clip.
The cost is always something that I want to be considered a barrier to computer games, but despite the current madness of graphics cards, the equipment from low to middle class now provides more mileage than in the history of hobby-10-year-old GTX 970 still appears in some triple minimum game specifications.
And before you consider $ 400, Basic LCD steam deckA cheaper alternative to Switch 2, which offers an ideal starting point for the unlimited world of PCs, as opposed to entering the ecosystem strictly controlled by the company, whose operation of mods, emulation and own back catalog reveals disrespect for your own clients and medium history.
I am looking forward to the game on the Metroid Prime 4 generation as the last kind of Hurition for my Nintendo Switch model from 2017. Perhaps the song of the exclusive game siren from the software is enough to tempt me to buy Switch 2 next year, although Duskbloods is a “multiplayer”.
However, I will end Hiudos for Nintendo: I really love that you can turn a modern joy on the side and exploit it like a mouse. It reminds me Hori Tactical Assault CommanderOne of the largest controllers ever designed. Speaking more seriously, it is a flash of inventive lateral thinking that I want Nintendo The Toymaker – Nintendo, which gave us the original switch – that I was clocked at the great debut of Switch 2.
