If it's anything like how the Wii was basically a GameCube it may not even be all that hard to rework existing switch emulators to work with switch 2 games. Given that it's going to have full back compat I bet that's why they went after switch emus so hard. They wanted to halt development as much as possible for as long as possible so it doesn't eat away at their switch 2 sales.

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[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

This blog post is worthless. A direct link to the official video announcement would be better.

https://youtu.be/itpcsQQvgAQ

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[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Cool for Nintendo fans but the ROG Ally has changed the game for me. I’ll miss Pokémon but they haven’t been good in a while so whatever.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The Pokemon games all being the same caused me to get bored of them years ago. And now with them suing Palworld for 'capturing monsters with an object and summoning them in 3d space', a patent made after Palworld released their trailer, I find the Nintendo brand actively harmful to the state of gaming.

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[–] _____@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Pokemon is literally the same game over and over, I hugely regretted my purchase of pokemon x cause it was literally a cloned game with barely any new features. It's probably Nintendo's most effective cash cow in terms of effort to capital reward.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It is literally the biggest money maker in the world. The games sell about 3/5 as many copies as COD with a tiny fraction of the budget. And then they sell even more in merch. And there are people (like me in the past) that buy Nintendo consoles just for those games.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 55 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Much like the rest of the announcement, the specs actually got leaked a few days earlier: https://thegamepost.com/nintendo-switch-2-full-specs-appears-to-have-leaked/

TL;DR: 12GB of RAM, GPU that's roughly on par with the Steam Deck. It's not the most powerful handheld out there but surprisingly not bad for Nintendo standards.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

GPU that's roughly on par with the Steam Deck.

...when comparing TFLOPs, and that's not comparable across architectures (by different companies as well!).

If we take similar-performing (in rasterization) Ampere and RDNA 2 cards (say a 3080 and 6800 XT), we can see the 3080 has 29.77 TFLOPs and the 6800 XT has 20.74 TFLOPs, an RDNA 2 FLOP is worth about 1.4x as much as an Ampere FLOP.

So extrapolating the 1.6 "RDNA 2 TFLOPs" of the Deck we get 2.24 "Ampere TFLOPs" and that'd make the Deck quite a bit faster than the Switch 2 in portable mode, but slower than the Switch 2 in docked mode.

This is obviously all just wild and silly speculation, but I doubt the Switch 2 will match the Deck in portable mode. Samsung 8nm would just eat too much power for this to realistically happen in a handheld form factor.

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[–] NastyNative@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Will this still play switch 1 games? (Physical cartridges)

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Yes

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[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Okay so they just made it slightly bigger. I don't know how to feel on the joycons, though. Like with them just being held by that connector alone on either side, doesn't make me think they'll be as secure.

I wouldn't really call this an ushering of a new generation, this just feels more like an suped up Switch model.

At least you'll be able to play nearly all Switch games on it so nothing is that drastic.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this just feels more like an suped up Switch model.

To be fair, the last 2-3 generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles have also been a little more than a bump in CPU/GPU specs. Anything else they added was just gimmicky fluff like Kinect that never really caught on.

Were we really expecting Nintendo to come out with something that wasn’t also just a souped up version of the last console?

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