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Nintendo confirms: Switch 2 Joy-Cons won’t feature Hall Effect sticks | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Well, the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up,” said Nate Bihldorff, senior vice president of product development and publishing. “They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't believe that they jacked up the Switch 2's price by $150. Somewhere between 300 and 450 is my limit for a console I suppose, because I bought a switch 1 and was pretty satisfied with it (although I haven't used it in a couple of years because emulation is just better) but a switch 2 seems like a complete non starter to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It literally looks the same just with a bigger screen. The graphics don’t seem to be any different, the only difference seems to be the label for which console the games belong to

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

1280*//720=921,600

1920*//1080=2,073,600

It’s more than double the pixels displayed in handheld mode, and double again the pixels displayed in docked mode. Resolution is expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also at theoretically 120hz that takes a lot more CPU and GPU power.

Will games ever run at 120hz? Probably not, but in theory they could if a dev took the time to optimize the shit out of their game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Even 40fps at 120hz is a good use of it, I love when devs do that on ps5. It’s so much smoother than 30, but without quite the trade off graphically of 60.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The bigger OLED model for Switch 1 at 7" has a PPI of 200, which is higher than most TVs and gaming monitors. The Steam Deck only has an 800p-tall screen. The lack of clarity people saw on Switch is mostly likely the game not hitting the screen's native resolution in the first place. The 120hz kicks ass, but a 1080p screen is a total waste on Switch2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah it seems a bit of a waste, but HDR and 120hz sound nice to me. I’m spoiled by HDR, it really is my favorite development in graphics displaying tech since probably mid 00s.

It also does 4k docked, which is nice to me. I’m a bit spoiled in that department too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Double the slowness cause the specs suck as usual?

It's appalling how slow and clunky the Switch is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The switch 2 graphics have more drifting cloud particles.