Nintendo Finally Revealed many of the switch 2's meest details this morning
and so far Gamers don't really know what to think with reactions ranging from
whoa cool to wait what it felt good to
finally hear numbers and words like 7.9
in 1080p 120 HZ LCD display 4K output
while docked only fans could could could
make that happen and there's one in the dock and it was kind of surreal to
finally see Nintendo confirm those outlandish rumors about the new joycons
being used as a mouse not only can you
360 no scope in Metroid Prime 4 in some
games you can dual wield mice like some
kind of gamer god the blessed offspring
of Lord gabin himself Goombas tremble
and weep at your coming if you're more of a normal controller person though the
new Switch 2 Pro Controller has rear buttons just give them a little tickle
then things got even more interesting the new game chat feature brings
Nintendo's party chat technology into the 21st century specifically the 2010s
Nintendo's essentially invented Discord calls for the switch 2 you can chat
directly with your party using the mic on the actual console okay whether
you're playing the same game or a different one you can stream your
Gameplay at a cinematic frame rate and even use the new switch to camera to add
in your face then there's game share which is exactly what the rumor said it
was the switch 2 can host a local multiplayer session between other switch
2 or previous switch one consoles even
if they don't own a copy of the game while I've seen some PC Xbox and PS5
players being kind of dismissive of these features since they seem to
largely just be worst versions of the features those players have you know who
doesn't have them your grandma
perhaps because she passed some time ago but the point Nintendo's reinvention of
existing things doesn't stop there though while many switch 2 games will be
available on physical game cards some will simply have game key cards which
will give your system a game key it can
use to download a game I know it's very
disorienting Stay With Me the idea makes sense especially now that the switch 2
comes with 256 gigs of storage which
you're going to be filling up with hot new Switch 2 games like switch 2 Welcome
tour a tutorial app that is not free
there's also Mario there's also a new Mario Kart Mario Kart World which
finally lets the racers loose in an open world injecting a bit of Diddy Kong
Racing e didy Kong Racing you shouldn't
have said that hey look you can be a cow frankly I'm more excited for Donkey Kong
Bonanza the character's first proper 3D Adventure since Donkey Kong 64 the game
that gave us the DK WAP why am I doing
this to myself I'm 22 years old we also got a new Zelda game it's hyro Warriors
okay I'm sorry I'm more interested in drag X drive a flashy wheelchair
basketball game that makes use of the dual wielding mice thing but is
apparently not hosted by Rupa but in a sentence I found even more unlikely to
be said during attack link from software made a switch to exclusive m multiplayer
game it's called dusk Bloods featuring
characters that are like vampires but they can only come outside after
dusk I made that up I know nothing about the game uh the switch 2 is also getting
a healthy assortment of ports including Elden ring tarnished Edition and
cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition and then
to give your system a bit of a break you can play the GameCube games added to the
more expensive tier of Nintendo switch online speaking of older games turns out
backwards compatibility is kind of complicated there's switch two Edition
games which are switch one games that have been updated optimized and added to
to ensure compatibility which isn't a given Nintendo says most switch one
games should run fine but some games
currently have issues after starting up or even during startup as detailed by
Nintendo in this helpful table featuring an entire column that says the same
thing all all the way down except for the fortnite entry you could have left
that column out completely this is what I'm mad about others are rightly
disappointed that the switch 2 will cost $450 us when it launches on June 5th in
Canada it'll be 630 well at least Japan will get a
Japanese only version for around 333 USD
and Nintendo seems serious about preventing scalping this time around not
only will that version only be able to link a Nintendo account that was created
with Japan as the region setting pre-orders for any version of the switch
2 will be limited to Nintendo accounts that have demonstrated sufficient
loyalty to the Mushroom Kingdom the requirements appear to differ between
countries but at a minimum you'll have to have paid for a switch online
membership for a year played switch games for 50 hours and opted in to share
your usage data with Nintendo hm now I
can already hear the heavy breathing and imagine the nostrils flaring but hey
this is just for pre-orders anyone can buy one when it launches and scalpers
are crazy now I think it's time for drastic measures I mean this will be
more effective than Amazon boldly limiting GPU purchases to Prime
subscribers yeah that'll stop them as for dbrand our sponsor nothing can stop
them from bringing their kill switch case to the Nintendo switch 2 even
though the name kill switch was originally about the steam deck being a
switch killer although but I guess it wasn't this case
features ergonomic hand grips that detach along with the joycons because I
mean if they didn't that would um that would be embarrassing it's also got a
custombuilt dock adapter that makes the Nintendo dock compatible with the kill
switch case while turning it into a little display stand for your console so
you can point it out to people when they visit and say hey see this see that I
bought that last but not least the
travel cover has been upgraded to carry up to 10 game cards or game key cards or
virtual game cards I don't know what Nintendo's on man the travel covers even
got a frosted transparency so you can see what games you're bringing along
with you on the go the switch 2 kill switch is set to launch around the same
time as the console itself but dbrand is currently accepting $3 reservations to
guarantee your spot at the front of the line when it goes live this June so
check them out at my bosses short.com okay I'm doing less quick bits because
the switch 2 story took way too freaking long I mean we all want to go home I
think right like like enough the switch
2 ain't the only console handheld rolling into town ASUS and Xbox have
performed some decidedly unsettle teasing of what is probably the project
kenon device whose existence was leaked recently another leak this week points
to the existence of a special ized Windows UI that involves booting into
full screen mode presumably an Xbox
themed one at launch which is further proof that the idea of a console is
becoming just a PC in the same way that
many animals throughout evolutionary history have simply become crab AMD has
responded to all those reports of dead or otherwise borked ryzen 79800 x3d CPUs
in a statement released to press team red basically agreed with with asrock's
unsatisfying update confirming a glitchy
BIOS caused some startup issues but it's
not causing CPUs to burn out and even if
it was the BIOS has been updated now anyway meanwhile there's still this
Reddit Mega thread with over a 100 ryzen chip owners reporting issues mostly on
ASRock boards but sometimes you don't get a satisfying
conclusion and the wikip media Foundation says AI crawler Bots are
straining their servers as they contribute to a 50% increase in
downloads of multimedia content since January 2024 Wikipedia says although AI
crawlers only account for 35% of traffic
overall they're responsible for 65% of a
heavier type of traffic called bulk reading involving rapidly visiting large
number of pages including less popular ones not sure if killing Wikipedia has
been part of the AI safety conversation yet I can't wait to have future
historians analyze the humans of this era's decision to trade their single
greatest repository of open information in exchange for chat Bots that can
improvise what they think sounds like a good answer rocks are
healthy to eat yeah this sounds right and I had
more to say but we're literally out of time tell you what come back on Friday
and I'll give you another tech news update as long as Nintendo doesn't
decide to force me to talk about them so much again that was pretty rude