OT: Not excited about the imminent launch of Switch 2. Are you?

I watched a reaction video to Nintendo Direct in April, and was not
impressed with the new offering. Primarily because it looks like they're
making a bunch of cash grabs "enhancing" games you already have on the
original Switch as a replacement for actual launch titles.

In the expansion pack, the GameCube game selection looks very limited,
and Rogue Leader is not part of the launch.

They showed ports of stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring, but I'm
pretty sure it wasn't the Switch 2 running the demo vids, and I'll bet it
looks like ass when you actually see it on the Switch 2. (I made the
mistake of buying Outer Worlds on the original Switch).

The new "killer feature" that they were excited to share is the "C"
button! It lets you do voice chat! It also lets you do video chat! If you
buy a camera! For more bucks!

Social and game chat is still limited to the Nintendo policy of "no
randos." They explicitly described it as an "experience you could share
with family and friends." I hope the feature includes an easy way to make
new friends on-line, since you *can* actually game with randos.

Also, the camera had some interesting features, like it showed little
thought bubbles over players with people's faces looking forward. I'm
sure everyone will play games staring right into the camera. They also
introduced some Kinect-like full body stuff, again with everyone
perfectly facing the camera, which the reaction video joked about. "It's
the Kinect again!"

Ooh! And the new joy-cons can be used face-down as a mouse for shooters
and Civ and stuff. You know, on your knee I guess, since no-one has
mousing space on their sofa. They hyped some wheelchair basketball game
where you continuously have to roll both controllers forward; I guess on
your couch cushion. Nintendo loves to innovate new game controls, but
this one seems like they felt it was obilgatory. It is not well thought
out.

So all it has going for it rn, IMO, is Mario Kart World, now with "open
world" game play? That and a future Metroid: Prime 4 release that
apparently has a mouse controls mode. That's right: Prime with a mouse.
Everything else on launch is "Now you can play Breath of the Wild with
HDR! If you fork over some more cash!"

And... not fully backwards compatible. I think this notable caveat is
because there is a lot of shovelware for the Switch, and how could
Nintendo guarantee that everything will run? I bet most of the important
stuff does.

Anyone buying this at launch? What's your opinion of the new console?
It's feeling like Wii-U redux to me, though I'll probably eventually get
one for the bigger screen.

--
Zag

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