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

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 13:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

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TBH, I did like the kinect when it came out, but hopefully its not
forced into every game like the kinect was.

Tee-hee. I had the Kinect too. AND "Star Wars Kinect." And yes, there
was much flailing about with invisible lightsabers and embarrassingly
terrible dancing in the house because of that combination. ;-)

I guess the theory of every other nintendo console being bad continues
(gamecube bad, wii good, wii u bad, switch good, switch 2 bad)

I'm not sure your profile holds up:

NES good, SNES good, N64 good.
GB good, GBC good, GBA good.
(not familiar enough with the DS line to make comparisons)

And the Gamecube was bad? It might not have sold as well as people
would have liked, but it had good games and good tech.

Honestly --as much as it hurts me to praise Nintendo-- they've managed
relatively few flops. The "Virtual Boy" was the biggest; that one was
just irredeemable. The Wii-U wasn't bad, but it felt unnecessary; the
gimmicky controller-with-a-screen wasn't a very good idea and its
limited hardware refresh meant it was still basically a Wii. But the
Wii itself was pretty-damn-good (if you liked that sort of thing) so
that's not a bad place to find yourself in.

I think the Switch 2 will do fine. It's basically just another minor
hardware revamp, but that's okay; people will just buy this one
instead of the original Switch. It's sort of like SteamDeck vs.
SteamDeck OLED; you just get the better one when there's a game that
won't run on your old device, or the old device breaks... whichever
comes first.