And you’ll be sued by Nintendo into lifelong poverty if you use it wrong.
Fuck Nintendo.
Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed
Submitted 11 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-2-launches-june-5th-120fps-4k-support/
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noxypaws@pawb.social 11 months ago
ripcord@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When has Nintendo sued someone for using something wrong?
noxypaws@pawb.social 11 months ago
their legal action against emulators and DRM circumvention. they have the audacity of allowing people to play their games which were legally purchased on unapproved hardware.
SatyrSack@feddit.org 11 months ago
Can the launch model be rooted?
melfie@lemmings.world 11 months ago
I don’t plan to buy one because proprietary, locked down hardware isn’t a great investment compared to PC hardware that can serve a lot of different purposes, but am eagerly awaiting the news of Nintendo’s well-earned pwnage.
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Unlikely, but you never know.
SatyrSack@feddit.org 11 months ago
Isn’t that generally the case, though? Sure, not day zero, but usually it is only later models that get some hardware patch, leaving the earliest models with the vulnerability.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
…
I’d suggest finding out and being an early adopter.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Only time will tell.
No way in hell Nintendo would come out and talk about exploits in their game console. Also if they knew about it they’d fix it first.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Do you think Nintendo would announce that?
SatyrSack@feddit.org 11 months ago
Switch 2: Now with more exploits!
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nobody knows yet.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
90€ for Mario Kart 🤡 I hope this console flops because of this alone.
rbits@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I hope at the very least it forces them to drop it’s price
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You know it will not… The best I hope is that MK doesn’t sell too well separately thus forcing a discount.
arakhis_@feddit.org 11 months ago
depends on the customer really, we do not live in times where everyone can buy food or even think about another child member. the release sales of the switch 1 were pre covid.
This might flop due to 2-class conflict, although Id love to see the switch 2 to succeed
lennee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think I might buy a steamdeck instead and just hope that the fromsoft game is a temporary exclusive
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Steam Deck is getting long in the tooth. New triple A games don’t run very well on it or aren’t even playable. It’s fine if you wan tot run older games or indie games, but otherwise you might have to look for one of the competitors.
monarch@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t think I’ve played a new triple A game in over 5 years. If the steam deck can play modded Minecraft it will have more hours than the switch oled I got right after they released.
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean, I’ve been using a Switch to play games portably so far. A Steam Deck will be a revelation by comparison.
polite_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tbh the fact the fromsoft game seems to be mostly focused on multiplayer makes me not too hyped
and yeah, a steamdeck is a solid investment
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Definitely getting a Steam Deck instead. I was waiting for confirmation of the ridiculously high price.
Artyom@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”
It’s a 60Hz vs 120Hz screen, and it’s got true 1080p resolution. It’s certainly on-par with the Steam Deck in terms of performance and performance per dollar. The price isn’t ridiculous by any stretch.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For $50 less, you get a similarly capable machine in terms of specs but more comfortable to hold, with an immensely larger library, and an operating system far more respectful of your authority to do what you want with the machine you bought.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think I would wait for a Steam Deck 2 just for the sake of future proof.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Steam Deck 2 isn’t coming for a long time. Steam Deck OLED is still more than viable.
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
A temporary exclusive, just like Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne…
I have a steam deck, and I just hope yuzu or ryujinx will be able to run Duskbloods :P
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You’re looking at the en-can page. You’re in Canada. It’s CAD.
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The en-ca in the URL means nothing as I’ve bought from .ca websites and been charged in USD before. To be fair, it wasn’t a large company like Nintendo but it still happened. Fastest cancel I’ve ever done. So, Unless it’s explicitly called out next to the price or I’ve bought something from there before, I usually assume it’s USD.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s CAD, it’s $450 in the US.
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No OLED, no sale.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is bothering me too… But there is a huge perk of being an early adopter though… 🏴☠️
makyo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah that’s driving me crazy too, it’s 2025 and it’s an obvious marketing gimmick to withhold the OLED at this point
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Well, they can’t release an OLED model later on (and make more sales) if they make it OLED from the start! Duh!
Katana314@lemmy.world 11 months ago
120 and 4K are often claimed on console specs but are rarely achieved within games. At best it will be capable of that when playing Netflix or streaming.
pory@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or it’s actually running at 720p30 and being FSR/framegenned into a blurry shimmery mess. There’s no way Nintendo managed to cram a chip powerful enough to render its own Switch 1 games at true 4k120 into a tablet.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah the direct didn’t claim 4k at 120.
You get 1080p at 120, or 4k at 60.
addie@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The real advantage of a 120 Hz screen is that you get a much more graceful degradation if you dip below your fps target for a bit. If you’re targeting 30 fps but drop to 25, it still feels pretty smooth on a high-refresh screen, whereas that’s appallingly clunky on a low-refresh one. A “poor man’s gsync”, if you will.
rbits@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Top the gsync comment, the Switch 2’s screen also has VRR
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what a lot of people don’t understand. Higher refresh rate even with lower fps makes games feel more responsive. I can play 30 fps games much better on a refresh rate higher than 60hz.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, for all but the simplest games it will be one or the other, not both at once.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They announced Metroid Prime 4 will be able to run at 1080p 120fps or 4K 60fps when docked. It doesn’t have the most impressive graphics or anything, but it sounds like they’re actually going to try doing it for a few games.
natryamar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nintendo will try but based off of some of the third party gameplay they seem to be the only ones who will
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’d bet that’s using a lot of upscaling in both modes
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
High refresh screen and 4K support is a surprise to me, that’s very nice when it comes to Nintendo standards.
On the other hand, It’s very weird that they didn’t announce a price at the showcase… It sounds like this might be more expensive than what everybody’s expecting it to be.
Decq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s not going to be a single worthwhile game that will run natively at 4k. And i have my doubts about 1080@120 too. Maybe they can keep their polygons so low they can actually reach it, but then what’s the point?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I would have bet real money if you had asked me yesterday that it would have been limited to 1080p to reduce cost. I am very curious to know more about how it actually performs in each setting, how much of it is upscaling, etc. I imagine that most 4k games won’t have much in the way of better graphics than the Switch 1, the higher memory bandwidth could help with higher res textures though.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a price on the UK official store: £395.99 for the system. £429.99 including digital copy of MKW.
Preorders open on 8th April.
9blb@feddit.org 11 months ago
Preorders open on 8th April.
The US site lists May 8. Preorders also seem to be invite-only in the beginning?
From the US site:
Invitation emails will be prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis to registrants who have purchased a Nintendo Switch Online membership with a minimum of 12 months of paid membership and a minimum of 50 total gameplay hours, as of April 2, 2025. Once invitation emails have been sent to all registrants meeting the priority criteria, invitations will be sent to remaining eligible registrants on a first-come, first-served basis.
The German site lists April 8, but requires you two have a Nintendo online subscription for the last two years.
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nothing yet on the US store. Tariffs threw a wrench in their plans, I reckon.
Kelly@programming.dev 11 months ago
So this thing only takes microSD Express cards?
Are there any larger than 256GB on the market?
I have a 1TB card in my Switch 1 and I would rather not downgrade the capacity if there are any options.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes, there are 2TB cards by SanDisk