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Nintendo Switch 2 design seemingly leaked by carrying case maker — similar aesthetics but with a larger screen and Joy-Cons (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.

[–] Kelly 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.

  • NES>SNES
  • N64>GameCube
  • GB>GBA
  • DS>3DS

With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

N64 -> GCN is a stretch to me, but Wii -> WiiU isn't

[–] Kelly 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Branding aside, the GameCube had:

  • four controller sockets built into the console
  • a media format with much lower capacity than the competition
  • a controller with one primary thumbstick and two primary face buttons.

These feel like vestigial N64 features

Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Okay, actually now that you bring all that up, yeah! The controller is very different looking but functionally, even the C stick/C buttons are similar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mayyybe.

IMO what sets the GameCube apart from anything else is its controller. Those asymetric buttons are unlike anything, including N64. Plus the weird analogic triggers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

With the ds it was even more.

DS->DS Lite>DSi->3DS->2DS->New 3DS/2DS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I feel like they meant to make this their switch pro, but the parts shortages probably meant they had to delay much longer than they liked. So as a result, I think they decided to make it a successor instead?

Though I wonder what the hardware is like?