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  • @GiveMemes
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    132 months ago

    I mean it’s easy to shit on the switch now that it’s a 7 year old console, and don’t get me wrong the joycon drift is fuckin ridiculous, but the switch was kinda impressive when it came out.

    • @piccolo@ani.social
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      32 months ago

      The switch isn’t impressive. It used old hardware Nvidia had a bulk of their failed shield project, and they stuck it in a tablet. There were no reasons nintendo couldn’t produce something equivalent to the steam deck in 2017 with their infinite money. But that’s not what Nintendo do. They always opt for the cheapest way to sell new hardware because they know their fans will buy anything from them no matter how shit it is.

      • @GiveMemes
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        2 months ago

        Ahh yess they could easily have produced something equivalent to a product introduced 5 years later. It was literally the most powerful handheld of all time when it came out and had almost double the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360 and ps3 with the dock, and still more than either without it. Could it compete with the ps4 and Xbox One? Absolutely not. Precisely because of the form factor. To think otherwise is hilarious. I do think their addition of all the random bullshit nobody uses that drives up price was dumb.

        Also, every time Nintendo makes a cutting edge box-console to directly compete with Microsoft and Sony they just lose sales, so why even try?

        • @piccolo@ani.social
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          22 months ago

          Most powerful only because their only competition was the ps vita which was already quite old. And the steam deck isn’t revolutionary. It’s just laptop hardware in a handheld format. Noone said it needs to match the ps4 or xbone because that would require lugging a massive cooling system. Its just sad the switch barely handles 60fps in docked mode…

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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      32 months ago

      It’s basically just an Android tablet with shitty controllers on each side and some proprietary OS. The only thing that makes the Switch special are the exclusive Nintendo games.

      • JackbyDev
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        22 months ago

        You’ve basically described all gaming consoles lol

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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          12 months ago

          The one thing that impresses me about consoles though: How tf do they manage to run even graphics-intensive games on such low-end hardware? I mean sure, frame rates aren’t great, but the fact that these games still run and are somehow playable amazes me.

    • @Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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      22 months ago

      It was underpowered when it came out and didn’t introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

      What’s really impressive is the devs making games for it, showing off how much the mobile gaming market is holding us back by making Candy Crush Soda Ultra Supermax

      • JackbyDev
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        02 months ago

        and didn’t introduce anything their other consoles didnt already have (nor have I ever seen someone use half the features).

        I don’t remember undocking my PS4 to play it on the go.

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          2 months ago

          But you may have with your Gameboy, gameboy advanced, Ds, dsi, dsiXL, 2ds, 3ds, wiiu, PSP, or PSP vita.

          And if you consider a portable HDMI output important, laptops and phones could do this probably half a decade before the switch came out

          • JackbyDev
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            12 months ago

            You can’t compare Wii U because it has to be super close to the console and not all games could be played on the game pad. Unless the Vita had HDMI output then this was definitely a new feature of game consoles. Maybe you can compare NetBooks to the Switch if you’re being generous but laptops and phones are a totally different form factor.