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[Vandal] Exclusive new details about the next Nintendo console (Bigger than Switch, smaller than Steam Deck, joycons will be magnetic)
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While not as thick, I remember looking into the dimensions on this and I seem to recall that it was verging on being the same size as an Xbox Series S.
Smaller than Steam Deck and detachable controller are the main things we wanted to hear!! Let's go for the superior form factor:)
Wonder how the magnets would work? Hard to imagine them being strong enough not to risk accidently pulling off or bending away - and if they were it'd be tough for them to be released!
Exciting that it'll be a bit bigger, hopefully means better (or at least the same) battery life.
Exciting that it'll be a bit bigger, hopefully means better (or at least the same) battery life.
Seems like 2025 it is, then!
Larger than current Switch is fine by me, good that it's not as big as the Steam Deck - that seems a bit too bulky for my tastes.
Magnetic attachment and no forward compatibility for existing joy cons is interesting. Double confirmation of similar form factor with remove-able controllers but hopefully this new revision is more sturdy and the larger size of the console overall will help here for sure.
Thank GOD the current Pro controller is forwards compatible at least.[/url]
I don't know as if anyone else was getting the kind of power out of something with that form factor (certainly not at that price) when it launched seven years ago.
I appreciate that the Switch feels 'underpowered' in today's market, seven years after it launched. But I don't remember feeling that at launch at all. It was magic seeing what it could do as a handheld.
I suppose you could argue that they cut corners in aid of the form factor. Like, it was underpowered compared to a PS4 Pro because it was about as big as a large phone. But that seems reasonable?
I know nothing. Just a complete guess based on the magnetic Joycons. (Better or worse than Switch Attach though?)
Nintendo blind folded them "now... guess that this is!?!"
I know Nintendo aren't idiots, but there's gotta be more to this. Because initial thought spells disaster with this system?
Close your eyes. Pick up literally anything. That's how it works.
If any corporate exec told me to put my hand in a covered up box I'd run
Outside of Smash and Mario Odyssey I always felt is was compromised. BOTW felt okay but when Genshin came out it opened my eyes as to how much I was not a fan of how it looked. Great for a handheld sure... but I wanted a dedicated nintendo console which I did not get. I was fine with the switch at first, being a handheld/ console hybrid was novel, but cracks started to show for games I was supposed to love by the time Arceus/ New Horizons came out. New Horizons was especially grating for me because of the terrible load times for online features and the rendering times for terraforming and indeed switch games look and feel best in every way you can play outside of switch.
It wasnt until Steam Deck came out that I realized I can have an amazing handheld and a much more robust console experience. I never asked for it before, but its the reality we live in now. I want to know how its going to compete. Alternately Id be fully on board for a non-handheld console. Options are nice.
That's pretty much what I'm expecting, especially if the current Pro Controller will still work.
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Went back to the podcast where they explain this more in detail. I transcribed and translated what Rubén said.
"Every manufacturer we talked to said they had touched it. And I asked, well, "touch and see, right?" and no, they only said they touched it. They were able to put their hands into a black box, which was completely opaque and closed, and they were able to only touch the console itself. Why? Because they didn't want pictures or videos to leak out, or have the exact dimensions leak based on pictures and such to start developing stuff before Nintendo allows them. Everyone has told us the same thing, they haven't been able to see it and they've only been able to get an idea of the dimensions and feel only by touching the console in this way."
This is the only way this leak makes any sense lol.
But even then the part about magnetic joycons makes it super weird too
If you're going this far then I'm not gonna not go all the way.
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It does sound a tad weird, but considering the thing is almost a year off at this point, and I do not see claimed at which time the said accessoiry manufacurers were allowed to "touch" it, so could have been months ago by now, they likely still have plenty of time to get their ducks in a row, and eventually will at least get to see it to be able to produce the accessoiries needed ( I hope lol). I can see maybe 1 or 2 of them that will have stuff ready for Switch 2 launch, like it was for Switch 1 as well. And I gather a bunch of them will take a wait and see aproach as well, to see how hardwae sales pan out first.
You know "You can look but you can't touch?"
Well, it's the opposite of that. I hope that was helpful.
... I also have exclusive footage that was snuck out of Nintendo HQ if that's more helpful:
Hmm, I mean, I get it but what's the point in doing this?
Not seeing so that there aren't leaks I get that, but you gotta let them know the dimensions at least if you want them to start developing accessories for that device.
That's my thought as well, but of course they'll have tested this thing.
Either you can feel it in a blind box to get a feel for the design of what your accessories need to be roughly or there's a blockout box like a plastic brick sized with the estimated measurements of the switch but without any actual curvatures or defining features imo
Love my Steam Deck but definitely looking forward to having a good-sized handheld that won't completely fuck up my wrists again
Imo a magnetised rail makes a lot of sense, the plastic release tabs broke on one of mine
I'm really doubting this based on the magnets. I don't think magnets would be solid enough to hold the weight of the tablet and withstand all the force being exerted when holding during play. And if they were strong enough, it would be a pain in the ass to get them off
Magnetically attachable does not have to mean theres an additional click in system for extra sturdiness. For instance I have a magnetic bike mount for my S24 Ultra that has additional bits that snap and keep it in place, and its quite sturdy too, you can mountainbike with these over rough terrain without them falling off, and that is with a small square shaped surface area, the Switch 2 will like be magnetic alongside the entire side, which probably will have more surface area then my boke mount. And I assume itll have a similar system of pushing in a button to disable the current the electric magnetic field it likely uses for u to get them off easy.
Is it believable though? Like seriously? Think for more than a second.
I was thinking the same thing...
Hopefully it's called something different.
I can't change my mind, sorry, I'm stubborn like that.
If I'm wrong then I'm wrong but until then I have the right to reserve my opinion.
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Nintendo's already done similar things in the past, like back in the 90s with the N64 controller. It's not that crazy.