Yeah i think it just does not allow non japanese versions of games or non japanese accounts. So you could buy one but all your games would need to be the japanese version and you can only connect to the japanese nintendo online.
Well no, we are going from first to like... seventh gen Tegra, which comes with a whole slew of additional hardware support. They are likely going to be hitting 120fps using DLSS, which is both neat and really sad, plus the higher performance video encode/decode for their DiscordGroupChat implementation.
HDR and 1080p on the device's screen itself are big improvements. A lot of people will bellyache about no OLED but LCD tech in general has gotten pretty good and will last 30+ years instead of 10-at-best.
Most of the external hardware changes seem superficial, but things like the dual USB C and the larger joysticks (which hopefully means they won't drift) should be noticeable quality of life enhancements.
as a Canadian I'm used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I'll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don't get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I'm getting too old to say no at this point.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
Not sure of the official CAD prices, but the $80 USD digital / $90 USD physical game price is $113 / $127 CAD. Absolutely bonkers when compared to Steam, especially with sales.
I'm very interested on how powerful this thing is if it's price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck
From a purely hardware standpoint, the Steam Deck LCD panel is awful, 800p/60Hz with no VRR. Switch 2 is 1080p/120Hz w/ VRR. We don't know much about the Switch processor but surely it is at least comparable to the original SD one with those sort of screen specs.
Steam Deck has to be sold at cost at the lowest, mostly because it's just a PC and can be (and has been) used for a myriad of things that don't involve Steam. Nintendo could sell these things at a huge loss and still make money hand over fist because they can't do anything but play Switch games.
Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.