Nintendo Switch 2 performance boost to fall short of Valve's Steam Deck

So there's a chance the Deck and modern PCs could emulate the system pretty quickly. Thanks Nintendo!

There is just 0 competition at the current steam deck price point.

That much is a given. Nintendo never goes for top-performance (well, not since the 90s) and it wouldn't make sense for them either.

Nintendo never goes for top-performance (well, not since the 90s)
GameCube was more performant than PS2 and only a little bit less performant than Xbox. Biggest downside was its small disk.
- It’s not the size of the disk that matter, but how you use it
- The issue with Nintendo is that to their true core, they are still a of card games company that inspire to become the next Disney. The problem with GameCube was polluted with the "for family first", without realize that their original NES '80 kids where 15_{20 year older... not little child anymore. People didn't want the "Super Mario Sunshine" console, they wanted Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2}3 kind of console. The people that buy today the switch are probably clueless parent that buy the "for child" console... or a Nintendo Adult as parallel for Disney Adult.

Nintendo is at its best when doing something no other game developer would do, and getting laughed at until everyone realizes how great it was in hindsight. What's new about Switch 2?

INB4 it's gonna be a repeat of the Wii U. A confusing, non compatible successor to a revolutionary product.
- INB4 it’s gonna be a repeat of the Wii U. A confusing, non compatible successor to a revolutionary product.
  A bit too revolutionary. Wii had a seriously bad attachment rate. People bought Wii Sports, Mario Kart and Smash. Regular games sold badly. Wii was a party gimmick that collected dust on regular days. Wii U was the attempt (later fulfilled by Switch) to be a regular gaming machine as well.
- I think I've read backwards compatibility is confirmed, which these days there's no excuse not to.

Oh look, a modern new Pokemon game with the graphics quality of N64. Must be nice to shit out literally anything from their established IPs, knowing no matter how bland and dated they look, your rabid consumer base will eat it up.

I'd much rather have a game with subpar graphics and excellent gameplay than a game with subpar gameplay and excellent graphics.

"What if we just build a clamshell hinge into the Switch 2 and make it small enough to fit into someone's pocket?"

That's a brilliant idea! If we're that innovative again next week, somebody might even suggest adding a second screen to the foldable console.

Learnt from the ps2

There’s a way bigger market in having the cheapest hardware than there is in having decent hardware

Does that account for the fact that the graphics in almost all Nintendo games are dogshit?

Like even with running stupidly low resolution graphics it still won't perform as well as a steam deck with much better graphics?

Good. If I had my way it would be even less performant than the Switch 1, and last for 25 years before needing replacement parts.

There's nothing with modern complexities that is going to last that long. Think of the complexities of today's system. I mean I've got my original PlayStation, it's 25 or 26 years old now, and it mostly functions to your point, but it also hasn't been heavily played (or really played at all) for about 20 years. But my PS2, I went through three of them in 6 years. My Xbox is almost 20 years old, it's my second (and is making weird noises). And so on. My PS4 at 10 years old runs, but makes a ton of noise and is definitely slower than it used to be. It ain't making it to 20, that's for sure, I mean maybe now that it gets zero use it might.
My point is, the more intense they got, the more problems I started to have. As the boomers like saying too, shit ain't built like it used to be.
- Yeah it's a bit of a pipe dream, but my point was that if they reduced the complexity, increased the build quality, and made it repairable, then I would be so happy.
  Nintendo are just the bunch of madlads to pull it off too. It's not like need to worry about being profitable.
  E: my mistake, forgot I was in the gearhead community :p
It would actually cost more money to get older process nodes to get lower performance.
No one would be able to afford it if they even tried and failed to make it last that long and there would be no support for it.
Within a couple years there will be an emulator to play it's games on PC, making it's durability a moot point
- Oh well, maybe this is the best they could do then. Would love to a big player really push the kind of hw we're talking about, though

Here's the video that the article references. Timestamped link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X2mBP8i4WYA&t=3840s