Don't buy that cute Switch 2 Piranha Plant camera - it's rubbish
Don't buy that cute Switch 2 Piranha Plant camera - it's rubbish
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Don't buy that cute Switch 2 Piranha Plant camera - it's rubbish
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Nintendo missed an opportunity to make a good, cute one.
Not that I would ever want to be filmed while gaming. If I did, I'd at least try to make a few bucks by streaming.
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Surprised you can even get such shit sensors anymore. Surely it's cheaper to get the mass produced HD+ ones nowadays? Or did someone find a warehouse of 90s trash?
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They could have gotten a good deal on binned HD+ ones where they just were able to lower the resolution instead. Wouldn’t really know unless you open one up and look at the parts.
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It sucks because it’s cute. I like piranha plants in general. Honestly though I don’t expect more from Hori. When I saw it was there’s and not Nintendo propers I was instantly hesitant. I just wanted a cute webcam for my work office.
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Absolutely no reason to buy it unless you love the design. Third party webcams will work with the switch 2.
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Yeah, I wanted this when it was originally announced but recall reading after that the specs aren't so good. We finally have the confirmation / review now.
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Charging premium while delivering worse than Ali-express
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Those camera modules for laptops are worth almost nothing with modern resolutions. How greedy can Nintendo be if they cut costs this way???
At least they didn't make it proprietary so you could use one of these modules instead if you solder a USB cable to it, for like 5$
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I just don't think the software is going to be good enough to get me to fork over for this console and peripherals this time. I grew up a Nintendo kid, but I'll most likely be sitting this generation out. They want way too much for way too little.
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TL;DR 640x480
This should be illegal. We had webcams like this 20 years ago. But Nintendo customers seem to enjoy outdated hardware. It's a tradition at this point
I mean, it kinda makes sense as a webcam for only being used with the Switch 2... from a 'minimum viable product' standpoint.
4 picture in picture windows of 640 x 480 on a 1920 x 1080 screen?
Eh, good enough, rofl.
I mean yeah, this is a joke, I also had a 640 x 480 webcam 20 years ago... but its very clear Nintendo has pivoted to the 'milk all the accumulated goodwill out of our customer base' phase of grand corporate strategy.
They've gone full Mr. Krabs.
but they also sell an official, better quality one, 1080p, without the flower
matt gray made a camera cover for it
It's not an official Nintendo product.
It's a crappy 3rd party accessory. Haven't all consoles suffered similar?
Hori are well-known for their high quality controllers of all kinds. It's pretty sad that they put out a piece of garbage like this.
On the bright side, the camera/Switch doesn't use a proprietary connector, so you can plug a lot of cameras into the thing, and it will generally work.
It's not like the DS days, where if you wanted to plug a microphone in in addition to your headphones, they had a special connector for the mic part.
640 by 480 is fine if you have a good enough sensor and lens, like broadcast NTSC video
I just read that this camera is used to animate avatars. I'm sure they won't be using tons of processing power to read facial expressions.
Are there going to be any games that actually make use of the camera as a camera?
If so, I just imagine people sending their dicks or memes over the camera.