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I would not mind if they kept the quick, efficient UI but still included all of the fun bundled software. I love transferring my Miis from one system to the next and seeing all the friends I played with (shame more Switch games don't use them). I fondly remember commuting by light rail and collecting Miis in Street Pass Plaza.

With the Switch, I assume that the development cycle was rushed and the software devs churned out the OS but did not have a chance to develop any fun apps. It is a shame that they never went back and added them. With how well the system was selling, there was no need for them. Hopefully with the S2 having plenty of development time, they will do better.

I have heard that the current Switch already supports mice, but very few games use it, since no one has a mouse connected to their Switch, since almost no games use it. If there is an (uncomfortable) mouse included in every Switch 2, game devs will be more willing to include mouse controls in their games. Players who play a lot of mouse enabled games will hook up a real mouse to their system. Much in the same way that every game for the current Switch supports Joycon controls even though many hobbyist gamers will use a more traditional controller.

I am hoping that the Joycon mouse mode turns out real and used in some interesting ways.

Does it? They did show the controllers in the sensor down orientation, but the mouse theory is too wacky.

I am still holding out hope for something really cool from the software side.

I am not sure about the exposed connector on the side of the system that inserts into the Joycon. I could see a kid jamming the controller onto the system at a bad angle and breaking it.

This is just them covering their butts from bad publicity or a law suit. They are telling you that their tech support will not help you use an unauthorized online server and if you get hacked, it is your own fault. Nothing particularly weird about it. No more than just about every piece of free software includes a document explaining that the software does not include a warranty.

I would not have assumed otherwise. Anyone who Nintendo sends pre-production hardware is under a mountain of NDAs and would be too afraid of losing a contract to say anything not in a Nintendo press release.

Genki probably knows someone who snuggled a set of calipers onto a factory floor. Nintendo could have had a note passed along asking the leaker and Genki to release their comment.

I agree that Honey is a sleazy extension, but should I be worried that if they lose, it will set a bad precedent? From the video, the Honey extension works by injecting a Honey referral code into all online shopping transactions, possibly overwriting whatever influencer referral code the user was under. If Honey loses, the court decision is likely to say that an extension creator is liable if they tamper with referral codes and tracking links.

This will be a problem for privacy extensions that strip out tracking cookies and referral URLs, since they are also messing with influencer attribution, though not for profit but at the request of the user.

Grandfathered in under old ratings. If they rerelease it they would replace it with a minigame about killing healthcare CEOs or something.

If you play Pokemon Let's Go, the Team Rocket casino was raided by the police and closed (or something, I don't remember the exact excuse for why you cannot get in).

I think we have had enough leaks to all but confirm that the next Nintendo system will look like the Switch except slightly larger and the controller attachment will involve magnets in some way.

What I am interested in is the software. The Switch did not have the whimsy apps that previous systems had. I still carry forward Miis from my Wii as a guest book of friends and family I played with. I loved StreetPass Plaza; I would take my 3DS on the subway with me every day and get random passerbys as NPCs in my games. The Switch doesn't have any built in software that sparks joy like that, since I imagine, the system was rushed to fill in the Wii U void and developers were busy getting the handheld/dock mode working.

Hopefully there is a demo for it. I tried the demo for Fitness Boxing 2 and did not like that it seemed to measure when I pulled my arm back, not when I threw a punch. In order to hit timing triggers, I had to throw slow, careful punches and then do a crisp controlled recovery.

I swear he and Steph Curry are not actually good at playing offense, they just hacked in an aim bot.

Nintendo is estimating that about 12.5 million Switches will be sold in 2024. Previously, Nintendo predicted that the Switch would sell 13.5 million for the year. That means that the demand for the Switch is dropping off a bit faster than they expected but it is still selling.

Great for people who have flat eight foot ceilings in their garage.

Polish is a Slavic language written out using Latin letters.

Maybe, but I could see the Celtics falling short due to lack of size. Even when everyone is healthy, the Celtics front court tends to be one big player and two small forwards. Not that they have much of a choice since their two best bigs are Horford, who is too old to play for long stretches, and Porzingis, who is injury prone. In the playoffs last year, the Celtics struggled to contain dominant bigs like Bam.

How is Nintendo using emulators news? All the virtual console games and "Classic" systems run an emulator. It would not be too surprising if Nintendo ported their in-house emulator to run on Windows.

It probably means that they are going to keep using the Switch Online backend for their next console. Why throw away working friends lists and online matchmaking?

According to them, they registered a Super PAC to run this promotion. As a Super PAC, they were able to buy data about voters (did the voter vote in the last election and, separately, predicted party affiliation based on profiling).