The battery needs to be charged to attach or remove it, then?
magnets don't need power, that's for electromagnets. but unless they were using higher strength magnets, like neodymium magnets, they'd have a plastic part to hold the joycon as well. redundant connections would be necessary
Surely stockpiling would be a great reason to price drop, no? If they want to have as many units stocked as possible in order to meet demand and prevent scalping, then they'd want to have existing Switch inventory out the door as fast as possible to make room for the new consoles, and a price drop would be a good way to do that.
Doesn‘t the steam deck just uses the same ryzen laptop APUs like everybody else just with some beefed up GPU cores?
A price drop? In this economy?
Steam Deck uses a semi-custom AMD APU (LCD uses "Aerith" which is TSMC 7nm, OLED uses "Sephiroth" which is TSMC 6nm). It's likely similar, but clearly built to last on a battery and arguably better for the purpose it was built than the APUs of Ryzen laptops, though I can't verify that with absolute certainty.
I predict a 50$ price drop on all models*, letting the V2 sell through its last dregs and placing the OLED Model at the coveted 299.99 price point in multiple regions.
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Sure, but its Nintendo's own fault by having a policy of not saying anything about new hardware until a few months before release. According to Nintendo today, their only future plan is the Switch, they have denied that new hardware is coming time and time again.
Not if the controllers connect with slotted connectors. Two magnetic tabs into two slots would connect quite nicely to my thinking
. No rails required.
It's really hard to tell what the profit margins for the OG Switch are, I don't think any official statement about it's profitability was made, but a 50 dollar drop on all three units would actually be pretty big. It's a 16.6% cut, significant enough to drive interest (especially after 7 years without a price cut, holy shit Nintendo) but likely not enough to damage profitability. Those are good cuts tho.
One thing I could see is that the electropermanent magnets are too strong to pull apart normally, but the system uses the Joy-Cons' accelerometers to detect when you want to attach or detach it.
He was the guest in one of the Kit & Krista episodes before Switch's launch and he was telling few facts about the console. One of them was that they experimented wih magnetic Joy-Cons and he showed the example that if you played your Joy-Cons would simply fall off.
Interesting. I guess they never really gave up on the idea, and figured it out eventually.
The only mentions Nintendo made about the profitability of the Nintendo Switch family is that Nintendo in principle doesn't plan on selling the Nintendo Switch at a loss and that the OLED model has a lower profit margin than the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch Lite.
... well that doesn't mean much overall, but yeah I got that impression. Maybe the Switch OLED can't get away with being 300 dollars relative to it's current retail price of 350, but the OG Switch and Switch Lite likely can, but I'm not too sure.
They can always make some Mario kart 8 bundles, which include Mario wonder.
Yeah I kinda imagined it'd be a clip button too, was mainly jk
storage sizes won't be a problem. what kind of pricing deal they'll have might be. I don't think there will be a Switch problem again
They've said they're always working on hardware at most points lol
We already have a clip/share button with Capture, so a new system button definitely isn't that. An overlay menu like Xbox Guide?
oh wow we do don't we. I think I erased it from my brain after using it once and seeing the quality lmao. I think we have an overlay thing with the push hold menu button too though, they could probably repurpose that?
Maybe it’s a button to wirelessly connects to the Dock. It’s unlikely but I think the thought is neat.
I can't find the references now, but when Steam Deck was announced, AMD made some comments about it being a genuinely custom chip, specifically mentioning that they had tweaked the power curves to be more favorable for Valve's expected use.
Or a good way to hurt sales of new software. They all exist in the same shops and "shelf space" and with Switch 2 being backwards compatible, that's a good reason for consumers to prioritize older games.
A dedicated "NSO" button with invites, friends and voice chat almost makes sense. I'd say an overlay is probably my expectation, maybe combining the NSO App, achievements ("Missions"), the friends list, capture options, etc. rather than making the Home button pull double duty like it does on other platforms. It'll be kind of weird if they have a Pro Controller in this scenario, resulting in FIVE buttons in the centre rather than the now normal 4, but I could see the Overlay button being where Home is now, and Home moving to the centre, similar to where it on PlayStation.Maybe it’s a button to wirelessly connects to the Dock. It’s unlikely but I think the thought is neat.
But a likely option might be something relating the NSO system and their very own Mii verse.
I don’t think there is much a point in a price drop currently as it would only really affect certain regions.
I think they have more or less phased out the Selects line. Between the various options to get Nintendo games fairly cheap they probably don’t think they need it.
um yes you are right. They also made rubber sleeves. I want to say they even shipped the thicker straps for free for a period of time.
The only picture I could find, it was more like a demonstration.
www.mobapad.com
I mean, not to be a broken record, but it seems like "figuring it out" probably meant doing both at the same time. PiMax has magnetically attaching controllers with large "pins" holding them in place. If you want to pull it off without sacrificing internal space... You're probably using rails.
Technically, they declare it to be "changed", and not axed- saying that the way you connect them has changed from sliding them on to magnetically snapping them on can be accurate without rails completely disappearing (which again is mechanically challenging.)Switch 2: Nintendo's Next-Gen Gaming Experience Unveiled
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At least according to Mobapad the rail is completelty gone.
I grabbed this from the other site.
We'll see. Maybe they are sacrificing some internal space. Or maybe they thought of something really clever. Or maybe we're being fed lies.
Yep, I think it's very likely that there is a second snap or some other lock used to keep the joycon from coming off.
Do people generally have issues connecting Joycons directly to the Switch Body? With my Launch Switch I have sometimes problems with Bluetooth Paring, but never that it didn't recognize Joycons when in the rails.
I've seen a couple people complain about it but I genuinely don't think it's a widespread problem. That's why I said maybe it's a launch switch issue haha. It has happened to me like 7-10 times but it is so inconsistent that I'm not sure why it happens exactly.
