Nintendo Switch #5

[Smelling Salt]

Got the kids a Switch OLED for Christmas. Left Joycon drifts out of the box. Calibrating does nothing. Is Nintendo still just this bad/cheap with their Joycons after all these years?

 

[robertmac43]

Got the kids a Switch OLED for Christmas. Left Joycon drifts out of the box. Calibrating does nothing. Is Nintendo still just this bad/cheap with their Joycons after all these years?

It's very hit or miss. My original joycons purchased in 2018 are still working for me.

That being said most of my gaming time is done with the Pro Controller.

 

[PeteWorrell]

The Switch joycons are the worst Nintendo controllers since the N64.

It's shameful to see that when Sega already used hall effect joysticks for the Saturn and Dreamcast controllers in the 90s.

 

[Byron Bitz]

Got the kids a Switch OLED for Christmas. Left Joycon drifts out of the box. Calibrating does nothing. Is Nintendo still just this bad/cheap with their Joycons after all these years?

Nintendo understands how they f*cked up the joy cons so they let you mail in bad ones and they send you back good ones for free.

 

[McGarnagle]

The more I advance in TOTK, the more I'm liking it. A lot of the early limitations that were frustrating are actually part of the game, like not ever having enough weapon slots. I went back to Lookout Landing and met the big Korok who increases your weapon inventory in exchange for seeds.

I wouldn't say the game is hard per se, but you have to be intentional about your materials before going into a temple. I finally venture off to Rito village and did the sky wind temple, and barely had any cold resistance meals in my inventory, so for parts of that wind temple I had to just gut it out and run in the unbearable cold losing hearts every few seconds, then eat whatever apples or meat I had to recover. Managed to get through it still.

 

[x Tame Impala]

I just like being able to open a chest with a full inventory and swap/drop a weapon without having to reopen the chest again.

 

[robertmac43]

I just like being able to open a chest with a full inventory and swap/drop a weapon without having to reopen the chest again.

This should be standard for every game haha.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Seems like borderline everyone is expecting a Switch 2 announcement soon.

Granted, that could've been said a couple times (or about a Switch Pro) in the recent and not-so recent past, too.

 

[robertmac43]

Seems like borderline everyone is expecting a Switch 2 announcement soon.

Granted, that could've been said a couple times (or about a Switch Pro) in the recent and not-so recent past, too.

Is it safe to assume the console is out before Christas 2025? Or is this something that may end up being a 2026 release?

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Is it safe to assume the console is out before Christas 2025? Or is this something that may end up being a 2026 release?

I would think that Xmas 2025 is their target or earlier, given that December is such an enormous consumer month. The last thing they want is for a 2026 release date muddling consumer intent for their big money month and assume that they can wait or buy from another company this December instead with a new Nintendo console around the corner.

My hunch would be a fall (or summer) 2025 release but the first big non-launch title timed for December 2025.