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Do they HAVE to draw hands so bad on patent applications? I mean like on every one I’ve ever seen.
Dual mouse mode sounds interesting…
Every time Nintendo adds a weird gimmick to a new system, I say, “no one will use that,” and every time, I am wrong.
The NES had an expansion port on the bottom.
The SNES also had an expansion port.
The virtual boy…existed.
The N64 had an expansion port, a ram upgrade, and a controller memory pack.
The gamecube had an expansion port, and a handle.
The Wiimote has a speaker inside, that only 1 game ever used (that I played).
The WiiU had the WiiU gamepad.
The Switch had the IR sensor, and HD rumble.
At least half of those were definitely used.
The Famicom had a modem with online shopping and horse race gambling. It also had a floppy disk module with a ram adapter that also added an extra audio channel. Zelda 1 and 2 debuted on this. It also had 3D goggles, the predecessor to the Virtual Boy. It also had an entire keyboard that plugged in, and a cartridge packed with sprites, tiles, sound effects, and example code you could hack up and save to another add-on: a cassette tape recorder that saved your game projects encoded in audio.
The Super Famicom had a radio receiver that clicked onto the bottom that downloaded new games from space.
The Game Boy had an entire cartridge pin for audio passthrough so future tech built into cartridges could preprocess sound and send it straight to output.
The N64 also had a floppy-disk loading module.
The GameCube had a module that plays DMG, GBC, and GBA games (but more importantly turns the GameCube into an actual cube).You must’ve only played 1 wii game because pretty much every game used that speaker
The gamecube had an expansion port
Three ports, actually. One for network, one for the GBA player, and one that wasn’t used as far as I can recall.
and a handle.
Crusty wiimote sounds are a staple
RTS or any predominantly mouse driven game on the switch would be interesting.
Trying to play those sorts of games even on the steam deck is a bit of a penance.
Any word yet on what the joystick tech will be? Mouse operation is all very interesting but drift is my main concern for the new joycons.
There is absolutely no reason in a fair and just world why my Pro Controller wouldn’t be able to sync to the Switch 2. So foolishly assuming we live in a fair and just world, I’m probably never going to use the Joycons ever.
I haven’t seen anything official, but rumors are suggesting Hall Effect joysticks.
Nintendo playing against type on that one then. They tend to go for the cheapest worst option.
Any word on the screen? Would be sad if it wasn’t OLED but it wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to cut cost for the base model.
It’s actually just leftover 3DS screens.
Stereoscopic 3D would be awesome. I loved it on the 3DS.
I mean the latest version of the Switch 1 went OLED. It’d be weird if v2 downgraded from that.
V2 switch was LCD just like V1 with no physically obvious changes. Only the OLED model was OLED
Mario Paint 2!
Don’t you do this to me…don’t give me hope.
It’ll definitely be interesting, but I imagine people will just end up pairing an actual mouse to it if the games all have mouse support.
“And if you turn it sideways it works like a mouse”
“Okay”
Why are we talking about this more than that?
Because they haven’t confirmed cat support yet!
You mean a mouse that won’t get pushed off the desk? They’d win a Nobel prize for that.
