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Switch 2 would arrive in the second half of 2024 and development kits are already out (gamerkick.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The successor to Nintendo Switch named Switch 2 will continue to be a hybrid console that can be played on TV and in portable mode, it will be launched without an OLED screen (it will have an LCD) and it will have cartridges/cards for physical games , according to various sources. Anonymous to VGC, where they say that the device is “likely” to hit stores in the second half of 2024. They add that there are already development studios outside the Japanese company with the development kit.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (28 children)

If this is real fuck you Nintendo, so bull shit for not just making it oled. There's a $50 difference right now between the regular and oled variant which could 100% just be worked into the new switch pricing. You just know they're releasing the oled model 1-3 years after launch so people buy again.

[–] V0lD 0 points 1 year ago

The screen on a handheld really doesn't matter.

If you cared about visuals, you wouldn't play in a handheld, in the same way that if you want to watch high quality video, you don't watch it on your phone either.

The additional resources it needs are wasted on such a tiny screeb

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