But for fucks sake, are we really shitting on any attempt at community outreach here? Call me naive, and privileged for being white, and being a glass half full kind of person, but I don’t know why this is a bad thing.

Yeah, pretty much. In particular TVs at stores are typically running in “shop floor mode” with highly saturated colours and maximum brightness, which will cause burn-in more rapidly. They’ll last longer at home with more sensible settings.

That said, the GPU shortages likely cast aside any desire for Nintendo (internally) to do a hardware upgrade. That aside, though, I don’t think they want to dramatically fragment the Switch or development for it... which is why sticking with the same loadout makes some sense.

In 5 years, I doubt anyone who’s poo-pooing 4K today, including myself, will still be doing it because the standards will have changed.

I’m responding to you saying the only solution to people expressing evolving norms and standards in video games is to roll your eyes

When it’s affordable, and doesn’t force massive trade-offs with either battery life or total cost, it makes more sense... who would have thought?!

I’ve made a bunch of posts in this thread so I’m not sure which you’re responding to or what exactly you’re getting at. There’s no need to be glib, either way.

I was wrong (and should’ve checked first, my bad). Alps do indeed make the analogue stick for XB1, PS4 and Switch Pro controllers - it seems a little less clear for joycons but quite likely to be them there as well. I think I was getting confused with the company that holds the patent on controller rumble, I remember…

So the expectation was to jump from 720 or 1080 in handheld to 4K upscaling while docked?

I’m surprised I need to point this out, but that link isn’t exactly evidence that all analogue sticks are manufactured by the same company.

This is such a weird take. Nintendo previously released the New 3DS and the DSi, both of which had extra processing power. It would be entirely in keeping with their MO to release a Switch with some extra horsepower inside, and even if it was just a frequency bump it would still help a bunch with framerate.

That’s a really interesting idea - you mean a new revision that would have a 1080p screen and would just report that it’s “docked” to older games to get better performance/resolution, with the increased power use offset by gains due to moving to a new process node? It’s been a while since I picked up my Switch so…

It means it’s still an X1. I’d love to be wrong, but if there were any changes in performance Nintendo would be shouting it from the rooftops.

I thought the jab at the storage space in the article was a little odd. I’d guess 32GB would still be fine for most people, and adding an SD card isn’t exactly onerous.

I hear a lot of people saying that OLED no longer suffers from burn-in, but as far as I can tell based on actual real-world tests it’s just not true. The dimming issue has apparently been addressed somehow but burn-in remains a serious problem for OLED screens (particularly as you say for HUD elements and similar). I…

As it stands DLSS needs to be implemented quite deep in game software, so that rumour was a non-starter really.

let’s not forget that Nintendo sells these things basically at cost already...

Nintendo would be talking it up if there were going to be any major changes under the hood. Possibly a die shrink - that already happened a couple of years back, but it’s currently 16nm (compared with 5nm for state of the art) so there’s plenty of room to go to a smaller process node. Now is probably not being the…

I used to mod PS4 controllers for a charity that provided accessibility aids and yeah you’re not kidding. Gone are the days of a single PCB and a dozen bits of rubber to sit on it.

Nintendo’s sticks are made by a 3rd party company that owns a number of patents on modern joystick technology.