A Grain Of Salt Or Less: The Switch 2 Rumor Mill

[Andrew]

The Switch 2 Joy-Cons and the way they smoothly moved in the darkness kinda reminds me of mice. Bonus points with the wrist straps moving like tails. Mario Paint 2 confirmed?

I really do wonder if they’re doing something nuts like that. I’d love it for FPS games.

Honestly this is the least excited I have been for a console, why did they make it bigger

To be fair… it’s not like it goes from not pocketable to less than not pocketable lol. But I do agree with you on size… I don’t want the switch any larger than it is.

 

[ChunkOfWax]

imo, I'm very whelmed lol. I'm not disappointed, but it's also exactly what I expected it to be so I'm not really upset either. Only critique I have is that I hope there are other color options at launch, like the first switch. It's nitpicky, but something about the black reminds me of 3rd party switch controllers, like the Hori split pad pro or somethin. Just feels cheap imo. But tbf I'm also totally willing to admit that I'm in the minority on this lol. The colored accents are very cool. But I was talking to some friends and mentioned how I think something as small as also having colored face buttons could do a lot, but idk.

I made a shitty mockup in 2 minutes of colored face buttons earlier today just to see how it'd look and see if I'm onto something or just smoking crack

Spoiler: Image

Again, very bad mockup lol. But you get it. Not a huge difference but I think I'd prefer it, I dunno.

Otherwise, I hope Nintendo does their Nintendo thing and makes some dumb, gimmicky peripherals for this thing to make up for the lack of substantial changes. Like some of those rumored attachments for the top usb-c, like a camera or something. photo dojo 2 would go crazy. If not that, maybe some other silly hardware like the alarmo. I've kinda made peace with the fact that crazy console innovations generation after generation is starting to become a thing of the past, so I'm willing take what we can get. I have faith in Nintendo and hope that they have some silly stuff planned for their next generation, it is Nintendo afterall

 

[kevin supermarket]

Only critique I have is that I hope there are other color options at launch, like the first switch. It's nitpicky, but something about the black reminds me of 3rd party switch controllers, like the Hori split pad pro or somethin. Just feels cheap imo. But tbf I'm also totally willing to admit that I'm in the minority on this lol. The colored accents are very cool. But I was talking to some friends and mentioned how I think something as small as also having colored face buttons could do a lot, but idk.

this'll probably be the only thing i say in this thread but this is lowkey one of my only personal gripes with the console. it made me a little sad seeing them remove the colors from the body of the joycons. that's what gave it more personality!! color makes things pop out and look interesting! why relegate that to the extension and make the whole outside face of the console a sleek black? i'm bored of it!!!! make your consoles look fun!!!!!

 

[Andrew]

it made me a little sad seeing them remove the colors from the body of the joycons.

Legit. I hate how cheap the neon red/blue joycons look but that was a shockingly depressing animation lol