• Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And then one screen starts drifting and Nintendo won’t do shit about it except sell you another screen with the same drifting problem.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely. I took a break from my Switch recently while traveling, because my 3DS fits so nicely folded in a pocket.

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      1 year ago

      If they brought back the 3D screen for a next gen Switch I would unironically be so happy

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      1 year ago

      I’m even more ready for an actual next gen console. Something that doesn’t look like it was released in 2006

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    1 year ago

    Hmm… the device has 3 screens. (The third is visible when the device is closed)

    I can’t imagine a reason to do this… other than to facilitate brining mobile games over.

    There was a rumor way back that the switch was going to run Android. Obviously that didn’t happen. But it makes you wonder.

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    1 year ago

    A. This is kind of cool.

    B. I very much do not want this for a switch successor. As bad as the switch ergonomics are, there’s no way this isn’t worse.

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    1 year ago

    Funnily enough, I had a weird idea before for a dual screen hybrid console. As a handheld, it would be like a DS. To dock it, you can take the screens apart, dock the top screen, then use the bottom screen as the controller, like a Wii U. I thought this was a dumb idea and that Nintendo would never want to repeat the Wii U, but… Hey, who knows?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the Wii U’s issue was that a controller was a screen; I think the Wii U’s issue was that everyone thought it was an add-on for the Wii and wondered why it cost more than the Wii itself did

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        1 year ago

        My issue with the Wii U was that it was almost, but not entirely, portable. For some games, you could play entirely on the tablet, without the TV even being on, as long as you stayed relatively close to the TV. The issue was that you would start getting lag spikes when you tried to push the range and not enough games supported playing entirely on the tablet.

        I would not object to a console that is whole house portable (probably via LAN, like the PlayStation Portal). I almost never play outside of my house and when I do, it is always at a location where I can connect a box to the network, like a friend’s home or a vacation rental.

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    1 year ago

    Whatever brings us closer to a Switch SP clamshell, or Switch Micro. Or they could just reissue the 3DS every 10 years and I’ll buy another.