Nintendo Finally Revealed many of the switch 2’s meest details this morning and so far Gamers don’t really know what to think with reactions ranging from whoa cool to wait what it felt good to finally hear numbers and words like 7.9 in 1080p 120 HZ LCD display 4K output while docked only fans could could could make that happen and there’s one in the dock and it was kind of surreal to finally see Nintendo confirm those outlandish rumors about the new joycons being used as a mouse not only can you 360 no scope in Metroid Prime 4 in some games you can dual wield mice like some kind of gamer god the blessed offspring of Lord gabin himself Goombas tremble and weep at your coming if you’re more of a normal controller person though the new Switch 2 Pro Controller has rear buttons just give them a little tickle then things got even more interesting the new game chat feature brings Nintendo’s party chat technology into the 21st century specifically the 2010s Nintendo’s essentially invented Discord calls for the switch 2 you can chat directly with your party using the mic on the actual console okay whether you’re playing the same game or a different one you can stream your Gameplay at a cinematic frame rate and even use the new switch to camera to add in your face then there’s game share which is exactly what the rumor said it was the switch 2 can host a local multiplayer session between other switch 2 or previous switch one consoles even if they don’t own a copy of the game while I’ve seen some PC Xbox and PS5 players being kind of dismissive of these features since they seem to largely just be worst versions of the features those players have you know who doesn’t have them your grandma perhaps because she passed some time ago but the point Nintendo’s reinvention of existing things doesn’t stop there though while many switch 2 games will be available on physical game cards some will simply have game key cards which will give your system a game key it can use to download a game I know it’s very disorienting Stay With Me the idea makes sense especially now that the switch 2 comes with 256 gigs of storage which you’re going to be filling up with hot new Switch 2 games like switch 2 Welcome tour a tutorial app that is not free there’s also Mario there’s also a new Mario Kart Mario Kart World which finally lets the racers loose in an open world injecting a bit of Diddy Kong Racing e didy Kong Racing you shouldn’t have said that hey look you can be a cow frankly I’m more excited for Donkey Kong Bonanza the character’s first proper 3D Adventure since Donkey Kong 64 the game that gave us the DK WAP why am I doing this to myself I’m 22 years old we also got a new Zelda game it’s hyro Warriors okay I’m sorry I’m more interested in drag X drive a flashy wheelchair basketball game that makes use of the dual wielding mice thing but is apparently not hosted by Rupa but in a sentence I found even more unlikely to be said during attack link from software made a switch to exclusive m multiplayer game it’s called dusk Bloods featuring characters that are like vampires but they can only come outside after dusk I made that up I know nothing about the game uh the switch 2 is also getting a healthy assortment of ports including Elden ring tarnished Edition and cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition and then to give your system a bit of a break you can play the GameCube games added to the more expensive tier of Nintendo switch online speaking of older games turns out backwards compatibility is kind of complicated there’s switch two Edition games which are switch one games that have been updated optimized and added to to ensure compatibility which isn’t a given Nintendo says most switch one games should run fine but some games currently have issues after starting up or even during startup as detailed by Nintendo in this helpful table featuring an entire column that says the same thing all all the way down except for the fortnite entry you could have left that column out completely this is what I’m mad about others are rightly disappointed that the switch 2 will cost $450 us when it launches on June 5th in Canada it’ll be 630 well at least Japan will get a Japanese only version for around 333 USD and Nintendo seems serious about preventing scalping this time around not only will that version only be able to link a Nintendo account that was created with Japan as the region setting pre-orders for any version of the switch 2 will be limited to Nintendo accounts that have demonstrated sufficient loyalty to the Mushroom Kingdom the requirements appear to differ between countries but at a minimum you’ll have to have paid for a switch online membership for a year played switch games for 50 hours and opted in to share your usage data with Nintendo hm now I can already hear the heavy breathing and imagine the nostrils flaring but hey this is just for pre-orders anyone can buy one when it launches and scalpers are crazy now I think it’s time for drastic measures I mean this will be more effective than Amazon boldly limiting GPU purchases to Prime subscribers yeah that’ll stop them as the switch 2 story took way too freaking long I mean we all want to go home I think right like like enough the switch 2 ain’t the only console handheld rolling into town Asus and Xbox have performed some decidedly unsettle teasing of what is probably the project kenon device whose existence was leaked recently another leak this week points to the existence of a special ized Windows UI that involves booting into full screen mode presumably an Xbox themed one at launch which is further proof that the idea of a console is becoming just a PC in the same way that many animals throughout evolutionary history have simply become crab AMD has responded to all those reports of dead or otherwise borked ryzen 79800 x3d CPUs in a statement released to press team red basically agreed with with asrock’s unsatisfying update confirming a glitchy bios caused some startup issues but it’s not causing CPUs to burn out and even if it was the BIOS has been updated now anyway meanwhile there’s still this Reddit Mega thread with over a 100 ryzen chip owners reporting issues mostly on ASRock boards but sometimes you don’t get a satisfying conclusion and the wikip media Foundation says AI crawler Bots are straining their servers as they contribute to a 50% increase in downloads of multimedia content since January 2024 Wikipedia says although AI crawlers only account for 35% of traffic overall they’re responsible for 65% of a heavier type of traffic called bulk reading involving rapidly visiting large number of pages including less popular ones not sure if killing Wikipedia has been part of the AI safety conversation yet I can’t wait to have future historians analyze the humans of this era’s decision to trade their single greatest repository of open information in exchange for chat Bots that can improvise what they think sounds like a good answer rocks are healthy to eat yeah this sounds right and I had more to say but we’re literally out of time tell you what come back on Friday