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[Nvzman]

Not having an OLED screen for starters, even though I heard OLED was supposed to be cheaper to produce than LED after a point, which is why the Switch 1 OLED happened.

Not having every game be on the actual cart and instead cloud bullshit for some.

Switch 2 was the time they really needed to get wild and splurge, instead we got something way weaker than a PS4, which is well over a decade old, that sucks, we needed something in between PS4 and PS5, instead we got less than a base PS4 and this is the thing we're expected to be stuck with for at least a decade, that is very bad.

All of this reads like either bait or you have no clue what you're talking about about.

A 120hz VRR screen would be significantly more expensive with OLED. An OLED revision is definitely in the cards but I fully expect a higher price whenever that comes out. Switch 1 became cheap enough to produce to justify an OLED, that's why it happened.
With TSMC jacking up prices constantly I'm highly doubtful.

The Card situation I agree is lame, and I do genuinely hope Nintendo rectifies this issue (although allegedly part of it is due to physical media read limits with the cartridges, some games demand higher bandwidth than what cartridges can realistically use). But that isn't a valid argument towards the system feeling "cheap", its a completely different conversation.

Also calling the Switch 2 weaker than a PS4 is some laughable bullshit, it's pretty obvious that isn't true. It's somewhere between a PS4 Pro and a Series S, largely due to the newer hardware architecture and DLSS/Tensor cores. For a portable system it's pretty much the best Nintendo could have done for a mass-market product, it's more efficient than $1000 PC handhelds.

Again, what the fuck did you expect?

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

All of this reads like either bait or you have no clue what you're talking about about.

A 120hz VRR screen would be significantly more expensive with OLED. An OLED revision is definitely in the cards but I fully expect a higher price whenever that comes out. Switch 1 became cheap enough to produce to justify an OLED, that's why it happened.
With TSMC jacking up prices constantly I'm highly doubtful.

The Card situation I agree is lame, and I do genuinely hope Nintendo rectifies this issue (although allegedly part of it is due to physical media read limits with the cartridges, some games demand higher bandwidth than what cartridges can realistically use). But that isn't a valid argument towards the system feeling "cheap", its a completely different conversation.

Also calling the Switch 2 weaker than a PS4 is some laughable bullshit, it's pretty obvious that isn't true. It's somewhere between a PS4 Pro and a Series S, largely due to the newer hardware architecture and DLSS/Tensor cores. For a portable system it's pretty much the best Nintendo could have done for a mass-market product, it's more efficient than $1000 PC handhelds.

Again, what the fuck did you expect?

If I'm wrong about it's hardware power then I'm glad to be wrong, but just using my eyes I'm not that impressed with what we've seen so far visually, I long for the days when I couldn't believe my eyes seeing GameCube games, maybe that just isn't feasible a market for Nintendo anymore, but I miss it regardless.

It's also less about the hardware itself and more about the way console gens work now, it might be fine for 2025, it might be fine if we got the Switch 3 in another 5 to 6 years, but we're stuck with this thing for probably at least a decade, in 2035 that thing is going to be creaky as hell, like if the original PSP was still coming out with new games in 2015.

Which is why I say they should have future proofed it a bit beyond what people would "expect" in 2025, it's exactly what I would have expected and no more, which is what disappoints me.

 

[Kerotan]

"Borderlands 4 Switch 2 development is going well.....I was wrong".

 

[Stafford]

This shouldn't shock anyone. It can't even run flawlessly on Xbox and PS5 in performance mode. Can't imagine what it must be like on a S2 and the kind of visual sacrifices.