Gary Whitta
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Nintendo drive me crazy all the time with some of the decisions they make. Yeah, it's across the board, whether it be the games, whether it be the base system, pro controller, everything's got that bit more expensive. And, you know, there's only a certain amount of that. Maybe you can offset to 80 bucks right now for a pro controller. Oh yeah. See, it's got the white accents on it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So it went up by $10. Okay. Looks nice.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Well, I mean, it sounds like there's a bit more tech in the Joy-Cons now, right? With the mouse control and stuff like that. Um, but still, yeah, everything, everything's gotten more expensive and, you know, maybe some of this you can, uh, put on, on, on tariffs and inflation and everything's, you know, fucking eggs are too expensive. Everything's fucking too expensive.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Um, but, uh, yeah, like I said, at the end of the day, does it feel good that this, that the stuff costs as much as it does now? Like we, it would have been nice to see everything like, you know, maintain a little bit, but it's just, that's just not the fucking way of the world.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's not too bad. I wonder if you can use your own. They said because they said didn't they just plug in a USB camera? So presumably you have a webcam around with you can just use that. Right? They're offering their own version, but it's not necessarily this is the only one you can use, I think.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, you've got to pass the language, right? I think they said plug in a USB camera, or the USB camera, or whatever. I suspect you may... Let's hope so. Hey, Paris. Hey, Gary. It's Greg.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Good. I wonder how good the camera... I imagine the camera that they're giving you... For 50 bucks, it can't be that great, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They didn't say anything about the video quality, did they? Like if it's 1080p or...
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's a big one for me. Because I hate the Joy-Cons. The way that the Joy-Cons connect on those rails in the current Switch is a nightmare. It's fiddly. You feel like you've got to break them sometimes. You can put them on backwards and get them stuck. There have been a couple of times I've got stuck. The Joy-Con just kind of got stuck on the rail, just got jammed and wouldn't come off.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So being able to snap them on and off magnetically, that's going to be a huge quality of life improvement.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I wonder if that, I didn't see it say Bluetooth on the audio output. I didn't see it. I did not see a Bluetooth.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, they've got to have it. It's a basic thing, right? But all I'm saying is when I looked at the audio specs, I did not see Bluetooth listed.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Going back to the battery life thing, one of the things we were talking to Kat about was like, she was saying that when she's playing, even on handheld, it's always plugged in, so you don't have to worry about battery. Yeah. Um, and oftentimes when you travel, right, you might bring a battery pack with you, like a, you know, a booster pack to plug it in. Cause those work too.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And then give you a lot of extra life. Um, so the fact that you can now charge from the top or the bottom is just a nice little thing, right? You know, and sometimes it's not, sometimes you don't want the cable sticking out the bottom or the top, depending on how you're oriented, but you can now, you know, do, do it any way you want.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, obviously, it's a big upgrade. You know, from like 32 gigs, obviously, was kind of a joke then. It's certainly a joke now. 256 is definitely an improvement. You're still going to run out of space on that really fast. The nice thing about it is this is an area where prices are very cheap, right? You can get a one terabyte micro SD card for 50 bucks.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay. Yeah. Micro SD Express. So, I mean, I don't know. Like, could you go on... What does a MicroSD Express card cost right now? We can price it right now, can't we? We know what those cost.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There you go. That's just regular MicroSD. Not sure how much I trust Gigastone as a brand.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, so you're probably... Okay, there's a 200 bucks for the one terabyte. So now at that point, you're in like Microsoft, you know, memory card. Territory, right? This will obviously come down. The fact that they are giving you the 256 off the bat means you're going to hit that wall less early. There was a while on my Switch before I needed to put a card into it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Again, though, the games, high definition, high resolution, these games are inevitably also going to take up more space. Sooner or later, you're going to need to put a card in that thing. Hopefully, by the time that you... need to do that, the prices will have come down a little bit.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Cause that, that, that, that is, that's like, that's like at least, I think you can get a really good, like high speed, regular micro SD card, like a, like a quality Samsung one or a SanDisk or whatever, a terabyte for like a hundred bucks. If the micro SD express that we saw there is 200 right now, that's, you know, you'll pay a double. Um, so yeah, it would be nice to see those cards come down.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, obviously tariffs are affecting everything, right? And it's obviously, don't get me started. I'm not going to get into the politics of it. You know where I stand on this. But yeah, I think it's got to be, I think it plays some part and not necessarily all. I think this is, the price that they felt that they could hit. And like I said, it's disappointing that it is as much as it is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Again, for me, it's 50 bucks over my over-under. Other than that, look, shit just gets more expensive. Everything is fucking getting more expensive just through inflation and tariffs and just shit just gets more expensive. Again, I remember when games were a lot cheaper.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
One thing I wanted to go back to, because I missed it the first time around, on the dock, I think the potentially most interesting thing about that is the dock has its own fan, which is really interesting in terms of the difference between the performance you're going to get out of the system when it's handheld and the difference when it's docked.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Right now, there is a little bit of a difference already on the Switch, right? If you dock a Switch, you're going to get higher frame rates and things like that because the dock is doing some... There's some upscaling that's going on or whatever, right? With a dedicated fan in the dock, I think you're going to potentially see a bigger performance upgrade from handheld to docked performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Because, you know, there's a lot of performance in... portable systems and laptops and things like that is temperature capped, right? This is why you can't get... You're never going to get really, really good frame rates or high performance of, say, like, a laptop that is only passively cooled.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And if it doesn't have its own fans spinning in there to, like, you know, cool shit down when it starts running hot, the performance is always going to be capped to that level. Once you add a fan, right, and all high-end systems have fans, you can start pushing the hardware a lot... a lot harder because the fan's going to deal with it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So I think potentially the additional fan in the dock could lead to a big, I think you might see like really noticeable performance upgrades when you dock it compared to when you're playing handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I hate to do this, but I was reading the chat and I didn't hear a word that you said.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The super chat was saying, I was, I was, I was miles away.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm not trying to pay attention to your readers, your users.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, so that is one aspect. So I know that they have these virtual game cards, right? And there's a new way to share in games. This is something that I was not able to get caught up on before I came in this morning. So explain to me how this is. Because game sharing in our house, it's a big deal, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If we get a game on Nintendo Switch, you kind of have to figure out who's going to play it most. Right. Like, for example, we got like Hello Kitty Island Adventure and we bought it on Leah's profile because she's the one that's going to play that the most. And if she's the assigned user, the assigned owner, she can play, you know, without restrictions.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But if she wants to play a game that I bought on my account. Right. Then there are more limitations. And it's just really annoying how that we see this on Xbox. You've seen it before. Oh, I can't play on the secondary machine because it says I'm not logged into the right account and all this bullshit. Are they is this going to fix that? Like, what's what's their solution?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Were you asking about something else, though? Yeah, there's two different things happening. Okay, so when you say game-sharing, I immediately go to that game call thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
How can you possibly get confused between game share and game sharing, right? I mean, that's fucking clear as day.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And did you say it only works locally, or does it work over online?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay. I mean, that's good. I like that. So you can have your friends over to play Mario Kart, but you are the only one that needs to own the game, right? Correct. Okay, I like that. Is there a limit? I mean, did they say how many players you can have in Mario Kart? Is it 8 or 16, or what is it now? How many races can you have?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't know how many people can play. How many people can play off of my card? Can all 23 do that? Or is it capped to four per... I don't know. Every time you go up another four players, someone's got to have a card or something. I don't know. I don't know.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
People are saying four devices total.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I wonder if we had six friends who all had their own copy of Mario Kart, if they could all bring over four friends each, you have a 24-player LAN party in your living room, right? Yeah. But you're all on the same race course? Absolutely not. That would make too much sense, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So you can have six different four-player races going on, but you couldn't Voltron them all together into one 24-player race.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, but to be fair, Paris, they never drop the prices on those games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You know me, I'm as fucking woke libtard as they come. But like... And I don't like it either. But I'm not... It's not like, oh, we must give Nintendo all our money. We must worship at the altar of Nintendo and just do whatever they say and charge whatever they want. But it's like, you know, you... You might as well complain about the direction of the fucking sunrises in the morning.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
This shit is going to happen. There's nothing we can do about it. Yeah, we can complain. It ain't going to make any fucking difference. Shit's going to get more expensive.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There's an additional...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
um detail to that i believe and again i'm just coming in hot having like watched all this cornflakes in this morning like watching it on the ipad in the kitchen like trying to take it all in i think if you i think if you have the online nintendo switch online expansion pass which gives you all the all the different benefits um one of those benefits is you don't pay for the uh for the upgrade you're all if you've got like mario like you've got zelda and they upgrade it to the to the new version you're going to get that
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
for free.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So that's going to be an additional bonus. Yeah, keep us honest on that. But this is something where there isn't necessarily, I don't think, a... Yeah, that's only for Zelda.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't think there is necessarily an established practice on this, right? Some companies charge you... You see everything, right? To be clear, I was correct.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Okay, all right. So... There's no established practice on this yet, right? But we see it all the time, right? Because games are getting remastered all the fucking time. Sometimes there's just no options. It doesn't matter if you've got the old one. You've got to buy the new one all over again. Fuck you. Or it's like pay an extra $10 or whatever it is to upgrade your existing version.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Or we'll just upgrade you for free. They're experimenting with all these different price points.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and options and Nintendo I think is like kind of trying to find something kind of sort of in the middle where it's a $10 upgrade which I think is not unreasonable and with some exceptions for certain games if you've got the online pass so I think it's okay this is not I'm not going to throw a hissy fit over this one
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I blocked out the whole day and I cancelled shit for this. And nobody fucking told me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Is this a list of games that are going to get the upgrade? Is that what we're doing?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Understood.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, the Zelda upgrades look good. That is a game that obviously is absolutely at the pinnacle of Switch gaming, but it is also a game that chugs at times, right? Because it's a miracle. I remember reading a thing when Zelda Breath of the Wild first came out and they had a bunch of developers from different companies looking at it going, I don't even know how they fucking did this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's a miracle this thing's running at all. let alone the performance that it has. But again, it's not perfect, right? And we've been seeing the Switch hit the ceiling of what it's capable of for a while now with some of these ports of Mortal Kombat and things that are just like, why did they even bother?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The fact that some of the better and best games on the Switch are going to get that new lease on life just through the performance upgrade, I think is very cool. I think there's a lot of people that will probably go back and replay those games once they've been enhanced.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, there's one, because we were saying during the break, like, you know, let's, have we talked about everything we're disappointed by, right? Like the price being the biggest one. The biggest thing that I was hoping for, and which I was like, I literally kind of like went, oh, when I saw it on the screen, was that it's not an OLED screen, right? And...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We all know once you go OLED, you never go back, right? You just can't. And we actually had this experience recently because my wife Leah is playing a lot of her Switch lately, and her OLED one died. I don't know why. It came back to life like two weeks later, but it just wouldn't work for a bit. And so she went to her older Switch, which has the LCD screen, and she was like, oh, my God.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
How do we ever live this way? Downgrading back from an OLED to an LCD is huge. The brightness and the color saturation and the richness of the blacks. There's just no comparison. And so my concern is that even though this is a bigger screen, and I'm sure it's a better LCD screen than the old one. Maybe the HDR is also a big deal. You're going to get brighter colors.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's entirely possible that this is going to deliver something closer to OLED-like performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and i think you will see an oled bump down the road just like they did this first switch one but honestly that was the biggest disappointment for me like for me the thing i most i most want to see now and you can only show this to me like when i actually have the switch in my hand is how good is that screen compared to the oled screen on the on the oled switch because if it's not as good that's going to be the one area where you're actually seeing a downgrade which is something you never want to talk about when you're going from one generation to the next right
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It'd be $500 at least. OLED's expensive, I get it. But I'm just saying, considering that they introduced OLED as an option for the Switch, the new one, which you expect the next version of the hardware to be better in every way than what came before.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
my my switch to to her and then i'm gonna go buy the oled they they know how this works yeah of course of course the number and the number of the number of people that are gonna that will look at this and go well i'm not gonna buy a launch i'll wait for the oled bump like two years from now is statistically economically insignificant right it's not gonna right it's not gonna they're not two years from now switch and it's not going to be looking at the switch to sales and going are we fucked up we should have put oled in the first one right no
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm just saying, personally, it's disappointing because, again, I had the regular OLED and then the regular Steam Deck and then the OLED Steam Deck. I had the regular OLED, the regular Switch and then the OLED Switch. I used to have a regular PC gaming monitor and then I got an OLED one. There's no going back.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Once you've seen that, once your eyes have been opened to fucking OLED, you're not going back. I really, really hope that it is. Again, to me, it doesn't matter that much because I'm not a handheld gamer. All of my Switch 2 games, I'm going to play docked. Leah plays a lot. We're totally different. We're the perfect kind of Switch family. I'm docked. She's undocked. She likes handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I like to sit on the couch with a controller. So she'll notice the difference more than me. But I don't know. That's going to be the biggest thing is the comparison of a Switch 1 OLED in one hand and a Switch 2 LCD in the other? Like what actually has the better screen?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Switch 2 is going to have a slightly bigger screen, high resolution screen, but is it going to, again, in terms of the brightness and the vividness of the colors, I don't know if there's anything out there that can come close to what OLEDs are currently doing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm already kind of telling myself the answer is probably no, like my gut instinct is no, but do you think there would have been any wisdom at all to launching two SKUs, OLED and non-OLED, like OLED for the power users that want to spend the 50 or 100 bucks more?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, I think you just confuse people. And again, they'll save it for their bump down the road, just like they did with the first Switch.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Why has no company figured out a simple, straightforward solution to this? Paris, I listened to every word you just said. I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do you understand a word that you just fucking said? Because it didn't make no sense to me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I didn't watch the entire hour-long live direct because obviously it was very early this morning and then I had to rush in and get here for an early start. Uh, but I did like literally in the shower, I like was watching some of it. I was like, watch bits and pieces where I could, I watched like the five minute summary of the system, you know, that kind of laid out the broad strokes.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
This one goes in the Nintendo gonna Nintendo column. Nintendo's supposed to be the one company that simplifies this. Do you remember all the fucking... when they first announced the Xbox One and how the game sharing there would work. It's like, you can have the physical disc, but you still don't... You can't, like, just give it to your friend. You can't resell your games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And people, like, shit the bed, rightfully so, and they had to walk it all back. Like... Why are we back here again to like something that sounds like even more confusing and stupid?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
this one annoys me in a different way but this is almost as dumb as now when you buy like the big mega special edition of a game and it comes with the fucking you know four foot maquette and a fucking chainsaw and an art book and everything else and then you open up the box and there's no fucking disc there's a code everything except the fucking game like what the fuck
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
and I haven't fully explored it, maybe they already have it, but I doubt it because, again, it would make too much sense, is some kind of family plan where if I buy a game, no matter what profile I buy on, everyone in my family group is licensed to access it. That's how it should be. Yeah, that's how it should be. We've been talking about the game. Game Pass needing a family plan, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They've been trialing. Yeah, it drives me crazy with my I paid whatever is 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 dollars for a fucking game. And my my wife wants to go into another room and play on her Xbox because, you know, my kids playing Switch in the living room and she can't do it because I bought the game. My wife. They say, fuck you to my wife. Like, oh, you married this fucking schmuck?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I watched the Mario cart world, uh, reveal and some of the details there. And I watched the, uh, voice chat, uh, camera stuff. So I've, I've, I've got like, I'm sure there are other specific games and things that I missed, but I got, I think like the, the, the basics, um,
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The least we can do is give you his fucking video games to play, right? But no, it's stupid. Fucking fix it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
With Switch OLED is $175. Your Switch version 1 or version 2 is $125.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
that's not bad there i mean there are going to be some people that obviously are looking to trade in there are more likely with us the way it works with iphones and things in our house is they get they get passed on right like my my oled switch will probably get passed down to my my kid has like a regular as a switch light right now um she will probably get my oled switch when we upgrade to the switch too or you know maybe i will trade it and i don't know yet we'll see
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
175 for the OLED is actually pretty decent, I think.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
What do they then flip it for? They buy it off you for 175. What do they then go and resell it for?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, a couple of things. I think it remains to be seen, but I think the mouse Joy-Cons do have a lot of potential. right for, you know, they, they showed some use cases for it with the basketball game and so forth.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Um, it's going to be a little bit tricky because any, anyone who's ever tried to do like PC gaming in the living room, living room will tell you, unless you're sitting at a desk, you know, playing a PC game in a traditional way, it's hard to sometimes take like to sit comfortably in a way where you can do mouse controls.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'll get the coffee table or I have a little lap desk thing that I use, but like, it's never as good. Um, Maybe with these mice, it'll be a little bit easier. If you're sitting around a table or whatever, if you're sitting at the kitchen table with your Switch, the little Switch unit there, I think it'll be relatively easy.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But living room gaming with a mouse has never been... I just think it's potentially... It does open up a lot of possibilities for control because obviously they're combining the mouse surface, the traditional mouse features with... You can then lift it up and do other things. So I think there's a lot of... motion control and mouse type control possibilities with this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I think, you know, as the games come out, there's a thing that's shipping. I don't know if it's shipping with the Switch or it's available same day that's like their Astro's Playroom thing. It's like their Nintendo Switch 2 Tour or whatever that's going to show off all the things it can do with like specific games.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And they're charging you.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
$450, right? That's what they're doing?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I doubt this is going to be like one, two, switch all over again. They should just give it. That's fucked up. Just give that to people. Like Astro's Playroom. Showcase what the hardware can do. You should have something. I'll go further and say, for 4.49, they should have just fucking bundled Mario Kart World in with every system for free.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Back to the days of like, hey, remember when you get a pack-in game? Just give us the game for free. Nintendo can afford it. They'll still do it for a limited time at launch, then take it away. People can still buy the game separately. But throw fucking Mario Kart World in for us.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
costs nothing for them to add it on. They're going to make billions of dollars anyway. But that showcase game, 100% Astro's Playroom. They should have chucked it in there.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I suppose.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's higher than my over-under was $399. If I was a betting, well, I am a betting man, but if I had placed a bet on this, I would have put it at $399. That kind of felt like... the sweet spot for me and knowing what we know about, you know, what other consoles, what other hardware, you know, generally tends to cost.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Just to move along quickly, I think the mouse controls, I think you're going to see a lot of... Nintendo's great at this, right? They're going to find ways to utilize that. Oh my God, how clever. They're going to do some cool stuff with it, I think. And then voice chat is a big step up. I did want to address this real quickly. It's so nice to see Nintendo...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
finally fucking joining the present day in terms of online features uh nintendo's obviously always been very weird about online um you know they were late to embrace it just entirely and then obviously they made it very very restricted and i understand why right there's a lot of fucking pervs out there and nintendo doesn't want any of that noise they don't want like you know
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
people fucking grooming your kids over Mario cart. Like that's, they've got to protect kids from that. And the, and the way that they have traditionally, um, approach that is just completely fucking locked down. Like you may not talk to anyone. Um, and then they added the chat app, but like, you know, it still wasn't integrated now that it's fully integrated with the, with the screen sharing, um,
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
With the camera, and the camera is doing some clever things, right? Things you'd expect a webcam to do, but it's going to be the processor that's doing all this, right? The virtual background replacement and zooming in on your face and stuff like that. It's going to do those things for you. Putting the face in the little speech bubbles, just things that I think are clever.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And then obviously the next part of that, which is necessary for Nintendo, is making sure that it is... family safe. And I think being able to set the chat restrictions via the app, like my kid may just not use these or particularly, I like the idea that you may, um, uh, uh, you can only talk to people that I've approved, like an approved contact list of your friends, uh, Right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So the parents know who they're talking to. And then the chat history thing is really good as well. I thought, I can answer some of what they didn't do, but I actually thought you'd be able to click on that and see a video replay of their chats. But what it's actually giving you is a call log. Like, you know, Jenny played with Johnny for like five hours or whatever in this game in voice chat.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So you can see who they've been talking to. But yeah, if they're going to introduce like fully, fully... fully featured chat apps and chat functionality, voice chat, video chat, screen sharing. There has to be that really robust parental guidance, supervision, control stuff. Is it just me, or does what's at the bottom of that screen look exactly like Discord? Are they using Discord?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's a good question.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Obviously with Nintendo, you never quite know, but we've got a rough idea of like what, what feels right. Right. What seems right for this, this kind of system. And I was, I was at three nine nine. So for it to come in at four, four nine is like a little bit on the little bit on the higher side. I kind of feel like they probably, I'm sure they would have preferred to bring it in at three nine nine.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If you can, I bet you they'll sell little clip-on cameras that will plug right into the USB thing on the top.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But I don't know. Because again, all of that stuff is processing on the Switch 2 side. And if it's not docked, then that's substantial. Background removal and stuff like that is substantial enough that you could see game performance.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And again, I'm saying that's all being done by the hardware and the software on the Switch. None of that's going to be in the camera.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
for 50 bucks so I'm saying there is a bit of a I did appreciate that when they showed the screen sharing they didn't try to bullshit it like they made it they showed it for what it is almost certainly going to be which is a bit stuttery did you notice that like it wasn't completely fluid when they're sharing someone else's screen oh yeah it's really stuttery you're right which also looks like discord when you send it at a lower bitrate
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
In summary, biggest disappointments, price, screen, things I'm most potentially excited about. The biggest things I was happiest to see, the mouse joy cons and the magnetic joy cons. By the way, I still don't understand how the clip works. If it's magnetic, how is a clip releasing it?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
it doesn't demagnetize it it's a really strong magnet if you've ever dealt with a really strong magnet yeah like you can make them really fucking strong so they're not going to snap off even with like really robust you know because you're doing this you know sometimes when you play you don't want them snapping off but the magnets are going to be strong to hold them on so I don't understand what the clip part of it is is there still a physical clip I don't know or maybe I don't know
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Oh, the magnet is activated by an electrical... Okay, so it's an electromagnet, which is cool. So when you press that button, it's just going to demagnetize it. I like that. I like that. Yeah, fucking magnets. How do they work? I don't want to talk to no scientist. It's magic.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And the voice chat. Those are the two things. The online features, I think. Those are the biggest improvements. Other than just performance upgrades and everything else.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You know, anytime that, that top digit ticks up, right? Whether it's 449 or 499, that front digit is still a 4, right? And that's, you know, that's full-on console. I mean, it is a full-on console, so fair enough. Maybe because you also think of it as a handheld, there's a little bit of price discrimination there. Look, it's a handheld, but it's not just a handheld.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Have they ever done a Donkey Kong game in this full-on Super Mario Odyssey style before?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I know very little about Donkey Kong because those games have just never interested me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I won't play this. I don't care. Let me ask you this, Paris.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do you think there's any chance that Nintendo still has something in its back pocket between now and launch? Like, there's another... We know they're in a Mario Kart Direct. Is there anything else that they could still drop on us? Or do you think we've now seen everything that is substantial for launch?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
But we are... You're right. We're at the very thin end of the wedge for what is going to come. I do think you're going to see the Microsoft... I think you're going to see Forza and even Halo, right? You're going to see the Master Chief Collection on Switch, too. I think you are going to see that. And you're going to see a lot of cool stuff.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And this kind of leads me to the last thing that we actually didn't really discuss, maybe because we don't have enough information, but, like, do we... Do we have a sense yet? They said 4K. They said 120. They just say custom NVIDIA chip. I don't think they did a bunch of fucking teraflop information or whatever.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Do we have any kind of sense yet in terms of how much of a performance upgrade this is? Is this thing going to be in Xbox Series X?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
ps5 territory even like is this gonna is this gonna be an issue like i guess the the practical version of this question is will we finally be getting past a point where like the the switch port of a game a multi-platform game is by far the worst one and people are like why do you even bother like model combat on the model combat one on the switch is a joke right and a lot of the ports on switch are a joke will this fix that do you think will this narrow the performance gap
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
in a significant way.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's what I'm asking right now. That gap is massive. We know it's going to close the gap somewhat, but like, and it might, it probably won't be until like we see a full teardown or digital foundry, get their hands on one or whatever. But I would like to see just how big... Two things. How much of an upgrade over the Switch is it?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So in one direction and in the other direction, how much did it close the gap between the other current generation consoles? Because I don't think we're expecting parity with Series X or PlayStation 5. That would be mental. But is it going to be meaningfully closer? I hope so. I think that's what we need.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The whole point is it is a full-on console. And hopefully, you know, we'll get into the specs later, and once we actually get our hands on one, we'll really know. But hopefully, you know, it's going to close that gap between the hardware performance of the higher end systems and this one.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I would just say, I want to come back to what I said earlier. Do not sleep on that fan in the dark. Cooling is such a big factor in performance. I think that when it's docked, at least, and that extra fan is able to cool, you're going to get so much more performance out of it. I think those are going to be some of the most interesting numbers.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Performance when in handheld mode and performance when docked with the fan doing its thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Can I say just one other thing? I've got to bring this up on the show. When they showed the video for Nintendo Voice Chat, the opening 20 seconds of it were hilarious to me. Because she's sitting there on the couch, she's like, alone. But then other voices come in, she's like, but together? And it's like the people at Nintendo literally just fucking discovered online gaming.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's like, wait, hold on. So she's on her own. But there are other people with her, but not in the same room. You just blew my motherfucking mind. And this obviously is shit that we've been taking for granted for decades. But they're introducing it like they just figured this out. And it's like a fucking mind-blowing concept. Alone? But together? How can you be both?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And so my guess is to get it where they wanted to get it with the 4K and 120 frames and everything else that it's doing, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is the cheapest they possibly could bring it in at the specs that they wanted. But it's still... I would like to have seen it 3.9. I mean, it's going to sell...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, because the microphone and the speaker is all in the thing.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The speaker on the Switch might be putting out the voice audio.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's going to be the same shit, the same NVIDIA shit that is doing the background removal and face identification on the camera.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's going to have some version of NVIDIA Broadcast doing all of that shit.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Kevin, put the link in the chat.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
The OPSEC t-shirt.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We're having very reasonably priced, 20 bucks. I'm having garywitter.com and the price is migrating. So when you type that in, it'll take you to the store. But right now you've got to go to like, yeah, gary-witter-shop.forthwall.com. Anytime I have like a stupid idea for a t-shirt or whatever, I chuck it on there. And this one's actually been a good seller. Because it's patriotic.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I gotta be honest, this is a little bit weird. I'm in the studio, you can't see what I can see, but there's no one else literally in this massive room with me. There's no one here. I'm physically the only person in the entire studio. You're obviously here virtually, and I can technically see you on the screen in front of me, but I don't know. I feel a little bit isolated. It's strange.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You still get Three Witcher Moon? Still available? Gary, Paris is talking to you. Gary don't care. Gary's like, buy my shirt. Yeah, well, I'm in selling mode now.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We want to hear the music at least.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So there's no we news.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, I mean, how is there room for any other news on Switch 2 Day?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
You're not going to be able to get one on day one, no matter what, even if it was 499, you still, it would still sell out. But like, what's the price I would have liked to have seen and kind of in my own, like, what do I know about what hardware really costs brain 399 kind of felt like the over under. So they've gone a little bit over. I don't know. What do you think?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
There are some Switch games that don't have digital physical versions because they won't fit on the card.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I think the point still stands, though, that this is confusing as fuck.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They're not going to do that. The grandma in Walmart or whatever looking to buy something for little Johnny is not going to fucking know what all this is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
See, you should work for Nintendo because you just explained it to me better than they did.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Or some people don't have fast internet. A lot of people still have data caps. They're not going to want to buy a physical game and then download a 50 gig fucking file.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, and that's just for the update.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
It's getting silly. So if the update's that bad, how bad is the full fucking game going to be? Right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Well, they're not so small that they can fit on a fucking game card, are they?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And aren't these new Nintendo Switch 2 game cards presumably going to have greater capacity? I don't know. There's still a lot of shit we don't know.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, it's coming soon.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
One significant step closer to the Switch 2. I'm telling you, June's going to roll around. July is it? No. When is it? June? June 9th?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
June 5th. That's going to be here before you know it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That's only two months away, Paris. It's coming. What do you think it's going to be like on day one? The pre-orders on day one, is it going to be a shit show like it always is?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, I think so too. Of course it is.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm going to do the thing where I pre-order at like three different places and then probably end up with like three different systems. And then I'll sell on the, either return them or sell those on to people that, you know, someone else that wanted one but couldn't get one or whatever. Yeah.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And they're assuming, I mean, you know, we're coming in hot here. We just saw it. You know, there's a lot of things that weren't, you know, there's still a lot of things we don't know. Right.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm coming in on Monday. Well, unless Greg changes his fucking mind again and doesn't tell me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Show up and you guys will fucking move to another office or something.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, it was in the spec sheet, and it was interesting. I just wanted to cat about this outside. The number they gave is kind of silly. The battery range they gave on the spec sheet is two to six and a half hours. And then it has a disclaimer at the end that says, obviously, battery life depends on conditions and what game you're playing and so on and so forth. But that's a massive range, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Two hours to six and a half hours? And then the bottom end of that, that's very... I mean, this is an issue that handhelds, Steam Deck, Every system has this right, and a battery life is still the big bottleneck. That's not brilliant, though.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Oh, so if you buy the bundle, you're actually getting it on the cheap. You're getting it for $50.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I'm sure it'll go away. It's just a first for me.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
That is expensive. I think generally across the board, you are going to see, especially as we go into the, you know, because Nintendo is kind of like weirdly like halfway through the other generations, you know, they're on their own schedule. But like, as we get into the, you know, next Xbox and PS6, I think you're going to see, that $80 price point.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Traditionally, I mean, I remember when games went from $40 to $50, right? I mean, they went from $50 to $60 with the, was it the 360 generation that bumped them up? I can't remember. But people were going, oh my God, here we go. Yeah, look, games are getting more expensive to make, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
We see all the time about massive teams and billion dollar budgets and everything you expect from AAA, what that costs. Yeah, the prices are going to go up. So I think $80 is a lot. I'd be interested to see if the physical and digital prices are the same. They're not.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I mean, that's a real bit of sticker shock, right? Imagine going to Target or wherever you go to buy a GameStop, wherever you go to buy your video games, and you walk out, you see, oh, Mario Kart World, and there's the game. I want the physical copy. And you go, and then it says $89.99. Like, that's going to take a moment to, like, reacclimatize to this new world, right?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
No, not really. Okay. I'm good. I'll get over it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Hopefully, because I remember when, like, they did... Alamo. Remember Alamo? The alarm clock? If you were a Nintendo Switch Online subscriber, which we are, we have the family plan for everyone to have all the Nintendo Switch Online features, you got preferential VIP treatment to order it before anyone else could. I don't know if that's going to be the case with this.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
If people have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, we'll get...
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
front of the line or whatever but it sounded like they were kind of hinting at that that you you we had an opportunity to register early and we'll see how that actually plays it's going to be a shit show on pre-order day and launch day no matter what but you know hopefully that might help a little with scalpers does it turn on no of course it fucking doesn't
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
like the hardcore titles like the next Mario Odyssey or whatever it is those are going to charge you a premium I will say and I'm going to sound like a Nintendo apologist here and I often am because I love Nintendo there are definitely things about the Switch 2 that I'm disappointed by and we'll get into that as well I wanted you know you want everything right you're never going to get everything but the things we didn't get I was like oh man that was something I actually really wanted um
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
$80 for Mario Kart sounds like a lot of money, right? $80 for a video game. With Mario Kart, though, come on, let's be honest. That is a game you are going to play for fucking years and for thousands and thousands of hours, right? We still play Mario Kart 8. Right? That's a fucking Wii U title. Right? And we still play it. Because that's the most recent version of Mario Kart.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Yeah, likewise. I had no idea that we would be doing this today, but it's always a pleasant surprise to be hosting with you, and we've obviously got a lot of cool stuff to talk about.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
And, like, we bust it out all the time. So I think if you're talking about, like, how much it costs versus, like, well, value for money, like, how many hours of entertainment is this game going to give you? Mario Kart, you could be $100, and you would still come out on top. You know what I mean?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Not every game's like that, but Mario Kart is one of those games that just, you know, it has potentially infinite, you know, value for money.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
They know people are going to pay it.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
What is a pro controller now?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
So it feels like they've bumped up the Pro Controller a little bit. I don't know if they showed it, but in the Mario Kart video, one of the guys was using a Pro Controller that looked like maybe it was the new Pro Controller, because it was black with white accents. Did you see that?
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
I don't know if they showed the Pro Controller in any depth, but it looked like there is a new model of the Pro Controller. And I'm guessing it doesn't do a whole lot more other than maybe like they've added the chat button and you know, you know, if you're, if you're using it, it's probably going to have its own, it'll have its own microphone in it for, for voice chat. Right.
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Switch 2 Games Cost HOW MUCH?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily LIVE 04.02.25
Cause you'll be closer to the, to the microphone than the system. So where the PlayStation dual sets works, uh, So I don't know. Yeah, I mean, look, it's got more expensive. I'm not going to sit here and go, that's fine, that's great, you should give your money to our base god, Nintendo, because they can do no wrong. They do shit wrong all the time.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I was mainly issue with the Nintendo switch Joy-Cons and it is less of an issue on the pro controller, but like they always, the, the, the thumbstick always just felt a little loose. That's a taste thing. I wish all controllers did this. I wish you could just twist the controller to rotate the thumbstick like a volume dial to dial up and dial back the resistance.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You can do that on an Elite controller. I think maybe you can do it on DualSense Elite or whatever it's called, Pro, DualSense Edge. You pull off the stick and there's a little screw underneath and you can tighten it and you can make it as tight as you want it to be. Mine are like... pretty resistant, because I just like that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
There's less margin for error when the stick's really, really resistant. I don't know. I mean, that's for another day, but, like, again, we'll see. Let's move on to the next thing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It does not compare to the other consoles. Which is why we were getting these terrible ports of Mortal Kombat. Why did they even port this? It's a mess. Now we're going to come closer to some kind of parity, I think. It looks much more impressive technically. I like the bigger size, the bigger screen. I like many of the things that they're doing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But Leah plays almost entirely handheld and has, like, fucking thousand hours in those Zelda games and probably and is now like I don't know how many hundreds of hours into goddamn Hello Kitty Island Adventure has never I don't think she's ever had an issue with stick drift we had a couple of Joy-Cons that just died and they're just no good but like died as in like they just stopped turning on
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Yeah, but I think they were shitty ones that I got sent. Remember The Croods? That movie, The Croods?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
They sent out promotional joysticks for that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know what the fuck they were. They weren't any good. I know that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That's what they sent me. Fucking crudes. What is this? It was a dock and those two sticks.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I was like, whatever. Two extra Joy-Cons if we ever need them. You know? What are we doing? Why are the Croods sending this stuff out?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Why are we even... I'm sorry I blew it up.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Obviously, there are things to nitpick at, for sure. We talked about some of it last time I was on the show, and we'll get into it again today, I'm sure. But for the most part... Can't wait. I already have my order in. I can't wait to get one. I'm excited to have it.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So did you say that these are games that we all know to have been cancelled or games that may still actually be coming out?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'll be honest with you. It doesn't, this doesn't interest me a whole lot, especially if, if, if the games are still coming out, then maybe, you know, it's an unofficial, I mean, I don't like it when things leak. I just, you know, I don't think it's good for the game. I don't think it's good for the creators. It bums them out. You know, we see this kind of, these kinds of things all the time. Um,
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It's always the way with Nintendo. They give with one hand and they take away with the other.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
No, I... Well... There's not a simple answer to that question, because I think achievements are a complex issue. But I'm glad that Nintendo... I saw Barrett applauding as well. I'm glad he agrees with me. I don't think the system needs them. I'm glad to see Nintendo, as usual, saying, like, we don't feel the need to jump onto the same bandwagon as everyone else.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Xbox introduced this concept, right? Sony then copied it with trophies. Steam copied it with their achievements. And many, many games now have their own inbuilt achievement systems, right? Um... It's funny. It's interesting. I thought a lot about this because I actually sat a couple of years ago at a game developers conference. I sat at DICE.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You're saying all that stuff was happening as you were hands-on with the system.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I sat on a round table of other game developers and people that are into this kind of shit talking about achievements. Are they good? Are they bad? Are they a net positive? I think it's like anything else. It's how you use them. I have played games where I really wanted to get the achievements because they were structured and designed in an interesting way.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But a lot of achievements are not well designed and they just amount to kind of busy work. It's like, anytime you're going like, I don't really want to be doing this, but I want the trophy or I want the achievement, you failed, right? It should add to the fun, not just become another fucking grind, right? And so there are good ways to implement achievements and bad ways to implement achievements.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I think Nintendo's attitude is they've looked at the balance of it and thought, you know what? No. And again, I'm glad. The games themselves... I wasn't playing games in the 80s and 90s going like, this is fun, but I feel like there's something missing. This would be more interesting if they gave me like 10 bullshit points for collecting every fucking backpack in the game or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And so there's only two other games that I've ever platinumed on PlayStation. And again, because I found the achievements fun to do. But people like Greg fucking baffle me. You know, they'll literally go out and play games that are shit.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
For some bullshit points that don't mean anything?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I was giving him shit for wasting his time playing some shitty game just because he wanted, oh, this is an easy plat. Oh, he has a child.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Oh, well, it was like the notorious one was fucking the last airbender game. On 360, where you can literally just stand in a fucking corner and just rack up achievements.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I think Greg platinumed fucking Bluey, which is a game for five-year-olds. Oh, no, but he loves Bluey. That's genuine. I love Bluey as well, but the game is not a game that grown-ups, that you're going to get a lot of satisfaction from playing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Achievements, like anything... can be good or bad. You ever see the movie Shane? Alan Ladd Jr. says a gun is only as good or as bad as the man who wears it. Wow. That's right. He made you think there. See philosophy. That's deep. Yeah, it's deep. And it applies here as well. They can be implemented in a way that is a lot of fun.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But more often than not, they just amount to busy work and having the gamer waste their time doing stuff that isn't a lot of fun just because for whatever reason they want that gamer score or they want that platinum. And it's just not, I don't get any, some people get, I guess an endorphin hit off of hitting the platinum or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
No LED. Yeah, no LED.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I really don't like the satisfaction should be in itself in the gameplay and knowing that you, that you finished the game or whatever, you beat the final boss, like getting some arbitrary number of points for, for doing like, again, just run around and find every fucking hidden thing.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But what I'm hearing is that it's at least comparable. It's in the ballpark. It's not going to feel like you've taken a big step back.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That's one of the only two games I've ever platinum, and you're finding all the backpacks? I actually enjoyed doing that because it was well-designed. There were a couple that drive me crazy. Oh, sorry, three games I've done. And I'll tell you this, even as much as I liked doing the achievements, there was at least one in each one where I'm like, fuck this achievement.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But then you're like, so the sunk cost is like, shit, I've got 99 out of 100 achievements. At that point, you're like, even I'm going, fuck, I've got to get the last one. But I'm not enjoying doing it. Yeah.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I think a Mario game is probably like you're going down a rabbit hole now. No, no, no.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Microsoft, and I'm going to assume Sony as well because there are no exceptions, mandate now that your game must have achievements and must have trophies, right? And beyond that, I don't know what the rules are in terms of how they must be. I don't know if either of those companies have rules about...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You'll get your upgrade down the road.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You can't have achievement that's just this, or you can't make players do that or whatever, because we want to keep them as fun as possible. My sense is that Nintendo, which, again, I have a love-hate relationship with Nintendo. They give with one hand and take away with the other. I love them one minute, I'm pulling my hair out the next.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
One thing that I do think Nintendo cares about and is very good at is preserving the integrity of the core gameplay experience. That's why they're so fucking good. Right.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So I know you've talked about it a lot, but you haven't talked about it with me. That's the important part. The first time you pick up a new piece of hardware or try it for the first time and you actually have it, what was your immediate kind of first impression of it?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And I don't think they would allow, even if they would implement achievements, I think they would have many more guardrails and rules in terms of developer guidelines to say, you can't just have like collect a hundred stupid fucking things that are randomly hidden around the world. Like they've got to be things that are, um, built into the core. Like, for example, Koroks, right?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
In the Zelda games.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That is something that you, like, collect every Korok, you can see you get an achievement for that. Nintendo doesn't do that. They reward you in a better way, right? You collect those Korok seeds and you can trade them in to get an extra heart. So it's actually something that rewards you in a tangible way in the core gameplay experience. Not just, here's 10 extra points that don't mean anything.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Here's a fucking NFT virtual trophy. Who gives a fuck about that?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Listen, I used to play Uno on the Xbox 360. I've seen it all. You know how many fucking dicks I've seen over the years? The amount of people that are going to pull their wiener out playing Mario Party.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because in truth, a big part of my mental bandwidth for the last 30 seconds was thinking, how is... Because again, I played Uno on the Xbox 360 with the vision camera. You're going to see so many wieners on Jamboree. Again, Nintendo, very careful about this stuff. Could they use AI or some kind of other technology to detect a penis and pixelate it out or block that camera or something?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Yeah, I mean, they might have to have an army of people whose job it is just to look for penises.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Whoa, whoa, whoa, block that.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
As soon as you see someone going like this, they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I mean, there is a lot of movement involved, I guess.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I have a feeling they're not going to allow cameras... just for anybody. I feel like you've got to be on the friends list or you've got to approve or whatever it might be.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
That doesn't immunize me from my fucking friends who absolutely will get their cocks out on stream. What friends do you have? Just people that want to fuck with me, you know?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
This is... I mean, fuck off. Seriously. Again, talking about Nintendo taking away. This is so fucking stupid. Okay, I'll concede a couple of things. $10 is not an exorbitant amount of money, right? But this is basically the fucking instruction manual for the system. I literally just saw something say, here's how you detach the Joy-Cons. I'm paying $10 for that? Like, basic functionality?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Astro, and they said, oh, there's more to it. How much was there in Astro's Playroom? A ton of shit. I bet there was more in Astro's Playroom than there is in this fucking thing. Sony gave you that for free. And if $10 is not a lot of money, why does Nintendo fucking need it? I guarantee, I need $10 more than Nintendo does. Why are they charging me for this? It's called Welcome Tour.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Have you ever heard the words Welcome Tour used in a context that you've got to fucking pay for? Ridiculous. It's absolutely fucking absurd. I think that if Nintendo, whatever they're going to make from selling this, they're losing more in goodwill. Because this is so stupid. This is literally insulting. I'm insulted by this. And anyone who is should be.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because it's so fucking clearly in the category of something that should be given away for free with the system. Astro's Playroom did way more than this. There was real gameplay in there. And a celebration of Sony history and all this fucking great stuff. And they gave it to you for free. And Sony's one of the more avaricious companies out there. What the fuck is this? No. I think if Nintendo...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You don't get the feel of like when something magnetizes, you feel it when it demagnetizes, you don't.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The problem is, I think there is a chance, it's a trivial chance, that they will come down off of this and say, you know what, fine, it's free in the store. Because they can flip that switch anytime they want, digital only. They can just make it free in the store. Or at least for a limited time. For the first 90 days, early adopters get it for free. Then it's $10 or whatever.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But no, out of the gate, $10 for a fucking interactive instruction manual and user guide for the system? Absolutely disgraceful. Fuck you, Nintendo, for this. I love the Nintendo Switch. I love Nintendo. I'm going to buy a Switch 2, but fuck Nintendo for this, because this is bullshit.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But so much better than those fiddly rails that we used to have. Right. Yes. I used to really have to, like, pull. There were times when it would feel like it would get stuck, and you're like, and you have to, like, pull. Am I going to break this thing? That, to me, is, like, that alone is a big.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The annoying thing is I'm still going to fucking buy it. And I'm angry at myself. I'm still going to pay the $10. You're playing. No, you're not.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You cannot just go on that diatribe and tell Nintendo to fuck off and then still buy it. Everyone's saying, like, fuck you, Nintendo, for making me do this. Because they know I'm going to.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'm not the only one. They're going to sell a lot of these to people that go, you know what? fuck you, Nintendo, but I'm going to buy it anyway.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because I'm going to get a fucking code from someone.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I'm going to tell you who my fucking, my dealer is.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I got my Nintendo guys. All right.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
You know, I'm open to being bullied into not buying it. I'll get a code. I'll go back. You were right. Unlike some people who say stupid things and then everyone says that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard and say, well, fuck you. You're doing it anyway. I will. I will happily back down off of this and say, you know what? I will not pay $10 for this. That's right. You've got to walk the talk.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
We've got to stand tall. I'm just saying, I want to play it. There's a lot of cool stuff in here.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It's mental.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Because also with the Switch, you're constantly, because in my house, at least, you do switch back and forth between the use cases a lot, right? Like, sometimes it's docked.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I mean, just the fact that it's called Welcome Tour. Just immediately goes, okay, well, that's free, right? Oh, no. Oh, no.
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Yeah.
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If there's someone saying there's more to this than we've shown, then you're marketing people fucked up. I agree with that.
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They've got two months. Maybe they will.
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This is why Nintendo drives me crazy because they get so much stuff right. But when they get stuff wrong, they really get it wrong.
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Sometimes you want to take the, like, we play a lot of, you know, party games with the family in the house, and you all want your Joy-Cons, so you have to snap them off the control, off the base unit, and that is sometimes a hassle. But this, that magnetizing thing.
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It's dumb. What the fuck are you doing, Nintendo?
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And we're back. I've got a better name. You already said there's got to be a better name than Welcome Tour. Remember 1-2-Switch? Yep. They should just call this one Fuck You Switch. Jesus Christ. Fuck You Pay Me, Nintendo.
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Well, long before him. I mean, when you got fucking Super Mario Brothers, when you bought NES.
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Wii Sports being packed in with the Wii was a massive reason why it exploded the way that it did.
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No, even if it was packed in for free, it wouldn't be. But that's beside the point.
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It should be preloaded on the fucking system. Unbelievable. I'm going to get more and more angry the more I think about it. I do want to give a shout out to two people in the chat. Yep. One person earlier on, I don't remember the names, said Nintendo sucks. I want to thank you for that comment. You've given me a lot to think about. I'm going to spend the rest of the day unpacking that.
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And then someone else said about Welcome Tour, call it gay because that's what it is. I'm not going to do that because I'm not a fucking asshole.
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Yeah. That was the price. That was the pre-tariff price. There's a decent chance it's going to go up by a significant amount.
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And then the fucking Asmongolds and quarterings and all those fucking assholes, when the rubber hits the road and they realize this shit is real and shit's going to get demonstrably, noticeably, significantly more expensive if they don't back off of this stupid shit, then they're going to see. then they'll have a fucking cold dose of reality. So let me tell you something.
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I have an uncle who works at Nintendo.
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Wow. Ever since I was a kid, I've had an uncle that works at Nintendo. How old is he?
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Go on. My uncle who works at Nintendo... is a code name for someone. I don't know anything. You know a guy who knows a guy. I don't know anything, but I know people who know things. And you know what they say, it's not what you know, it's who you know. And I know a lot of people. And one of the people that I know, my uncle who works at Nintendo, mentioned they know a lot about this shit.
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And I was talking to them recently and I said, what do you think about this tariff thing in terms of how it might affect the pricing? He said, well, if the... My uncle doesn't think that the tariffs are going to stick around. It's so catastrophically bad, and it's so galactically stupid, and so...
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detrimental and damaging to the global economy and the world trading order that's been around for almost 100 years. If it's allowed to stick around, you're going to end up with a fucking global economic collapse. So it has to be stopped. Whether it's Congress or the courts, it has to stop. It cannot stick around. These tariffs will not be around in six months. This is what my friend is saying.
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Probably in a few weeks, one way or another, because it just cannot be allowed to happen. It's going to destroy the fucking world. So, The question is, when is that going to happen?
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And Nintendo is right in the barrel for this because they have a major product that relies on a global supply chain and the prices are all baked into parts coming in from different parts of the world in the next couple of months, right? And Nintendo's fucked because they don't know what to do right now.
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It's like, well, are we going to have to... If the tariffs stick around, they are going to have to put the price on.
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So, but, you know, but right now, I guarantee you it's a five-alarm fire at Nintendo as they try to figure out how to navigate this. These tariffs might be gone in a week. They might be gone in a month. They're going to be gone, but the problem is that Nintendo doesn't have that kind of time. So... Nintendo has about two weeks to figure out what to lock in the retail pricing for this thing.
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If they're going to change it, they have about two weeks to do it, right? Because they have retailers. They have to put up stickers and all this. They can't just decide at the last minute, oh, it's an extra $100. Like, oh, launch day's come around. It's launch day minus one. The tariffs are still here. We need to jack up the price. They don't have that luxury.
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The decision has to be made a lot earlier than that, right? Nintendo's unit price... what it costs them to make a Nintendo Switch 2, if you factor in the tariffs, goes up about $100. $90 to $100. And they can't eat that cost. Otherwise they're selling these systems basically at cost or out of cost, which they obviously can't do.
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So if in the next two weeks these tariffs have not been resolved, you're going to be paying $550 for a Nintendo Switch 2. Just something to think about.
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And $600 if you want Mario Kart World.
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All the fucking right wing. Like, I mean, these people are literally saying, why do you, why do you even need money? It's just all made up. Like, that's how fucking desperate they are at this point to like justify this absolutely idiotic bullshit. The stupidest shit I've ever seen.
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But I guarantee when their consoles start becoming significantly more expensive, and Nintendo knows if it goes up by $100, they're going to sell less of them. Because at some point, you price people out. They go, $450, fine, I'll do it. But $550, no, come on. And people are going to know, right? Because most people watch the news, and they know what's going on.
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Oh, Nintendo just avariciously stuck an extra $100 on this. They're going to know that this is because of the tariffs. And so who do you blame? You don't blame Nintendo. Nintendo's just protecting its profit margin. I'm telling you. You know who to blame. Of course you do. You don't need to say it. Of course you know who to blame.
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I don't think it's that. I mean, it wasn't like I was around beforehand going, oh, this is going to be bigger than you think. It was a huge number. But I don't think it's necessarily that surprising. I didn't look at the number this week and go, fucking hell. I was like, yeah, I mean, why not? Minecraft is, by many metrics, the biggest game in the fucking world.
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And its audience is primarily children. And children, if they want to go to the movies, they're going to the fucking movies, and you're taking them. Trust me, I know. I've got two kids, right? So pester power is a big deal. Will you take them at Splashmore? Will you take them at Splashmore? Will you take them at Splashmore? It's the same thing with the Minecraft movie.
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Eventually, you've got to fucking take them, right? And the thing about kids' movies is, for kids under a certain age, you don't just sell one movie ticket, you sell three or four, because the parents have got to go too, right? And so you go there as a thing. So it isn't terribly surprising to me. The biggest video game in the world, that's primarily aimed at kids, Yes. I'm not totally surprised.
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Obviously, now we're going to see a lot more Minecraft. There's going to be a Minecraft 2 got greenlit at some point on Saturday night, right?
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Good for Jared Hess, who directed two of my favorite movies, Napoleon Dynamite, and particularly, I fucking love Nacho Libre. I fucking love Nacho Libre.
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Yes. Oh, good for them.
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Napoleon Dynamite, he made for $400,000.
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Napoleon Dynamite, he made for $400,000 and now he's got a $150 million movie.
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Good for him. Good for him. Obviously very good for the careers of Jack Black and Jason Momoa. You could have put me in that fucking movie and it would have made $150 million. Kids don't give a shit about that. I don't know, man.
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Jack Black, though. Jack Black has been making moves. I mean, I'm sure it was additive, but it's not the reason why the movie did what it did. Movie stars generally aren't the reason. It's why Robert Downey Jr., when he plays Iron Man, everyone goes nuts. When he plays a lawyer or whatever, nobody gives a fuck. Because they care more about the character than they do.
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Obviously, when the actor and the character come together...
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right yeah and it's a good combination as it was in the case of iron man brilliant choice to play that character and he did it brilliantly then you get it but it's not like again harrison ford when he plays indiana well even not not so much or han solo whatever people show up when he plays just some dude people are like who cares right because it's not necessarily the style we haven't had a star driven system in hollywood for a long time it's ip amen zendaya's getting there right so yeah fair enough she's getting there no she's great um
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I think the movie stars still can still move the needle. They certainly still mean a lot when you're trying to get movies set up. Believe me, I know it's, you know, who are we going to, I'm literally about to go out with a, with a movie project sooner. Like the first thing is like, who are we going to, you can't just send out a script anymore. You have to package it.
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You have to add an actor who's additive, who moves the needle, who does the spreadsheet say yes to, right? All that. You got to do all that bullshit. What do they do foreign? Are they a big international appeal? It's all a spreadsheet. But a couple of things I thought were interesting, side stories out of the Minecraft movie.
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One I thought was the police having to be called to kick unruly kids out of a bunch of theaters. Kids are apparently going fucking wild at this movie. Good for them. These are kids that might not otherwise ever go to a movie, right? They're going just because they love Minecraft, right? I've seen the footage, the camera phone footage.
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They're throwing shit at the screen and fucking climbing over the seats and going feral. It's like every showing in this movie is like a Rocky Horror midnight show.
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Again, I had a kid who had to do remote schooling during the pandemic, and there's no question that it's had a lasting effect on kids socially, environmentally, in terms of their confidence, insecurity issues. All kinds of... I mean, we're going to be unpacking that scientifically in studies for decades.
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This is a bit more excusable because you're talking about kids under 10 years old, right?
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Like, the police had to come and take these kids out.
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And also, it's good for those of us who believe in that video games can make good movies. I don't know if the Minecraft movie is good or not. I haven't seen it. But the fact that it made a lot of money is much more important than whether or not it was any good. Yeah.
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If it had been a great fucking movie but made no money, it would have been very bad for people like me that are currently working on the next video game movie that we want to see in theaters or whatever. But it made a ton of money, and so it just helps the next one. This plus Super Mario Bros., Last of Us being very successful, they've all helped. Rising tide lifts all boats, right?
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And so this makes it a little bit easier for the next one.
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And I think Minecraft is a really tricky one because, again, the primary audience for it, and I know there are older, you know, young adults and people of all ages that play Minecraft. I get that. But the primary audience, let's not kid ourselves, is children. Yeah. Right? For Minecraft.
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In this case, it didn't really matter if the movie was any good or not. Let me tell you again. Kids are not discerning. They're not cineasts. They just want to see the shit that they want to see. They want to see Minecraft brought to life on a big screen. And whether it's cinematically any good is irrelevant. They're going to fucking show up. It seems like maybe it is pretty good.
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I like Jared Hess. Are you looking to go, yeah, that's kind of what you'd... That's Minecraft. It's a Minecraft movie.
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Yeah. The Fortnite... Again, my uncle who works at Epic, don't get me started into what's going on there, but... The Fortnite movie just got, not that it was going to be a big, a hard sell anyway, just got a lot easier to make. Oh, yeah. Because Fortnite and Minecraft are essentially in the same category.
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From the studio point of view, it's a question of whether or not Epic would actually want to do it, because they really hold the keys.
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You lost about 50 grand in the last week. 50 grand?
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What is this farewell tour business about? What is that?
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I love the aesthetic of this game. It doesn't look like anything else that's out there. You know, maybe like Mirror's Edge or something, but this is like more colorful. It has this really cool kind of futuristic... vibe to it. So many games these days kind of look the same. They have these muddy color palettes, or it's this very generic version of the futuristic aesthetic.
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This, to me, looks really fresh. I love the palette, the colors.
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They know how to make something pop. This looks terrific to me. It looks really original. The fact that it's a PvP shooter means I'm probably not going to be able to play it to a great extent because I suck at them. I wish they were like a PvE aspect or whatever. But this looks really good. This is high on my watch list based on just looking at it.
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Because the whole thing is they want to make the Kool-Aid movie, right?
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It's an interesting, it's been an interesting watch for me as someone who has worked in that business for 20 years at, you know, often at that level, like big IP franchise type movies. And yeah, There's a lot of stuff that some of this, some of it kind of infuriates me, but there's a lot of stuff they get right.
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And just the general idea of like what it's actually like to be in those rooms when you know, you're, you're, you're looking at something that has no fucking creative reason to exist at all. It's like purely because they can make money. Yeah. It's so fucking depressing. And that part of it, they do. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You'd go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Blueprints, right? I mean, we knew it was coming, but the reactions I'm seeing this morning is like, holy shit, Paris is saying Game of the Year, Rebecca Valentine was... Very effusive about it. You're saying this is suddenly like a contender.
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Who's shortcoming?
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That sounds like it makes sense, right? To put those things together?
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Yeah, in the market, yeah.
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Yeah, I could see that one as well. Yeah. Different audience, but yeah, huge audience.
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I don't know if this is like... Again, I don't think Stardew Valley is necessarily a game that a lot of kids play. Again, what combines or what connects the ones that have made the mega money recently? Super Mario Brothers, Minecraft, and again, let's just assume Fortnite.
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What could that possibly stand for?
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Is Super Chat prices going to go up with the tariffs?
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Yeah, just use the same bullshit formula that they use. Just pull some fucking Greek letters out of your asshole and come up with a made-up number. And then charge that to a bunch of fucking penguins.
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Let's see here. Did you see – by the way, I just got to say just one thing. Did you see what they did with the tariffs where they came up with this formula that looked like this very complicated equation with Greek – you know, alphanumeric characters, like algebraic... No, I heard... This is the extremely complex formula through which we came up with the tarot. So this is all solid.
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Good math here. And economists looked at it and said, well, all you've done is take this and divide it by that.
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No, I heard about this on my news podcast this morning. It's more complicated than that, because look at this letter and this letter. And they figured out that the extra letters they added to this very simple, stupid formula basically just cancelled each other out. There it is. So one of those... multiplies the equation by four, and the other one divides it by four.
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So they basically cancel each other out. They literally just put extra Greek letters in there to make it look more complicated than it is. But you can take the Greek letters out, and mathematically, it's the same fucking formula. How fucking stupid do they think we are?
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I'm always happy to be here.
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I love about games, right? When they first showed this as part of like, I think they showed it as part of a showcase of other games, right? It was just, it was just one of the other games that was in there. It wasn't necessarily one that stood out as like, Ooh, that looks special.
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So I'm sure some people did, but it wasn't like a game that was generating a lot of buzz out of that showcase. Now people have got their hands on it. It's like, you never know where the next like amazing games coming from. Right.
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I'm excited about it. And it's out this week, right? Game Pass. Yeah, we're going to have to try it.
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is very well done for someone... So you didn't encounter any puzzles where you felt frustrated or, you know, fuck this?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
At just any time. Like I said, who saw this coming? Who was predicting, like, oh, this is going to be a game with a new container?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I feel good about it. We've waited for it for a long time. They feel like, come on, Nintendo, where's the Switch 2? We're finally there. It's going to be out in a couple of months. You've played it. It's real. It exists. We now know almost everything we need to know about it. There's still some things out there, but we've got a clear sense of what it is now and what the proposition is.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I know a little bit about it. I have a Hall Effect stick. I bought an 8-bit dough Hall Effect stick recently, and part of the reason why I got one is, like, Hall Effect, it's very buzzy right now. It's so hot right now, Hall Effect. Everyone's talking about Hall Effect. So, yeah, I should try it out and see what the deal is. The thing with Hall Effect, as far as I can tell, is it's not...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
that you're going to pick it up immediately and go, oh, this is so much more responsive. It's that they're much less likely to shit the bed a year from now, which has been a problem with Joy-Cons. It's been a problem with PlayStation controllers. Yeah, even the DualSense. The DualSense has got the drift.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But particularly on the Joy-Con side, Nintendo had to implement a system for you to have them replaced and fixed, and it was a problem. So obviously, we don't know yet what...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
proprietary or whatever solution nintendo have come up with for the new ones but they obviously know it's something that they don't want they don't want this to happen again right and so time will tell and you won't know right away if there if there are issues with these sticks these are stories they're going to be hearing about you know three months six months a year from now right because again it's not going to be an instant thing so i you know i'd be interested to know why they didn't choose it feels like
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
like I said, Hall Effect is so buzzy for them to be able to like, oh, and Hall Effect sticks. Like a lot of people that don't necessarily know what that is just go like, oh, I've heard of that. Those are good, right? Like it's just another selling point, but I can either, it's too expensive.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know how much, I mean, the 8-bit dough controller I got had Hall Effect sticks wasn't any more expensive than a regular controller. So I don't necessarily think they're more expensive. Um, But Nintendo, you know, Nintendo going to Nintendo. That's the thing, it's the weird Nintendo decisions. We talk about this all the time.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
It may well be that the solution they've come up with is better than the Hall Effect, or as good as. We don't know yet. We're going to take a minute. All we know right now is that, hey, Hall Effect sticks are having a moment, right? It's a buzzy term.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Even if you don't understand necessarily what it is, you just know that they're good, and people like them, and they have advantages over other sticks in terms of durability over the long term. which is an issue for Switch. So a lot of people might have said, hmm, durability solution. Nintendo had a durability problem. Why not bring those two things together?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And they've chosen not to do that as they often choose not to do many things that would seem to make common sense to the rest of us. We'll find out whether or not it was a good or bad decision in time.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
The Joy-Cons were notorious for stick drift. Also on DualSense, but much more noticeable on the Joy-Cons.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
And for me, it's everything I wanted it to be. It's just a better Nintendo Switch, right? Some people say, oh, Nintendo's lost the innovation. But when you hit on something that is a proven, brilliant, fucking winning formula, why reinvent the wheel? Just give us a better one of those. The biggest issue that we had with it was, certainly for me, was the performance issues.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
I don't know if this is going to be an issue, but if you think about a DualSense controller or an Xbox Series controller and then compare it to a Joy-Con, Joy-Con is tiny, right? The actual controller unit that snaps off is very, very small, right?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So it stands to reason that they're not able, they're probably not able to like engineer it or put as many parts into that controller that might, you know, mitigate those issues. Simply the fact that the new controller is bigger might mean that there's more room in there for them to engineer it a bit more, right? I don't know.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
Right now, it's something for us to talk about, but again, no one's going to know. Like, no one's going to know day one, right? Unless they fucked up these sticks so badly they start drifting on day one, which seems very unlikely. We'll see whether or not we start hearing stories about this down the road.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
But maybe that's the thing, right? I mean, in the hand, you know what it feels like to wiggle a Joy-Con thumbstick under your thumb. Does it basically feel the same?
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Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con Drift, Leaks, & More News! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.07.25
So when you're playing a Switch 2, you already obviously have a lot of experience of using a Joy-Con, the thumb stick, how it feels under the thumb when you're moving it. Does it basically feel the same?