@@chronodisWell let's be fair though, Nintendo did a lot with less than 4GB of RAM, and I say less because the console already uses some of it to run. Breath of the Wild is great to look at and fine to play from what I've seen since I've never played it, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder are super good looking as well, and they run at a mostly smooth 60fps, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime remastered are absolutely stunning looking games for the hardware! Yes, some games are not fantastic with performance, but its definitely not as much games than what people makes it out to be. Scarlet and Violet are the main examples, but that's less a Nintendo problem and more Game Freak's. And third-party stuff can also be great on the system if optimized well like Doom Eternal, Cuphead, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, and more! And look, some games definitely do struggle to run the thing, no denying that! But, making it out that everything on the Switch is crap and runs poorly, well that's just straight up wrong!
@@roarface1993I mean yeah, he's probably trying to run it on Windows, which is already struggling with 4 gigs of RAM. I doubt that the OS on the Switch needs nearly as much, especially since it's not running an emulator on top of that.
The "Certainty Meter" idea is great. Helps cut down on the "maybe... probably... could be..." language, and I just generally appriciate creators taking leaks with a bit of caution.
@kanishknayyar1232, he can still be excited about it, Hes just complimenting them. The certainty meter is nice. Linus tec tips are a huge company, rather than telling us random leaks, its a way to show how much they agree with said leaks and how much we should trust them.
I agree its nice of them. It shows how much they agree and trust said leaks and how much we should trust them. Rather than listing them all as true, and rather than Linus telling us for each leak/feature.
I was in the Navy for 6 years. The Switch is extremely popular in the military because you can take it anywhere, it doesn’t need a separate tv, and it doesn’t take up much space. I got a lot of use out of mine on my 2 deployments.
@@QuantumConundrum I still use my GBA SP. The portability and form factor has yet to be matched, and with everyone's obsession with large screens these days I don't see it ever being outdone. With an upgraded battery they last FOREVER, and the library is massive before you even consider the emulators you can run on it and it all fits on a single SD card.
2:20 I once took a 5 hour plane ride home and forgot my Bluetooth earbuds in my checked bag. I had a pair of wired headphones, but I couldn't connect them to my phone or iPad thanks to the lack of a headphone jack. But my switch carried me through to victory. Props to Nintendo for not taking away the still useful headphone jack.
@@watchinvids155 They added Bluetooth like days after Steam Deck got announced. The capability was always there. They flipped the switch out of fear, cause nothing was really stopping them.
Don't forget that all ports are officially called "HDMI 2.1" nowadays. A HDMI 2.1 does not need to be able to output 4K120, everything is optional in the HDMI 2.1 specification.
@@deusexaethera The 3DS sold over 75 million units, yeah that is a lot less than the DS, but it was nothing compared to the WiiU. I would also wager that the Switch 2 will sell fewer units than the Switch regardless of any name or marketing.
I won't hate on the 3ds although it definitely underperformed compared to the ds but the console had a decent number of exclusive/first party games and was worth the purchase. I loved/love my Wii U as well but frankly the marketing, confusing name and lack of major first party Nintendo games is why it performed so poorly. I actually to some extent still like the concept of being able to have a separate screen vs the tv to play different things but it was honestly never very well implemented. The best games for the Wii u were Nintendo land, twilight princess HD, and Mario maker.
@@Shany64 Not only were the 1st-party titles far and few between, but also quite lackluster; paired with downright abysmal 3rd-party support (mainly due to the console's "recycled" Gamecube (!) CPU), it was doomed to fail. (I only got a used one for Xenoblade X in 2019.) I still preordered the Switch for BotW, Mario Odyssey and eventually another Xenoblade, but could have never imagined the gigantic lineup the console has today; heck, I'll be busy for years to come with all the visual novels alone ...
@@rockapartie Okay one I'm not entirely sure your point as I specifically mention the lack of First party games on the Wii U. And the Wii U did have some spec issues and was underpowered for the time but the Wii U was not a recycled GC CPU. I think processing speeds alone are probably 7 times faster than the GC. The wii was not quite but basically a clone of the GC's CPU.
@@stevethepocket It's not the market for headphones that's abysmal, all the options already exist. It's really uninformed consumer demand, what actually sells and the lack of investment people are doing in audio solutions. The high-tier market for audio is actually far more advanced than video options, believe it or not. Most consumers just think they can get away with cheapening on audio by buying a 20-150 dollar catch all wireless headset/speaker that somehow should have top-tier lossless quality. Why do people expect the best audio at 50-200 bucks when that doesn't even get you basic video either? Of course those headphones or that quality don't exist at that price range, you're essentially buying tin cans with stretched EQ options instead of proper drivers to mask as much of that garbage quality as possible. While simple bluetooth on most consumer devices isn't able to provide absolute lossless audio quality, a decent home network, mesh & fiberspeed are reliable wireless solutions that get that job more than done. Still though, you don't even absolutely need FLAC-similar bitrates to already have a great audio experience: many codecs can compress well enough to provide a far bettter sounding experience than any consumer-screen can match in video quality. Any audiophile will tell you wired is king and that's just how audio fidelity works (similar to ethernet beating wifi). Wireless's with decent network is next and works great even for high bitrate provided you have the speed & stability.. Bluetooth is just.. well, bluetooth. It's limited but can still get decent enough results that would satisfy 95% of consumers. It all comes down to you whether or not you're a moron expecting 100 dollar tin cans to perform like a fully stacked surround system with multiple high-end receivers, dozens of satellites, lossless bitrate and top-tier audio source files. That doesn't mean you can't buy a Sonos Arc, 2 SL's and a Subwoofer at 2K that will already get you a great cinema experience. You spent that 2K on your OLED too, right?
10:20 The most surprising aspect of the Switch 2 reveal, with respect to families that already have multiple Switches, is the Switch 2 dock being too wide to fit a Switch 1 in. Having one dock for every Switch 1 or 2 in the family to connect to the TV felt like a no-brainer to me, whereas this feels like if the Wii U required a slightly different sensor bar stacked on top of the Wii's.
I've never understood why people care about the time videos get uploaded. It's not live TV people and you can scroll down on your feed instead of slavishly obeying your notifications.
Sounds exciting but also worrying consider how poor their internet infrastructure is & the amount of desync there already was on the current Mario kart. So if they don't upgrade their internet support then that might end up being a laggy mess unless the extra console power helps it out some
@@mica4977Didn't they update their online infrastructure midway through the Switch's lifetime? They didn't update the older games to use the new infrastructure, but I can't recall a time I ever had issues with playing a game online if it was released in the last few years
@@sparky6757 Yes they did. It’s been even able to support roll back net code for fighting games for years now. MK8D seems to be the odd one out when it comes to online because everything else runs smoothly.
no the dock was just a dock, you still had an actual, physical console that u could insert disks into and stuff the gamepad was just a peripheral and the dock was literally just a charger
Even if the specs are ps4 or xbox one level, those systems are pretty darn capable for a 1080p experience. Hoping we finally get some 60fps zelda games. edit: apparently a poorly phrased comment can start a war
Yeah we don't really know for sure though, but, Nintendo for some reason has only released a single 3D Zelda game running at 60FPS, that is, Skyward Sword HD.. the rest run at either 20 or 30FPS depending on the era, which I find odd considering Nintendo transitioned 3D Mario to 60FPS by the Wii era. Perhaps it's simply because Zelda games are more graphically demanding in terms of world scale and enemies? Honestly it would be nice for the other HD Remasters like Twilight Princess and Wind Waker to get that sort of update too, but it might be more work than they're willing to put in.
Is PS4 level not impressive anyway for a portable handheld? Running off battery instead of big power supply, weighing much less, much smaller, more efficient, etc Most overpriced flagship phones are around PS4 level Edit: 50% faster than PS4 apparently, and twice as fast as Steam Deck
@@illuminate4 it won't have the ps4 quality, it would run out of battery in 15 minutes, you can only expect indie quality games like Zelda and Mario on switch, don't expect more than that
It's actually a good point to mention that the bigger chunk of Switch 1 users are your average parents that will have 0 incentive to upgrade as the OG Switch still has a killer library for every day family fun
Loved the certainty meter. It is such a clean way of providing information without mentioning in every line the chances of the thing actually being true, good job ltt editors or whoever came up with that idea
Same I noticed that and it thought wow that’s so simple but still adds so much to this video. Especially for people like me that would weigh all these rumors here equally since I’m not that deep in this kind of stuff.
Sounds like a visual used as an excuse to strip information from the audio. Granted, I'm blind, so I'm predisposed to hating when videos overrely on the visuals and important content is left out of the audio.
"switch 2" is the only name that this system could ever have been called. the name communicates clearly that (1) this is the successor to the switch, and (2) this is a new generation of the switch, and not just a minor iterative upgrade like "switch OLED." making the "2" the same size as the switch logo is also a sensible move.
The only reason why the Switch 2 leaked so early before its actual announcement was because Nintendo put the actual hardware into manufacturing production before announcing it to make enough stock in order to combat scalping.
yea but that only means apple or similar companies that anounce their products and start to sell almost inmediatly are waaaay better at keeping secrecy
0:20 i believe it is important to have popular gaming devices that are relatively low powered, so that there actually is at least some sort of incentive in the industry to optimize games.
@@EnzoLebold this is true for studios like monolith soft that developed the xenoblade franchise and helped with Zelda BOTW and TOTK. They genuinely did gods work optimizing and making those games look beautiful on switch. and then we got game freak… i ain’t even gotta explain the shit that is scarlet violet optimization and graphics.
For all the justified criticism of nintendo, for all sorts, their wonky traditionalism also has meant their games are throwbacks to a bygone era of gaming. No games as a service, physical media with high resale, no mandated connectivity, and the most consistently polished, finished games at release. I cant tell you what a relief that is as a dad too. The games are just games, they arent trying to condition my 7 year old to be psychologically motivated by gambling mechanics, or teaching him that if he wants to succeed at something as much as his friend, then he needs to pay to win. There are even educational games that cant boast that, sadly. Finally, not only do they design for couch coop, they design for family couch coop for players with disparate abilities, so that you can quite literally carry a 5 year old through a platforming frustration point. Theres only one Nintendo, for worse, but mostly for better.
Nintendo as a business is outdated and abhorrent... but Nintendo as game producers are still experts in their craft. Sure not every game is a BOTW level event, but the worst of nintendo is still leagues better than the worst that other companies put out. Scarlet and violet may be dogshit, but at least it's fun dogshit with some good ideas as opposed to something like redfall or skull and bones.
I wish it were true, but then I saw they released a stupid amount of DLC for Mario Kart for the price of almost another game. Can they just give us a bigger game to begin with instead of jumping on the DLC bandwagon like other publishers? Paywalling Virtual console behind tiered subscriptions, launching broken buggy games like recent Pokemon. And don't even mention what they've done to Fire Emblem the past decade or so... Yeah Nintendo is no different from any other big game company nowadays.
The key word here is "family". Keep in mind the average male can't get their first date, let alone a "family" and kids to play Nintendo games with. Hence why the PC and tabletop market will still conquer this generation of solo gaming with online mode for lone wolves.
As a person who has been on nintendo since i was born and havent really left, i hate most things nintendo do. But the thing they always get right is the games. Which is the most important for a game company so i guess its fine lol
Switch 2 looks class to be fair. Being backwards compatible with the huge library of Switch games is mega. Can see it being the best console of all time at this rate
There is one thing we should never forget: Nintendo Switch was a generation late in terms of power, but it did what a generation before could in a fraction of its power consumption - which not only helps in the battery life part, but also in the heating side. Nintendo unveiled that games on the OG Switch ran at 12W, and by the time the OLED came, they were at around 6W. Imagine what a PS5 does with 6W. This also goes to the Steam Decks and others - Valve has said that they are waiting for a breakthrough to have a similarly priced successor at similarly energy consumption rates with a significant amount of more power - and it tracks, because you can't just rely on a plug, and heat can hurt your hands if you don't vent it out fast enough. Us having a more powerful PS4, and a much smarter one, in a 15-20W envelope at the worst rates, is an absolute win, no doubt. And if it reaches anywhere near a Series S (not saying it will trade blows with it) at that consumption, then it will be a perfect console for these upcoming 5 years.
@user-op8fg3ny3j compared to? PS4 games usually didn't go beyond 30 because of the abysmal CPUs they had*. And the Series S thing is a dream situation - games will likely be somewhat scaled down from there in IQ and resolution, and at best will be rescaled back to the same resolution as that competitor with their ML super sampling hardware. But again, I'm talking about me believing the console will be in between PS4 and Series S (especially from the CPU perspective). Maybe it will be at a PS4 Pro level, all things considered. But still, whatever the result is, I expect it not to exceed 20W, which will still be real impressive and a demonstration of what one can optimize hardware to make it as power-constrained as possible. * It's funny how we rewrote history about Switch being underpowered from the get go. First, because it was one of the best SoCs on the market at the time for portable play, the Tegra X1. But additionally, if it were and the promise of home console games on the go was a lie, we wouldn't have thought it was even possible, and it wouldn't have made other handheld PC manufacturers think it was even possible (Valve chief among them).
Nintendo is basically the only platform that still has some couch co op. Everything else mostly abandoned it for profit. Also i think with the new switch they are banking on all the then 16-ish yo’s that now have grown up.
People should stop thinking that companies have to "grow up with their customers". New people are born and turn 16 everyday. The best way to increase your market share is to stick to your guns, hope the old ones stay and attract the new ones like you did previously. Just look at lego. Kids grew up, continue to buy lego, and new kids have legos as present. I think the console is bigger for a bigger battery. In 2 or 3 years, they will release the switch 2 lite for kids alongside the switch 2 oled on 3nm tsmc. Using less power and needing a smaller battery.
@@bamcorpgaming5954I agree with u, like Yh couch coop is more prominent in switch games but I think the main reason switch sold well was coz it was portable
10:13 I would bet money that switch 2 games will not be cross gen. Power differences alone will make that impossible. Also PS5 tried that and now it has no games. Nintendo should be smart and make all the new games exclusive.
impossible. nintendo is very familiar with cross gen titles, see for example botw. also, what about metroid prime 4? thay already showed it in two directs for the og switch, if they release it only on switch 2 they may be accused of false advertising.
But if the specs are so underpowered that it cause the game's performance to suffer, then that's no fun at all. Even Nintendo's own first party game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening ran like crap on the Switch when I last played it as it was lagging and dropping frames in busy scenes as the hardware couldn't keep up, great game but not a fun to play due to that, so I stopped playing it. Should be a much more enjoyable experience on the Switch 2 even if they make no changes to the game as the hardware will be able to run it effortlessly, and a smoother running game is far more enjoyable.
Nintendo's low-spec hardware is critical to their business strategy--keep the console cheap so they can sell their extremely popular games to as many people as possible. Their target audience of kids and casual gamers doesn't care about framerate unless it gets extraordinarily bad, and serious gamers will begrudgingly buy their stuff anyway so they don't get left out of their friends' Mario Kart races.
@@simonrockstream If you compare mario odyssey and astro bot they don't look that much apart, even less if you consider its a handheld console and not a skyscrapper near your tv and is 7 years old
People complaining about the performance also tend to forget that the console is still a tablet at its core. Of course it won't be anywhere near the big current-gen stationary home consoles in terms of performance. Fitting hardware powerful enough to compete with the PS5 into a tablet body - while theoretically possible - would be so expensive that Nintendo's target audience would never buy it.
And considering how good so many games looked on the PS4 (Witcher III was absolutely gorgeous imo), quite frankly I'd consider that "good enough" for any device with a screen at handheld size! "More performance" would just be "let studios skimp on the cost of actually optimising their games"
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Nintendo's customers are undoubtedly loyal, but still, a theoretical high-end Switch 2 with PS5 graphics at $1000 or more would not sell.
@@Respectable_Usernameas a Nintendo user since the original nes they never been a company that goes after the power user like Zelda or Mario doesn't need tesselation or other high realistic imagery if you need to have that graphic spec you have other options
But wait…can we connect 2 switches together (wired or wirelessly) so two people can play the same game together with a single game card? I have two sons and this is BY FAR my most desired feature in future handheld consoles.
The switch1 was honestly a god send. It has been with me everywhere, train, plane, bathroom. I even stopped playing all my other consoles due to portability. I am really excited by the new switch2 and especially the backwards compatibility option. 😊
I cant even find a reason for it - if its because the model is unaware, surely they'd realise quick enough that the switch in the background is going the opposite way?
I actually had to pause and go to comments just for that. The cynic in me thinks that may have been just to drive engagement from people commenting on it, but I don't see why they would feel the need to do that, they get plenty of engagement normally, they shouldn't need to resort to such tactics... but I also can't rule it out entirely since more engagement is still always better...
@@LazarusXavier SAME! I too paused and went to the comments because I literally cringed seeing this coming from the LTT Team. You're telling me NO EDITORS have played the Switch before and caught this in post? Even if the B-roll model has never held a Joy-Con before in their life?
i remember when the switch 1 was revealed to be using a custom tegra x1, everyone started speculation how far the tegra X1 SoC could have been pushed, when it turned out to be the exact opposite with half the ARM CPU cores were disabled and the GPU was very downclocked. let's hope things don't repeat themself 😂
Half of cpu cores were disabled for the better, bc those cores were little cores in a second cluster only for background tasks, but nvidia made a design mistake that made these cores consume more power than it should
This brings me so much joy because I love my switch, but having a 2017 model has started to show its age recently. So it'll be nice to play all my games and more on a higher performing handheld console.
I like how Nintendo said at the end of their trailer that the switch2 is not compatible with some other switch games and the only one that comes to my mind is the LABO games
@Mut4ntG4m3r multiple versions. Even charge more for the oled idc. Rather have that than another 200 dollars or whatever I'd get for trade in a year or two down the line.
As excellent as other handheld gaming devices might be and as disrespectful it might sound towards them to say that, they are not competition to the Switch 2. Switch 2 will most definitely sell more units in its first quarter than the Steam Deck in its lifetime to date.
You making this personal is completely besides the point. It's not only fanboys. It's expectations people would have for the device. Linus' video is a very good example. Nintendo have basically not announced anything yet and he already projects expectations. And that's not a shot at him, it's normal considering the history of Nintendo's support for their consoles and stuff.
@@sO_RoNerY Nintendo makes great games. Am I happy with everything they have done? No. But they consistently put out great genre defining games. and the games work immediately at launch. No scrambling to get a patch in so the games don't break. They just work. they have a penchant for quality that you can expect. The Switch 2 does have more competition now, and so the software will be the main driving force this time. Hopefully we will be able to see performance boosts for switch games as well.
I saw people saying that the reveal was underwhelming cause it didn't look that different. Like what did you expect them to do? Make it a circle or something???
@@ScorchedTemales If modern games were properly optimized, you would be able to play ALL of them on decades old hardware. Modern AAA games are just filled the brim with unoptimized high resolution assets that of COURSE must just mean better, right?
Those aren’t IR sensors in either Joy-con. They’re just the indents that go the full length of the controller. I’d bet strong money they don’t have IR and that’s why they had the disclaimer about some games not being supported or fully compatible with switch 2. Given there are only about 7 games that even use IR
@@Ghostchanter I was talking about this yesterday, and it may be that the old joy-con can connect to the 2 to connect to the Labo, but the console itself also has to connect to the build, and the 2 is not going to fit, and it's not like they're going to sell wireless screens just for Labo, lol.
My biggest "what if" is the battery life , all this power is great if the thing cant run a semi intense game for more than 3 hours total it might aswell be a couch > dock > couch situation. Due to work i travel a lot of hours via train/bus and the switch battery and charger just didnt cut it i found myself using an old New 2ds XL i hacked a long time ago cause the battery lasts longer/it charged faster/even more portable . I dont think people realise how insane it is to have PS4 level performance a portable device especially as thin as the Switch 2 , battery is a concern at that power output no optimization will save it if it doesnt have the mAh to back it up Edit - i also hope they fix their wierd power input/output situation so that non "licensed" batteries and chargers dont fry and brick the thing
I would Hope for Up to 3 hours, Not more. Possibly Mode switches, who knows. But i dont think even 2 hours IS to Bad since you can use easily accessible Akku Packs for Sure
Portable battery packs can be pretty small and give you near infinite battery life... 2 hours of run time on a demanding game is plenty for most people... If your 'to work' train ride is longer than 2 hours. They better make you a multi millionaire.
It’s the dock that draws the non-standard voltage. Not the handheld itself. Also all of that was intentionally caused by Nintendo (most likely cause they wanted to sell chargers), the PD spec was released in 2012, 5 years before the launch of the switch. Nintendo intentionally violated the spec.
I believe the mouse function is for mouse/controller hybrid gameplay. I believe more first person shooter titles are coming to switch and you could use the right joycon as a mouse for ADS/firing/aiming, and the left joycon for movement but its used in the controller format
Doom, Metroid, and more definitely can utilize it as a possible control functionality. Which is a great feature. It has so many capabilities, and gives the ability a unique edge
@ Nintendo being the first company to bring an official out of box mouse functionality on their joycons is huge. And it makes me even more excited to think about the possible functionalities of this, some that you mentioned. Working its way into first person games and bringing some mechanics to titles like Zelda, Mario, and Pokémon. Idk where to start on what they’d be but it just get me excited
@@DJSerpent with Nintendo they always release a gimmick for their consoles/hardware sometime those gimmicks catch on, but we may see a new Mario paint so that’s cool
Expecting? They want PS5 performance, 4k 120fps OLED and ontop of that 8 hours of battery life.. What they want is for Nintendo to break the laws of physics. smh
I Love that the joy cons no longer slide in because I remember my cousin got a switch for Christmas and brought it to our house - he literally put them in the wrong way and we’ll we couldn’t get them out, don’t think he ever got them out…
You don't buy a switch for cutting edge gameplay. You buy them for ease of access to the Nintendo library. Sure the enthusiasts will gobble up some amount of sales through emulating the switch games on other more powerful handhelds but the avg Nintendo fan is not tech savvy enough to set something like that up, and considering Nintendo's pricing strategy they're going to undercut the competition as usual and capitalize on their home console niche. The steam deck, ally and all the other handheld consoles releasing are not exactly direct competitors to the switch for the most part.
Switch was cuttiing edge mobile graphics in 2017. no other pc handheld (wingpd) nor smartphone was able to match the switches graphics. Which os because they used the top of the top mobile gpu tegra x1 fron 2015. Because the system was optimized it could fully use the tegras potential, which resulted in better graphics than in allrounder devices that used newer gpus from 2017.
It's hilarious to see people complaining about weak specs in a Nintendo console. I guess some people really have been living under rocks for the last 2 decades.
@@TheGregGibson even if graphics dont matter(which they do to some extent) at some point a consoles reaches the end of its lifespan due to 2 factors A) the console maker wants new sales, there is a point where sales of something simply stagnate because everyone who could realisticly want one has one, and there isnt enouhg new blood coming in., B) eve beyond graphics, some gameplay concepts require more powerfull hardware. BOTW wouldnt have been possible on the wii regardless of how much they would have dumbed down the graphics for example. Graphics do matter, as i said, to a certain extent, and nintendo cant remain to far behind all the time as at some point it will be a problem.
6:21 Hey Linus, thats a typo, it's 12 RT cores, Ampere has 1 RT core per SM, T239's GPU GA10F has 12SM, so 1536 cuda cores, 48 tensor cores and 12 RT cores, with performance of Ampere over RDNA being about 3 times faster, and Docked Switch 2 being 3.1TFLOPs, you'll get similar RT performance to the base PS5.
@@Aero-py6fn A 3 teraflop machine running at less than 15w isn't getting you anywhere near PS5 performance. 75% of a PS4 Pro is the best you can hope for.
@@Tech-is1xy that's not how tech works, ps4 pro runs in a old arquitecture, ampere is more than 2x more efficient in calculating than ps4, cpu is also way better, more ram (and faster), all the tech from nvidia, fast storage, not everything are teraflops
Switch 2 will definitely sell extremely well even with more handheld competition now vs when the switch 1 launched. While i truly believe any leaks regarding pricing is pretty much bs i do think the price will have a huge impact on the amount of units sold (i mean duh not saying anything ground breaking here haha) But I believe current rumor for pricing is something like $449 just a base console $499 Base console + game bundle which is rumored to be the new Mario Kart game I was really hoping that Nintendo would go no higher than $399 for the base sku. While $449 if true wouldn't have the Switch 2 DoA I do think that it could make it so a good sized group holds off and if it launches in May or June maybe some decide to wait until the 2025 holiday season as i wouldn't be surprised by then if there are a few special edition variant consoles or bundles. But anyways instead of just rambling i do think the switch 2 has the potential to be close to as successful as the original Switch for quite a few reasons and some that immediately comes to mind are in no particular order 1. I do believe with just how much more powerful the Switch 2 is especially with 3x the Ram and like 4x the memory bandwidth and ofcourse a far better gpu/cpu the Switch 2 should get an absolutely absurd amount of support from third-party developers. Ofcourse we got some 3rd party games but imexpecting it will happen at an insane level with the Switch 2. With the improvements i also expect that it 3rd party development will be much easier and performance/visually will be night & day compared to og first switch. 2. People will definitely buy multiple Switch 2's just like they did with original Switch. Whether it's buying the Neverending, countless special edition consoles for the Pokemon/Mario/Zelda/Metroid etc efc etcs. Or I'd say that there is probably about as close to a 100% sure fire bet of the following happening every 1.5-2 years for the next 6-8 years im sure we will get 1. Once they have ironed out any kinks with manufacturing at first im sure we will get some slightly tinkered improved version of the base switch 2 just like we did with the Switch 1. Where we will get improved battery life either due to a battery upgrade, or there is a new improved node they move the cpu/gpu or apu however you want to go with that or other improvements/tweaks in the manufacturing process that results in improved thermals/battery life etc but not typically in any or very little performance improvements. Then you gotta assume we will also get a Switch 2 Lite or something along those lines. Then also since all leaks/rumors seem to indicate that the Switch 2 will have a LED screen that eventually there will be a Switch 2 OLED model. I think nintendo has got it figured out perfectly with the Switch model and as long as there is Software to support it and all signs point towards this being what should be the most 3rd party accessible and nintendo being extremely consistent on their software quality i feel like its just going to be another huge hit for Nintendo. Now... im sure it wont sell as well as the og switch but i could definitely see the Switch 2 when it's all done having another system sell over 100 million units easy.
Im honestly fine with the performance. I mean at the end of the day it can still be used as a handheld, meaning you can’t provide a reasonable price when using up to date technology. If it had PS5/Series X performance it could probably cost up to 2k
The SOC they are using is a shrink on a 4 year old part. Nvidia has chips with the same die size and power consumption using current GPU cores. That is the problem IMO not the wattage/size target. This will have the same problem as the OG Switch. Especially with no frame gen.
@@zanzabar4ky7No it wont? Its on par with the ps4 and xb1 which is supported by most games these days (and when it isnt its usually due to last gen selling worse, not performance)
@ Ps4 and xbone held things way back and we are just moving past what they can do. My issue if it is the ampere based gpu is that it won't have frame gen. Nvidia has had 3 tegra parts since then and had a grace point based one that was specifically made for the switch 2 judging by specs and being 12w. G9ing with the old chip that will be a similar size is really limiting it.
6:48 I'm particularly interested that the charging grip for the Switch 2 shows here with an MSRP for $20. seem to recall the original retailing typically for $40-50...
@@Alias_Anybody If it's taken Luke as long as it has to play FF6 without beating it, imagine how long it would take Linus to beat any Xenoblade game Every 4 WAN shows we'd get an update like "Dude, I just entered Guar Plains. Holy *bleep*"
A big part of the Switch success was also its pricing. It was leagues ahead of the other options and offered far more for a fraction of the price so if the switch 2 does the same and sells for cheaper than its rivals, it will outperform for sure
@gundoxcrit1652 The OLED came out at $350, I don't see why or how this new one could be cheaper. Considered the amount of technology it has and inflation, $380-$430 seems more likely. I'll still pay it, hopefully.
@Shadowninja1200 Same plan here, although mine is an OLED in pristine condition, the idea of having someone other than myself tearing it apart, cutting something inside and soldering is kinda unsettling hehe 😅 The other thing I'm hesitant about is to keep my games or not, was trying to sell them but it's so tempting to just keep them and finally getting to actually play them on the new console, hoping for some sort of upgrade, besides the bigger screen and ergonomics of course.
It's insane to think about it but Nintendo since the GameCube days started having a single generation performance uplift every 2 console generations, GameCube and Wii were basically the same console power wise and the Wii u and switch are the same story
@@chronodisobviously, because the Switch didn't run MK8DX at 1080p instead of 720p of the WiiU version. Would you please stop spreading misinformation?
I still don't understand how Nintendo undermined the hybrid and controller sharing market then missed out some features by launching the switch lite but then never released a "pro" overclocked TV only version that modders managed to produce. It could have been the first ever pro model that was cheaper than the base as it didn't need all the hardware the original did.
because 90% of nintendo fans dont care about performance there wouldn't be any easy way to market "hey this switch cant actually switch, it's just a fat box that's still less powerful than the competition"
@jteam_ they marketed a non switching switch fine with the lite. They could have sold a lite and a home version as portable or not portable exclusively. A home version would have more functionality than the lite if it came with joy cons.
@@davideverett7553 the one they managed to sell was a portable only, and especially for a casual audience, Nintendo doesn't really have a competition for mobile consoles right now. A fully stationary home console version would have competed with the ps4 and breadbox
As much as I would have liked a stronger option for the Switch, it would have been pretty shitty if it ended up having any exclusives. To my knowledge, that doesn't happen with the competition (even if some games clearly shouldn't be played on the base models), but it does have precedent on Nintendo with games like Xenoblade Chronicles being exclusive to the New 3DS. I'd really rather that not happen again. I was fine with them waiting for a full new generation.
@keybladesrus to be clear, i purely mean increased performance using existing hardware. Modders have stuffed original switch hardware in an enclosure with better cooling and overclocked it to improve frame rates and dynamic resolutions. That's it. Removal of redundant parts and shoving the existing boards in a new enclosure. There's no new game versions needed, they just run better on the molded version.
So you WANT to eventually be completely unable to access your games without anything you can possible do about it? Your hardware will break and your games physical cartridges will degrade. And your great grandchildren will NEVER see a single switch game. I prefer having games I can backup as much and often as I want on my own discs. Every game I ever purchased on PC I can ensure my great grandchildren get to play no matter what happens to any of my hardware. Unless somehow two different houses burn down at once and no one thinks to grab USB HDD (with pretty important stuff) on the way out the door.
@@Wylie288But Physical media has it's benefits too, you phisically own the game, unlike in digital game markets like steam where you "own" the game, but in reality it's just a license, where they could theoretically remove your license if they wanted to. Also second hand games are much cheaper
Quite a leap to say "Both Joy-Cons appear to have infrared sensors this time", since in the next shot, when the Joy-cons are used as mouses there's again a shot of the bottom of the Joy-con which shows just black plastic running up the side of the Joy-con, so the groove is just where the housing comes together. The curving you're pointing at just mimics the same curving of the shoulder buttons on the top side. So it's aesthetics. The infrared sensor was almost totally neglected on the current Switch. Why would they put two on this one? That's just driving up the costs.
Is there an actual reason you highly doubt it? Something like “i don’t think they would implement IR for x reason” or are u just saying nah cus u can lol 💀
@@banditscoIt was a very underutilized feature, I think only 12 games used it. No reason to add it back and spend more money on the sensors if no developers use it.
@@borninaflash fair point, my immediate thought to that is, isn’t IR tech pennies on the dime? It’s probably the cheapest component in the entire system. My tv remote from the 80’s has it
I feel like I may be part of a very small group here but, what I really truly want, is just full fat games for my phone with a nice controller. I don't personally feel the need for a huge screen. I don't plan to play a game for more than 45 minutes to an hour handheld anyway so, battery isn't a huge concern. And I already always have my phone with me. I already run several emulators on my phone and I find it to be extremely enjoyable even with my cheapo ali-express controller. Or at times, even using the tough display buttons. I just don't see why there isn't more above board movement towards this direction. We all carry phones, and they get increasingly more powerful every release cycle. All this to say, I don't want to buy a switch 2 but, I probably will anyway. I just wish there was more effort in other directions too.
5:24 it'll be all 8 core cortex a78 design not heterogeneous design. The cores you have described are from the Snapdragon 888 and was incorrectly suggested from some tech website, which you have seemingly referred to.
@@manojlds due to the leaked die shot, it's speculated to be a 5nm variant from Samsung not 8nm as it is too small to an 8nm chip. I believe the die is labelled SNW8VF which people are mistakenly assuming refers to the node. Also, the rumoured clock speeds are too high for an 8nm chip running at 3W of power.
@@kuriaspaul Ah, thanks for that! I was also confused as last week everyone was close to certain it was 8nm and I never caught what put that into question again.
I'll just be happy if it's not exclusive to the Switch 2. Hell at this point I'll be happy if the remakes of 2 and 3 aren't exclusive to the Switch 2 as well.
It’s probably worth mentioning it’s a HANDHELD that can compete with the older generation consoles. If it were on par with current gen (impossible I know), everyone would be buying it instead of the consoles.
Yall don’t realize that for a new console they are trying to keep the price low at launch. I don’t think upgrading to the latest hardware was on Nintendo’s mind as usually us casuals don’t really care about the stupid minute details of game performance. Look at ps5 vs ps5 pro gameplay and you will see what I’m talking about.
Yeah just hope joy con drift isn't a problem and the dock doesn't scratch the back of the switch and it can run some of the newer games nowadays which it should oh and I love how they fixed the problem where the joy cons can just pop off the switch was very plain and boring no background just a tablet with controller that really sucked so hopefully maybe background music and backgrounds
Although to be fair most people probably don't buy Nintendo for the console because they kind of suck especially now it mostly because the games which honestly I think Nintendo would do so much better just putting games on other consoles because that's what they do best
Of course casual gamers don't care about the details of gaming. You guys don't even care you can't play current gen games. I bought a Switch a few years ago and realized that it's the gaming platform I spend the least amount of time playing. Multiplats are just garbage on the Switch. Especially when they're cheaper, look graphically better and have mods on other powerful gaming platforms. Let's not even talk about the multiplat games it can't even play. Games like MHW, Black Myth Wukong, etc etc. So, me being a gamer, I very much care about getting the best games the industry has to offer today. Games that the Switch was just not getting.
Agreed. It's all about the software. Hardware specs are cool and all but hardcore gamers go all in on the PC anyway - spending several times a PS5 in doing so - for only marginal visible results. No one playing Super Mario is thinking - "Ugh, if only this was 4K/240 fps on a high refresh rate monitor!" Nope. They are just enjoying the game.
I have a switch 1 OLED. It has very freaking cool hardware, I love the screen, jack, and especially the kickstand with detachable controllers. The issue is that there's like nothing to do on it. I beat the couple of Zelda games and 2 mario games and it's just been sitting there collecting dust. I got the steam deck and I can play most of my library on the go without having to buy digital games twice. Besides not being able to detach the controllers (god i wish it had this), the steamdeck oled is superior in every way possible. I can even use it as a PC. The switch just let me watch UA-cam with ads.
@@Peglegkickboxer We put all the kid friendly games on the Switch and, of course, anything Nintendo exclusive. I haven't messed with a Steamdeck but that sounds interesting. Kids still play the Switch on a regular basis.
@pluggedfinn-bj3hnbecause that significant population pales in comparison to those who actually just pirate them. Maybe it’s not as common in the US and Europe but in the third world where games are prohibitively expensive switch piracy is everywhere
@@Solruc_ Of course, but lumping all emulator players together as pirates is the stuff that Nintendo tries to do, him doing needless PR for them just feels kinda off.
The most shocking information in this video was being reminded about how the Switch 1 has been going at it for 8 years with 4 gb of ram...
And the crap quality shows it lol
@@chronodisWell let's be fair though, Nintendo did a lot with less than 4GB of RAM, and I say less because the console already uses some of it to run.
Breath of the Wild is great to look at and fine to play from what I've seen since I've never played it, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, and Super Mario Bros. Wonder are super good looking as well, and they run at a mostly smooth 60fps, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime remastered are absolutely stunning looking games for the hardware!
Yes, some games are not fantastic with performance, but its definitely not as much games than what people makes it out to be.
Scarlet and Violet are the main examples, but that's less a Nintendo problem and more Game Freak's.
And third-party stuff can also be great on the system if optimized well like Doom Eternal, Cuphead, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, and more!
And look, some games definitely do struggle to run the thing, no denying that!
But, making it out that everything on the Switch is crap and runs poorly, well that's just straight up wrong!
Lol, my work friend said he pirated the new Indiana Jones game but couldn't get it to run because he only has 4gb ram... 😂😂
@@chronodisCry harder.
@@roarface1993I mean yeah, he's probably trying to run it on Windows, which is already struggling with 4 gigs of RAM. I doubt that the OS on the Switch needs nearly as much, especially since it's not running an emulator on top of that.
Come on, The gliding joycons were obviously Nintendo's way of telling us they'll still drift.
Yeah this console is only an hardware upgrade. Gotta keep the same features everyone loves.
this time its an intended feature
its totally not it being used as a mouse
They added mouse support instead of fixing drift, so that you can slide them when stick eventually drifts like a idiot :D
lol, but the rumours also suggest hall effect sticks
The "Certainty Meter" idea is great. Helps cut down on the "maybe... probably... could be..." language, and I just generally appriciate creators taking leaks with a bit of caution.
@@Mogawty just play genshin bro
@kanishknayyar1232, he can still be excited about it, Hes just complimenting them.
The certainty meter is nice. Linus tec tips are a huge company, rather than telling us random leaks, its a way to show how much they agree with said leaks and how much we should trust them.
I agree its nice of them. It shows how much they agree and trust said leaks and how much we should trust them. Rather than listing them all as true, and rather than Linus telling us for each leak/feature.
Why was he less sertain of "it" close to the end there? XD
@@kanishknayyar1232great game but please grow up
I was in the Navy for 6 years. The Switch is extremely popular in the military because you can take it anywhere, it doesn’t need a separate tv, and it doesn’t take up much space. I got a lot of use out of mine on my 2 deployments.
Curious, any retro folks doing NDS? My guess is that the hinge would lead to many breaking prematurely.
If you liked the switch you’d love the steam deck even more. I had a switch on my last deployment but I have a steam deck for the next one
@@QuantumConundrum I still use my GBA SP. The portability and form factor has yet to be matched, and with everyone's obsession with large screens these days I don't see it ever being outdone. With an upgraded battery they last FOREVER, and the library is massive before you even consider the emulators you can run on it and it all fits on a single SD card.
@@AbolishTheATF_ can’t play Nintendo games on a steam deck tho
@@dudexx5389 as long as you own a copy of the game you can emulate it on the deck. If you set it up right it’ll run pretty well
2:20 I once took a 5 hour plane ride home and forgot my Bluetooth earbuds in my checked bag. I had a pair of wired headphones, but I couldn't connect them to my phone or iPad thanks to the lack of a headphone jack. But my switch carried me through to victory.
Props to Nintendo for not taking away the still useful headphone jack.
They kinda had to include an aux-port, considering there wasn't bluetooth support for devices; outside of the joy-cons; for the first couple years.
@@watchinvids155 They added Bluetooth like days after Steam Deck got announced. The capability was always there. They flipped the switch out of fear, cause nothing was really stopping them.
@@MysteryMouseketoolThey could go the phone route and offer audio via usb-c... thank goodness that was not the case.
@@MysteryMouseketool you miss the point bro -_-
But the headphone jack is old wah... we want innovation wah
Don't forget that all ports are officially called "HDMI 2.1" nowadays. A HDMI 2.1 does not need to be able to output 4K120, everything is optional in the HDMI 2.1 specification.
So they're creating more confusion with customers, just like how the USB spec is? Yikes
Yeah you can only distinguish them by 'TMDS' OR 'FRL' - the former being 2.0 repackaged and the latter being 4k120 capable.
Lol yes -LS
another marketing terms?
@@cvzone Man why do they do this to us, just massive confusion. Another user mentioned about USB standard being trash and I agree.
Nintendo: We're releasing the Switch 2.
Microsoft: This is an Xbox.
Microsoft: *You watching an "Xbox", Everything is a Xbox* (just for joke xd)
💀
Are we all just Xboxes?
Switch is an XBOX now
Gaming world is obsessed with Xbox. Can’t stop talking about it
The 3DS and the WiiU were both excellent game systems. They just didn't sell as well because people already had their predecessors.
Both had naming conventions that didnt get the point across that it was a new system and not just an upgrade.
@@deusexaethera The 3DS sold over 75 million units, yeah that is a lot less than the DS, but it was nothing compared to the WiiU.
I would also wager that the Switch 2 will sell fewer units than the Switch regardless of any name or marketing.
I won't hate on the 3ds although it definitely underperformed compared to the ds but the console had a decent number of exclusive/first party games and was worth the purchase.
I loved/love my Wii U as well but frankly the marketing, confusing name and lack of major first party Nintendo games is why it performed so poorly. I actually to some extent still like the concept of being able to have a separate screen vs the tv to play different things but it was honestly never very well implemented. The best games for the Wii u were Nintendo land, twilight princess HD, and Mario maker.
@@Shany64 Not only were the 1st-party titles far and few between, but also quite lackluster; paired with downright abysmal 3rd-party support (mainly due to the console's "recycled" Gamecube (!) CPU), it was doomed to fail. (I only got a used one for Xenoblade X in 2019.)
I still preordered the Switch for BotW, Mario Odyssey and eventually another Xenoblade, but could have never imagined the gigantic lineup the console has today; heck, I'll be busy for years to come with all the visual novels alone ...
@@rockapartie Okay one I'm not entirely sure your point as I specifically mention the lack of First party games on the Wii U. And the Wii U did have some spec issues and was underpowered for the time but the Wii U was not a recycled GC CPU. I think processing speeds alone are probably 7 times faster than the GC. The wii was not quite but basically a clone of the GC's CPU.
as an european, i am happy for this upload time.
As an Australian, me too!
Me too as a British
@@DanGaming0 not the brits forgetting that they're also european 😭😂
@@Crasstho Brexit messed us up bad🤣
Same
I love that almost a decade later we're still memeing on Apple removing the headphone jack
I think that speaks to the still-abysmal state of wireless headphones more than anything else.
and the mouse charging port on the bottom, please don't ever forget that
@@enorma29 and the guy that came up with charging on the bottom makes more money then all of us here put together.
@@Lordpickleboy No need for paying for advertising, when you have people stuck in a loop giving Apple press for 10 years straight instead.
@@stevethepocket It's not the market for headphones that's abysmal, all the options already exist. It's really uninformed consumer demand, what actually sells and the lack of investment people are doing in audio solutions. The high-tier market for audio is actually far more advanced than video options, believe it or not.
Most consumers just think they can get away with cheapening on audio by buying a 20-150 dollar catch all wireless headset/speaker that somehow should have top-tier lossless quality. Why do people expect the best audio at 50-200 bucks when that doesn't even get you basic video either? Of course those headphones or that quality don't exist at that price range, you're essentially buying tin cans with stretched EQ options instead of proper drivers to mask as much of that garbage quality as possible.
While simple bluetooth on most consumer devices isn't able to provide absolute lossless audio quality, a decent home network, mesh & fiberspeed are reliable wireless solutions that get that job more than done. Still though, you don't even absolutely need FLAC-similar bitrates to already have a great audio experience: many codecs can compress well enough to provide a far bettter sounding experience than any consumer-screen can match in video quality. Any audiophile will tell you wired is king and that's just how audio fidelity works (similar to ethernet beating wifi). Wireless's with decent network is next and works great even for high bitrate provided you have the speed & stability.. Bluetooth is just.. well, bluetooth. It's limited but can still get decent enough results that would satisfy 95% of consumers.
It all comes down to you whether or not you're a moron expecting 100 dollar tin cans to perform like a fully stacked surround system with multiple high-end receivers, dozens of satellites, lossless bitrate and top-tier audio source files. That doesn't mean you can't buy a Sonos Arc, 2 SL's and a Subwoofer at 2K that will already get you a great cinema experience. You spent that 2K on your OLED too, right?
I too... will be buying a Switch 2.
and then destroy it :(
Did you see the switch 2?
I saw the switch 2 too.
I seen the switch
And switch to a new switch 2 too
You're going to hurt it :(
cant wait to see how it holds up to the scratch test. maybe give it a burn too
Same. Day 1 for ne
10:20 The most surprising aspect of the Switch 2 reveal, with respect to families that already have multiple Switches, is the Switch 2 dock being too wide to fit a Switch 1 in. Having one dock for every Switch 1 or 2 in the family to connect to the TV felt like a no-brainer to me, whereas this feels like if the Wii U required a slightly different sensor bar stacked on top of the Wii's.
It's the exact same sensor bar btw
I've never understood why people care about the time videos get uploaded. It's not live TV people and you can scroll down on your feed instead of slavishly obeying your notifications.
Yeah, + different timezones exist, so early morning or late night for someone could be noon for someone else.
Right? If I'm 12 hours 'late' to a video nothing changes. Not like it's an appointment lmao
You deff regarded
Me neither, it sounds like people have a severe UA-cam addiction
Because they want to be early so their comments can be seen. If you post a comment 12 hours later, pretty much nobody will ever see it.
Uploading for the australians timezone, im so down
W for aussies
Don't you mean... Upside down?
Aussie Aussie Aussie?.
Thank you LTT, finally I am on time for an upload!
Oi Oi Oi!
24 player mario kart is gonna be wild with those lightning bolts, and Luigi stares.
Sounds exciting but also worrying consider how poor their internet infrastructure is & the amount of desync there already was on the current Mario kart. So if they don't upgrade their internet support then that might end up being a laggy mess unless the extra console power helps it out some
Im just imagining 24 player blue shell only matches 💀
@@mica4977mario kart is all peer to peer currently. Hopefully they introduce dedicated servers.
@@mica4977Didn't they update their online infrastructure midway through the Switch's lifetime? They didn't update the older games to use the new infrastructure, but I can't recall a time I ever had issues with playing a game online if it was released in the last few years
@@sparky6757 Yes they did. It’s been even able to support roll back net code for fighting games for years now. MK8D seems to be the odd one out when it comes to online because everything else runs smoothly.
3:25 the Wii U never streamed content to your dock but vise versa. The "dock" was the actual console and that streamed content to the tablet
no the dock was just a dock, you still had an actual, physical console that u could insert disks into and stuff
the gamepad was just a peripheral and the dock was literally just a charger
Even if the specs are ps4 or xbox one level, those systems are pretty darn capable for a 1080p experience. Hoping we finally get some 60fps zelda games.
edit: apparently a poorly phrased comment can start a war
Yeah we don't really know for sure though, but, Nintendo for some reason has only released a single 3D Zelda game running at 60FPS, that is, Skyward Sword HD.. the rest run at either 20 or 30FPS depending on the era, which I find odd considering Nintendo transitioned 3D Mario to 60FPS by the Wii era. Perhaps it's simply because Zelda games are more graphically demanding in terms of world scale and enemies? Honestly it would be nice for the other HD Remasters like Twilight Princess and Wind Waker to get that sort of update too, but it might be more work than they're willing to put in.
Is PS4 level not impressive anyway for a portable handheld? Running off battery instead of big power supply, weighing much less, much smaller, more efficient, etc
Most overpriced flagship phones are around PS4 level
Edit: 50% faster than PS4 apparently, and twice as fast as Steam Deck
@@illuminate4 it won't have the ps4 quality, it would run out of battery in 15 minutes, you can only expect indie quality games like Zelda and Mario on switch, don't expect more than that
It'll also have more ram than those consoles so it still have great potential
Even if? Current top of the line handhelds aren't at that level yet.
It's actually a good point to mention that the bigger chunk of Switch 1 users are your average parents that will have 0 incentive to upgrade as the OG Switch still has a killer library for every day family fun
@@swianr This is why Mario kart 9 will be a launch title
@PeterMurrayj yeah sure but MK8 is still as fun, given that they both have joycons for couch multiplayer
It all depends on how good the kids are at begging
@@ellismaddox2776 yeah that's a good point too lol
I bought a switch in 2017 just before my son was born. Now we are both super pumped for the switch 2.
Loved the certainty meter. It is such a clean way of providing information without mentioning in every line the chances of the thing actually being true, good job ltt editors or whoever came up with that idea
Same I noticed that and it thought wow that’s so simple but still adds so much to this video. Especially for people like me that would weigh all these rumors here equally since I’m not that deep in this kind of stuff.
Sounds like a visual used as an excuse to strip information from the audio. Granted, I'm blind, so I'm predisposed to hating when videos overrely on the visuals and important content is left out of the audio.
Editor who made the certainty meter briefly dip at 6:37, I see you.
3:05: "C button" can be "Cursor button" which toggles the mouse mode.
Interesting, but if that was the case then both Joycon's should have the C button.
My tinfoil hat theory is that it's a mute button for online gaming.
c for community
C for chat
C for C!
"switch 2" is the only name that this system could ever have been called. the name communicates clearly that (1) this is the successor to the switch, and (2) this is a new generation of the switch, and not just a minor iterative upgrade like "switch OLED." making the "2" the same size as the switch logo is also a sensible move.
@@33LB looks like they learned their lesson between the Wii and Wii U
Super Switch
Incorrect - they could've called it the 'Switch Up'
In fact, I'd say that's probably an even better name than the Switch 2
@@Maelstromm76 Yeah if they wanted another Wii U incident
I still think they should've called it the Super Nintendo Switch
The only reason why the Switch 2 leaked so early before its actual announcement was because Nintendo put the actual hardware into manufacturing production before announcing it to make enough stock in order to combat scalping.
yea but that only means apple or similar companies that anounce their products and start to sell almost inmediatly are waaaay better at keeping secrecy
@ yeah but Nintendo doesn’t release new hardware every year. Nintendo‘s last major hardware release was eight years ago.
@@juanzelonlopez8079 Huh? The new iPhone gets leaked beforehand every single year
@@NPP_1hell we get leaks directly after the newest ones leak
Still scalping. Nintendo can't stop me or my bots. Hype is incredibly great not to scalp even if they have good stock.
I bought my son a Switch years ago and we still have fun playing it. He beats me in Mario Kart now, but he has not bested me in Smash Bros.
0:20 i believe it is important to have popular gaming devices that are relatively low powered, so that there actually is at least some sort of incentive in the industry to optimize games.
@@EnzoLebold this is true for studios like monolith soft that developed the xenoblade franchise and helped with Zelda BOTW and TOTK. They genuinely did gods work optimizing and making those games look beautiful on switch. and then we got game freak… i ain’t even gotta explain the shit that is scarlet violet optimization and graphics.
@@dasenv Scarlet&violet is basically copy paste the same texture and trees with bland baked lighting.
@@EnzoLebold While I’m on boat for proper game optimization.. running games at 30 FPS is not optimization.
Problem is, a lot of those games are Nintendo exclusive so it won't help non-nibtendo games
Sure, we haven't seen that though. We've just seen games that pull back the graphics settings instead...
For all the justified criticism of nintendo, for all sorts, their wonky traditionalism also has meant their games are throwbacks to a bygone era of gaming. No games as a service, physical media with high resale, no mandated connectivity, and the most consistently polished, finished games at release. I cant tell you what a relief that is as a dad too. The games are just games, they arent trying to condition my 7 year old to be psychologically motivated by gambling mechanics, or teaching him that if he wants to succeed at something as much as his friend, then he needs to pay to win. There are even educational games that cant boast that, sadly.
Finally, not only do they design for couch coop, they design for family couch coop for players with disparate abilities, so that you can quite literally carry a 5 year old through a platforming frustration point.
Theres only one Nintendo, for worse, but mostly for better.
All the criticism is justified but I'm still glad they're still around, still making fun and accessible games and hardware.
Nintendo as a business is outdated and abhorrent... but Nintendo as game producers are still experts in their craft. Sure not every game is a BOTW level event, but the worst of nintendo is still leagues better than the worst that other companies put out. Scarlet and violet may be dogshit, but at least it's fun dogshit with some good ideas as opposed to something like redfall or skull and bones.
I wish it were true, but then I saw they released a stupid amount of DLC for Mario Kart for the price of almost another game. Can they just give us a bigger game to begin with instead of jumping on the DLC bandwagon like other publishers? Paywalling Virtual console behind tiered subscriptions, launching broken buggy games like recent Pokemon. And don't even mention what they've done to Fire Emblem the past decade or so... Yeah Nintendo is no different from any other big game company nowadays.
The key word here is "family".
Keep in mind the average male can't get their first date, let alone a "family" and kids to play Nintendo games with.
Hence why the PC and tabletop market will still conquer this generation of solo gaming with online mode for lone wolves.
As a person who has been on nintendo since i was born and havent really left, i hate most things nintendo do. But the thing they always get right is the games. Which is the most important for a game company so i guess its fine lol
0:14 "Nobody does what Ninten-doo" 😭
@Crizp_31 if anybody did what Nintendoes then nintenwould sue them into nintenoblivion.
That's why nobody does what Nintendoes
*ninten-do
@@netneo4038 they are doing that since day one and the videogame industry seems fine
Now every time i read nintendo i read it as nintendoo
That was an ad back in the days of sega vs nintendo. Sega does what nintendon't
Switch 2 looks class to be fair. Being backwards compatible with the huge library of Switch games is mega. Can see it being the best console of all time at this rate
I got a OG switch and when the rumors started bubbling up about a "pro" update I've been waiting to upgrade... This will finally be my year!
And when it launches all the scalpers will already have bought it out
@@Cactusman-e1d stop glooming
omg!!!!!!!! This man is beyond stunning!!!!!!! I will get lost in between his cake for the next 365,000 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
did the oled version just pass you by?
@ilexdiapason the OLED isnt a hardware upgrade.
There is one thing we should never forget: Nintendo Switch was a generation late in terms of power, but it did what a generation before could in a fraction of its power consumption - which not only helps in the battery life part, but also in the heating side.
Nintendo unveiled that games on the OG Switch ran at 12W, and by the time the OLED came, they were at around 6W. Imagine what a PS5 does with 6W.
This also goes to the Steam Decks and others - Valve has said that they are waiting for a breakthrough to have a similarly priced successor at similarly energy consumption rates with a significant amount of more power - and it tracks, because you can't just rely on a plug, and heat can hurt your hands if you don't vent it out fast enough. Us having a more powerful PS4, and a much smarter one, in a 15-20W envelope at the worst rates, is an absolute win, no doubt. And if it reaches anywhere near a Series S (not saying it will trade blows with it) at that consumption, then it will be a perfect console for these upcoming 5 years.
If it's running at 30fps, that's not a fair comparison tho
@user-op8fg3ny3j compared to? PS4 games usually didn't go beyond 30 because of the abysmal CPUs they had*. And the Series S thing is a dream situation - games will likely be somewhat scaled down from there in IQ and resolution, and at best will be rescaled back to the same resolution as that competitor with their ML super sampling hardware.
But again, I'm talking about me believing the console will be in between PS4 and Series S (especially from the CPU perspective). Maybe it will be at a PS4 Pro level, all things considered. But still, whatever the result is, I expect it not to exceed 20W, which will still be real impressive and a demonstration of what one can optimize hardware to make it as power-constrained as possible.
* It's funny how we rewrote history about Switch being underpowered from the get go. First, because it was one of the best SoCs on the market at the time for portable play, the Tegra X1. But additionally, if it were and the promise of home console games on the go was a lie, we wouldn't have thought it was even possible, and it wouldn't have made other handheld PC manufacturers think it was even possible (Valve chief among them).
@@cyberrb25 depends what resolution it's playing at. 30fps at 4k is good but 30fps at 1080p is outdated
@@user-op8fg3ny3j On a small screen i don't think there is much difference between 4k and 1080p.
It’s easy to keep power down when your system is 10 years behind the power curve
Nintendo is basically the only platform that still has some couch co op. Everything else mostly abandoned it for profit. Also i think with the new switch they are banking on all the then 16-ish yo’s that now have grown up.
Couch co-op is so underrated these days. It's a big draw for me.
Don’t forget the 40+ year olds like me who “grew up” with NES, SNES, N64, Wii, Switch and now Switch 2! I’m hyped!!!
There's an entire category for split screen co-op on steam .... More games support it than you realize
People should stop thinking that companies have to "grow up with their customers". New people are born and turn 16 everyday. The best way to increase your market share is to stick to your guns, hope the old ones stay and attract the new ones like you did previously. Just look at lego. Kids grew up, continue to buy lego, and new kids have legos as present.
I think the console is bigger for a bigger battery. In 2 or 3 years, they will release the switch 2 lite for kids alongside the switch 2 oled on 3nm tsmc. Using less power and needing a smaller battery.
@@bamcorpgaming5954I agree with u, like Yh couch coop is more prominent in switch games but I think the main reason switch sold well was coz it was portable
10:13 I would bet money that switch 2 games will not be cross gen. Power differences alone will make that impossible. Also PS5 tried that and now it has no games. Nintendo should be smart and make all the new games exclusive.
impossible. nintendo is very familiar with cross gen titles, see for example botw. also, what about metroid prime 4? thay already showed it in two directs for the og switch, if they release it only on switch 2 they may be accused of false advertising.
@@psylencecyjust release every game they’ve announced so far cross platform that way by around mid 2026 we can go into full switch 2 exclusivity
@@nothanksfools that's what im saying. im only replying to the OP that argues that all switch 2 games will be switch 2 exclusives
I agree, they will probably do the same thing which they did with the 3ds
They would only need to do Pokemon Legends and Prime 4 only.
Its nice when tech people are reminded that the quality of a platform's library has literally nothing to do with the specs and never has
But if the specs are so underpowered that it cause the game's performance to suffer, then that's no fun at all. Even Nintendo's own first party game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening ran like crap on the Switch when I last played it as it was lagging and dropping frames in busy scenes as the hardware couldn't keep up, great game but not a fun to play due to that, so I stopped playing it. Should be a much more enjoyable experience on the Switch 2 even if they make no changes to the game as the hardware will be able to run it effortlessly, and a smoother running game is far more enjoyable.
well, if you do not care about Nintendo first party games, then it is kinda underwhelming. Better to just get a steamdeck.
Nintendo's low-spec hardware is critical to their business strategy--keep the console cheap so they can sell their extremely popular games to as many people as possible. Their target audience of kids and casual gamers doesn't care about framerate unless it gets extraordinarily bad, and serious gamers will begrudgingly buy their stuff anyway so they don't get left out of their friends' Mario Kart races.
@@extracoolboy Nintendos first part games run AND look like garbage. Their games looked and ran objectively 10x better back on the gamecube.
@@simonrockstream If you compare mario odyssey and astro bot they don't look that much apart, even less if you consider its a handheld console and not a skyscrapper near your tv and is 7 years old
Kudos to the editors for the certainty meter. Really good visual indicator to show how much we should believe each statement/rumor.
It's to avoid another Gamers Nexus controversy.
People complaining about the performance also tend to forget that the console is still a tablet at its core. Of course it won't be anywhere near the big current-gen stationary home consoles in terms of performance. Fitting hardware powerful enough to compete with the PS5 into a tablet body - while theoretically possible - would be so expensive that Nintendo's target audience would never buy it.
And considering how good so many games looked on the PS4 (Witcher III was absolutely gorgeous imo), quite frankly I'd consider that "good enough" for any device with a screen at handheld size! "More performance" would just be "let studios skimp on the cost of actually optimising their games"
Lol, what are you smoking. Nintendo's customers literally *will* still buy anything regardless what Nintendo does
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Nintendo's customers are undoubtedly loyal, but still, a theoretical high-end Switch 2 with PS5 graphics at $1000 or more would not sell.
@@Respectable_Usernameas a Nintendo user since the original nes they never been a company that goes after the power user like Zelda or Mario doesn't need tesselation or other high realistic imagery if you need to have that graphic spec you have other options
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Yeah, that is why the Wii U sold like hot cakes... Oh, wait.
But wait…can we connect 2 switches together (wired or wirelessly) so two people can play the same game together with a single game card? I have two sons and this is BY FAR my most desired feature in future handheld consoles.
The switch1 was honestly a god send. It has been with me everywhere, train, plane, bathroom. I even stopped playing all my other consoles due to portability. I am really excited by the new switch2 and especially the backwards compatibility option. 😊
Holding the joycon wrong @2:35 is wild 😅
🤣
immediately scrolled to comments when i saw that lmao
I cant even find a reason for it - if its because the model is unaware, surely they'd realise quick enough that the switch in the background is going the opposite way?
I actually had to pause and go to comments just for that. The cynic in me thinks that may have been just to drive engagement from people commenting on it, but I don't see why they would feel the need to do that, they get plenty of engagement normally, they shouldn't need to resort to such tactics... but I also can't rule it out entirely since more engagement is still always better...
@@LazarusXavier SAME! I too paused and went to the comments because I literally cringed seeing this coming from the LTT Team. You're telling me NO EDITORS have played the Switch before and caught this in post? Even if the B-roll model has never held a Joy-Con before in their life?
i remember when the switch 1 was revealed to be using a custom tegra x1, everyone started speculation how far the tegra X1 SoC could have been pushed, when it turned out to be the exact opposite with half the ARM CPU cores were disabled and the GPU was very downclocked.
let's hope things don't repeat themself
😂
Nintendo does not care if its good. They sell nostagla. So they will sell out even if its outdated before it comes out.
Half of cpu cores were disabled for the better, bc those cores were little cores in a second cluster only for background tasks, but nvidia made a design mistake that made these cores consume more power than it should
Oh they will but that’s okay
It's Nintendo. They don't know how to release *not* underpowered hardware.
And even back on the release it was years behind the latest snapdragons in android flagships. It's a shame.
This brings me so much joy because I love my switch, but having a 2017 model has started to show its age recently. So it'll be nice to play all my games and more on a higher performing handheld console.
I like how Nintendo said at the end of their trailer that the switch2 is not compatible with some other switch games and the only one that comes to my mind is the LABO games
LABO and Ring Fit since the new Joycon won't fit inside the fitness ring.
@@Galo994But you can probably still use the old controllers with it. So Ringfit should work since you're not using the screen.
Oh no not Labo!!!
@RedPiece0601 I really like the labo especially the vehicle kit , so sad they actually believe that a CARDBOARD VR HEADSET was a good idea
@@bonjazakooie2169 It was a joke btw. I would've bought the vr LABO if I had more money.
Nin is holding back on the oled screen so they can market it as a mid-cycle revision for double dippers.
And thats totally fine. I dont need a more expensive Screen ;)
It actually could be oled. The side bezel are thick because it needs to house the joycon rails.
I’ll wait for oled if it isn’t released with one. Mid-cycle means more games and already updated games.
@Mut4ntG4m3r multiple versions. Even charge more for the oled idc. Rather have that than another 200 dollars or whatever I'd get for trade in a year or two down the line.
Nah, they're trying to meet a price point for the main model that OLED would not allow.🤔
There is no way this went up at the right time. Did someone mistake 3:35pm and am?
Or I guess 12:35 since Pacific Time
Europe and africa exists too, you know? /s
Go to sleep everyone😂
🥭
@@Iamnicknow perfect time for Europe 🤣
As excellent as other handheld gaming devices might be and as disrespectful it might sound towards them to say that, they are not competition to the Switch 2.
Switch 2 will most definitely sell more units in its first quarter than the Steam Deck in its lifetime to date.
Haha. Nintendo fanboys will make this happen. Like yourself.
You making this personal is completely besides the point. It's not only fanboys. It's expectations people would have for the device. Linus' video is a very good example. Nintendo have basically not announced anything yet and he already projects expectations. And that's not a shot at him, it's normal considering the history of Nintendo's support for their consoles and stuff.
@@sO_RoNerY The sales numbers dont lie. Switches handheld "competitors" are 1/100th of it.
@@sO_RoNerY Nintendo makes great games. Am I happy with everything they have done? No. But they consistently put out great genre defining games. and the games work immediately at launch. No scrambling to get a patch in so the games don't break. They just work. they have a penchant for quality that you can expect. The Switch 2 does have more competition now, and so the software will be the main driving force this time. Hopefully we will be able to see performance boosts for switch games as well.
Someone could make a handheld with an infinite energy supply and an rtx 5090, but people would still buy the switch to play Pokémon and Mario kart
The lack of Sniff-o-vision is disappointing
It’s cool, I prefer Smell-o-vision anyway.
@@adams3560 just smell the cheeto dust on the joycons. I mean what? ignore me LOL
That would kill someone as soon as Wario's moustache deems that you get the Wario Steam
I saw people saying that the reveal was underwhelming cause it didn't look that different. Like what did you expect them to do? Make it a circle or something???
Some people can never be happy with anything.
@odstethan15 I personally was hoping for a console that wasn't a decade behind, but I guess other companies will always do what ninten-dont.
@@ScorchedTemales 🤣
Cause they essentially released a "pro" model of the Switch after 8 years, this is the bare minimum
@@ScorchedTemales If modern games were properly optimized, you would be able to play ALL of them on decades old hardware. Modern AAA games are just filled the brim with unoptimized high resolution assets that of COURSE must just mean better, right?
1:16 that click was satisfying
I was about to comment that same thing
I'd be careful, as far as I know it's copyrighted.
Nearly busting to that
@@unixtreme It's a different sound
@@someguydeop
Some jokes are better not to
Why are you holding it upside down at 2:34?
8:35 Super Mario Odyssey was 8 years ago 🤯
Not till October, it's not
@@Mikesapien you must be fun at parties
Good grief. I’ve aged.
oh my god what the hell
@@saschap8461”you must be fun at parties” people in the smallest inconvenience:
I coach gymnastics to a lot of young boys who had got a switch for Christmas.
They were not happy when I told them about the Switch 2.
3:31 The only C I care about is COST 😂
The mounting mechanism looks worse because there are unshielded ports that stick out.
Those aren’t IR sensors in either Joy-con. They’re just the indents that go the full length of the controller. I’d bet strong money they don’t have IR and that’s why they had the disclaimer about some games not being supported or fully compatible with switch 2. Given there are only about 7 games that even use IR
The labo games will not be supported since they require a certain size of controller so the disclaimer doesn't mean anything for the IR
@@cobwebblocks Also ring fit, since the ring it comes with has the original rail connector and size (and the leg pouch thing)
@@cobwebblockstechnically there’s nothing other than Nintendo stopping a joycon 1 syncing with a switch 2
@Ghostchanter yes but you would have to charge it on the old switch or this controller adapter thingy
@@Ghostchanter I was talking about this yesterday, and it may be that the old joy-con can connect to the 2 to connect to the Labo, but the console itself also has to connect to the build, and the 2 is not going to fit, and it's not like they're going to sell wireless screens just for Labo, lol.
2:30 mentally pains me to see the joycon held this way 😭
The b-roll, it burns
Fr, who holds it like that 😭
The new certainty meter is a nice touch! Really helps to weight the feature probability!
And no one mentioned in the comments Linus eating thos mario cereals
Who the frick made the B roll footage of holding the joycon upside down? 2:34
My biggest "what if" is the battery life , all this power is great if the thing cant run a semi intense game for more than 3 hours total it might aswell be a couch > dock > couch situation. Due to work i travel a lot of hours via train/bus and the switch battery and charger just didnt cut it i found myself using an old New 2ds XL i hacked a long time ago cause the battery lasts longer/it charged faster/even more portable . I dont think people realise how insane it is to have PS4 level performance a portable device especially as thin as the Switch 2 , battery is a concern at that power output no optimization will save it if it doesnt have the mAh to back it up
Edit - i also hope they fix their wierd power input/output situation so that non "licensed" batteries and chargers dont fry and brick the thing
I would Hope for Up to 3 hours, Not more.
Possibly Mode switches, who knows.
But i dont think even 2 hours IS to Bad since you can use easily accessible Akku Packs for Sure
Portable battery packs can be pretty small and give you near infinite battery life...
2 hours of run time on a demanding game is plenty for most people... If your 'to work' train ride is longer than 2 hours.
They better make you a multi millionaire.
If it has the same or more battery life than the previous one, the switch 2 would be dubbed the perfect handheld
at the very least, the move from 8nm down to 5nm process should result in improved power efficiency
It’s the dock that draws the non-standard voltage. Not the handheld itself. Also all of that was intentionally caused by Nintendo (most likely cause they wanted to sell chargers), the PD spec was released in 2012, 5 years before the launch of the switch. Nintendo intentionally violated the spec.
I believe the mouse function is for mouse/controller hybrid gameplay. I believe more first person shooter titles are coming to switch and you could use the right joycon as a mouse for ADS/firing/aiming, and the left joycon for movement but its used in the controller format
Doom, Metroid, and more definitely can utilize it as a possible control functionality. Which is a great feature. It has so many capabilities, and gives the ability a unique edge
@ Nintendo being the first company to bring an official out of box mouse functionality on their joycons is huge. And it makes me even more excited to think about the possible functionalities of this, some that you mentioned. Working its way into first person games and bringing some mechanics to titles like Zelda, Mario, and Pokémon. Idk where to start on what they’d be but it just get me excited
@@prettymucheverything1033 it's not huge at all tbh, it'll be a gimmick lol
@@DJSerpent with Nintendo they always release a gimmick for their consoles/hardware sometime those gimmicks catch on, but we may see a new Mario paint so that’s cool
@@Speedy500 They usually die off, completely.
Backward compatibility alone will make current switch owners upgrade in day one🤩🤩
physical media
Nintendo shows us that game optimisation exists
I'll upgrade the day 1 migswitch 2 comes out
I always wait for special editions.
Also: *"backward compatibility", no 'S'.
@@poka26ev2Pokemon Scarlet and Violet proves otherwise 😂😂
2:34 Not the up side down Joy con 😭
What normal person does that?
2:46 ok that would be so dope!!!
6:00 Why do I suddenly really want Nintendo to not mention a word of AI upscaling now 😂
PS4 performance 100% portable is very impressive. What on earth are you expecting? PS5 performance?
Expecting? They want PS5 performance, 4k 120fps OLED and ontop of that 8 hours of battery life.. What they want is for Nintendo to break the laws of physics. smh
@@zherkezhi2477let’s see this comment in 3 yrs.
I love the certainty meter UI. Great job for whoever came up with it!
@2.37 - Now I can’t unsee them holding the joycon upside down.
0:02 Nah Nintendo Inviting lawyers to Smash 31 times is crazy work.
The only complaint, should have been called the Super Nintendo Switch (SNS)
Honestly, such a massive missed opportunity.
Dang that’s a really good idea
Switch U or Switch pro
Should have been the Swiitch
Agree!
00:50 Nintendo's heart dropped
02:36 really got em going
Don't forget 10:52 that really rililed them up
I Love that the joy cons no longer slide in because I remember my cousin got a switch for Christmas and brought it to our house - he literally put them in the wrong way and we’ll we couldn’t get them out, don’t think he ever got them out…
You don't buy a switch for cutting edge gameplay. You buy them for ease of access to the Nintendo library. Sure the enthusiasts will gobble up some amount of sales through emulating the switch games on other more powerful handhelds but the avg Nintendo fan is not tech savvy enough to set something like that up, and considering Nintendo's pricing strategy they're going to undercut the competition as usual and capitalize on their home console niche. The steam deck, ally and all the other handheld consoles releasing are not exactly direct competitors to the switch for the most part.
Switch was cuttiing edge mobile graphics in 2017. no other pc handheld (wingpd) nor smartphone was able to match the switches graphics. Which os because they used the top of the top mobile gpu tegra x1 fron 2015. Because the system was optimized it could fully use the tegras potential, which resulted in better graphics than in allrounder devices that used newer gpus from 2017.
It's hilarious to see people complaining about weak specs in a Nintendo console. I guess some people really have been living under rocks for the last 2 decades.
@theviniso if graphics don't matter then why make a Switch 2
@@TheGregGibsonbecause third party games need more power and bigger worlds need more power
@@TheGregGibson
even if graphics dont matter(which they do to some extent) at some point a consoles reaches the end of its lifespan due to 2 factors
A) the console maker wants new sales, there is a point where sales of something simply stagnate because everyone who could realisticly want one has one, and there isnt enouhg new blood coming in.,
B) eve beyond graphics, some gameplay concepts require more powerfull hardware.
BOTW wouldnt have been possible on the wii regardless of how much they would have dumbed down the graphics for example.
Graphics do matter, as i said, to a certain extent, and nintendo cant remain to far behind all the time as at some point it will be a problem.
8:10 new mission unlocked: get 24 friends online all at the same time
6:21 Hey Linus, thats a typo, it's 12 RT cores, Ampere has 1 RT core per SM, T239's GPU GA10F has 12SM, so 1536 cuda cores, 48 tensor cores and 12 RT cores, with performance of Ampere over RDNA being about 3 times faster, and Docked Switch 2 being 3.1TFLOPs, you'll get similar RT performance to the base PS5.
Let’s goooo more performance!!!!
I think with all the new technology and faster data rates that this console has, we will be somewhere between a PS4 Pro and PS5. Very exciting.
@@Aero-py6fn very VERY exciting
@@Aero-py6fn A 3 teraflop machine running at less than 15w isn't getting you anywhere near PS5 performance. 75% of a PS4 Pro is the best you can hope for.
@@Tech-is1xy that's not how tech works, ps4 pro runs in a old arquitecture, ampere is more than 2x more efficient in calculating than ps4, cpu is also way better, more ram (and faster), all the tech from nvidia, fast storage, not everything are teraflops
Switch 2 will definitely sell extremely well even with more handheld competition now vs when the switch 1 launched.
While i truly believe any leaks regarding pricing is pretty much bs i do think the price will have a huge impact on the amount of units sold (i mean duh not saying anything ground breaking here haha)
But I believe current rumor for pricing is something like
$449 just a base console
$499 Base console + game bundle which is rumored to be the new Mario Kart game
I was really hoping that Nintendo would go no higher than $399 for the base sku.
While $449 if true wouldn't have the Switch 2 DoA I do think that it could make it so a good sized group holds off and if it launches in May or June maybe some decide to wait until the 2025 holiday season as i wouldn't be surprised by then if there are a few special edition variant consoles or bundles.
But anyways instead of just rambling i do think the switch 2 has the potential to be close to as successful as the original Switch for quite a few reasons and some that immediately comes to mind are in no particular order
1. I do believe with just how much more powerful the Switch 2 is especially with 3x the Ram and like 4x the memory bandwidth and ofcourse a far better gpu/cpu the Switch 2 should get an absolutely absurd amount of support from third-party developers.
Ofcourse we got some 3rd party games but imexpecting it will happen at an insane level with the Switch 2.
With the improvements i also expect that it 3rd party development will be much easier and performance/visually will be night & day compared to og first switch.
2. People will definitely buy multiple Switch 2's just like they did with original Switch.
Whether it's buying the Neverending, countless special edition consoles for the Pokemon/Mario/Zelda/Metroid etc efc etcs.
Or I'd say that there is probably about as close to a 100% sure fire bet of the following happening every 1.5-2 years for the next 6-8 years im sure we will get
1. Once they have ironed out any kinks with manufacturing at first im sure we will get some slightly tinkered improved version of the base switch 2 just like we did with the Switch 1. Where we will get improved battery life either due to a battery upgrade, or there is a new improved node they move the cpu/gpu or apu however you want to go with that or other improvements/tweaks in the manufacturing process that results in improved thermals/battery life etc but not typically in any or very little performance improvements.
Then you gotta assume we will also get a Switch 2 Lite or something along those lines.
Then also since all leaks/rumors seem to indicate that the Switch 2 will have a LED screen that eventually there will be a Switch 2 OLED model.
I think nintendo has got it figured out perfectly with the Switch model and as long as there is Software to support it and all signs point towards this being what should be the most 3rd party accessible and nintendo being extremely consistent on their software quality i feel like its just going to be another huge hit for Nintendo.
Now... im sure it wont sell as well as the og switch but i could definitely see the Switch 2 when it's all done having another system sell over 100 million units easy.
Im honestly fine with the performance. I mean at the end of the day it can still be used as a handheld, meaning you can’t provide a reasonable price when using up to date technology. If it had PS5/Series X performance it could probably cost up to 2k
The SOC they are using is a shrink on a 4 year old part. Nvidia has chips with the same die size and power consumption using current GPU cores. That is the problem IMO not the wattage/size target. This will have the same problem as the OG Switch. Especially with no frame gen.
@@zanzabar4ky7No it wont? Its on par with the ps4 and xb1 which is supported by most games these days (and when it isnt its usually due to last gen selling worse, not performance)
@ Ps4 and xbone held things way back and we are just moving past what they can do. My issue if it is the ampere based gpu is that it won't have frame gen. Nvidia has had 3 tegra parts since then and had a grace point based one that was specifically made for the switch 2 judging by specs and being 12w. G9ing with the old chip that will be a similar size is really limiting it.
@@arachnid_eater Only on paper, dont expect similar performance since it's limited by battery and cooling
6:48 I'm particularly interested that the charging grip for the Switch 2 shows here with an MSRP for $20. seem to recall the original retailing typically for $40-50...
"It's dangerous to go alone, take this" - This will forever remind me of the Zelda Rap
@@d.wolfin152 yeah same, old smosh was simply a golden era
“It’s Dangerous to Go Alone” by Starbomb?
Yes, the one from Starbomb
Please, please, please fix the stick drift....
8:40 hearing Linus say xenoblade was definitely not on my radar like ever
She can finally stop spinning
Secretly his favourite game series.
@@Alias_Anybody If it's taken Luke as long as it has to play FF6 without beating it, imagine how long it would take Linus to beat any Xenoblade game
Every 4 WAN shows we'd get an update like "Dude, I just entered Guar Plains. Holy *bleep*"
@@PneumaAsh
Someone please photoshop a waifu body pillow from this series into his arms and post that on his subreddit.
Ah, the classic 3:30 AM upload.
@@bigman2081 A big w for Aus and Nz timezones personal 🙏💪
suck it time zones, it's 9:40 am for me
2:40 AM for me
It is 2:15 PM over here🎉
7:45pm
A big part of the Switch success was also its pricing. It was leagues ahead of the other options and offered far more for a fraction of the price so if the switch 2 does the same and sells for cheaper than its rivals, it will outperform for sure
It will...
@@YoshrederI’m hopeful. It’s a buy from me just for family room at 300, any higher than that and probably not.
@gundoxcrit1652 The OLED came out at $350, I don't see why or how this new one could be cheaper. Considered the amount of technology it has and inflation, $380-$430 seems more likely. I'll still pay it, hopefully.
I'm planning on getting it and keeping my old switch so I can hack it finally.
@Shadowninja1200 Same plan here, although mine is an OLED in pristine condition, the idea of having someone other than myself tearing it apart, cutting something inside and soldering is kinda unsettling hehe 😅 The other thing I'm hesitant about is to keep my games or not, was trying to sell them but it's so tempting to just keep them and finally getting to actually play them on the new console, hoping for some sort of upgrade, besides the bigger screen and ergonomics of course.
The way they're holding the Joycon at 2:35 kills me inside
It's insane to think about it but Nintendo since the GameCube days started having a single generation performance uplift every 2 console generations, GameCube and Wii were basically the same console power wise and the Wii u and switch are the same story
The switch was weaker
@@chronodisweaker than what?
@@chronodisobviously, because the Switch didn't run MK8DX at 1080p instead of 720p of the WiiU version. Would you please stop spreading misinformation?
@@LG555 i don't give a shit what's in it. Games that were on both platforms ran like shit on the switch
@@chronodis nah
I still don't understand how Nintendo undermined the hybrid and controller sharing market then missed out some features by launching the switch lite but then never released a "pro" overclocked TV only version that modders managed to produce. It could have been the first ever pro model that was cheaper than the base as it didn't need all the hardware the original did.
because 90% of nintendo fans dont care about performance
there wouldn't be any easy way to market "hey this switch cant actually switch, it's just a fat box that's still less powerful than the competition"
@jteam_ they marketed a non switching switch fine with the lite. They could have sold a lite and a home version as portable or not portable exclusively. A home version would have more functionality than the lite if it came with joy cons.
@@davideverett7553 the one they managed to sell was a portable only, and especially for a casual audience, Nintendo doesn't really have a competition for mobile consoles right now.
A fully stationary home console version would have competed with the ps4 and breadbox
As much as I would have liked a stronger option for the Switch, it would have been pretty shitty if it ended up having any exclusives. To my knowledge, that doesn't happen with the competition (even if some games clearly shouldn't be played on the base models), but it does have precedent on Nintendo with games like Xenoblade Chronicles being exclusive to the New 3DS. I'd really rather that not happen again. I was fine with them waiting for a full new generation.
@keybladesrus to be clear, i purely mean increased performance using existing hardware. Modders have stuffed original switch hardware in an enclosure with better cooling and overclocked it to improve frame rates and dynamic resolutions. That's it. Removal of redundant parts and shoving the existing boards in a new enclosure. There's no new game versions needed, they just run better on the molded version.
Nintendo is the last bastion of physical releases for a console. They will definitely be taking my money.
So you WANT to eventually be completely unable to access your games without anything you can possible do about it? Your hardware will break and your games physical cartridges will degrade. And your great grandchildren will NEVER see a single switch game.
I prefer having games I can backup as much and often as I want on my own discs. Every game I ever purchased on PC I can ensure my great grandchildren get to play no matter what happens to any of my hardware. Unless somehow two different houses burn down at once and no one thinks to grab USB HDD (with pretty important stuff) on the way out the door.
@@Wylie288But Physical media has it's benefits too, you phisically own the game, unlike in digital game markets like steam where you "own" the game, but in reality it's just a license, where they could theoretically remove your license if they wanted to.
Also second hand games are much cheaper
Quite a leap to say "Both Joy-Cons appear to have infrared sensors this time", since in the next shot, when the Joy-cons are used as mouses there's again a shot of the bottom of the Joy-con which shows just black plastic running up the side of the Joy-con, so the groove is just where the housing comes together. The curving you're pointing at just mimics the same curving of the shoulder buttons on the top side. So it's aesthetics. The infrared sensor was almost totally neglected on the current Switch. Why would they put two on this one? That's just driving up the costs.
2:39 I highly doubt those are IR sensors. They seems like just a groove for the shell.
Is there an actual reason you highly doubt it? Something like “i don’t think they would implement IR for x reason” or are u just saying nah cus u can lol 💀
@@banditscoIt was a very underutilized feature, I think only 12 games used it. No reason to add it back and spend more money on the sensors if no developers use it.
@@borninaflash fair point, my immediate thought to that is, isn’t IR tech pennies on the dime? It’s probably the cheapest component in the entire system. My tv remote from the 80’s has it
Nintendo is preparing a lawsuit for you as theyre watching this video already, Linus
For what? It's not like they've not made actually controversial for Nintendo videos before.
@snuke2703 probably some kind of bullshit patent violation or some made up reason of course
Let them come
@@netneo4038 the salt for my fries is ready my boy
@@netneo4038 they don't make up reasons, blame copyright law
3:46 I’m thinking the “some games” caveat is for weird 3rd party games that didn’t make their game right. A bit of a CYA.
@@OctagonalSquare CYA?
@@XAEzl "cover your ass" basically Nintendo is only saying it so noone can accuse them of lying about it.
Language..
I feel like I may be part of a very small group here but, what I really truly want, is just full fat games for my phone with a nice controller.
I don't personally feel the need for a huge screen. I don't plan to play a game for more than 45 minutes to an hour handheld anyway so, battery isn't a huge concern. And I already always have my phone with me.
I already run several emulators on my phone and I find it to be extremely enjoyable even with my cheapo ali-express controller. Or at times, even using the tough display buttons. I just don't see why there isn't more above board movement towards this direction. We all carry phones, and they get increasingly more powerful every release cycle.
All this to say, I don't want to buy a switch 2 but, I probably will anyway. I just wish there was more effort in other directions too.
5:24 it'll be all 8 core cortex a78 design not heterogeneous design. The cores you have described are from the Snapdragon 888 and was incorrectly suggested from some tech website, which you have seemingly referred to.
And it's going to be 8nm
@@manojlds due to the leaked die shot, it's speculated to be a 5nm variant from Samsung not 8nm as it is too small to an 8nm chip. I believe the die is labelled SNW8VF which people are mistakenly assuming refers to the node. Also, the rumoured clock speeds are too high for an 8nm chip running at 3W of power.
They also said Switch 1 was 1600 MT/s when they meant MHz, then used right below used the correct 25.6 GB/s bandwidth from 3200 MT/s anyway
@@kuriaspaul Ah, thanks for that! I was also confused as last week everyone was close to certain it was 8nm and I never caught what put that into question again.
@@kuriaspaulthat'll be interesting if true. But it does seem very Nintendo to use an older process node for cost purposes.
0:14 "Nobody does what Ninten do" 😭
@@thewhutnow5795 but do they have blast processing? Didn't think so. SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T
@@davi_is_random sega? isnt that that extinct brand who got a pity place in nintendos obnline world? :P
@@michaelvandelden563 Sega is great developer. I am happy Streets of Rage 5, Shinobi, Virtua Fighter and Sonic games are gonna be on Switch 2.
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Metroid Prime 4 got delayed so much that it's likely to repeat what happened to twilight princess.
I'll just be happy if it's not exclusive to the Switch 2. Hell at this point I'll be happy if the remakes of 2 and 3 aren't exclusive to the Switch 2 as well.
It’s probably worth mentioning it’s a HANDHELD that can compete with the older generation consoles. If it were on par with current gen (impossible I know), everyone would be buying it instead of the consoles.
Yall don’t realize that for a new console they are trying to keep the price low at launch. I don’t think upgrading to the latest hardware was on Nintendo’s mind as usually us casuals don’t really care about the stupid minute details of game performance. Look at ps5 vs ps5 pro gameplay and you will see what I’m talking about.
Yeah just hope joy con drift isn't a problem and the dock doesn't scratch the back of the switch and it can run some of the newer games nowadays which it should oh and I love how they fixed the problem where the joy cons can just pop off the switch was very plain and boring no background just a tablet with controller that really sucked so hopefully maybe background music and backgrounds
Although to be fair most people probably don't buy Nintendo for the console because they kind of suck especially now it mostly because the games which honestly I think Nintendo would do so much better just putting games on other consoles because that's what they do best
100%. The Switch 1 looks like absolute garbage and no one cares.
Of course casual gamers don't care about the details of gaming. You guys don't even care you can't play current gen games. I bought a Switch a few years ago and realized that it's the gaming platform I spend the least amount of time playing. Multiplats are just garbage on the Switch. Especially when they're cheaper, look graphically better and have mods on other powerful gaming platforms. Let's not even talk about the multiplat games it can't even play. Games like MHW, Black Myth Wukong, etc etc. So, me being a gamer, I very much care about getting the best games the industry has to offer today. Games that the Switch was just not getting.
Agreed. It's all about the software. Hardware specs are cool and all but hardcore gamers go all in on the PC anyway - spending several times a PS5 in doing so - for only marginal visible results. No one playing Super Mario is thinking - "Ugh, if only this was 4K/240 fps on a high refresh rate monitor!" Nope. They are just enjoying the game.
I have a switch 1 OLED. It has very freaking cool hardware, I love the screen, jack, and especially the kickstand with detachable controllers. The issue is that there's like nothing to do on it. I beat the couple of Zelda games and 2 mario games and it's just been sitting there collecting dust. I got the steam deck and I can play most of my library on the go without having to buy digital games twice. Besides not being able to detach the controllers (god i wish it had this), the steamdeck oled is superior in every way possible. I can even use it as a PC. The switch just let me watch UA-cam with ads.
@@Peglegkickboxer We put all the kid friendly games on the Switch and, of course, anything Nintendo exclusive. I haven't messed with a Steamdeck but that sounds interesting. Kids still play the Switch on a regular basis.
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1:10 linus abt to get sued for the sound and animaton in the intro
Appreciate the “certainty meter”
Annoying when people are sharing speculation and blur how reliable the source is when moving from point to point
can't wait for the "what we got right, what we got wrong video" for this product
11:05 “as someone who pays for my games”
That’s pretty sus Linus.
He’s openly admitted he buys then privateers them to play on his rog ally.
Yeah kinda a weird jab considering there is a significant population of emulator players that do buy the games.
@pluggedfinn-bj3hnbecause that significant population pales in comparison to those who actually just pirate them. Maybe it’s not as common in the US and Europe but in the third world where games are prohibitively expensive switch piracy is everywhere
@@Solruc_ Of course, but lumping all emulator players together as pirates is the stuff that Nintendo tries to do, him doing needless PR for them just feels kinda off.
@ That’s not the way I interpret those words to be honest, but I get why it would bother you.
I don’t think those are ir sensors, but just the seams of the plastic parts meeting.
I was really hoping we'd get some kind of street pass like we did with the 2ds. I think it's a shame nobody uses that anymore