When's the last time that you was on an episode?
Oh, God. Before we moved and moved, moved. Yeah,
before we moved and moved again. How fantastic.
I feel like this couldn't have come at a more
perfect time in that you are the in -house Nintendo
expert. And then with Nintendo Direct having
just been done with a plethora of information,
I feel like it's going to be a good... conversation
because we haven't spoken about it i feel like
specifically for the reasons of us doing this
episode yeah because i know that obviously you
what you watched the direct while i was going
to sleep and then i watched it the following
day um and then yeah like purposely didn't ask
you questions and shit because i was like we'll
wait we'll wait and see yeah so this episode
will probably be primarily nintendo because there's
just some exciting shit that's come out. I feel
like having spent months, what would you say,
out of a month, maybe like once or twice, we're
talking about where Switch 2 was and then how
it'll just be fucking announced out of the blue
and then boom, there you go. And met with good
and bad. I think people are pissed off at the
price. Yeah. I'm definitely annoyed about the
price of the games. I feel like that's crazy.
I saw a, it was the, you know, the trailer was
like showing the original Joy -Cons morphing
into the new ones and then like the port being
created on the top. It just said, me when I saw
the price of the Switch 2 and they played it
in reverse. So they just like shrunk back down.
Ports disappeared. Kickstand went back to how
it was. You just think, yeah, because it is that
like, It was kind of a similar conversation to
the OLED, wasn't it? When is it worth paying
that money for the upgrade? And I know people
do it with phones, don't they? Like when you
actually see how, so say something like you and
I, both our phones are at least four or five
years old. So for us, it would be worth, you
would have a notable upgrade. But say you had
the iPhone from last September. before or rather
september 24 yeah the 15 pro going to the 16
yeah yeah you know it's less of a worthy upgrade
sort of thing yeah so where i look at mine it's
it's the is it the s25 is out now or whatever
whatever iteration is out now like all of reddit
says just get the one before if you're not looking
for the price tag because it's more or less the
same fucking thing yeah um and obviously i mean
there is a There is a lot of differences, a lot
of quality of life improvements. And it is like...
For the Switch too. Yeah. I feel like they have
done well. Yeah, I feel like the... Because obviously
not owning a Switch, but having played on one
a few times and then obviously your... I'd say
like your main console is a Switch. Probably
now, yeah. You do pick up on the things that
should be changed. watching the direct a lot
of quality of life improvements that are genuine
quality of life improvements starting the fucking
the joy cons being magnetic yeah rather than
rather than being a latch system which makes
so much more sense because i know that that latch
would wear out and they would sometimes they
wouldn't click in properly or they would jiggle
around quite a bit so i saw because there was
a leak a couple of oh probably maybe even months
ago actually and about how oh by the way the
joy cons aren't going to slide in they're going
to click in and this and people going oh fucking
that's stupid like didn't like it but what they've
done is and again sort of in tandem you know
how when you're playing on the side and the little
shoulder buttons were quite little yeah they
made them bigger they've made them out of steel
and that's what but it's electromagnetic so you
break the circuit with the trigger yeah Which
is very clever, and like you say, a hell of a
lot more durable. Myself, I had to, within however
long, it was certainly within warranty, because
Nintendo repaired it for free, send off my left
Joy -Con to have the latch repaired. I remember
when you had to do that. Yeah, and you could
see it. It was almost like when you chip a tooth,
and it's just like a little flake, and that was
all it was, and it meant that, obviously, you
couldn't actually play it in handheld, because
it would slip. The console just slipped out,
because you're holding the piece that goes up.
So, yeah, huge, huge design flaw. I know a lot
of people modded it with metal ones. Easily done,
but obviously, you know, you shouldn't have to,
exactly. So, yeah, I mean, I'm liking it. It's
odd, isn't it? It's because it's so, for me,
I'm actually most hung up on the colour. I think
that the colour is shit. And I think that it's
quite boring. And I think as well, like you're
bringing out exclusive and stuff and you're known
for, I mean, I know they're not doing it with
every single console they've had, but a lot of
them. And I just feel like it's either I've now,
it's terrible. And this is just personally, but
I'm sure there are people that agree with me.
I want it. So then it's like, well, okay, so
do I buy it then? Buy it when it comes out. But
I just, I don't like it. And knowing that. More
than likely, within months, there's going to
be different colourways. I'm going to like more
or whatever. But then is it a way for them to,
they can then go, oh, this special edition, oh,
it's 450. I wouldn't be surprised if you get
a special edition or a coloured version release
maybe on the same as release. No, I don't know
that about that. Because the original launch
of the Switch, it had the grey and it had neon
red and blue. They were announced together. I
don't get why you wouldn't do the neon red and
blue again, though. I don't understand because
you, I get it. It's a very like iconic colorway,
isn't it? Yeah. I kind of get it where like,
let's say shoes, for example, in, in sort of
like, so like white shoes are predominantly the,
the less purchased shoe. If you're going to pick
white or black, you normally go for black because
it looks less. So normally if there's a discounted
shoe, it's going to be white because they've
sold less of them. Whereas I feel like with a
console, especially switch to you could throw
out any fucking color you wanted it's going to
get bought especially because it's brand new
so if you if you say say you had a million switch
twos for release five five five hundred million
of them were the color that they are and then
the other ones were completely fucking random
neon pink blue whatever they're all going to
be bought every single one yeah because it's
such a new thing that i wouldn't give a fuck
about the color i know there would be people
that give a fuck but it's like well you want
the switch too this is the only color you can
get yeah suck it well and exactly and that's
the thing like i'm the i mean i can't remember
if i said it before i know obviously um i've
said about how like when amazon didn't deliver
it on march 3rd raging three o 'clock march 4th
is when i got my but um and um but yeah so And
I had the opportunity to get a grey one beforehand
because I was like off my head and Lou and I
drove to Toys R Us, God rest her, in like hours
away. Toys R Us, not Lou. God rest Toys R Us.
Oh, sorry. That's what I said. Toys R Us, God
rest her. Oh, sorry. With Lou and you said God
rest her. Lou's absolutely fine. Toys R Us, no
longer with us. And we drove and then they were
like... Was Toys R Us no longer with us? No,
they went down a couple of years ago. yeah fallen
soldier um mainly because they were charging
for their main competitor argosy toys and westcliff
along with grouts um and you've lost my train
of thought but yeah and so they said because
they said they had a neon red and blue because
what we were going to do was if i could get it
then i could have it and i'd just either return
or sell the one that which wasn't there yet.
And we rocked up to this Toys R Us and she said,
oh, I'm really sorry, the stock must be wrong.
It's grey. And I was like, no, thank you. No,
thank you. I kind of like came to my senses and
I was like, no, I really want, I've not waited
all this time to then just get a grey one because
I can't wait however long this is going to take.
Excruciating, but I made that decision. And then
we had a McDonald's and we went home. And yeah,
I feel like at the same time, you know, on the
subject of the colours and stuff like that, Horry,
obviously, are partnered with nintendo and they
obviously all like third -party stuff but they're
very like highly compatible more so than your
you know the other ones that you might get yeah
and so you can kind of it's like sort of safe
and knowledge that they're going to come out
with some cool shit and then obviously well you
already saw the the camera the camera and that
is why why they didn't do something like that
mental anyway is what we're talking about here
is um In the direct, they came out with the fact
that there's going to be a web chat element of
it. You can be playing the same game, you can
be playing different games. And they released
alongside it a Nintendo Switch 2 camera. There'll
be an overlay in the game where you can see each
other. Yeah, and it's just this bog -standard
little black thing on a stick. But two things.
One, they've said that any USB -C camera is compatible.
Which is nice to know, so you don't have to buy
a new one if you've already got one. Which is
nice, because they could have very easily gone,
no, you need to buy this one and that's it. But
also, Horry have announced a one that looks like
the flower teeth thing from Mario. Which is what's
crazy, because you think, right, so they must
have had talks and everything long before any
announcement dates or anything like that, because
they haven't just designed that instantly. No,
but what I think... potentially makes sense in
this instance so what and it's like so it looks
like that you can close it when you don't want
to like close its mouth it does look very clever
it's worth buying the camera just so you can
have that as an ornament exactly so but then
what you also have is so for you and i and you
know whoever think like feels like we do sick
that's great there are also people that would
go i'm not fucking having that in my lounge for
the same reason that to me like i just said i
i would no more have bought a switch with grey
Joy -Cons than poke myself in the eye. I wanted
the neon red and blue because I thought that
was sick. I thought that was great. But the grey
also sold. You know, a lot of people wanted the
grey. And that's because they, you know, for
whatever reason, they didn't want this colourful
thing. They wanted that. So it is kind of appealing
to everyone. Maybe it's a safer bet for Nintendo
to allow Hori to do that sort of stuff. Well,
and make more money. Yeah. I suppose, because...
You know, I mean, like... Why are we going to
go through the effort of manufacturing this when
a third party that we trust can just do it and
take the fucking fall with it and let someone
else do it? I mean, shit, to the untrained eye,
Hori's packaging, you'd think it was Nintendo
anyway. Like, it's fully branded, completely.
But the only thing that they did do, when I got
the... I got a Zelda Pro Controller and it doesn't
have, like, rumble. It doesn't have amiibo functionality,
I don't believe. so it's like but at the same
time you're getting that for 20 quid 35 quid
less whatever how much it's 25 quid sorry um
it is much cheaper i think the pro controller
was maybe like 50 60 quid this is going off my
memory i haven't bought one obviously since it
came out um and yeah their ones are all definitely
cheaper and like you can get ones with a d -pad
instead of a stick um which is nice but then
again a lot of them it has to be it's only in
handheld mode which yeah because obviously again
to make it cheaper they're making it yeah but
i'm interested i'm already excited to see what
all the shit that they come out with for the
switch to because i feel like they're coming
out with a camera thing so that fucking quick
and there's bound to be some cool shit because
you've also got what else was thrown into it
the the new kickstand that's on it which is very
very good an actual kickstand can go all the
way back because obviously they semi -improved
it on the OLED they made it all the way width
but not to the extent of the Switch 2 and I think
having a port on top is just because that was
how it should fucking be yeah much similar to
like how when they got rid of the headphone jack
on the iPhone you think okay but I want to listen
the people that at that time still had wired
headphones okay but they just come out with the
fucking USB -C convert like the fucking lightning
charge of conversion thing yeah and then yet
like it's one of those ones that's like oh when
it first comes out and then we all just get used
to it i mean it's like that kind of thing isn't
it i wouldn't be surprised if um i'd be interested
to see the battery life on on this uh purely
because it's bigger screen better hardware it's
running games a lot better um i think it's up
to 120 frames yeah in some instances um The actual
cartridges are quicker. Yeah, yeah. Because wasn't
it the Nintendo Switch cartridges won't work
in the Switch 2? It has to be an Express cartridge.
No, that's for the memory. The little SD card
has to be an Express SD card. Oh, yeah, for the
SD card. Sorry, my bad. So I'd be interested
to see what the battery life is on that and if
they've... introduced a charging port on the
top for the purposes of like when you are um
streaming to your friends and shit like that
how much battery is that going to munch up and
is it easier to just plug that in have they done
it for that reason have they done it because
it's just easier well and for the camera as well
for the camera to work for the camera yeah because
obviously it would be in docked mode so the other
the other ports being used yeah and that's the
thing i think that the it was very very heavily
sort of advertised at the time when the Switch
was coming out that it was very much three modes
of play. It wasn't in your hands or in the telly.
It was in your hands, in the telly or tabletop.
Yeah, yeah. And that's why the kickstand was
so embarrassing because unless you're playing
on an exactly flat table without moving, yeah,
you know, you're not playing tabletop on your
lap or something like that because... Go on.
No, go on. Sorry, I've got excited. Go on. Why?
What are you saying? The mouse. Oh, yeah, the
mouse. The mouse. The Joy -Con's being a fucking
mouse and all. for desktop and shit like that
um and it is just very smart and it's like i
feel like they've done quite well to not make
anything seem like an afterthought i feel like
they've really gone and listened and gone okay
okay so all of these problems everyone was having
i feel like so far they have tried to address
everyone you know what i really liked in the
in the direct was the transparency with the lag
when they showed you uh the it was like so you're
playing on your game in the main screen and there
was four screens at the bottom and that was your
friends you can all show it as this super smooth
you can see it like you're watching a mini version
of them it was quite choppy and you think yeah
so it's almost like that managing expectations
in almost saying like we're not going to make
out like you're going to see this perfectly um
but you're going to be able to do it regardless,
which is a feature that you probably won't use
that often, but it's there if you want to do
it. It's not too dissimilar to when you're on
this and you're streaming through Discord. If
you're streaming your own gameplay, it does have
an impact on your frames per second because it
will do. Because you're asking your console to
play a game, but then send exactly what you're
doing to someone else's screen so they can watch
it. You're asking to do a lot. So then you're
asking a handheld console. to then do that for
yourself and then for other people and then their
screens it yeah it's cool it seems like it seems
like what they've done is i like that they've
come out with with switch to but then haven't
sort of like brought out a load of accessories
alongside it that that other than the camera
which you just said you don't need the camera
if you've already got one. They haven't brought
this out saying, oh yeah, but if you also buy
this, this and this, then you can do this, this
and this. They've just brought out this, bringing
out the console with, it's got this in it, this
in it, this in it, so you can do X, Y and Z.
Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. You can buy this camera.
You don't need to buy this camera, but that's
it. You want to fucking, you want to play it
on the desktop, then there's your fat off kickstand.
You need a mouse? No, you don't need a mouse
because here's a Joy -Con. Like all those different
things where you could have very easily, you
could have very easily released them, the standard
joy cons and then on the side go for an extra
90 quid you can have the the the mouse adapted
joy cons there's so much stuff there that you
know that you would be able to do for pure greed
and people would buy it people would be angry
but they'd still buy it it's like people kicking
off about the price at the moment i don't know
what the what the price actually is three i think
it's three nine five three nine five quid anyway
i don't know about dollars I think it's $400
and something. It's saying, yeah, £395 .99 release
on the 5th of June, which... I knew it would
be June. Which is quite a chunk. But you're...
It's very difficult because I always find...
I hate spending the money on something like that
in the moment. But you kind of forget that. very
quick as long as what you've bought is decent
because you're going, I'm going to buy this anyway.
And when did the Nintendo Switch release? 3rd
of March 2017. 2017. So you've had, what, eight
years worth of... Inflation and prices and shit
like that. Or just waiting. Yeah. You waited
eight years for another console to come out.
Yeah, you spread that cost out. So then you're
thinking, right, well, the chances are there
isn't going to be a Switch 3 anytime soon. No.
You may get a Switch 2. OLED or fucking whatever,
an upgraded version of that. It's like everyone
that's bought a PS5, not really whinging that
the PS5 Pro has come out and I'm desperate to
buy it because the PS5 is held up and is doing
what it needs to do. So it's like, yeah, I don't
want to spend 400 quid, but that 400 quid is
going to last you for a long time. I'm more annoyed
about the cost of the games other than that.
But again, As annoying as it is, if you want
a brand new AAA from PlayStation, it's going
to set you back 70 quid, sometimes 80 quid, sometimes
even more. So it is very difficult. And it's
something that Nintendo, I've found, with certainly
like the main games, have always done in the
sense that, you know, you might see on the PlayStation
Store or you see them on Amazon or whatever.
And it will be, well, to be fair, even with Xbox.
So I used to do it with... a lot of games but
like say a satin's creed for example i'd wait
for them to go down oops excuse me and um i don't
know if anyone even heard that i dropped the
coaster but like you'd wait for them to go down
and then you know get them when they're a bit
cheaper if like i think i know i've said before
where it's like if i've not finished the game
i'm playing well i might as well just finish
the game i'm playing before i buy that game yeah
rather than buy it at its highest price and then
just have it sat on my shelf not even being played
nintendo They're like, yeah, cool, okay. Well,
it's the same price as when it came out. Yep.
Fuckers. I'm pretty sure Breath of the Wild now,
it has been on sale a few times. I wouldn't know
for how much because when you've purchased software
from the eStore, it doesn't obviously show you,
does it? Yeah, it doesn't show, yeah. But ultimately,
it's, you know, still the game. Same with like
the Skyrim edition. They're like, cool. It's,
yeah, nope, it's the same price as it was when
we released it in 2017. And so, there's kind
of like, they've just sort of, stuck their guns
on that one i think potentially like certainly
i feel with so the the big one is like they've
um done like this beefy mario kart and you can
fuck off off the track and you can do all these
open world mario kart um for 80 quid get fucked
did you also see the they've done like a uh a
tour game of the console and you can like walk
around the console as a little thing yeah you
gotta pay for it yeah they they slipped in it's
gonna be a paid game a paid game babe that's
a tutorial i found that very cheeky dream on
i did find that quite fucking annoying because
it's a tutorial that should be built into the
game regardless why are you having to pay for
that yeah when you think that we play came out
with the wii you got that with the wii um i'm
pretty sure there was a version of Wii Sports
that came along with it as well, because I remember
having that in a little cardboard slip and not
a case. I can't remember, don't quote me on it,
but when you think of things like that, then
yeah. But then, I mean, I know 1 -2 Switch, that
was a paid game, and obviously that is a game
in itself, it's a set of mini -games, but it
was also advertised as a showcase of the elements
of the Switch, so you had the fact that... The
vibration is so precise that you can feel it
as marbles inside the box. And, you know, picking
up the phone and things like that. Yeah, but
that was cool party games, though. It was, yeah.
Not a tutorial on how to use the console. No,
I know. I know. Yeah, but what I'm saying is,
like, if it's almost like that, that's an example
of when it works. Because it was a showcase,
but it also was enough meat on the bones to be
attractive to buy. Whereas I feel like with this,
it's hard because you think it could be kind
of like that. And it's just they've kind of advertised
it in the wrong way. And that's why it would
be. You know what I mean? And what I'm saying
is potentially it could make more sense why it's
paid. It's just that we haven't seen it yet.
Or it could just be like a bit of a bum steer
and that's going to flop. The only one that you've
got alongside that is obviously PlayStation with
Astro Bot. which um thanks obviously showcases
the controller and all of that but that was that
was pre -downloaded onto the console itself but
then become a standalone game and and sort of
a not a flagship for for playstation but replaced
sackboy yeah um so you can buy there's different
versions of astrobot but but the the tutorial
side of it came pre -installed on the console
and then you have another game alongside that
yeah i just feel like it's a bit cheeky because
they also didn't say the price of it no if it's
going to be something ridiculous like 30 quid
to fucking play a tutorial literally a game that's
going to but that's what i'm saying how the console
works i find that stupid i don't i don't know
what it's going to be like no exactly it seems
silly for it to to just be like a i mean from
what i saw of it i was a bit like okay and then
yeah when i saw it with page but It's one of
those ones kind of for wait and see, really.
The Switch 2 pre -orders go live in two days.
And what do you think the chances are of any
normal person that isn't a robot getting a pre
-order? It's going to be quite fucking difficult.
I don't know, because I think we're also still
carrying the traumas from trying to pre -order
a PS5. but then at the same time you got one
and i think i did get one you know what i hope
that it actually won't be that bad because people
are put off by the price everyone's tightening
their belts at the minute anyway like i reckon
it'd probably be easier to get a pre -order than
it would be to try and get one on the fifth when
you get fomo yeah people have got it in their
hands you see it and you go oh fuck it go on
then then a bit like how in 2020 because everyone's
stuck at home. All of a sudden, Animal Crossing
comes out in March and then there was that big
craze where everyone was like, oh, it's a cosy
game. Well, not just Animal Crossing, but for
other reasons as well, this kind of surge that
they had. You know, and I feel like it's going
to be hard to tell which way it will swing, really.
Are we going to be pre -order one? Huh? Are we
going to pre -order one? Maybe. Possibly. Probably.
Probably. Probably. Because when I was watching
it and he said, and now for the release date,
or the date it's available, whatever he said,
and I literally went, it's going to be right
by my birthday. I could smell it. I was like,
it's going to be right by my birthday. And yeah,
literally three days before. Because what's worse
is obviously with the Duskblood releasing alongside
it as well. I mean, to be fair, that's not going
to release until next year, I don't think. I
think it's 2026. But that's straight away, I'm
like, I want to play that. I need to play that.
A lot of people are going to whinge and go, why
isn't this on any other console? I don't know,
to be fair. Might be. I don't know. But there's
just some cool shit that's releasing alongside
it. And it just looks interesting. It's all shiny
and new. Yeah, and I mean, I love how they kind
of like slipped in Hogwarts Legacy like it isn't
already available. Yeah, but this is going to
be a revamped version of... I'll be interested
to see... how that correlates to games releasing
for other consoles and then coming to switch
to and what that looks like and the turnarounds
and yeah and the shit that that you could obviously
with games that were coming out on the ps4 ps5
and then making their way to switch they had
to be downgraded quite drastically to be able
to run with significance on the switch um whereas
with switch to I think it's meant to hold up
to sort of like PS4 Pro standards, which is still
pretty decent. Like the difference between the
PS4 Pro and the PS5 is not massive. Yeah. So
especially for a handheld, it's going to be very
impressive. Are you not tempted by Elden Ring?
Having a cheeky little handheld Elden Ring? Because
it's Tarnished Edition, which is Erdtree as well.
Yeah. It's tempting, but I've done it. I mean,
I killed fucking Consort Radan. I don't want
to do it again. I don't want to touch it again.
I'm done. I'm done with it. I'm looking at the
fucking collector's edition now. I love it, but
I'm fucking done with that. We'll get him out
of the box later. Yeah. You can finally see the
light. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like I saw, so they're
bringing out, what is it, Nintendo Switch 2 editions.
I'll be honest, I can only recall both the Zeldas
were on it. I can't think of anything else that's
on it. No, I can't think. It was very late when
I was watching it. But essentially what it is...
No, I think it's like Kirby as well. You get
an extra level, whatever. And they're integrated...
I have the list of the games that are coming
with it. So you have Mario Kart World. This is
in dollars. So, $80. And that will be out on
June 5th. So, with release. Nintendo Switch 2
Welcome Tour. Again, June 5th. Don't have a price
on that. Donkey Kong Bonanza. July 17th. $70.
Or dollars, sorry. Drag X Drive. Hyrule Warriors.
Age of Imprisonment. Winter 2025. That looked
quite cool. You know, fam? No, so that's... um
because that's zelda herself in it yeah um but
there was hyrule warriors age of calamity um
which came out obviously after breath of the
wild and they released it with a demo um and
it's yeah it wasn't graphically it was such a
step down um because i think it is a different
developer I think so, yeah. Yeah, and hack and
slashes isn't really my thing. You know, it's
like waves and waves. Omega Force, Koei Tecmo
is the developers. But yeah, no, so what I was
saying was the ones that, they're games that
already exist, not new games. The ones that are
Nintendo Switch 2 versions. So you've got Breath
of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom. that's not
that pokemon legends yeah is that already uh
hogwarts legacy cyberpunk 2077 it's quite a cool
one fortnight uh street fighter 6 split fiction
um what else we got here go on uh no i was just
gonna say because it's like um just added features
i don't know how so they have said it's going
to be for an extra cost which obviously fair
enough um And it's sharper, quicker. With the
Zeldas, they've added somewhat of a Google Maps
feature to it, where for the bits that you haven't
found, it will direct you. And the example they
gave was... Because they have a companion app
already, and what's on there... Again, there's
Splatoon things on there. I think it's like an
in -game chat. There's Animal Crossing in -game
chat. And various other things that you can do
on it. And I think they're updating. They're
kind of like revamping the app. And it's going
to be called something else. Because currently
I think it's called Nintendo Switch Online. And
it's going to be called something else. I can't
remember. But essentially it's the same thing.
And adding to that is the features. Because if
you... I'll be interested to know actually. So
subscription wise they've got... online which
it obviously allows you to play online and then
they've got plus expansion pack which i have
because it meant that you get the animal crossing
like designer game for free well not for free
but like on a sub basis and it wasn't much more
a year and then you also i think you get like
more car uh more tracks on mario kart other other
things that you can get um like i'd be it would
be nice if there was some sort of like discount
if you had that whether they will i doubt it
but either way yeah when you have these extra
you get the nintendo switch 2 versions i imagine
it's going to be like a software download available
from the e -store probably probably i do have
the actual list it's not a big list of the games
that are already out um that are coming up so
you got super mario party jamboree Breath of
the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, Kirby and the
Forgotten Land, plus Star -Crossed World, Metroid
Prime 4 Beyond, Pokemon Legends Z to A? I don't
know. Arceus, maybe? I don't know. Civilization
7, Story of Seasoned, Grand Bazaar, Rune Factory,
Guardians of Azuma, Shadow Labyrinth, and Tamagotchi
Plaza. Yeah, and then Legend of Zelda, Wind Waker,
Soul Calibur 2, and then F -Zero GX. I think
they're redoing, so they're bringing out, you
know, like the emulators. So far they've got,
I think, NES, SNES, they've got Game Boy Advance,
they've got Game Boy and Game Boy Color. They're
bringing out a N64 one. They're bringing out
an N64 controller, which is exclusive to Nintendo
Switch Online subscribers. So catch me getting
there. Probably won't get a look in, but that
looks sick. Well, it looks exactly like the N64
controller, which is like the purple one. But
yeah, and they're bringing the Wind Waker. It's
funny. I have mixed feelings about the games
that are available on there. I think it kind
of depends how much you played or what you were
into. I wonder what Ash thinks about like, because
I feel like they're, some of them I feel are
a bit of a cop out. You know how like those little
weird, really cheap little console things and
it goes thousands of games and then you log on
and they're just like absolute shite. They're
not even one Mario game and it's like the very
first one. Things like that. And for me, it feels
a little bit like that, but not. There's some
gems in there. Have you just beefed out your
list? There are some really, really good, and
it's lovely. Like, as I say, yesterday, they
finally, because they had Wario Land 3 on there,
which I'm pretty sure is Game Boy. But me and
my sister, it came out in 2001, and we fucking
loved Wario Land 4. And I noticed that yesterday
it's been added, and I don't know how you fell
asleep, but... Oh, my God. And it's just so nice.
So, so nice. And you only think, oh, God, it's
so worth it. And, yeah, having Wind Waker, that's
quite cool. That's pretty sick. You got that
007 game coming along. Did you know from the
second the barrel went in the gun, I went, oh,
my God, James Bond. Yeah, Project 007. Yet to
be fully unveiled, James Bond Project is coming
to a Nintendo platform thanks to Switch 2. We
don't really know much on that. The list of stuff
that's on there is quite cool. Cyberpunk will
be a really cool one to play on the Switch. It's
nice to just see them being able to throw games
on there that are way more mainstream with every
other console as opposed to which is what we
were speculating is what Switch was trying to
do anyway on Nintendo in trying to break into
that being a console where you can just have
almost anything and everything. else that's on
it compared to everything else which i feel like
the switch 2 will allow that to be more common
practice with games coming out maybe not some
of the the the hefty shit um but definitely i'd
say like maybe 90 of the games that do come out
for the next couple years should be releasing
on switch to alongside of everything else is
what i would like to see yeah because you're
you're you're no longer on so there's no longer
so much of a gap between the the technology well
and i think like i know we've all we've all kind
of had a chat about it before with regards to
the differences between a playstation and xbox
now it's basically like what side you used to
be on yeah is what side you fall on now you know
comparably you know they're not they're not leagues
apart anymore not were they ever really i mean
i don't know but you know what i mean like that
there used to be much more of a difference i
got a um very cool list so you got this it compares
the original switch the oled and the switch 2
in terms of price specs everything so again in
dollars 300 for the original switch 350 for the
oled 450 for the switch 2. And then, yeah, release
date, March 3rd, 2017, October 8th, 2021, June
5th, 2025. Media is the cartridge. The RAM, we
don't know about the Switch 2 yet. What is cool
is a custom NVIDIA processor. is being thrown
into the switch to much higher inbuilt memory
as well yeah but that's for the cpu and for the
gpu yeah the storage so the original switch 32
gig plus um a micro sd and then the oled was
64 plus a micro switch to 256 gig plus a micro
sd express which can go up to two terabytes which
is quite nice um no removable hard drive cloud
storage um required internet connection no So
battery life, so you've got four and a half to
nine hours depending on the game for the original
Switch and for the OLED. And then it says for
the Switch 2, two to six and a half hours depending
on game. So I wouldn't be surprised if what you
see is not another version of a Switch, but very
much like what they did with the other Switches
where you bring out a beefier battery. Which
is kind of what they did with the... playstation
obviously not the battery but some of the internal
hardware involved they they changed it around
a little bit with a couple of later iterations
and just didn't say anything yeah that is what
they did and they just changed it because i have
the not not that i i mean it's difficult because
obviously i never necessarily got my hands on
the kind of like secret second um one um but
i feel like anticipatorily i bought a massive
um you know what's it called on charge in the
kitchen external power bank thank you yeah um
i bought like a quite beefy one of those um that
would like fit i got a case that would fit it
and all stuff like this and like i never really
found that i used it that much i think because
you often think it's a bit like how when you
were taking your steam deck to work you think
and you plan ahead you go oh i might have you
know two whole hours and you know it says it
says here that it's got two to six hours battery
life very rarely do you actually when you're
out and about like get to not really get to sit
and do that or you actually you realize oh fuck
it i'll go on my phone or someone calls you or
you know you have your lunch and actually end
up not playing it so like all those different
things i feel like certainly for adults might
matter a lot more if you were in the car and
you're driving and you're seven you know but
i feel like for us i feel it's not so much of
an issue Because nine times out of ten, you get
interrupted anyway. And that's not... You know
what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The reality, I
think, when it comes to battery life is often
not as bad as it might seem. And then, especially
now, the fact that you're going to have a charging
port on the top as well. Yeah, it's nothing,
is it? I hope that they do the same. And every
fucking... Like the train... The plane I was
on last... We've got plugs on them and shit.
Yeah, we've all got chargers. I'd like to think
that the battery is the same. as the Steam Deck,
where when it's plugged in, it bypasses the battery
itself. Hopefully. Which charges it to a point
and then stops so that it doesn't wear out the
battery. It'd be quite nice. So the output for
the old Switch is 720 pixel in handheld and then
1080 when it was docked. The Switch 2, 1080 handheld
and then 4K HDR when docked, which is quite nice.
Decent. Another thing that this points out, which
I quite liked as well, is the surround sound
effect. that you get from the Switch 2 even if
you're not using headphones which I quite like
because it's very difficult to really achieve
surround sound when you're not wearing headphones
but me and Ash were talking about it not long
ago I don't really wear headphones when I'm gaming
other than when I'm talking to people on Discord
or anything and I know the sound is better when
I'm wearing headphones but I just don't like
it for some reason because I can't hear anything
which was the really nice thing when I had those
Razer earbuds and it gave you the it let you
have surround sound but then let you have external
ambient sound what happened to them no shit i
got rid of them didn't i but i think i got rid
of them because i was asking to do too many fucking
things i was asking it to be connected to my
to my phone and then connected to my laptop and
then connected to the fucking playstation all
at the same time and being able to just swap
between the three of them and it kept like messing
it up yeah so i was like oh there's obviously
a problem with the earphones it's like no you're
just fucking trying to get it to do a million
things they were really cool I might look into
actually getting another pair or something like
that because they're just nice to actually game
with so we've got frame rate up to 60 frames
per second for the Switch 2 it's up to 120 HDR
support yes obviously the screen's bigger they've
kept the same thickness we don't really care
about weight do we backwards compatibility most
weight because it's in your hands and you're
holding it up like right now the for me what
not that i would notice weight you're right but
say like right now i i literally as you were
saying that i was thinking god i wish we had
a mic stand so i can put this down so you got
so the original switch was 0 .2 kilos we'll call
it 0 .3 um and then the switch 2 will be 0. So
0 .4 kilos and then 1 .18. So half a kilo with
the Joy -Cons. A bit heavier. Backwards compatibility.
Most Nintendo Switch games, NES, SNES, Game Boy
via Nintendo Online Sub, Game Boy Advance, Sega
Genesis, N64, GameCube via online expansion pass.
Streaming game service, screen sharing via game
share. I didn't realise they were in the expansion.
What, the ones I just read out? Yeah, I didn't
notice that. I never noticed that. Yeah, apparently
so. Cross game chat, yes, via game chat. Game
sharing, can send or receive game shares both
locally and online through game chat. And then,
yeah, Joy -Cons, Pro Controller, controller batteries,
plus 20 hours, worth of battery life in them.
Yeah, two USB -C ports. that's about it really
wi -fi to be announced lord knows that needs
improving yeah yeah that's true off the back
of yesterday you were looking at your switch
wasn't it and that's the thing i've essentially
never really noticed because we've always had
like it's always got roughly what our wi -fi
has been but now that we've got actual decent
internet and i was like what apparently yeah
it is really it's crazy isn't it because you
go from like when when we first got the internet
plugged in and then when i was downloading uh
what was it that i was downloading was it split
fiction oh no sorry it was death stranded downloading
death stranded and then obviously that's like
uh i think that's like just shy of 80 gigs for
that and then going on the downloads and then
seeing that it was going to take um like 40 minutes
and i was like oh that's not fucking bad didn't
realize that it was downloading another game
alongside it which was 70 gig so it was like
so both of them was going to take 40 minutes
and then i stopped um downloading the other game
and then death stranding was done in like 15
minutes of downloading that which is just fucking
mental to me where it's like yeah you can play
go and have a shit and then come back and that
game's going to be downloaded What I might do
is, obviously, we've got those Ethernet plugs,
and the OLED's got the Ethernet port. What I
really need to do as well is put an external
memory card in the OLED, because I've run out
of room, because I haven't put a chip in it yet.
I think it's going to be good. It's going to
be a very good release. Overall, quite impressive,
I think. It throws in that burst of life into
the gaming world. When that comes out, it's going
to be bang, and then... Very, very exciting times
for most gamers in the world because it is such
a unique thing and so much more mainstream than
all the other handheld consoles. You could very
easily see this putting Nintendo Switch very
much straight back at the top. Not that it ever
dropped down from the top, but obviously there
was competition there. So it's intriguing to
see where... where that takes us and i just want
to see like same as you more fucking colors yeah
more customizability i want to see fucking different
different um versions of it and like i know i
know that we dream of it so bad but like give
me a theme for the love of god give me a theme
give me some themes i don't care if i have to
pay for them give me the fucking themes i love
themes who who And it's probably just some little
cunt somewhere. Like, tell you what, let's take
it all this way. Just give them light and dark.
Let's just give them light and dark. It's just
corporate bollocks, isn't it? It's just, let's
make this as boring and sleek as, it's like with
logos. Yeah. But they just make them boring as
fuck. Or like McDonald's. Yeah. Fucking, just
give me some fun back, man. Give me some cool
shit. Yeah. And like, I think, because I, what
gets me as well, it works. Like, I probably wouldn't
have bothered buying an OLED if they hadn't brought
out a Teens of the Kingdom version. And I probably
wouldn't have bothered getting a Teens of the
Kingdom version if I hadn't been able to get
the other fucking version of the DS. Which was
sick. And then they... Like, even down to when
they did the new 3DSs and it was faceplates.
It was fucking incredible. Because they weren't...
I mean, they are now because obviously they discontinued
their fucking arm and a leg. But they were so
inexpensive and it just meant... It was like,
on the bat, I think... one of them you had to
screw but the other one you literally just clicked
it on and off and it was it was great it was
fucking great because then they all they did
is do they had like a charcoal console and a
white console and then you add whatever face
place you like face plates you like and like
then for the bigger one that was just for the
standard size bigger one they had so many obviously
i got that animal crossing one a little while
ago didn't i and it works it works because it's
something that is so simple And like you said
a minute ago, you're going to get people that
want it. And you know what I mean? They obviously
sell. Oh, it's frustrating. Let me in that fucking
boardroom. I'll have a word. Shall we go and
do the patron? I've got one. Yeah. Right. We'll
fuck off then. There's a Nintendo talk. Yeah,
that was it. Pleasure doing business. A very
much pleasure. Pleasure, pleasure. Let's just
fucking end it. It's going down the pan, isn't
it? Right, see you later. Hooroo. Hooroo.