Backwards compatability. Getting the 3DS has really made me appreciate how many games I can play on the system since I can play 3DS/DS/GBA games all natively. Whatever Nintendo does with the Switch 2, it should be backwards compatible with the Switch so that I can continue playing my favorite Switch games without having to wait for a port.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Switch 2 not being backwards compatible will unfortunately be a deal breakers for me and I’ve owned every Nintendo console/handheld they have made.
Getting a Steam deck and immediately having access to every game in my steam library is a huge deal and made me realize it’s a must for a switch 2.
ç* Keep it portable. Steam is waiting for you Nintendo to see if it needs to release a new Steam Deck and become the only portable console.
- Keep Switch 1 binaries working on Switch 2.
- Shared internet access between account instead of paying a dumb and more expensive family subscription.
- More solid hardware (joycon are an expensive joke).
- Please, give Mii back ! It was such an awesome idea to have them in various games !
I created a Mii on my switch that I used in the switch sports game. Apparently not many people realized that as my character was hilarious and everyone else had the standard models.
Yes, Mii exists on Switch but are hidden so not used that much, while it was the first thing you have to do on a Wii or a 3DS (yet another wonderful piece of hardware). You really can see no-one care in the Mario Kart lobby. Everyone use default one because I'm sure no-one really know where to create them (I mean, the Settings is a place very few peoples actually goes in). Sad. If an application (with an icon) would have exists, it would have change a little.
My only complait is to not having them used inside games. I loved Mii statues in Mario Kart Wii, or seing them driving cars.
But maybe I should simply admit no-one care about avatars in 2023. On Wii, your Miis stands inside your Wii instance. With Internet peoples create crazy/scary/disturbing (yet wonderful) Miis, but you don't have any value having simple, normal, Miis.
On 3DS you could meet Miis while moving around (I was in a big city and there were many peoples using that feature). I loved this, but I suspect it create a privacy problems : When I moved to a tiny city, I identified the only little girl with this feature and could see it's games. So while digging into anonymous gaming life was awesome and unproblematic, I feel very weird in my second place, and disable the feature.
Miis are something from the past, but man, it was so much better than tiny icons that are actually used nowhere (Smash Ultimate is a few exception, but it's used in few sub menus while I expect it to be show when combat starts).
Backwards compatibility with switch 1 cartridge support.
Without this would be a massive slap in all player's faces.
This is honestly the biggest thing. I'd add Nintendo account support with the ability to bring over digital purchases to the new system.
If they do those two things I will buy the next system no matter what other things they do with it.
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Backwards Compatibility. I want this so much so that if the Switch 2 isn't backwards compatible, I'm very unlikely to buy one.
I'd go as far as making a dedicated emulator box with high end graphics just to avoid buying it.
For me it'd be analogue triggers. I think a scroll wheel could also be cool and unique controller input.
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User replaceable battery. Just like the DS, little cover with a screw. Makes it so much easier to keep old hardware working well.
Not sure if this counts as a feature, but; more expensive base hardware, less expensive peripherals. I'd legitimately pay like $400 for a top of the line handheld system as long as I could buy a second pair of controllers for less than $50.
I legitimately haven't touched my Switch in like 3 years because of controller drift, and I just can't bring myself to pay $80 for something that seems like it should cost $40. So my PS5 and XSX have pulled my attention away completely.
TotK nearly convinced me to jump back in, but I ultimately decided against it since it didn't seem worth $150 to resume playing the Switch.
Contact customer service and ask for a repair. Nintendo got mass sued a couple years ago over the poor quality of the Joycons, and now has to repair drift for free even if the warranty period is up. I am not sure whether this applies to all parts of the world (I live n Germany), but I personally sent my Joycons to repair four times since buying the system (last one was in January) and always got a joke invoice for zero Euro from them. Only thing I had to actually pay for was postal service.
Even if they decline ....asking doesn't hurt and might be worth a shot.
I agree that the joycons suck. On the upside, I replaced the sticks on both of mine for approximately $20 with parts on Amazon. Came with the screwdrivers and everything. Each one took about 20 minutes. I’m not forgiving Nintendo for making bad controllers, but being so easy to repair for so cheap… it’s worth doing it yourself just so you can play TotK.
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They do need to fix the damn controllers, but even if they didn’t drift the sticker are so tiny and it’s not a comfortable controller at all.
I just use then when I need them (for Switch sports, for exemple) but everything else is 8bitdo controllers and the pro controller, which are so much better.
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I'll say it once BACKWARDS COMPABILITY AND EASY SYSTEM EXPLOIT FOR CFW
YES to this
Also sad to say this, but better folder system would make me happy on top of that
I don't need gimmicks. Better controllers, more comparable specs. Backwards compatible with current switch. I think I may be at a breaking point with exclusive hardware. I have enough games to play and I may stop moving forward if i can't bring my games with me
Integrated voice chat, or even better, Discord support like PS and Xbox are doing.
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but I want to be able to put my save files on the SD card, not just games. I have crappy rural internet, so backing up save flies to the cloud is painful.
It's infuriating there is no real way to back up switch saves at all without a subscription. It's a portable console which is even more likely to have issues than a traditional one, I already had mine stolen once and lost everything. Now I just play on Yuzu and I can backup whatever I want.
I would like to see a much better home firmware than horizon. Compared to the 3ds and the wiiu horizon is severely lacking.
- folders
- themes
- activity log
- music
- mii maker
All are severely lacking compared to previous implementations .
Ontop of this Nintendo online still sucks and I'd love to see it improved once and for all. I'd love to see servers for Nintendo games instead of them relying on peer to peer.
button that spawns a hotdog because it would be tasty
you wouldn’t download a hotdog!!!
Next to basically everything that has been mentioned before (most notably backwards compatibility for games and the combination of handheld and docked), I would love it if the controllers would be backwards compatible as well. My joy-cons have the dreaded drift, but it would be nice if I can keep using my pro controller.
Reading these comments, I think the opinion of the community is that Nintendo got a lot of things right. Keep those, but just update it. Meaning more powerful and more reliable hardware.
The games are great, let us keep playing them and the new ones on the same system.
The option to choose and switch between handheld and docked is amazing. Both this and the previous point are what helps Nintendo set itself apart from the competition. Keep or even build on that.
Wireless Dock for dual screen gaming. Make it easier to port those ds, 3ds, and wii u games. I love having inventory and maps more readily accessible.
Sounds like a latency nightmare.
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A much smaller bezel. It's so big on my original Switch, and the screen could be so much larger and prettier if it went nearly to the edges, without making the console larger at all.
This is half the reason I upgraded to the OLED. the bezels on the OLED is what the switch should always have had.
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Backwards compatibility is the big one, especially cloud saves. I'd settle for native Switch 1 performance as long as every Switch 1 game worked properly.
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Other than the obligatory backwards compatibility (I think if Nintendo screws this up again it would REALLY show in sales numbers), I would love the already paywall'd multiplayer feature to be somewhat useable on the next console (MM2's multiplayer mode for example is like a bad joke on the switch).
Ooh, not locking multiplayer behind a paywall so I can play multiplayer games somewhere other than just on PC!
Ooh ooh, controllers that actually work!
Ooh ooh ooh, no more artificial scarcity, like making more than 12 total physical copies of games and not arbitrarily removing games from sale digitally!
I try to always get my Nintendo games physically as I really enjoy the collecting part of it
Record videos longer than 30 seconds, and for ALL games. As it is now, the Switch can only record the last 30 seconds of gameplay (which, in itself, is really cool because it works retroactively) and if you want to make longer videos, you either need to record consecutive clips and edit them on a different device, or you need a capture card. And it only works for some games to begin with - The Witcher 3 for example does not support that feature. You can take screenshots, but no videos.
I guess this is kind of cheating since Nvidia software engineers have already shown that it's a supported feature set of the t239 soc, but cameras + Nvidias AI camera/video feed analysis features enabled by tensor cores.
Combined with the accelerometer/gyro nintendos already been using since wii, this.... this can enable some serious shit.
Motion control Drift would be ridiculously real time mitigated, to the extent it might become completely inconsequential even over hours of play, as it can turn basically whatever static objects it sees into reference points, which can be used to auto correct and null drift from the accelerometers missing axis. The main one undoubtedly being the big rectangle with 4 corners that is the TV itself.
Assuming a camera is put in the joycon(s) again, Effectively pointer controls would be back, on steroids, as in 3d spatial accurate, with no need for a sensor bar (any fixed structure in the room)
If you are playing handheld, it can use eye tracking to let you aim by looking.....
Return of 3ds augmented reality stuff, except completely nuts in capability compared to what the 3ds could do.....
And considering it's original use case as a feature for an automotive gpu, who KNOWS what bonkers nonsense they could do with that neat but ridiculously niche Mario kart RC peripheal thing now.
Trophies/Achievements!
It's such a simple concept and it increases engagement when they are well implemented. I'd love to play the next Zelda and try to get all achievements. Also I love Steam's achievement rarity, it makes me feel like a pro knowing that i'm one of the 1% that got some random achievement.
It adds to the overall experience.
Joysticks that don't have drift issues.
Since it's a Switch 2, so I am assuming it's already a hybrid system like Switch (handheld + docked) and has backward compatibility.
Other than that, I really want a messaging and party system with voice chat. Make playing multiplayer games easier.
For me it’s backwards compatibility with the Switch. I wouldn’t upgrade if I couldn’t play BOTW or TOTK on it. After that just more powerful graphics so I don’t get stutters in some games.
A little bit boring but: light as the Switch Lite. It’s so much nicer in bed with the Lite! :)
I use my Switch 99.9% of the time undocked, and would love an OLED Switch Lite 2. That, and hall sensing sticks.
I have multiple..
- Like many others, backwards compatibility
- and while we're at it. Make games upgradable like PS4 to PS5
- System level voice chat. Not depending on the game or smartphone app
- better friend system
- Focus on 1080p 60fps performance, games less than that are simply not allowed. When possible a ingame toggle to quality mode that gives 4K 30fps at minimum.
- cloud save backup on ALL games.
- controller with audio through aux or usb-c
- try less to be different, try more to be better
- actual functioning invite to game option for friends
This is all I can think of right now.
I honestly do not need a different new system. I just want something better than the current Switch in terms of performance.
I always thought having some sort of eGPU in the dock would be nice. Enough to let it run games at higher resolution and frame rates on a large screen.
No idea how feasible that would actually be though.
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