The render includes Dbrand's Killswitch case for what Dbrand claims is a legitimate Switch 2 model
    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
      342·
      3 days ago

      TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.

      • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        231·
        2 days ago

        While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.

        • NES>SNES
        • N64>GameCube
        • GB>GBA
        • DS>3DS

        With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.

          • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            122·
            2 days ago

            Branding aside, the GameCube had:

            • four controller sockets built into the console
            • a media format with much lower capacity than the competition
            • a controller with one primary thumbstick and two primary face buttons.

            These feel like vestigial N64 features

            Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!

            • frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              7·
              2 days ago

              Okay, actually now that you bring all that up, yeah! The controller is very different looking but functionally, even the C stick/C buttons are similar

            • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
              52·
              2 days ago

              Mayyybe.

              IMO what sets the GameCube apart from anything else is its controller. Those asymetric buttons are unlike anything, including N64. Plus the weird analogic triggers.

      • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
        82·
        2 days ago

        I feel like they meant to make this their switch pro, but the parts shortages probably meant they had to delay much longer than they liked. So as a result, I think they decided to make it a successor instead?

        Though I wonder what the hardware is like?