Switch pro spring 2023
Just play Switch games on PC.
well, yes, sure
just point me to a PC with the Switchās form factor with the removable controllers and also I can just play online without any futzing around in case I want to do that
Crazy that the title is still officially Untitled Sequel to the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Shut up and Jam
bold to assume this is a functional feature of the switch
the switch usually works fine for me once I get onto a network and pay Nintendo their pound of flesh
the kids are going to have to deal with my McDās wifi
weāll probably have that technology by the time a typical switch game finishes loading
Iāve been on solid state for what feels like ages
loading times on all systems from the last gen suck
I can watch phones and iPads load games faster than a PS4 or Xbone
I feel like I havenāt noticed particularly bad loading times on Switch but maybe itās just a function of what Iāve been playing?
Switch data access speeds are not good (itās eMMC for the native storage or else microSD, both of which top out a little below 100M/s in most contexts, which is slower than a spinning disk for linear reads and somewhat better for random reads but still nowhere near the average SSD from 7 years ago, let alone NVMe), but because most Switch games only have like 2GB of assets itās not a big deal
turns out hardware doesnāt need to move that fast!
All the stuff Iāve heard about the battery life on the Steam Deck has me happy that the Switch is what it is.
has anyone checked if their distro runs powertop
lol
And they only have 2GB of assets in part because the rest of the hardware is weak enough that it would struggle with higher-quality assets anyway.
I think thatās part of why they only made the screen shinier in the last revision. The hardware is in balance right now and the next logical equilibrium is at a much higher price.
Seems pretty unsurprising honestly
the worst part of this is a lot of people who probably wouldnāt normally be working your usual game industry jobs because of really disliking/feeling uncomfortable with the culture there or just not wanting to make those types of games: esp a lot of women, queer/trans people, people of color, etcā¦ are good fodder for a company like Funomena. itās easy to join up with a company like that with the belief youāre helping change things for the better. and then you realize the whole thing is so utterly attached to someoneās cult of personality/personal brand. and you have like zero leverage and the ship will sink if that one person at the helm takes a hit. a lot of small to medium sized indie studios with one very hyped creative figure at the helm operate in a similar way.
I wrote a chunk of my thesis on this game and I really donāt get what the draw to play again is in 2022. Itād be nice if some of the dead-ends engage with the more game-specific bumps and edges that go criminally underdiscusssed but Iām guessing weāre just getting more wacky absurdist punchlines with no idea developed beyond a gag. Better [worse?] yet try to take the whole enterprise seriously and create LORE for consumption and explanation mediated via youtube and wikis.
hm maybe this was why i saw Davey Wreden lurking around GDC several times last week.
anyway i basically like Stanley Parable for what it is, but youāre right that it is very of its time and the joke is pretty one note. a lot of these developers getting big successes on stuff like this before theyāve fully developed their own voice probably leads to just doubling down on the stuff that brought you success instead of trying to grow it in another direction more.
btw i would def be interested to see what ends up standing the test of time vs. what doesnāt from the first decade of likeā¦ prestige indie hits. but maybe this is just me wanting to see a few games like Journey taken down a peg, and some others to get more positive attention/scrutiny they didnāt get at the time.