| Soundwave said: Digital Foundry's final verdict is the system is very good. Some of the immediate comments from Digital Foundry's comments section on Youtube I think are more in tune with the reality here: The console isn’t perfect, but im loving it! The crazy thing is that when it comes to the screen its probably the best LCD screen ive ever seen, these colors POP almost as good as my steam deck OLED display. Id probably think it was OLED if it wasn’t for the absent inky blacks lol. 1080p, 120fps, vrr, its pretty future proofed. I haven’t noticed any of the “ghosting” that DF pointed out, and I tried looking for it.
Regular gamers are just going to see a bright, colorful screen that is most importantly very big and be happy with it, the screen stuff is such a nothing burger but I guess after the Switch 2's launch broke sales record, the people who were clinging to "$80 Mario Kart!" and "8nm!!!" had to go cling to their last resort. DF also admits not only is there 4K DLSS, but it's relatively cheap as well. The bruhaha over 8nm doesn't seem to have had the same impact because Nintendo optimized really well and it's a very custom design (even evident from the die shot xrays, it seems to be influenced by Ada Lovelace design), so you're getting still reasonable battery life and good end performance. Nintendo made a good system here, their best hardware day 1 since probably the GameCube. The "normal" core gamer is going to have a blast with this system, it's very powerful for a slim form factor and the net end performance (no matter how you get there) on a screen is better than things like a Steam Deck and trades blows with things like a wired Series S home console and a $700 ROG Ally that almost no one owns. For $450 there's nothing on the market today that's going to give you significantly better performance in a still mobile form factor (not to mention this is way slimmer than a Steam Deck or ROG Ally could dream of being with a bigger screen to boot). If they decide to make a Pro version of this some day that's going to be a beast of a system too. And Mario Kart is a blast, loving it, so many epic tracks. My only gripe with the hardware, and it's not really even that big of a gripe is the system feels a bit heavy. It's not really a big deal for an adult, but it could be a bit hard for the kiddos, but it does go to show that Nintendo is willing to make hardware more tailored for adults. This thing definitely does not feel like a toy at all, fairly premium feeling all around. |
Painting everyone who has any criticism of S2 as a bad-faith Nintendo hater is kinda lame.
I've owned 1 Sony console, 1 Xbox & 6 Nintendo.
I'll inevitably grab a S2 at some stage because I love the games but that doesn't mean I have to celebrate every decision the company makes.
Digital Foundry also said that the display is disappointing, so using them as the the authority backs up the detractors as much as the supporters...
And the S2 trading blows with a Series S & a ROG Ally is in part due to devs putting in a lot of extra effort with the ports.
If the same TLC was put into those systems we'd potentially have a different story.
We've kinda all just accepted that it's fine that a major component in the S2 is a significant regression from the latest model of its predecessor, I'm not sure many other companies would be receiving that charitable a reaction.
The early rationale was that they'd at least gone with a very good LCD, this has not proven to be the case.
We don't shy away from criticizing Nvidia or Apple for getting greedy & Nintendo shouldn't get a pass either.
