| Leynos said: Switch 2 is the first Nintendo system I have been content with the specs since Gamecube. |
Yep, me too.
Honestly back in the day I listened to too much bullshit on internet forums and couldn't even appreciate the GameCube because people were saying "24MB of RAM only!!! It should have more than the PS2!!!! XBox has 64MB!".
But the thing is the GameCube was considerably better hardware than the PS2. You look at something Resident Evil 4 and it looks light years better on the GameCube over PS2. I never appreciated it really at the time and people never gave the hardware its due at the time either. It was remarkably powerful for $200 (quickly discounted below that) piece of hardware.
You can just get so caught up in all the bullshit that you don't appreciate what you have at the time. After going through the Wii/Wii U era ... boy oh boy do I ever appreciate the GameCube hardware and what it was for its time period and price range, never got the love it deserved as a hardware unit in its time but now I think people appreciate it more. Amazing piece of kit, a lot of its top games still look good even to this day.
Switch 2 is a welcome return to that kind of philosophy. Good hardware performance for a reasonable cost. I think they did some crazy ass optimization between Nvidia and Nintendo to get this kind of performance from an 8nm chip too. I'm quite happy with this result, it's beyond expectation and I had high expectations.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 11 January 2026
