Name a single feature you’d like to see in a Switch 2
Name a single feature you’d like to see in a Switch 2
This is a weird one, but I’d love to see a reimplementation of the sensor bar. The gyro controls haven’t cut it for me. I like how the Wii U game pad had the sensor bar built in to the bezel. The real engineering nightmare would be squeezing IR cameras into the top of the Joycon
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.
- 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 !
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.
User replaceable battery. Just like the DS, little cover with a screw. Makes it so much easier to keep old hardware working well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
My number 1, must have feature is for the system to be portable. Hopefully that goes without saying.
If I was to ask for a new feature, it would be some sort of off the wall, possibly stupid gimmick. The WiiU tablet controller, despite being a total flop commercially, spawned some really cool, asymmetric games. Nintendo is at their best when they are being creative with their hardware. They can make up for a lack of pure computing power by providing experiences that you could not have on any other system.
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.
Joysticks that don't have drift issues.
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!
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.
A little bit boring but: light as the Switch Lite. It’s so much nicer in bed with the Lite! :)
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.
WiFi AX, Gigabit Ethernet on the dock, andATMOS Surround support or bust.Would be obsolete off the batt to me without.There's three features I know but, I stand.Suppose there's no point to newer network standards for Nintendo because Nintendo -.-
But the cruddy 5.1 support on a nice setup is one of the reasons I don't really fully enjoy sound effects/scores when playing on my TV.
Even on headphones the Audio still feels dated.
But maybe it's me, being a technophile/audiophile. 🤔
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.
1080p handheld/4K on TV
GameCube games! Can I get melee with online support please.
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.
Backwards compatibility
I use my Switch 99.9% of the time undocked, and would love an OLED Switch Lite 2. That, and hall sensing sticks.
please have a headphone jack. idk if this is something we need to actually worry about...but i really dislike that newer phones keep omitting the headphone jack. bluetooth just isn't the same!
I'd like the sensor bar too. Rail shooters just do not feel the same trying it with gyro, since the positioning is off relative to the screen without a reference point. Sensor bar made it more like using those arcade light guns.
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'd like it to be modern. Up to date specs that can have games that look good, rather than releasing dated hardware at launch.
I'd like a console only version without a screen, like how the PSVita had the Vita TV. I have no interest in a portable Nintendo, I only play docked.
The ability to play old games on it. Switch games at the very least, but similar to wanting a console only version, add a disc tray and let me play GCN and Wii.
The ability to use another console as a controller for game menus and asymmetrical gameplay.
I just miss the 3DS.
Backgrounds/Themes
…On the bottom. One on the top that can work in tandem with some sort of sensor bar would have to be squeezed in above the R and ZR buttons.