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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:16:35
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I bought Jeff Minter's Space Giraffe and Polybius on steam last weekend (and several others). Both look and play amazing at 4K/120.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:47:20
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I played the 1984 Atari arcade I, Robot on Atari 50 yesterday. I never saw this game in the arcades. It's a cool arcade game; a fully rendered 3D polygons in 1984 is nuts. I would have loved it had I known about it sooner. I'm really looking forward to Minter's remake coming on April 17th now.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:19:20
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You guys tried the Nintendo Today app?

Useless.

What's Nintendo music like? I have no Switch online.

So anyway, someone bid £100 for my old copy of Jet Force Gemeni.

And my bank is giving every customer £50 as a reward as they merged with another bank.

I also stored up amazon gift card balance from Christmas. Switch 2 is virtually paid for.

Then my car insurance is due in 2 weeks at £1700 FFS....

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:23:43
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Switch 2 presentation is an hour long according to Nintendo.

Must be alot to show.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:40:34
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Now we learn Switch 2 has a 4k display output chip in the dock.

But didn't the OLED dock have 4k compliance?

"The chipset in the dock is specifically the Realtek RTD2175N-CG. Unable to find this precise model on the web, but I assume the RTD2173 is a predecessor. It’s being used in this adaptor,” the post reads.

Chipset: RTD2173
Compliant with DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI HDCP 2.2/1.4, HDR 10
Video Resolution: 720p, 1080p, 4K30Hz, 4K60Hz,4K120Hz (w/DSC), 8K30Hz and 8K60Hz (w/DSC)
Audio Support: 7.1-ch PCM
Bandwidth: Up to 32.4 Gbps

While Realtek hasn’t listed this exact chip on its site yet, it seems to be an upgraded version of the RTD2173, a chip that already supports 4K60Hz, 4K120Hz with compression, and even 8K with Display Stream Compression (DSC). The takeaway here? The Switch 2 dock may actually be capable of much more than what the dev kits are currently showing.

Still, nothing is confirmed yet, and it’s always smart to treat this stuff with a bit of skepticism until Nintendo gives the official word.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:16:01
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Switch 2 presentation is an hour long according to Nintendo.

Must be alot to show.

dammit, I need to leave for an appointment after half an hour. Sad
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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:40:04
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New F-Zero 4K/120. One can dream.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:46:34
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Let's go for an ExciteTruck or ExciteBots while we're at it.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:51:37
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A new Excite Truck, Wave Race and Pilotwings @ 4K/120. Hells, yeah!

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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:37:36

An updated Pilotwings would be great but we need to keep the SNES tunes.

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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:23:28
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Val Kilmer passed away at the age of 65. R.I.P.

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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:03:36
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Val Kilmer passed away at the age of 65. R.I.P.

R.I.P. Loved him in Top Secret.

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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:42:25
Poor Val. He's always been one of my favorites. Top secret, Willow, The Doors, etc. well those were just awesome movies. And if you guys haven't seen it for some reason, you need to watch kiss kiss bang bang. It's become a Christmas tradition in my house, even though it's basically a Christmas movie and the way that die hard is a Christmas movie. He's incredible, and it's pretty much the reason why Robert Downey Jr got cast as iron Man.
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:57:58

3 mins till Switch 2 direct.

Get in Robios thread nao!

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Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:16:33

I checked the list of  switch 1 games with backwards compatibility problems on Switch 2.

Out of everything there's only a few I own that bother me:

Dex

Elderand

Doom Eternal

The Journey Down trilogy

Dust and Elysian Tale

Saints Row 4

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:21:35

With Nintendo's new console price, I can't help but wonder how much a PS6 would cost if tariffs are still in place when it launches.

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:59:58
$699.99

Wait, how much is PS5 PRO?

There's a Nintendo tree house in 2 hours today. 2pm UK time.

And one tomorrow.

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:24:05

Wish I could watch the treehouse. I want to see the games and I really want a Prime 4 release date. Probably Fall.

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:24:20
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Wish I could watch the treehouse. I want to see the games and I really want a Prime 4 release date. Probably Fall.



I went over the footage and Prime 4 has the best textures of any video there.

Just the increased RAM makes more of a difference than most else.

I hope other games get finished with higher quality textures. So weird there was no DLSS at all in any game shown. I wonder if it's something they will enable just before a game releases.

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:50:07
Eurogamer did an article on Switch 2s price, comparing it in regions and adjusting it for inflation.

I've posted the whole text in the Switch 2 thread but here's the main takeaway for me:
Eurogamer said:

Still, accounting for inflation, the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle works out cheaper in the UK than the original Switch with a copy of Breath of the Wild in 2017.

To directly compare the consoles alone, £280 for the original Switch works out at £367.40 today with inflation, still cheaper than Switch 2. However, throw in the big launch game and it's a better deal - an original Switch with a separate copy of Breath of the Wild cost £340 at launch in 2017, which works out at £446.13. That's pricier than the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle.

Over in Europe, the Switch 2 console costs €469.99, or €509.99 for the Mario Kart World bundle. That's equivalent to the cost in the UK.

It's a different story in other parts of the world, however.

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