The Nintendo Thread of Jumping, Slashing, and Home Decorating
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People ought to know that you should never open-staple anything except a corkboard unless there's something solid under it. That's why the "trigger" in an office stapler is on the underside; you're supposed to press it against the solid thing or the stapler's metal base. In this case the "something solid" could only have possibly been the console itself.
Modern Vintage Gamer took a look at Switch 2 backwards compatibility:
tl;dr-
If a game is memory or GPU bound, performance is generally greatly improved. While the game won't exceed it's set FPS or designed resolution, this can GREATLY improve games that suffered inconsistent frame rates. Games like Bayonetta 3 and Borderlands 3 run 60fps, while Doom 16 and Batman Arkham Knight hit stable 30 fps.
Games CPU bound (Dragon Quest Builders 2 featured, but simulation games like Cities Skylines or Civilization 6 probably also) are not going to see THAT much an uplift since the actual CPU clocks are fairly similar between the systems. That said, the improvements in other areas DO seem to allow for better overall performance in most situations.
And since Micro SD Express is a newer, faster, storage medium, load times are generally improved for older titles.
tl;dr-
If a game is memory or GPU bound, performance is generally greatly improved. While the game won't exceed it's set FPS or designed resolution, this can GREATLY improve games that suffered inconsistent frame rates. Games like Bayonetta 3 and Borderlands 3 run 60fps, while Doom 16 and Batman Arkham Knight hit stable 30 fps.
Games CPU bound (Dragon Quest Builders 2 featured, but simulation games like Cities Skylines or Civilization 6 probably also) are not going to see THAT much an uplift since the actual CPU clocks are fairly similar between the systems. That said, the improvements in other areas DO seem to allow for better overall performance in most situations.
And since Micro SD Express is a newer, faster, storage medium, load times are generally improved for older titles.
Well, good! It looks like the Switch 2 is doing exactlly that. I wouldn't bet on it for the other consoles, but at least Nintendo's doing the right thing. Saved me from a pointless purchase of Street Fighter 6. I'll probably just get that some other time digitally.
I did find a Pro Controller at Target. So I nabbed one. Game Stop was completely out.
You honestly believe that idiot manager's story? Come on.
Ironbite-you're name isn't Paladin.
I don't know whose story it was, that's just what I heard.
And I never said it was a smart decision, since clearly it wasn't, but I can believe there are managers dumb enough to order something like that.
I don't know, but if I had to guess, maybe these were preassembled to move things along quicker?
At least it sounds like things are being corrected straightaway, without the 3-month wait some had feared.
Still, I wonder if Nintendo is going to correct this packaging oversight. Even without the staples, these things are at risk just from basic shipping and moving around.
Seriously - how is this thing packaged so poorly that a situation like this can even happen?
Cardboard is made to absorb blunt damage. No one expected someone to attempt intention pierce damage.
Having worked at Walmart, I can attest to the manager comment.
But that was my thought process: I can easily see a situation where a manager would instruct his workers to verify all the preorders/reservations were properly accounted for with some sort of receipt/order number and attached to the device for clarity and to ensure everyone got what they ordered.
That said, I also think this was a dual sided failure: the store for using a stapler (which usually require a good bit of force to attach to begin with) and Nintendo for packing the system “screen out”.
*Giggles like a little child*
... Yeah you can go ahead and judge me.
(Turns out Target got another one in the very next day and shipped it to me today.)
Yeah if I didn't have the car crash money, I wouldn't have picked it up.
I also just realized that outside of one mention of it in a pony thread, I don't think I talked about what happened here.
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