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
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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.
Switch 2 not being backwards compatible will unfortunately be a deal breakers for me and I’ve owned every Nintendo console/handheld they have made.
Getting a Steam deck and immediately having access to every game in my steam library is a huge deal and made me realize it’s a must for a switch 2.
- 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 !
I created a Mii on my switch that I used in the switch sports game. Apparently not many people realized that as my character was hilarious and everyone else had the standard models.
Yes, Mii exists on Switch but are hidden so not used that much, while it was the first thing you have to do on a Wii or a 3DS (yet another wonderful piece of hardware). You really can see no-one care in the Mario Kart lobby. Everyone use default one because I’m sure no-one really know where to create them (I mean, the Settings is a place very few peoples actually goes in). Sad. If an application (with an icon) would have exists, it would have change a little.
My only complait is to not having them used inside games. I loved Mii statues in Mario Kart Wii, or seing them driving cars.
But maybe I should simply admit no-one care about avatars in 2023. On Wii, your Miis stands inside your Wii instance. With Internet peoples create crazy/scary/disturbing (yet wonderful) Miis, but you don’t have any value having simple, normal, Miis.
On 3DS you could meet Miis while moving around (I was in a big city and there were many peoples using that feature). I loved this, but I suspect it create a privacy problems : When I moved to a tiny city, I identified the only little girl with this feature and could see it’s games. So while digging into anonymous gaming life was awesome and unproblematic, I feel very weird in my second place, and disable the feature.
Miis are something from the past, but man, it was so much better than tiny icons that are actually used nowhere (Smash Ultimate is a few exception, but it’s used in few sub menus while I expect it to be show when combat starts).
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.
Contact customer service and ask for a repair. Nintendo got mass sued a couple years ago over the poor quality of the Joycons, and now has to repair drift for free even if the warranty period is up. I am not sure whether this applies to all parts of the world (I live n Germany), but I personally sent my Joycons to repair four times since buying the system (last one was in January) and always got a joke invoice for zero Euro from them. Only thing I had to actually pay for was postal service.
Even if they decline …asking doesn’t hurt and might be worth a shot.
I agree that the joycons suck. On the upside, I replaced the sticks on both of mine for approximately $20 with parts on Amazon. Came with the screwdrivers and everything. Each one took about 20 minutes. I’m not forgiving Nintendo for making bad controllers, but being so easy to repair for so cheap… it’s worth doing it yourself just so you can play TotK.
Piggybacking on this comment to say you can get hall effect joysticks for barely more than standard ones!
Got a link to those? I preemptively bought some sticks 2 years ago or so and I’m finally getting drift on my launch day joycons.
If I can buy Hall effect sticks and do this just once I’ll buy those.
Sure thing!
This kit came with the screw drivers you need and even some replacement screws if you lose any. The instructions weren’t super clear, but there are tons of tutorials on taking apart joycons on youtube.
Awesome thanks. Purchased. I’ll be happy to do the repair just once.
They do need to fix the damn controllers, but even if they didn’t drift the sticker are so tiny and it’s not a comfortable controller at all.
I just use then when I need them (for Switch sports, for exemple) but everything else is 8bitdo controllers and the pro controller, which are so much better.
You can replace them yourself for less than 30
I shouldn’t have to do their work for them
True, although my gripe is on the principality that they could charge $10 for the replacement parts and still make a nice profit. Even when handling each brand’s controllers with the utmost care, I’ll end up spending $60-$90 in replacement parts for a joycon before I need to replace an Xbox controller, and to add insult to injury, the Xbox controller costs less than a Joycon!
I only have 3rd party controllers, a dobe grip for handheld, and a ds4 for docked.
Backwards Compatibility. I want this so much so that if the Switch 2 isn’t backwards compatible, I’m very unlikely to buy one.
I’d go as far as making a dedicated emulator box with high end graphics just to avoid buying it.
I’ll say it once BACKWARDS COMPABILITY AND EASY SYSTEM EXPLOIT FOR CFW
YES to this
Also sad to say this, but better folder system would make me happy on top of that
Backwards compatibility with switch 1 cartridge support.
Without this would be a massive slap in all player’s faces.
This is honestly the biggest thing. I’d add Nintendo account support with the ability to bring over digital purchases to the new system.
If they do those two things I will buy the next system no matter what other things they do with it.
User replaceable battery. Just like the DS, little cover with a screw. Makes it so much easier to keep old hardware working well.
For me it’d be analogue triggers. I think a scroll wheel could also be cool and unique controller input.
A scroll wheel could definitely help with totk nav. Especially if clicking it would allow you to navigate to the next page of items.
Wireless Dock for dual screen gaming. Make it easier to port those ds, 3ds, and wii u games. I love having inventory and maps more readily accessible.
Sounds like a latency nightmare.
They did a good job with Wii U’s latency. The only thing that was shit was its range, which wouldn’t be a big deal because you’d only want to stream to the TV if you were in the same room as it. Ideally it’d be a dock that you can physically put the console in or stream to it.
Wireless transmission latency is good enough for pc players connecting to oculus headsets. Besides, if this is just a wishlist, I would hope that nintendo keeps traditional docking as well if you are playing a latency critical game or want to use a pro controller instead of the console itself as the controller.
That’d be amazing, like a reverse Wii U
I loved my wii u and was disappointed when the tablet screen didn’t get used. If it was more successful (as the switch has been and hopefully how the switch 2 will be) then it probably would have been better utilized.
The Wii U Gamepad was originally planned to be the “map” part: https://youtu.be/SECWlFInyFM?t=42 … so yes, it definitely would have been utilized better.
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.
Backwards compatibility is the big one, especially cloud saves. I’d settle for native Switch 1 performance as long as every Switch 1 game worked properly.
Yeah, backwards compatibility is the single most important switch successor feature for me.
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.
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.
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).
HDR and/or 3D display
