A brand new wave of rumors are doing the rounds relating to the near-mythical Swap 2. Nintendo’s much-deliberated follow-up to its seven-year-old handheld console was most lately imagined to have an 8″ display screen, after Sharp Corp reportedly massively upped its LCD display screen manufacturing. Now we have now phrase that it could possibly be getting a really welcome enchancment to its Pleasure-Cons: magnets.
When you personal a Swap, and even should you put on Swap-based t-shirts and have posters of Yoshiaki Koizumi in your bed room wall, you’ve possible had a second the place it’s taken you 5 goes to get the joy-con to slip into its silly little rails on the aspect of the display screen. In all probability proper whenever you’re in a rush as a result of it’s your prepare cease and the doorways are about to shut. Think about if, as an alternative, they only thhhhhw-clicked into place with the therapeutic energy of magnets?
That’s the rumor popping out of Spanish gaming website Vandal, which says it’s acquired a tip-off from an unnamed peripheral producer. And that’s ok for us to repeat?! Nicely, really, Vandal has priors on this regard, being the positioning to appropriately break the story in regards to the existence of the Swap OLED mannequin.
Vandal repeats the crappy information that it’s unlikely that the console—which present Kotaku Queen Carolyn Petit repeatedly refuses to let me name the Tremendous Swap U GX—will seem in 2024, and endorses the elevated display screen measurement we’ve lengthy suspected. However the vital information right this moment is that this new mechanism for connecting Pleasure-Cons.
A controller than simply magnetically snaps to the aspect of the display screen sounds completely unbelievable, proper up till I take into consideration how I maintain a Swap and begin to fear about precisely how robust that bond can be. And if it’s highly effective sufficient to maintain the factor feeling sturdy after I’m taking part in on the transfer, how arduous is it going to be to get them to come back off after I need to play on my sofa? I imply, does anybody know how magnets even work?
In fact, it additionally raises the difficulty of backward compatibility for current Pleasure-Cons changing into extra unlikely. However, you understand, there’s no heavenly decree that the controller on your earlier machine ought to work with the subsequent, and good luck plugging your Wii U controller into your Swap. Nonetheless, an absence of compatibility would suck should you’ve obtained a favourite set, or simply purchased an overpriced branded pair.
Or perhaps Vandal’s fully improper! Let’s not neglect that Nintendo hasn’t even introduced a New Swap-i XL, not to mention what types of options it’d need to embrace. Maybe Shinya Takahashi and Yoshiaki Koizumi are laughing into their sleeves in any respect this hypothesis, whereas the corporate continues growing its underwater-only 1-dimensional gaming glove.
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