Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are back with a special surprise episode to celebrate the Switch 2 reveal! Join us as we break down our reactions to the hottest new gaming platform, what’s new with the Switch 2, our hype levels, our concerns, and what sort of awesome innovations we hope to see. It’s everything about the Switch 2 you want to know and another awesome video game filled episode from the Video Gamers Podcast! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Thanks to Legendary Supporter: FitNerdJohn Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the occasion for this bonus episode?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. What's this? A Friday episode? What could be the occasion? The Switch 2 was announced, and we just can't help ourselves. We're going to be breaking down the announcement, the changes we know of, our initial thoughts, some concerns, and some things we hope to see. But before we get into that, some introductions are in order.
I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he's 15% bigger than he was eight years ago, and his Joy-Con may have some drift. It's Ryan. Okay. You told...
You told me it was a good intro and you were happy about it. Dude, that's probably one of your best. I wasn't lying, right? I am 15% happier than I was before. I'll tell you that much. That was a solid intro.
Thank you, Ryan. Nothing like a little Pixar humor.
I love it.
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Chapter 2: What are our initial thoughts on the Switch 2 reveal?
That the kids can laugh at and the adults can snicker at.
Exactly.
Oh, man, that was good. Man, I'm excited. I'm ready. I am super excited, Ryan. We are so excited that we're doing a bonus episode for everybody, man. Yes. Because, you know, it's not every day that a new console gets announced. And, you know, people were probably like, well, you guys didn't do a bonus episode when they announced the PS5 Pro. And it's like,
Yeah, but that ain't the Switch 2 either, man. People have been waiting for the Switch 2 for eight years now, man. So we are going to be talking about it. We're going to be talking about some of the things that we know. We did get a nice video from Nintendo directly about this. I mean, if you haven't been on social media, you're paying attention. This was the official...
Reveal of the switch to now we don't have a ton of information like that is kind of the key is that Nintendo gave us a look at the switch to and of course people did some digging and they're like oh I know what that port is and that kind of thing and we can kind of extrapolate some stuff like it looks like it's somewhere in the range of probably about 15% bigger than the original switch.
But we had some kind of good conversation this morning as well. Like right after the reveal, our Discord server was very interested. Everybody was chatting about it. I made a comment. I made a comment. I'll make it on this show as far as like kind of just an initial gut reaction to things as well. But we really wanted to just, I mean, it's fun, man. We're gamers, dude. We're gamers.
We got a new console coming out. The world has been hyped for the Switch 2. We talked about this on our Hot Takes episode. I said, hey, the Switch 2 is absolutely releasing this year. And I think, and I'm still hopeful, that it's going to release with Super Mario Odyssey 2. We'll see about that. But yeah, man, we're excited. We want to share that excitement. So here we are.
We hope you enjoy this kind of extra Friday episode. And we're going to get into it. But Ryan... We always love starting off an episode with thank yous, man. Yes. We're thankful for the listeners. We're thankful legitimately for every single person that finds this podcast or sees our logo and says, let me see what these video gamers are about.
and we're thankful for that man and when people do that and then they they like the show and they say you know i'm gonna leave you guys a review or i'm gonna go sign up to help support the show that means the world to us so there's a reason that we like to say thank you back to people and ryan we got we got not one we got two people to thank oh yeah
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Chapter 3: What are the new features of the Switch 2?
And then the announcement happens and everybody talks about it for, you know, a little bit, but then it's like, but everybody knew it was coming. Exactly. You know? And so with this, there's that excitement of like, dude, did you see that the switch to go watch it? And then, and then it's funny because it's radio silence for like two and a half minutes.
And then they come back and they're like, oh, dude, I didn't know this was getting revealed today. Yep.
Yeah, I had a buddy, my buddy Sean. I've been playing PlayStation with him for 15 years. We've been playing games. I've known him forever. I played hockey with him since I was a kid. He's never owned a Nintendo system, and he sent me the trailer this morning at like 6.30 in the morning, 6 in the morning.
And that shows how much that reaches immediately for somebody who's never owned a Nintendo system to have that off the cap, ready to go, to send to people, for everybody to see and just get excited about it.
Yeah. And that means somebody probably told him about it, too. You know, and so it's word spreads like crazy. And I mean, that this morning was just filled with excitement and people getting really excited about this. So I am also a fan of that. I remember this happened when Tango Gameworks announced Hi-Fi Rush at the game show. And they were just like, and it's out right now.
And it was like, what? What? Now, like, I can go play this game this second. They're like, yeah, go for it.
Or even, what was it? Helldivers. Didn't they just do that with the new race or whatever? Yeah. They're like, oh, by the way, you know, and then I was like, oh, what? And I went that night and looked up. I'm like, sure enough, there it is. You know, so it's, man, this stuff, it just, it makes that pop a little more, you know, dramatic, you know, in my opinion, at least.
No, I agree with you 100%. Because I think as gamers, we get kind of tired of the teases and the drawn out, hey, this is going to be revealed. And now we get a little three-second trailer or an animated trailer with three seconds of gameplay. And then there's a gameplay trailer coming in three months. Coming soon. I'm going to forget all about this in three months, man. Just let me see the game.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, so we got our fancy-looking flyby, our car-esque commercial for the Switch where they showed everything off. We're going to get into some of the actual knowns on this, but I want to capture the initial impression. I mean, you're sitting there. The world has gone crazy. The Switch 2 was announced. Here's the trailer. You watch the trailer.
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Chapter 4: How do the new Joy-Cons differ from the originals?
Yeah, yeah, apparently from the video. Sorry to interrupt.
I was... No, it's... I mean, this is the thing, right? Like, everybody's so excited, and it's so fun to kind of, like, hypothesize and stuff like that, but... This we're feeling pretty confident that this is an optical sensor, just like you have in your mouse. And that because of this optical sensor, you can now use the joy cons in a mouse fashion.
Now, I don't really understand using it as a mouse necessarily, but there are games that
that don't really lend themselves all that well to being played on a controller, a game like civilization, for instance, you know, was, you know, having a mouse and being able to click through menus and click precise locations is infinitely better than sitting there and trying to like pinpoint something on a map and then moving it from here to there and stuff.
So it's like, there could just be this convenience functionality that, But if I know Nintendo, and this is again, where I'm hoping we get some kind of innovation here, the ability to use the Joy-Cons with motion sensing, with the tracking like you could get with an optical sensor on a mouse does kind of open up a world of possibilities there.
I can't really think of something right now, you know, where it's like, this would be super cool. But the fact that they have that and Nintendo kind of showed that off in this video is, does tell me that there's some other functionality here with these joy cons that maybe people haven't really thought about.
And it is my hope that Nintendo is going to figure out how to make this freaking cool in the use in some video game.
Yeah. That's the thing is it might be one of those, um, let's put this hardware in here now and we'll figure out how to use it or implement it later. Um, yeah, I think they'll develop towards that or maybe technology will even advance towards that, uh, in, in the software realm. So yeah, Yeah, man, it's definitely puzzling, and you're just sitting to think, well, how would they implement that?
What would be the game? Maybe that's what they want us to do. Who knows what we will see? All this talk just got me so excited.
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Chapter 5: What does the design of the Switch 2 signify?
I know we're old and we're dating ourselves, but I would lug this giant little 19-inch monitor over or 16-inch and then it was like 40 pounds and we'd set it all up and then we'd all play for five, six, seven, eight hours until the wee hours of the morning. And I just think if they can create something to where it eases that – into being able to do that type of LAN party group.
Because, I mean, Switch is already, Nintendo is already geared towards party games. If they can make it easier, dude, I'll be so stoked. Easier in person.
And I know there's a lot of people that are going like, dude, use Discord and you play over the internet.
What do you mean? You're playing games together.
I don't want to see people. Yeah. What's this LAN party? Why do you guys make such a big deal? Because when you're in the same room...
playing games together it's a different experience man it's just different it's like if you've ever played board games with somebody you know or had a board game night there is something about being in person playing games with your friends you you know there's all these board game emulators and stuff where it's like i can play board games over the internet it's not the same it will never be the same and it's hard to explain to people that have never had a LAN party
But if the Switch 2 can link all of these Switch 2s together in person, dude... That'd be so cool. Sold. You know, in my opinion there. So, you know, there's a couple other little piddly form factor things. The joysticks have like a deeper thumb cup, so it's a little bit more ergonomic. And maybe your thumb doesn't slip off the top. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. So...
We've talked about a couple of the things that we kind of hope for, right? I mean, we just got done gushing over LAN parties and sounding like old men here. Is there a feature or an innovation that you can think of
That would blow your mind, you know, to say, hey, right now, like I said, I'm still a little concerned that Nintendo is not innovating a whole lot and that this is a... We just wanted to keep it safe and sell 18 gajillion Switch 2s and we're not going to risk it. We don't want another Wii U on our hands, you know, and that disappoints me, even though I can understand that from a business aspect.
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Chapter 6: What is the mystery button on the Joy-Con?
They're not expensive. They're fairly cheap. They don't take up space. This is something that would blow my mind where it's like Nintendo has this micro projector built into it. You don't need to dock it. You can take it anywhere and you can play it on somebody's wall. you know, or something like that.
So like, think about that though. You're, you're, you're killing time somewhere and you're like, hold on, let's play this game and you can just bust it out, throw it onto the wall. You got like a, a eight foot by five foot projection where you're just, you know, you're playing Super Mario Kart.
There's two of them, Ryan. Yeah. We can sit side by side at the doctor's office playing a game, projecting it onto the wall of the doctor's office. Yeah. Right? Like, That would blow my mind. Like, Nintendo, are you listening? Like, we'll give you that one for free, okay?
Exactly. Ma'am, could you move? I'm on my third lap. Can you sit over there, please?
I mean, but so that, to me, that's like an innovation. The technology exists. It's not expensive. Like, this is doable, man. That's the thing.
For something that's not super hardcore on the performance base of it and what they have to cram. We have to cram this crazy GPU and all of this other computer set in here to make sure we can have this ultimate performance. They don't need to do that. Like you said, their games sell. And that's why people buy the system. If you can offer that, like, dude, that would be next level.
So another thing that we did not come up with, but our Discord community did was, hey, you know what? With the magnetic capabilities of these Joy-Cons that we kind of like to tease and pick on because it's like, ooh, magnets. But there's the thinking that if you make these really neat peripherals for this thing that can attach magnetically, it opens up a whole world of stuff.
You could magnetically click in a steering wheel. For a racing game or something like that. What about VR? I mean, if it's just an easy port and an easy connection, the kind of possibilities are endless where it's like, could Nintendo release like, I'm not saying it's going to be a great VR headset, but it's like, could we have like a...
a simple Nintendo VR headset, because now you can connect all of these different things to this port magnetically. And you don't have to have these weird, well, we can't use this because it doesn't fit. And we'd have to design the switch with all these braces and connectors and things like that.
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