Nintendo Switch 2 first impressions

I just got the NS2 yesterday, and It's running Roguebook much faster, and that was one of the games I was sometimes losing patience with due to it playing somewhat slowly. So that's very good news as I'm nearing 100 percent completion and the game just keeps getting harder and harder, so getting battles finished faster will be a nice boon. That's the main source of good news. Now, they already got rid of the file sharing feature on NS1, and although we can use the new NSOS to upload some files, it doesn't seem to work appropriately. I guess the best thing we can do is figure out how to transfer the files through the SD cards.

Groups for your games is still available, while being separate from the other system, which makes perfect sense. The handling of games between consoles works very well and is one of the highlights of the new system.

The new controllers feel great to hold. However, precision is still lacking. It is still impossible or nearly impossible to go 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees (right, up, left, and down for the laymen) precisely no matter which controller I'm using. I have new JoyCons and I have a new pro controller. They both fall short of my expectations. I think the JoyCons have it worse, since the pro controller is a lot better on the 0/180 degrees angle tilting (still falling short of expectations but I'll take a win when I can get it), but the 90 and 270 accuracy is just so trash, I can hardly believe how bad it is.

I wonder if it would be better for them to just let us map the GR/GL button to be like the shift key on a keyboard, to lock our angles to 8(maybe a toggle to be 4 instead, alternatively, the 2 buttons could be 2 types, set in the options, GR/GL could be 8 directions, and the alternative button could be 4, depending on what the player prefers) directions only from 0 through 315(or 270 if using the toggle to 4 directions), using 45 degrees of difference(or 90 degrees of difference if using the toggle to 4 directions) all the way. I don't understand how the software can't keep up with the hardware, we have the GR and GL buttons and their best idea they can come up with is to simply tell us we can map them on a per game basis? It seems like a neat idea(and a welcome improvement to be fair), but I'll take a shift button instead thank you very much. Even as I type this I wonder if it would make more sense to just patent the idea and make some money with the concept instead of telling the internet about it, but I am not an accomplished businessman, (in fact I feel like a total loser in life) and would rather just complain as a customer instead of try to fix the problem myself for the supposition that I would get gatekept by god knows what if I tried to do anything of major importance.

The power adapter for the NS2 is rather convenient as it lets you unhook the cord and put in a different cord, which if nothing else will be nice for people that somehow might find themselves with a broken cord, whether or not they could rely on a replacement is anyone's guess at this point, but at the very least, being able to take over the USB-C plugin slot with whatever you want on demand could be useful for someone somewhere. And in the meantime, I'm finally able to notice that the adapter for the NS1 also had a USB-C connection, which means I can continue to use it for all my devices now that I have no reason to keep using the NS1 dock and can put it away from the rest of my commonly used equipment.

For whatever it's worth, Mario Kart World and Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster are both games that look excellent (the courses in MKW having exceptionally great detail and satisfying textures and BDFFHDR having the best cutscenes I've ever seen in a video game) but I'm disappointed by the lack of innovation with the operating system itself including the almost there but not quite upgrades of the controllers which may or may not be related to the OS itself.(I know nothing about how to make a controller or an OS so I can't say for sure if this is something they could whip up quicky or not and if so where the problem would be or if it's in both places which if I had to guess I'd say it's both) Still, the upgrade in speediness even for third party titles seems to be existent enough to justify the purchase, but if that's the only reason you might want the NS2, you should probably consider just getting whatever the game is on PS5 instead.

Oh yeah, another complaint I forgot about is that the game chat feature does not allow VOIP phone numbers to be registered, which means I bought a camera for NS2 that I might never use, and I'm locked out of game chat at the same time. I don't know if it's even legal to attempt a workaround like asking my friend (who doesn't play games I guess?) if I can use their number instead.

//end of first impressions