The render includes Dbrand's Killswitch case for what Dbrand claims is a legitimate Switch 2 model
  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    10 hours ago

    While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.

    • NES>SNES
    • N64>GameCube
    • GB>GBA
    • DS>3DS

    With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.

    • frankEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      N64 -> GCN is a stretch to me, but Wii -> WiiU isn’t

      • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        7 hours ago

        Branding aside, the GameCube had:

        • four controller sockets built into the console
        • a media format with much lower capacity than the competition
        • a controller with one primary thumbstick and two primary face buttons.

        These feel like vestigial N64 features

        Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Mayyybe.

          IMO what sets the GameCube apart from anything else is its controller. Those assymetric buttons are unlike anything, including N64. Plus the weird analogic triggers.

        • frankEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Okay, actually now that you bring all that up, yeah! The controller is very different looking but functionally, even the C stick/C buttons are similar