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> Plus, I miss the instantaneity of cartridge-based games. I'm glad you said this in present tense, because yeah, there are still loading times from Switch car
by gergles 9y ago
> Plus, I miss the instantaneity of cartridge-based games.
I'm glad you said this in present tense, because yeah, there are still loading times from Switch cartridges, in some cases pretty bad ones. (Zelda shrine entrances, anyone?)
I was expecting instantaneous access like I remembered from the old days of cartridge systems but it is not to be, on the Switch at least.
Your ergonomic points, though, are definitely spot in. It feels good to use the system and it feels very well put-together. Nintendo has always been good at designing hardware, though - which is something that I think the other manufacturers still don't get 100% right. That, and the "just fucking play" experience that Sony and Microsoft refuse to give you.
- bitwize 9y agoThey're not going to get loading-time-free with flash chips, and maybe they could have done a little better. But the loading times in Zelda were much more tolerable than those of, say, Final Fantasy XV.
- LocalH 9y agoThere are loading times because it’s basically a solid state disk masquerading as a cartridge. The GBA was the last handheld Nintendo made where the cartridge actually mapped directly into CPU space.