Speaker 1: At this time on Thursdays, we like to talk tech,
Speaker 1: and this week it is all about the Nintendo Switch too.
Speaker 1: We welcome in Mark Saltzman. I'm gonna play the little thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the little thing that's all right. We
Speaker 1: don't need to do it, Mark, Okay, Nintendo Switch too.
Speaker 1: If you are a dvo.
Speaker 2: I can do it. I can do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm doing the dance. So we've got a cover.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a devote of Nintendo Switch, you're probably
Speaker 1: going to get a Nintendo switched too, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know there's an article, you've played with it, you've
Speaker 1: checked it out.
Speaker 3: Is it worth it?
Speaker 1: But I was kind of opining before I had you on,
Speaker 1: Mark that, like, if you love the Nintendo Switch, is
Speaker 1: it does it matter?
Speaker 3: If it's worth it? You want the new one, don't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know the Nintendo's they know how to create
Speaker 2: It's like their secret sauces is very thought after by
Speaker 2: many other game companies. They know how to make games
Speaker 2: that are super fun. You often can't put your finger
Speaker 2: on it. It's often family friendly content, not always, but
Speaker 2: they just they they've got that Jena Sequa. They just
Speaker 2: know how to make a game system that makes it
Speaker 2: so desirable. You probably grew up saying Nintendo. I mean,
Speaker 2: long before the Wei and all that, you probably played Marrio.
Speaker 1: My first foray into addiction was Super Mario Brothers for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, me too. Meta. So yesterday in New York,
Speaker 2: Nintendo hosted an event for media to officially launch the
Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch to or at least announce the launch date
Speaker 2: of June fifth, And yeah, I mean, look, it's it's
Speaker 2: very similar to what made the Nintendo Switch popular in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen and to this day, which is primarily the
Speaker 2: fact that it's a versatile console. You can play it
Speaker 2: on the go. It has a screen, so to help,
Speaker 2: you know, reduce the are we there yet from the
Speaker 2: backseat if you will, on a road trip, But then
Speaker 2: you can dock it and play it on a big
Speaker 2: screen TV. For most of the Nintendo Switch models, not
Speaker 2: all of them, but most of them, so they haven't
Speaker 2: changed that that formula remains the same, but they've made
Speaker 2: it better in virtually every other way. For one, the
Speaker 2: screen that you play on is instead of a six
Speaker 2: point two inch, it's nearly eight inches, and it's a
Speaker 2: better quality screen and with not just with better resolution,
Speaker 2: twice the pixels or dots that make up the image
Speaker 2: compared to the last model, which just means the games
Speaker 2: just look so much more vibrant. But they've also up
Speaker 2: the refresh rate, so it's a lot for those geeks listening.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred and twenty hertz refresh rates, which it's
Speaker 2: double the sixty frames per second that most game systems
Speaker 2: play at. And so this is just incredibly you know,
Speaker 2: fluid gameplay. So the new Mario Kart World, which is
Speaker 2: the launch title, it can support up to thirty two players,
Speaker 2: and you know it's going to be really silky smooth
Speaker 2: when you play that. They've also added a Sea button
Speaker 2: shenon in the bottom right quarter of the Nintendo Switch,
Speaker 2: and C stands for Chat. Before, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: they really didn't have an intuitive way to chat with
Speaker 2: other players while you were gaming. You can attach an
Speaker 2: external microphone, but it was clumsy, but now you just
Speaker 2: press that button. It's got a noise canceling microphone built
Speaker 2: into the Nintendo Switch too, so you can chat in
Speaker 2: real time with friends around the world over Wi Fi,
Speaker 2: and the option to add a camera if you want
Speaker 2: for video calling. And so just for in gameplay as well,
Speaker 2: Like if I'm stuck in a level in the game
Speaker 2: that I know Shannon you finished, or Gary, I can
Speaker 2: call you through my Nintendo Switch too, and you can
Speaker 2: say and I can share my screen and you can say, oh,
Speaker 2: I know exactly where you are. Mark, this is what
Speaker 2: you need to do. Go over here and look for
Speaker 2: the Princess Peach whatever you get done. Yet, there's also yeah,
Speaker 2: there's also a better kickstand. That was a pain point
Speaker 2: with the existing Nintendo Switch is kind of flimsy in
Speaker 2: the back, so when you prop it up on a
Speaker 2: table or desk, it might fall, you know. So they
Speaker 2: just added a budd of new technologies to it to
Speaker 2: just enhance the experience. But at its core, it's very
Speaker 2: similar to the original Nintendo Switch, just better and virtually
Speaker 2: every every other every way all the features.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart World too, has the open world to race
Speaker 1: through this time. I mean we've seen it in Burnout
Speaker 1: Paradise or and for the Horizon, but it's the first
Speaker 1: for the Mario Kart series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at you.
Speaker 3: Hey, I did my homework, okay.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it is open and it's going to add
Speaker 2: to the replayability because you can there's so many different modes.
Speaker 2: One of them is called free rome, which means even
Speaker 2: if you want to.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he's cutting out, not in know the hell.
Speaker 3: Free rome means you don't, she doesn't know, we don't know.
Speaker 3: Try it again, try it back.
Speaker 2: I love that this is a segment called tech talk
Speaker 2: and the technology is us right.
Speaker 3: Now, right, try again, Free rome, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Free roam? They don't you don't play on a particular circuit,
Speaker 2: like you're not actually racing. You can free rome the
Speaker 2: environments in this game and even stop and get out
Speaker 2: of your car or your cart and take pictures with
Speaker 2: your friends within the game. And that's really fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: lots of different environments, desert and like you know, mountains
Speaker 2: and it's that that was a real hit during the
Speaker 2: demo yesterday. Just the idea that you can just play
Speaker 2: however you like. And yeah, it's going to get and
Speaker 2: then for those who do like to race, there's more modes,
Speaker 2: more competitions, more trophies. But yeah, I think Nintendo fans
Speaker 2: are going to love it. It's going to be four
Speaker 2: fifty when it comes out on June fifth. There'll be
Speaker 2: some bundles as well, where you can also get that
Speaker 2: Mario Kart World game with it and other bundles. So yeah,
Speaker 2: people are looking forward to it, I think overall, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be backward compatible for those who are
Speaker 2: wondering World Grade. I just spent you know, a couple
Speaker 2: thousand dollars on games over the years. It will play
Speaker 2: your previous games and in some cases you can pay
Speaker 2: a small feed. They didn't disclose how much, but it'll
Speaker 2: upgrade the older games with even more features and better
Speaker 2: graphics and all that to play on your Nintendo switch
Speaker 2: to if you want.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then a final question, what is Knockout mode?
Speaker 2: Knockout Mode is a highly competitive racing mode within the
Speaker 2: game where you go from country to country, and it's
Speaker 2: like it's like what do you call what do you
Speaker 2: call it? Like sudden like deathmatch where sudden deaths where
Speaker 2: if you if you're out, you lose and then there's
Speaker 2: no going back. You got to start from the beginning.
Speaker 2: And so it's going to be for those who are
Speaker 2: hardcore gamers that if you lose a race, that's it.
Speaker 2: So it's you're knocked out of that course and you
Speaker 2: have to find another way to get back in, but
Speaker 2: it's like the heartless way. I think a lot of
Speaker 2: the hardcore gamers are really excited about that mode. I did.
Speaker 2: I did play a bit of that in New York
Speaker 2: yesterday at this Nintendo event. Yeah, it's fierce.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's cool And I don't know
Speaker 1: because I'm not a Nintendo switched person, but the fact
Speaker 1: that every single lap on every single course is unique
Speaker 1: on this game, I think that's fascinating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that takes that takes a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do such a good job. Sorry to cut
Speaker 2: you off. They do such a good job with the
Speaker 2: course design, and then they add things like weather that
Speaker 2: will impact you know, your you know your performance. You
Speaker 2: have to keep that all in mind. When you're drifting,
Speaker 2: for example, and it's raining, you have to compensate. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean again, Nintendo knows how to make
Speaker 2: great games. There. There's a new Donkey Kong called Donkey
Speaker 2: Kong Bonanza that we played yesterday with a fully destructible environment.
Speaker 2: Instead of like running up a hill and around it
Speaker 2: or go around it, you can actually punch your way
Speaker 2: through the mountain like it's all interactive, And yeah, that
Speaker 2: was fun. There's going to be some Legend of Zelda updates.
Speaker 2: So part of Nintendo's success is their exclusive iconic mascot
Speaker 2: based games like Princess Peach like link from Legendzelda. That
Speaker 2: will all continue. So yeah, Circle the fifth of June
Speaker 2: four forty nine. It's more than what the Nintendo Switch
Speaker 2: was when it came out, but hey, that's inflation. I
Speaker 2: don't know if triffs are also playing a role there,
Speaker 2: but it's a lot of fun from what I what
Speaker 2: I could tell with my day of playing yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: tough gig, I know, all right.
Speaker 1: And it's worth it's worth buying the five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: one that comes with Mario Kart World, right, because it's
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty if you're going to buy the game,
Speaker 1: obviously you're going to buy the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There's been some, yeah, some negative coverage on X
Speaker 2: from gamers who resent digital games being eighty dollars. It
Speaker 2: is ten dollars more than other digital games for Nintendo
Speaker 2: Switch too, and then the physical game could be as
Speaker 2: much as ninety dollars. So yeah, before you know it,
Speaker 2: they'll be a hundred dollars video games. But if you
Speaker 2: can play for a couple of years, you might be
Speaker 2: able to justify it. If it's a game that you
Speaker 2: can finish in five hours, then no, right, But Nintendo games,
Speaker 2: Nintendo games tend to have legs, longlegs.
Speaker 1: That's the good thing about being bad at video games
Speaker 1: is it's just a lifelong fun for me. I will
Speaker 1: never beat the game in five hours. Mark, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, appreciate it. Always enjoy talking to you.
Speaker 2: Likewise, Shannon, thank you.
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