• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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      4 hours ago

      TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.

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        3 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.

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            12 minutes 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!

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              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