[HN Gopher] Nintendo Switch 2 Slammed for Poor Display-120 Hz wi...
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Nintendo Switch 2 Slammed for Poor Display-120 Hz with 30 FPS
Response Times
Author : kristianp
Score : 7 points
Date : 2025-06-26 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.techpowerup.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.techpowerup.com)
| v5v3 wrote:
| I would guess majority of Switch audience is very young and won't
| care.
| frollogaston wrote:
| If the response time is really 33ms, maybe they'd be able to
| tell playing Super Smash Bros. I remember as a kid wondering
| why Melee felt so weird on one TV.
| AIPedant wrote:
| It's hard to find reliable data but it seems most Switch 1
| players (not just owners) are in the 20-30 demographic:
| https://www.shacknews.com/article/127542/nintendo-discloses-...
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| Although Nintendo is still clearly targeting families relative
| to XBox/Sony, the Switch itself has a lot of adult games (e.g.
| the Cyberpunk port).
| zapzupnz wrote:
| The comments on that article are wild. They're of people who
| seemingly play tech specs rather than actual games.
|
| All that mixed in with plenty of people spouting some of the
| talking points about the screen protector, how the screen in
| supposedly fragile, etc. that also applied to the Switch OLED.
| All in all, a lot of unjustifiable, manufactured rage from people
| who neither own the console nor ever intended to get one.
|
| For $500, were people expecting to put an LG G5 in their
| backpacks?
|
| Also, I know that we don't editorialise titles on HN, but I wish
| we could for this: "30 FPS response times" comes directly from
| the article, but they mean "30 ms", not "30 FPS".
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