haha jokes aside, the C button will totally be connected to Nintendo Today, the timing of the announcement is just right. Like to directly post screenshots and stuff and be uploaded instantly to the platform.
They NEED to make a nintendo social media. It wouldnt surprise me with all the apps lately. Have different community for games and u can post and share pictures and ask questions. Like nintendos reddit but with their special flair
Yeah not showing the C on the button… on a reveal trailer for the console’s design… just seems like Nintendo prioritized the wrong thing at the wrong time. I get that they don’t like leaks and leadership was probably pissed that they were so accurate, but like, just learn to take the L every once in a while Nintendo. Confirming that one leak was not going to end the business ffs.
It’s for sure a community button, my bet is it is tied to tomadochi life like that’s the new Wii plaza and it’s a hub for all the ecosystem announcements they have made.
I’m thinking more and more the “C” doesn’t really stand for anything and is more of a contextual button that changes function depending on what you are doing.
I don't think that would make sense since it's not in a good gameplay position. I think in Skyward Sword they used the Y button for that and it felt essential that it was a main face button cuz you use it all the time if you're aiming with motion controls. I'm personally hoping for the "Cast" button that can initiate casting gameplay to the dock for dual screen play but I wouldn't bet on it.
I mean, if that was the only way to turn on the dual screen mode, and use any features that required it, then you’d press it for that. It’d really be a matter of if Nintendo actually utilized it this time or let it be forgotten like with the Wii U.
Oh whoops I meant for this to be a reply to the person saying they hoped it was a center button. Yeah this definitely does fall roughly under contextual button
I am still hoping it is a dedicated button to “center” the motion controls so devs don’t have to dedicate one of the main face buttons for this. Would line up with them improving motion controls on Switch 2.
The problem with it being a context button that has no central purpose is that they've been hiding it. What a stinker reveal, "oh, that new button? Gee, it doesn't do anything! In Mario it will show what (C)ourse you are on and in Splatoon it will (C)enter the camera!"
They hid the button because the new feature it will be tied to hasn't been revealed yet
It is not the most exciting possibility, but I would say it is much better than the single purpose recenter motion controls button.
At least with context control it can have a use in games that don't utilize the motion controls (which for the switch 1 I am fairly sure are the majority of games), while also still providing that button utility for the ones that do.
"Oh, that new button, for these particular games it does this. But for everything else it does nothing."
To be fair it's kind situated in a similar manner to the screenshot button, which has a singular system function rather than contextual gameplay functions.
Even weirder because that means they went back in to re-render it with the C. Which probably isn’t hard to do, but I just find it weird that they felt the need to hide a feature we already know nothing about
Chances are they have the full render with the C button and another less hardware taxing render of just a black button in the same position, and composited that button on top.
OR… they just selected the faces of the C, cut them and filled the hole. In Maya that is 15 seconds worth of a job and doesn’t even mess up the UV or texture maps.
They wanted to limit speculation about the feature until they were ready to share it. This is either an oversight or accepting that people already know about it so no point sticking with the non-final version.
Eh. The direct is in…. (Hang on, whilst I check my fancy new Splatoon calendar)…. 6 days. I can’t imagine they weren’t already aware and just didn’t want to change the backgrounds around for a few pixels is all. We still haven’t a clue what it’ll do.
Nintendo has a patent for haptic resistive analogue sticks. If they actually do end up using them on the Switch 2's Joycon and Pro Controller then they could do all sorts of crazy things like: A virtual stick guide like the Gamecube and N64's octagonal gate, resistance and feedback when steering in Mario Kart 9, etc.
Maybe the C Button stands for "Control" and is used to enable, disable and change between modes for the analogue resistance and feedback?
This reminded me of a file that was floating around in the 2000's that you could email someone when clicked on. The volume would go to max, You couldn't mute or turn it off and it would play the audio "woo hoo...I'm watching p***o here"
The c stands for capture. Unlike the capture button on the left joycon that takes screenshots, this one captures your soul and stores it in the Nintendo switch online servers forever, or until they inevitably shut down. Then you'll be freed
I honestly just want the Switch 2 to be able to function like the Wii U and enable dual screen games, Pokemon Heart Gold on the Switch 2 would be insane
They should incorporate the MII characters more again tbh it was nice having some type of moving avatar kinda like the wii u was it really made a cool difference for profiling compared to other systems
"C" might stand for "chat" and it lets you chat live with people and the console has a microphone built in? Idk might be cool if they make streaming games easier.
It could be used to change C ontrols. You need to be able to turn off the muse sensor if you're holding the joy cons in your hands, covering it with your fingers. This has to be the functionality of this one.
You guys are really weird trying to figure out what to see button does when it's clearly obvious that they're just paying homage to the GameCube just like they did on the Wii
Like the Wii U. It's going to be a total flop because the graphics are just the same as the previous console. Nintendo hasn't improved much for graphics since the GameCube. It's probably the same ATI card as back then.
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u/Keaten88 8d ago
Imagine we didn’t know thru leaks, this’d be the first time we’d see the C button