TL;DR 640x480
This should be illegal. We had webcams like this 20 years ago. But Nintendo customers seem to enjoy outdated hardware. It’s a tradition at this point
It’s a crappy 3rd party accessory. Haven’t all consoles suffered similar?
Hori are well-known for their high quality controllers of all kinds. It’s pretty sad that they put out a piece of garbage like this.
My experience with Hori has been terrible, highly rated controller went to shit in months with drift and buttons drop inputs when held down
I mean, it kinda makes sense as a webcam for only being used with the Switch 2… from a ‘minimum viable product’ standpoint.
4 picture in picture windows of 640 x 480 on a 1920 x 1080 screen?
Eh, good enough, rofl.
I mean yeah, this is a joke, I also had a 640 x 480 webcam 20 years ago… but its very clear Nintendo has pivoted to the ‘milk all the accumulated goodwill out of our customer base’ phase of grand corporate strategy.
They’ve gone full Mr. Krabs.
but they also sell an official, better quality one, 1080p, without the flower
matt gray made a camera cover for it
Nintendo missed an opportunity to make a good, cute one.
Not that I would ever want to be filmed while gaming. If I did, I’d at least try to make a few bucks by streaming.
I like muted looks since it goes into a living room. Bought XSX over PS5 for this reason (among others).
As to usefulness, it’s a toy. Making faces while overtaking someone in Mario Kart for all to see is pretty funny.
If you don’t want to see others making faces, can you disable this?
If you don’t want to see their faces you have to stay in the lead.
lol, I can’t make up my mind if it will be fun or annoying to play Mario Kart with you.
Absolutely no reason to buy it unless you love the design. Third party webcams will work with the switch 2.
Yeah, I wanted this when it was originally announced but recall reading after that the specs aren’t so good. We finally have the confirmation / review now.
Those camera modules for laptops are worth almost nothing with modern resolutions. How greedy can Nintendo be if they cut costs this way???
At least they didn’t make it proprietary so you could use one of these modules instead if you solder a USB cable to it, for like 5$
This is a Hori product, official Nintendo camera is much better (but also kinda overpriced).
Oh, I missed that. That’s actually a bit surprising since Hori usually makes very high quality stuff.
Charging premium while delivering worse than Ali-express
