Huh. I always heard 3 copies, 2 locations, 1 of the locations offsite. Yours makes sense though.

Only one reply saying you should involve your wife in this decision. Not enough.

You need to involve your wife in this decision. Her use case is nothing for a modern laptop, either Windows or Mac. Anything new will run like a dream in comparison to what she’s got. Literally anything. Get her to a physical store to type on the keyboards and make sure she likes whatever models are in contention. This is highly personal and subjective so other opinions aren’t worth much.

I do think it worth mentioning that switching ecosystems isn’t something to do lightly. She needs to be involved in that decision. I’ve used both Windows and Mac. I’m comfortable with both, but generally prefer Windows. They are way too different to treat the possibility of switching flippantly.

This feels like a very natural progression to me, I really don’t see a problem with it as long as they continue to make sure their games are the core of the model and use other media as supplemental ways to build up brand and character awareness. I think anyone would agree that some types of stories are better told via games and others via movies, shows, or books. Broadening their scope allows for more stories to be told.

And theme parks or things of that nature are just cool ways for people to tangibly experience Nintendo IP.

I’m all for it.

Don’t be silly, you also need some chewing gum and bits of string.

It’s astonishing that this game continues to receive support. Pretty impressive dedication from a one man developer.

Oh no! Anyway…

I mean…you’re still in the opening of the game. The tutorials stop once you get into the meat of things. Maybe I’m just spoiled by having played Skyward Sword with its extremely pervasive tutorials, but these aren’t even something I noticed in TotK.

You keep mentioning how sloppy it is. What apart from the tutorial issue do you find sloppy? I’d like to understand because the prevailing take on the game is that it is BotW but bigger and better in basically every way. I’m about 120 hours in and I tend to agree pretty strongly with that sentiment.

Awesome thanks. Purchased. I’ll be happy to do the repair just once.

Got a link to those? I preemptively bought some sticks 2 years ago or so and I’m finally getting drift on my launch day joycons.

If I can buy Hall effect sticks and do this just once I’ll buy those.

The unfortunate thing for your desires is that portability is the reason the Switch has been so successful, and is also the reason it doesn’t have “modern” specs. I’m sure the next system will be much more powerful, but I’m also sure it won’t even be near the power of the PS5 or XSX because I am 100% sure it will still be a console that can be played on the go.

Thankfully as home consoles have much more transparently become purpose-built PCs using variations on off the shelf hardware, ratcheting down graphics to function on a lower power system isn’t nearly as hard as it used to be.

This is honestly the biggest thing. I’d add Nintendo account support with the ability to bring over digital purchases to the new system.

If they do those two things I will buy the next system no matter what other things they do with it.

Yeah this is an issue not exclusive to Home Assistant unfortunately. I’ve been dabbling in home automation for years, and every single piece of equipment I have every purchased has at least once gotten flaky or straight up died for absolutely no reason. It’s just part of life with home automation it seems like.