{"id":3156,"date":"2025-07-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:12:58","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-2-is-the-closest-thing-to-a-modern-day-commodore-amiga-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-the-closest-thing-to-a-modern-day-commodore-amiga-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch 2 is the closest thing to a modern day Commodore Amiga \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A reader celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga and suggests that the Switch 2<\/a> is its closest current equivalent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a lot of fun to see the love for the Commodore Amiga this week<\/a>, which I had no idea was 40 years old. As has been pointed out, probably nobody outside of Europe either knows or cares about it now but to me it was the most important games format when I was kid. Which is to say it\u2019s what I had, and I couldn\u2019t afford a Mega Drive<\/a> or SNES<\/a>. Or rather I couldn\u2019t afford their games.<\/p>\n

Amiga games were a lot cheaper (and, well, you know) and they also seemed a lot more varied. To my eyes the vast majority of console games were just platformers of one kind or another. I never even heard of Zelda<\/a> or Final Fantasy<\/a> until the PlayStation era and while we never got anything as good as Sonic the Hedgehog<\/a> on the Amiga I can honestly say I wasn\u2019t that bothered.<\/p>\n

On the Amiga we had all kinds of crazy things, and lots of 3D games and games made in Europe and the UK which never appeared anywhere else. But as soon as consoles took over everything was made in Japan or the US and we\u2019ve never really gone back from that, even with modern indie gaming on the PC.<\/p>\n

PlayStation and Xbox aren\u2019t interested in anything but a small number of games from a small number of publishers. Heck, the whole point of Xbox is Microsoft wanted to make American companies dominate the games industry, so I can\u2019t say I\u2019m too upset that didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n

Thinking about what the modern equivalent of the Amiga is I guess you\u2019d have to say it\u2019s the PC, but it doesn\u2019t feel that way to me. It\u2019s too unfocused and you have to use Steam to get anything out of it, which is very American focused.<\/p>\n

Weirdly it\u2019s the Nintendo Switch 2 which feels the closest to the Amiga to me, assuming it works out similar to the original Switch. Although the fact that it has a mouse by default already increases the comparisons, so I hope it makes good use of that.<\/p>\n

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But it\u2019s really just how strange and varied all the games are, with no first person shooters or sad dad story games so far, just the crazy Mario Kart and Donkey Kong games and the promise that future games will be as weird as the Switch line-up was. Especially as Drag X Drive even looks a bit like Speedball 2.<\/p>\n

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