I think Nintendo is dancing into dangerous territory here. I have a feeling this thing is going to be loaded with anti-features here specifically designed to curtail modding, piracy, and even unlicensed peripherals. The games themselves are going to get HD re-re-eleases and Nintendo will charge you full price again for the moderate upgrade.
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So everything as usual
The steam deck isn't successful for nothing. It's the ultimate open mobile gaming platform
Sold my switch for a deck 🤷your move Nintendo
I'm betting on a game streaming service
They got so cheesed after Nvidia shipped the device with the RCM exploit.
I hope they follow tradition and call it the Super Switch
NewNintendo3DSwitch&Knuckles
Also featuring Dante from Devil May Cry Series.
Now with Funky Mode!
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How is that tradition? It happened one time. Successor name suffixes and prefixes used: super, color, advance, mini, 64, i, 3, new, u. It could be anything.
Edit: ah no, there was also super game boy, I guess that's the only one they repeated. But that was specifically for super NES compatibility.
Switch
Super Switch
Switch 64
Switch i
New Switch
Switch U
These are all confirmed by the comment above!
New 3Switch 64i
Switchty Four
Do "i", "mini" and "new" really count as new consoles? i and new were just upgrades to the same console, I believe, and I'm not sure what "Mini" was even for..
Uh, there was a GameBoy Micro, but that's the closest that comes to mind.
Oops yes I meant the micro, not mini
I mean, they were direct successors. I imagine the next console won't be something completely different than the switch, so I imagine I will be some sort of switch 2.
None of those were direct successors, though
The Super Nintendo Entertainment Switch
Nah, Switch U or go home.
No u
Switch OLED
How about the Swiitch? You get the roman numeral 2 in there and the name's similar enough to the original Switch, so customers will be confused as to whether this is a new console or an iteration of the current one. Just like the Wii U!
Super Switchtendo
It's an Nvidia chip, so Switch Super.
Who am I kidding, if they followed Nvidia it'd be Switch AI.
Super Switch 4064 Ti Super Ti (one is pronounced T-I, the other is "tie")
Or Ultra Switch, as a throwback to the 64's name before it was officially announced, which also means lots of Ultra games.
SwitchU, if anything.
I don’t think they’re in a hurry to repeat the WiiU
Switch Advanced
A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we'll hear of Switch 2 "this fiscal year" - before the end of March 2025.
But the message also damps down any expectation we'll hear about Switch 2 in the next few months - as Furukawa rules out any further details being shared in an upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for June.
Furukawa wrote. "We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.
"We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation."
Fuck me, they announced the first switch in 2015?
That thing was underpowered when it came out, let alone now. They could likely grab a bunch of sales by coming out with a higher-powered system alongside a cheaper version, because many people would like to play games at higher than 25 fps.
Who cares if it was underpowered ffs. I just want to play fun games.
Because Tears of the Kingdom felt like it was running at 24 fps and 720p, with even further framerate drops, making it feel unplayable.
So it's become difficult just to actually play games on it. The games have surpassed the ability of the hardware.
And yet it was one of the best gaming experiences ever, no matter the framerate and resolution.
Been a long time since fidelity was interesting to notice, tbh. Don't get me wrong, all else being equal I'd take 165Hz and 4k over 24Hz and 720p. But all else isn't equal. And the better game easily wins.
I read all the time that TotK has terrible performance, but i never noticed in all the time I played it. I guess growing up playing on old pc hardware made me tolerate shitty framerates.
Felt like it was doing just fine to me for how advanced the systems were on a console that was six years old. I do wish you were able to play it, it's an awesome game, it indeed has ambitions that surpass the hardware, but I do think they managed to pull it off, if only by the skin of their teeth.
While I disagree that the game was unplayable, I first played the game emulated at 4K@60K with AutoHDR (surprisingly decent) and it's almost criminal how poor it looks on native hardware by comparison. The game scales really well.
Maybe with a new Nvidia kit we'll get DLSS and Frame Gen. And I expect ToTK to get a new port.
I fucking care when I only play docked and games like xenoblade chronicles 3 fucking lag in places. The switch is used least for me between an s, ps5 and a midrange pc despite it having "fun games"
I use the switch for specific console games, and my PC for everything else. Don't compromise with shitty consoles to play PC Games.
Can also confirm excessive lag with XC3. Also, when jumping into the depths in TotK, game would freeze off and on. These Nintendo apologists are wild. The Switch was utilizing outdated hardware when it dropped. I'll be impressed if the Switch 2 has at least PS4 level hardware.
Keep in mind, underpowered hardware means lower price, which means more sales. It worked with the Wii, it worked with the Switch. I fully expect people to bitch about the Switch2 being underpowered, using "ancient" stuff from 2020-21
"Lateral thinking with withered technology." Nintendo gave up on competing technologically with its competitors after the GameCube, and it proved to be a good decision.
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So, it's an announcement for an announcement? We don't know anything about it, other than that it's in development.
They are announcing that they are ready to announce the announcing of a future announcement of further announcements.
Maybe they'll actually upgrade the hardware to be half decent on this thing, if they want to discourage piracy, make better shit. If I want to play any switch games currently, I'll just pirate them and play it on the steam deck.
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