Nintendo Direct broadcasts have become something of a fixture of the industry. They're now the company's default way of…
  • slimerancher@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ubisoft mentioned in some recent interview that Nintendo recommended they don’t release Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope on Switch, and hold it for the next version of console. It’s better to release one game from each series on a console.

    Which suggests that next 3D Mario, and Mario Kart would be on next console, but then they released two Xenoblade and two Zelda on one console, so don’t know how strict they are about all this.

    Thing is, you never know with Nintendo, we may call the direct “sunset slate”, but we have 3 first party games in this year. Zelda, Pikmin and 2D Mario. Doesn’t look like Nintendo is slowing down, but let’s see.

      • slimerancher@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        1 year ago

        There’s no doubt next console version is in R&D, question is, when are they going to release it.

        With all the rumours of Switch Pro, even from some respectable insiders, it seems there was plan of Switch Pro but it was cancelled. So, they are definitely working on next console, but when and how they release them is still a question.

        Personally, I am excited for next iteration, and afraid that Nintendo might step away from Switch design for some other gimmick.

        • TheYang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Phew, Switch was 2 years between announcement and release, roughly 18 months between WiiU announce and Release, Similar to the Wii.

          So If I had to guess, they’ll either Announce in the September Nintendo Direct, or the one following, start of 2024

          • Grangle1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I’d put money on 2024 at the earliest. Don’t want to ruin a holiday game sales season by basically giving customers a reason not to buy stuff this holiday and save for the fancy new console. Announcing early 2024 will allow people to still do that saving over the year (assuming a holiday 2024 launch) while not potentially sabotaging this year’s sales.

  • cities@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    is there supposed to be a link to something here? i’m not seeing it, could be the app

  • deejay4am@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nintendo will probably start talking about its new hardware over the summer, or by autumn at the latest.

    (If my information is accurate) Didn’t Nintendo say on an investor call that they wouldn’t be announcing any new hardware until at least Q1 2024? So, by fiscal year that would be April of 2024 correct?

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I knew it this whole time. Nintendo purposely delayed Metroid Prime 4 to make it a launch title for their next console to force people to buy that one instead.

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I have a theory that the intended to do it in 2020-/2021, but COVID chip shortages and such threw a wrench into their plans, they already had their hands on the OLED panels they planned to use for them, but couldn’t get whatever they needed for the rest of the upgrade, so they came out with the OLED to use them up because they decided by the time things normalized and they could ramp up production on the refresh it would’ve been to late in the switch lifecycle to be worth it since they were already kind of pushing it to begin with.

  • stephenc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Update to what? Nintendo can release any game it wants and release it on one of the most popular consoles ever, and they want to get rid of this? They want to make a new console? Updating technology made sense back in the old days when things were moving quickly, but now? What are you going to do, make everything look slightly better?

    Get over it. Technology isn’t going to advance that much more. Put a holding pattern on your hardware and ride it out for years to come. Just because Sony and Microsoft want to throw out yet another version of their barely updated hardware console and PC users decide that yet another overpriced, overpowered, overheating card is absolutely necessary doesn’t mean it makes any sense. Nintendo has the opportunity to grow a brand here and gain trust by allowing their hardware to become a standard. Lower its price. Retool its design. The portable Switch thing was a good idea. Just don’t change your actual system and allow games to be released for a single system for a good long while for once in console history.

    All they’re doing now is getting ready to bring out another fucking WiiU that no one cares about after the phenomenal success of the Wii.

    This is why PC is always superior. Not because of graphics. Because there is a consistency, and flexibility. People always believe that PC gaming is better because “oh, PC gamers buy $3000 PCs and play games on ultramegasuperhigh resolution”. Bullshit. It’s because we can play all the PC games, ever, and have the flexibility to play exactly what we want and not be forced into playing only what a company allows us to play.

    Nintendo should stick with the Switch, or push moving to PC gaming. Enough of this constant pointless console treadmill updating.

      • Fireproofjeans@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Not to mention that, assuming they’re just using a more modern nvidia SOC, it’ll be pretty easy to make it backwards compatible as it’s pretty much designed to be backwards compatible as-is.

        The switch’s successor will just be able to handle more modern games better and remove existing performance issues. And maybe have a 1080p screen.