Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console 'Within This Fiscal Year' (ign.com) 17
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console "within this fiscal year," so at some point before March 31, 2025. From a report: In a statement published to X / Twitter, Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, confirmed the new console as Nintendo published its financial report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. Furukawa also confirmed a Nintendo Direct for this June, but said there will be no mention of the Switch successor during that presentation. Instead, it will focus on Switch games for the latter half of 2024.
Consistent with Nintendo practice... (Score:2)
... the controls will be weird AF and it'll have about half the processing power of a Steam Deck.
"The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape them together." [hackaday.com] - Chris Hecker
Re:Consistent with Nintendo practice... (Score:5, Interesting)
the controls will be weird AF and it'll have about half the processing power of a Steam Deck
Yes. It absolutely will do this. But if a powerful console is what you were expecting, clearly you haven't been paying attention to Nintendo since the GameCube. They aren't looking to capitalize on hardware power but on their Intellectual Property. That's literally what they have going for them. The fact the people will fall over themselves in droves for a good Mario platformer, another open-world Zelda, a shoot 'em up Metroidvania, a Mario Kart, or any other of the IP that Nintendo commands a pretty hefty loyalty over.
I mean every go round we hear everyone shouting the "shortcomings" of Nintendo's console or their shitty consumer tactics of having everyone rebuy all their old stuff for the newest platform. And every time, millions of people empty their pockets for Nintendo, showing that all that lackluster hardware or all that abusive relationship that Nintendo puts their customers through means jackshit at the end of the day. Because people kept begging Nintendo to depart them of thousands of dollars of cash.
So yeah. The console will be absolute trash from a pure specs view. Yeah. So bullshit marketing thing will happen and suddenly you need to rebuy literally everything for the new console. And lots of Nintendo fans will absolutely do it to a degree to make Nintendo profitable yet again. Or it'll be a WiiU, but the biggest killer of the WiiU was Nintendo hoping that the Wii name would carry people into it. The marketing for the new console was trash so it never had the penetration to draw any third party from the word go.
That said, I won't be buying Nintendo's newest trash. I'm pretty done with supporting their massively hostile approach to consumers. But even so, I'm not doubting that should they actually market this fucking thing, that they'll convince enough people with their strong IP to fork over another couple of thousands on a garbage system.
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Switch COVID-19 (Score:2)
Suddenly, parents decided that a thing to occupy the kids, with its own screen, was liquid gold. (And 3DS units started selling like hotcakes too, same reason).
This.
Absolutely this.
Specially since it was already old by then -- thus tons of games available and tons of stock to sell from.
Valve SteamDeck really missed on that one. It was affected by production shortages like other Switch competitors. Otherwise, it would have probably also sold good numbers for the exactly same reasons (low price for the entry level; has its own screen; in-FUCKING-sane bazillions of games available from Steam). But as I've written elsewhere: maybe the next 2026 Influenza pandemic will
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Not wrong (Score:2)
I recently had someone tell me that he didn't realize the Wii U was a separate console. He thought it was an add-on for the Wii.
Given the hardware's spec, they aren't entirely wrong. Except that this "add-on" was never sold separately, you always had to rebuy a slightly souped up Wii bundled together with your - let's call it "U tablet".
With that said, I just read something this morning that the Switch is close to breaking the PS2 in terms of most consoles ever sold,
Interestingly both these consoles benefited from some very special circumstances that contributed to their commercial success:
- Sony PlayStation 2 supported DVD movies out-of-the-box, right at a time when this video format was new and desirable. So PS2s could also act as decent but dead cheap DVD mo
Re: Consistent with Nintendo practice... (Score:2)
a steam deck is also twice the weight
Nintendo burnt too many older fan's bridges (Score:2)
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Switch is the first Nintendo console I've personally owned and I don't foresee it not being the last. The game I actually got it for (Ring Fit Adventure) was a dud compared to my fond memories of Wii Fit and the Nintendo shop is hot garbage at convincing me to ever buy anything so the whole console went basically unused. The couple of games I did buy that weren't Mario Odyssey I wish I had bought on Steam instead because the experience would've been better.
Better be a superset of the original Switch (Score:4, Funny)
All my current Switch games had better work on this thing. I've got a lot invested and very few are on cart.
Re: Better be a superset of the original Switch (Score:3)
I think it's time to pump the breaks on yoyr digital purchase habits. These content owners are not terribly reliable when it comes to honoring your game collection. I learned that with the Wii store and went back to bidding on original cartridges instead of Nintendos virtual console scam.
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I'm hoping that games for it work on the original Switch as well. Maybe with degraded graphics or whatever, like games that work on both PS4 and PS5.
Truth be told the only game I'm really interested in is Mario Maker 3, and it would suck if I had to buy a new console just to play that.
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Only physical titles can be an investment. With those, you have printed artwork, a reasonably robust storage case, plus the bitter little physical cartridge. Also, you can lend, give, collect, play indefinitely as long as the hardware functions, or, most importantly, resell.
With digital titles, all you have a license to play the game. Until you don't.