I feel more positive about there being a Switch 2 announcement than others who have been speculating. Mostly because I think getting the Switch 2 launch right is more important to Nintendo than any holiday sales.
They need to get the messaging right because for a lot of people the original Switch is still fine, it will still play Fortnite and Mario Kart for probably years to come, which is honestly all many people need. So as much time and space Nintendo can give to advertise the merits of buying a new system, and show all the exclusive games that are coming, and give time for 3rd party developers to announce ports of popular games the better.
The big caveat is that it's very stupid to try and speculate with any confidence about Nintendo, they do what they want, when they want!
How do you sit on millions of units and not have it leak before you can officially reveal it?
@FragRed I don't pretend to know the logistics. But for comparison, PS5 sold what...20 million units in its first year? Yet it was still difficult to obtain at retail a couple years in. If Nintendo are going to actually tackle the issue, they'd better flood the market with their new console at launch. Otherwise it's nothing but pretty-speak.
Nintendo just retweeted a IGN tweet. So that’s their first post of the day. Kinda weird. Wonder if they just decided not to tweet anything themselves because of the insane rumours going around, or if there’s still an announcement to come.
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I don’t have Twitter/X, but how many tweets does NoA usually make in a day? I’m assuming that on normal days their tweets are on already announced games and showcase trailers. Just asking since it seems like from what some people have been saying, it implies they have been super quiet as of late compared to how they usually are. I kind of don’t expect anything significant this week besides the SNES drop they announced yesterday.
EDIT: I should add that I don’t think that their tweeting schedule is going to lead to a Direct or any big announcement.
Although it's weird that they haven't tweeted anything at all today, I never expect a Nintendo announcement after 10:00 or 11:00 am est. In the past, when this kind of thing has happened, everyone speculates that there's a big direct announcement incoming, and then they post some random ad in the evening and call it a day.
@VoidofLight This week was perfect timing for an announcement since it was the one available week, but Nintendo seemingly isn’t taking the opportunity.
Are people now moving on to October for the Switch Successor announcement? I still stand on week of October 7th, if it’s not that week it won’t seem very likely to be announced this year at all.
Not gonna lie, this new lawsuit kind of makes me wish they would wait for a decent while before announcing the new console/next direct. It would suck if the next big thing was tainted by the inevitable discourse.
Best-case scenario, Nintendo and Pocket Pair settle everything out of court soon with as little conflict as possible (preferably without shutting down Palworld).
Even if Palworld gets removed from sale, it was sort of warranted. Tired of people acting like Nintendo is in the wrong in the situation when they have legal grounds to stand on. The game devs from Pocketpair are unapologetic about copying other games. The CEO has been on record to say how Nintendo themselves pretty much spends too much time making new ideas instead of copying others, like he seems to think is "efficient."
Wouldn't surprise me if the case is literally one where Pocketpair either stole mechanics or systems from TPCi that were patented.
(Also the people who keep mentioning that Nintendo just wants to be the only one making Monster taming games don't understand that Yokai Watch was rivaling pokemon in Japan for a good few years TPCi didn't try to counteract Level 5 with a lawsuit for making games with similar business models to Pokemon along with the whole "creature collecting" angle. There's also a ton of other modern monster collecting games on switch- all made by Japanese devs).
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I am a bit surprised that Palworld lawsuit was more over patent infringement and not really copyright infringement, given a lot of people have pointed out how some of Palworld’s monster designs look very close to various Pokémon designs or look close to ripping them off. Anyway, I don’t think that lawsuit has any relation to a direct or really hinders or increases the chances of one happening. I still don’t really expect a Direct to happen at all, seems more and more unlikelier by the day. Guess we will still wait and see, could be a chance they could but I don’t really expect one. I think next week is probably the last chance for one to happen this month, given they have held a Direct on the 23rd of September once. But, I honestly would not be surprised if a Direct didn’t happen next week.
@VoidofLight Exactly. If anything, Yo-Kai Watch kind of influenced Gen 7 of Pokemon (I wouldn't know firsthand, but I've seen talk about how Z-Moves are basically Soultimate moves, while things like the Rotom Dex and Poke-finder also are clearly Yo-Kai Watch inspired). Plus, Nintendo even threw their weight behind Yo-Kai Watch for a while, and while it's not clear if that was a call made by the suits in Japan or not, it very well could've been, since I'm pretty sure Iwata was the driving force behind Nintendo throwing their weight behind Dragon Quest and beginning to publish the games in the West. Nintendo of Europe also just offered Cassette Beasts as a Game Trial. It's quite clear that this isn't just Nintendo targeting a Pokemon competitor because they think they should have a monopoly on all games about collecting monsters. If Nintendo is suing, they absolutely think they have a justifiable reason to do so - it's not because Palworld sold well and they don't like that.
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