Topic: Nintendo Switch 2 Predictions

I think they plan on calling it “Campus” based on that leak.

Hoping it could have also been for a new social media service like VidMiio as a successor to Miiverse, especially since Nintendo no longer allows us to post directly to Twitter.

@MrCarlos46
Yeah, "Campus" was the leaked codename, but no one knows the real name.

That "Vidmiio" rumor is a load of garbage, the people who "leaked" it completely made it up.

@westman98
Yea, you're probably right. It's a bummer. I'm playing World Ends With You right now on Switch, and it's... yea. lol

@MrCarlos46
I guess so, right? However they do it with phones, basically.

It really would be such a cool feature, though, even if it's pretty tame. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess on Wii U were cool with having your inventory always in front of you on the gamepad, and the main action on the TV. Nothing crazy, just neat.

And in reality Nintendo won’t be making another social media service again.

I just hope they make an easier way to send our photos and videos tho.

@MrCarlos46 I'm not sure about that to be honest, Nintendo creating their own social media platform for Switch 2 would explain why they haven't created Bluesky accounts yet. With the state twitter has been in especially over the past few months, Nintendo creating Bluesky accounts and having Bluesky be their main source of social media presence felt like the obvious next step.

@Grumblevolcano Remember what also happened with Swapnote? Maybe that’s what’s deterring Nintendo from making another social media service.

I would like to see Bluesky integration on Switch 2 tho.

@Grumblevolcano To be fair, neither PlayStation or Xbox really do much with their Bluesky accounts. Big business is notoriously slow at adapting to such changes.

Whether we like it or not, twitter has well over 20x the reach as Bluesky. Rejecting twitter would hurt their sales pretty bad, particularly going into Switch 2 era. Considering this is a company whose main goal is to get money, there's no way they're doing that to themselves.

It's nearly impossible to migrate most people off a social platform (especially when it comes to an insanely popular one like twitter). I heard that facebook and another social media were adapting changes like twitter, so at this point it'll be hard to avoid that style of social media (most people don't seem to mind it though) (also this is coming from someone that doesn't have social media, and I mainly just see posts from Nintendo Life articles or NoA.)

I was thinking of the eShop card design and how it would change within almost every generation. The first design came with the 3DS and got used for the Wii U. They updated it again for the Switch (with a small update in 2023 to remove any mentions of the 3DS and Wii U due to their eShops closing).

Will we likely see another design change to go in with Switch 2 or is the current design gonna add the Switch 2 logo in the back?

The Xbox Developer Direct wrapped up and had PS5 listed in the event multiple times but no Switch 2 so we can now safely assume that any Switch 2 3rd party announcements are being saved for the April 2nd Switch 2 Direct at the earliest.

@Grumblevolcano Either Xbox wanted to surprise us or Nintendo ordered Xbox to wait until after the Switch 2 Direct before they could start showing off games for Switch 2.

Every big third party publisher appears to be on some sort of gag order until April 2nd.

The next 69 days are going to be long and arduous.

Yeah it was obvious that the reveal trailer was NOT when the "floodgates" would open for 3rd party announcements (contrary to common speculation and what Nate the Hate and Jason Schreier said), and that you won't really see anything until the April Direct.

At best you'll get general talks of support, but no specific game announcements

Nintendo probably went to game developers like “Just because we already revealed the system doesn’t mean you can start showing off games for it right away. That will have to wait until after we upload our Switch 2 Direct.”

@Ulysses We’re probably not gonna see Nintendo do anything related to Bluesky for a few more years, but it doesn’t mean they’ll consider adding Twitter integration again.

With the whole Vidmiio thing being false, we’ll probably never see Nintendo make their own social media service again.

Part of why we may never see Nintendo make another social media service could be due to the Swapnote incident.

The most we’ll ever get at this point would be Campus if that rumor is even true unlike Vidmiio.

I wouldn't use view counts as a metric here. It's well known that social media sites count you loading your feed and having a video in it as you scroll past as a view. While a view on YouTube requires you to physically click on the link and open the video

That dual-screen patent Nintendo signed in 2022 or 2023 could probably be for a potential dual-screen attachment that connects with the top USB-C cable.

Maybe something like the Steam Deck DNA Duo or something similar.

@Ulysses They’re probably not even ready to say goodbye to Twitter as of now.

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