@VoidofLight Exactly. Arms did very well. They're not making Arms 2 not because it's niche (because it isn't niche) but because they usually wait till the next console to make a new fighting game.
@HotGoomba
If Nintendo make ARMS 2, I think there are a lot of things should be added.
1. Create your ARMS fighters from head to toe, voice tones like The Sims, specific gestures (walking style, victory pose, lost pose, etc), custom Super Moves, multiple save slots for saving custom ARMS fighters (should be at least 10 slots)
2. More characters for ARMS with more color variants and alternative looking.
3. Create your fighting arena from scratch, customize with some fancy items.
4. Boxing Mode, Normal boxing fight without extended arms so every ARMS characters included the custom characters will be converted into normal human style.
5. Boxing Cardio Workout mode. Similar as Fitness Boxing, you can choose your ARMS character to appear in screen like Fitness Boxing, choose the song from a lot of music selection.
6. Mini Games mode with more selection of activities.
@Slowdive I think TPC is waiting for the new Switch revision to be announced and that's why Pokemon has been completely absent along with just the release dates revealed back in late May. They're showing off Unite today so if they follow last year of mainline Pokemon and Unite news being a week apart, we could get revision announced very soon.
@Grumblevolcano Orrr they’re just playing it safe this year, since Masuda got harassed off the internet in 2019 due to the national dec controversy. They wouldn’t wait for a seitch revision to show more of BDSP, given it’s not that taxing on a normal switch.
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A couple days ago, I was super bored so I decided to find renders for every single thing announced at nintendo's e3 and put them all into a collagey thingy (Idk what to really call it). It took a while to find all the renders but I did it in the end. Hope you like it! For Cruis'n blast, I couldn't find a render so just took a car and put some fire in the exhaust lol also if you're wondering where skyward sword is, skyloft is the background. it's very hard to see with all the renders haha
@skywake You're absolutely right: IT certainly IS a broad field, and anything can (and sometimes will) happen. I am more of a hardware specialist, though, so I'm definitely not looking at things from a software perspective. And besides that, it's just my personal view/opinion/assessment, whatever you want to call it, that it's not going to happen right now, and perhaps may not ever happen. Considering the success of the current models of Switch, they might even stretch it out a bit more and simply pour any design and/or hardware ideas of any potential Switch Pro into their next generation of hardware instead, who knows? It's Nintendo, after all.
As for those correctly predicted things: if I remember correctly (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), that same person also "predicted" there being another Donkey Kong game, which should by now also have been revealed, and it obviously hasn't, and other rumors mentioned Switch versions of Windwaker and Twilight Princess, because of Zelda's anniversary, but all we got was the new teaser for Breath of the Wild and that Game & Watch handheld, which by the way was perfectly fine by me, since I wasn't expecting a slew of Zelda games anyway, so whether or not that prediction of "a lot of Zelda stuff coming" is true, also still remains to be seen.
Either way, as mentioned, in the end, it's just my opinion/view, and as with all personal sentiments, it might be incorrect, but for now, I feel I can confidently stand by it, and if it turns out otherwise, I'll gladly admit I was wrong. It won't annoy, anger or disappoint me, seeing as it's just a snapshot I've taken of the situation so far, and things can and will change, as they always do.
On a side note: I never look at things with my eyes half open. That wouldn't really make for a very good track record in my line of work, and I usually also tend to apply the same eye for detail to the things I have an interest in or care for in my personal life.
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@ThanosReXXX
There were loads of "rumours" before E3. A lot of them were obvious BS. The Bloomberg/Emily Rogers stuff I wouldn't put into that group.
Also, on "they could put it all into Switch 2". What is a Switch successor? What's the point of that? As you said the Switch is doing well, all the more reason to do revisions and push out the idea of a successor into "future".
I think the Pro is real partly because of the Bloomberg stuff. But also because, from a Dev's perspective, delaying platform change as much as possible makes sense to me. Especially with a platform selling as well as the Switch.
@skywake Well, I didn't mean a Switch 2, what I meant is that they never really make the same thing twice, so new hardware was/is already in development, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a Switch-like device, regardless of that specific medium now being so successful. Again: it's Nintendo after all, and that is usually their way.
I definitely agree with you on delaying a platform change, or a new platform, for that matter, for several reasons, and obviously, it's also in line with my current view on things.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
I don't care about the Switch Pro thing I won't buy regardless of what it is or isn't, but I will say, it coming out in 2022 makes a lot of sense when you realize the rest of these 2021 games are not the most popular or massive games Nintendo has made. None of these games will need a Switch Pro in any way, nor showcase why you should buy it. So big games come out later and the Switch Pro goes more or less along with it. Makes sense to me.
@ThanosReXXX
I'm of the view that a "Switch Pro" is likely either this year or early next year. And that it makes sense to do that because a revision that's ~2-3x the spec allows them to sit on their hands longer. Let the Switch experiment extend out to 2026.
But if they don't do that? Well, how many consoles have lasted more than 7 years? Remember, the Switch is 5 years old early next year. People have talked precedent when discussing "Switch Pro", I see a successor that makes the Switch obsolete ~2024 if we don't get a Switch Pro. That's the alternative.
Frankly I prefer the revision model for hardware. I see no reason for dramatically changing things up. I see the Switch as what Nintendo has been heading towards for the last 20 years. This is the end game. Let's hope they extended it
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@skywake a revision won't have 2-3x the specs. More likely under 1.5x (it would appears to be more because of higher fidelity due to dlss but do not expect to have games above 60fps for instance)
@skywake a revision won't have 2-3x the specs. More likely under 1.5x (it would appears to be more because of higher fidelity due to dlss but do not expect to have games above 60fps for instance)
I mean, to be fair to your point, it's hard to define differences in spec. Having more power is one thing the question is how much that power translates into real world performance. There will always be bottlenecks and not every load scales with additional power. With that said, the Switch uses a modified Tegra X1 SoC, first released in 2015. At the time the Switch launched this was the best Tegra SoC Nvidia had: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1
If they were doing a refresh now the most likely SoCs would be either Xavier which is pretty recent, about a year old now. At least double the memory bandwidth, if they go for the larger one about 4X. Tensor cores which is where you get DLSS. Raw GPU horsepower between 30% higher than the launch Switch (which is in the range of the current retail Switch) but upto 3X if they go all out. Likely they would go somewhere in the middle. These launched in 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Xavier
But it's not 2019, it's 2021. So it's possible they go with the next one up which would mean an Ampere based Tegra. Not much of a spec on this SoC yet because it's just in early sampling but Ampere is quite a leap in terms of efficiency over Volta. So potentially they could get well into the 2-3X range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Orin
Also you have to kinda remember that tech improves exponentially. Generally we see just under a 10X boost in raw performance between console generations. It's been a good 5 years since the Switch launch, a 50% bump in spec just isn't what you do after 5 years. I mean I tend to build myself a new PC every 5 years, I'm certainly getting more than a 50% bump every time. This was my last upgrade, my budget was actually lower for the more recent one.... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-4590-vs-AMD-Ryz...
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