@westman98 Well, all I know is that Playstation 5's are still extremely hard to come by, so given the way the industry is working at the moment, so would the "Switch Pro". I'm going to drop this now. You guys have fun speculating about an expensive games console that'll be near impossible to get because bots will beat you out!
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@westman98 It's not the only option but it's most risk-free option as 3D Zelda has a 100% success rate for launching new hardware (Twilight Princess on Wii and BotW on Switch).
@VoidofLight
And yet the PS5 has sold well over 20 million units. If it had only sold ~5 million units or so, then you would have a saliant point about shortages being so severe that Sony would have been better off just delaying its release, but that's clearly not the case.
I'm not suggesting the Switch Pro/2 is launching anytime soon, but 2025/2026 is a long, long time from now.
@westman98 You do realize that includes scalped consoles too right? There's a good chance that less than half that number are owned by actual gamers. The main problem is the production is limited due to the chip shortages so there are much fewer consoles than there would otherwise be which allows the scalper bots to end up with the lion's share of the consoles which the scalpers mark-up in price and sell for a HUGE profit...
Also iirc Sony had already produced 20+ million units before the chip shortages became an issue. So most of the units out there were manufactured before the pandemic created this supply chain nightmare...
@TowaHerschel7
Scalped consoles represent at best maybe 4-5% of all hardware units sold.
The idea that Sony produced 20 million PS5 units prior to it's launch is laughable, c'mon now. Manufacturers and/or retailers aren't going to sit on 20 million units of yet-to-be-sold hardware in their warehouses.
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@NintendoByNature Events are purposely set not to overlap with others like how we knew we weren't getting a Direct on the Tuesday of "not-E3 week" because Microsoft had Xbox Games Showcase Extended (deeper dive into some of the announcements in the main showcase) at that time.
Thursday's probably out of the question too given how insanely packed that day is (several TGS showcases and a "future of CoD" event).
Maybe as an exception for September, Nintendo picks Tuesday or it turns out Tuesday ends up being an Indie World? (it kind of looks bad on Nintendo if everyone's doing indie stuff but not Nintendo)
@StarPoint When we don't even have a date for it, it's a much easier pill to swallow if you ask me (and to be fair: can you blame them for delaying it when something like this has happened?). A similar thing happened a long time ago back in 2018 with the September Direct that revealed Luigi's Mansion 3, Animal Crossing Switch, etc. where there was a devastating earthquake in Japan a day or two before it was about to air and they delayed it out of respect to the victims of said disaster. It's honestly very appreciated when they choose to disrupt their own news schedule so that they can allow people to pay respects when such tragic things happen, very classy.
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It'll be obvious if the rumour is true because a load of 3rd parties will leak their own announcements from the Direct. That's what happened in September 2018, the Direct was delayed a week but 3rd party announcements like Civilization VI, Mega Man 11 demo and some of the Final Fantasy announcements got revealed by the 3rd parties themselves around the time of the originally planned Direct.
BBC news said the funeral will be in 10 days, if the rumours are true and the direct is mid week next week then there wouldn't be a clash, assuming it's true that Nintendo would postpone.
Maybe if the Direct was going to be on the day of the funeral they would delay, but I see no reason to not continue if it is next week.
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