Can anyone point to anything by Nintendo that actually said we are getting another console, Mario 64 and other Mario games.
Or is everything based on rumours and NL and others are implicit in stirring the pot.
@FragRed It was half joke, half serious. I could see a Direct on September 10th with us finally getting more info on the Switch holiday season and early 2021 but on the other hand I could see September 10th being a Series X event instead where we finally get the Xbox info (Series S, pricing, launch lineup, etc.) given the remaining Xbox stuff with release dates (Outer Worlds DLC, Tell Me Why chapters 2 and 3) is all released by September 10th. Whichever opens preorders first out of Microsoft and Sony will lead to the other opening them very soon after.
@Grumblevolcano I think there's basically no way that Microsoft will go first announcing a price. They know from experience that Sony will gazump them if they do and Microsoft will look stupid. You can't immediately roll back on a big price announcement - you have to live with it for a period of time and it's very difficult to recover from being overpriced on day one (see the Xbox One launch or the Sega Saturn launch or the PS3 launch).
I do think the game of chicken between Sony and Microsoft is influencing what Nintendo is choosing to communicate. This year there's such a big advantage to being the last one to make big announcements.
I think that @status-204 may be somewhere on the money in regards to the launch of the next gen consoles not going according to plan - but my guess would be that they'll both manage to get something out there. It could be for instance that Microsoft only release the Series S this year and have the Series X following after.
@StuTwo If Microsoft and Sony take the game of chicken to the complete extreme (not announcing until it has to be announced for retailer reasons), the system that releases first would have price revealed first because the price has to be revealed at least a certain amount of time before launch.
Well, neither has committed to a console launch date, either, @Grumblevolcano .... It'd presumably be at the very least a month's notice, of date & price?
@Grumblevolcano Definitely - there's a cliff edge in this game of chicken! You can't launch without a price and both are still launching this year. The idea of "pre-order before we even announce a price" might well be something we see though.
The bigger problem is that the longer you try to hold those cards to your chest the greater the chance that rumours and gossip risk taking the cards away from you. You can already see this when news outlets run articles on "Amazon declares PS5 costs £500!" or "PS5 costs less than we thought new Asda product page declares". When you launch such a big product you want to keep control of the narrative at all times. Wait too long and your control is gone.
Personally I think that it's pretty clear that Sony should go first. They are the clear market leaders and likely to stay as such. The longer they wait the more it suggests to the market that they have a lack of confidence in their own position. When you've outsold your rivals 3:1 and have a more cohesive offering overall you shouldn't be projecting fear in any way, shape or form.
@BruceCM I don’t why people keep writing off the Miles Spider Man game as if it’s not a system seller. The first one was a MASSIVE selling game and sold better than Horizon, God of War, Rachet & Clank, Final Fantasy etc.
I wouldn't buy any console for one game, even if that was my most hyped game ever or something .... Series X will have games coming around launch, depending exactly when that is It seems most people in my forums are talking about waiting to get the PS5, even the big Spiderman fans. Guess we'll have to see how it does actually go, though
@Slowdive I enjoyed listening to nate the hate walk back his prediction saying he's only as good as his sources and he only checks in his sources once or twice a month. Well maybe one you should check your sources more before making bold predictions and two perhaps you need better sources. Also he claims his podcast wasn't made to be at the forefront of leaking info yet that's exactly what he does and I'm sure that's where a large part of his followers come from. I much prefer spawnwaves simple rundown on the news. But hey it's great to have a half apology and an explanation that your sources either aren't great or you're too lazy to check on in them a day before.
And yes a nate the hate tweet on Tuesday that the date had shifted makes a big difference in if I should believe you as a video game leaker. Anyone can predict a direct. Details matter.
Lol I'm glad his #1 was the same as mine. Leaving out Galaxy 2 would be criminal. I'd say it's the best of the 3D games. I care about the Galaxy games a lot more than Mario 64, so I'm just hoping that a remastered Mario 64 doesn't become the core selling point of this. That's not to say I wouldn't appreciate a graphically improved 64, because I certainly would. But not if it comes at the expense of Galaxy 2.
@Dezzy Same, plus I think it should be really easy to remaster Galaxy 2 because both Galaxy games are basically the same mechanically, so once you've remastered one you've probably already done 80% of the work to bring over the other
I can't see them leaving out Galaxy 2 if they were to make a 3D Mario collection, that'd be a really bizarre decision and possibly a deal breaker for me. It's the best 3D Mario game. If for some strange reason one game needed to be sacrificed then get rid of Sunshine instead.
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