Topic: The Nintendo Switch Rumor and Speculation Thread

@SwitchForce It’s insanely insensitive to point the finger at a Gamefreak employee over a databreach. That’s not how these sorts of things work, and most of the employees are just doing their job. People can get into servers of a company without someone “browsing the internet” on a work computer. Data can be compromised in many other ways.

Crikey, I'd already forgotten about the playtest, and I'm registered to take part!

This is the week, right?

Word round the campfire is that Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 is getting announced on March 4th.

Does anyone think it's still possible to get a switch 1 direct before April?

No. I think that ship has sailed, that dog don't hunt and the door has closed.

Gimme more THPS any day of the week.

@Magician Wonder if it will get a Switch 1 port or it’ll be revealed alongside the Switch 2 Direct.

@GrailUK @Mothertroid Definitely think we aren’t going to get a Switch 1 Direct. But there could be third party announcements Nintendo can make by dropping them on social media like they’ve done in the past.

I honestly feel like last week was the last solid opportunity for a Switch 1 Direct, but it's only doubly so after this week's come and gone. I think Switch 1 is pretty much done now (we'll probably still get a smattering of Switch 1 games here and there like what they did with the 3DS, but almost everything has shifted to Switch 2 at this point). We're waiting for April 2nd now. That much is obvious.

I think we're just gonna get some shadow dropped trailers and stuff over the next 5 weeks before the Switch 2 Direct.

Yeah, I think it we were going to have a Switch 1 Direct we would've had one by now. We're just barely over a month away from that April Direct. Technically we're about as close to the April Direct as we are from the Switch 2 reveal, give or take a couple of days. And the first half of it was pretty quiet so.... I'm sure we'll survive

I think the April Switch 2 Direct isn't going to be the big info blowout everyone's expecting. Yes there'll be some new 1st party games shown off like a proper reveal for Mario Kart, the announcement of a game that uses mouse mode and a reveal of the new 3D Mario but it mostly being a hardware and 3rd party event. The big Switch 2 1st party focused Direct would be the normal mid/late June slot.

So by taking that into account, a Switch 1 general Direct would still make sense for 1st half of March (March 13th being the final day that makes sense but March 5th/6th being most likely).

@Grumblevolcano Where are you getting this from? Why do you think the April direct won't be the big one that actually reveals the console's functions, the release date, and the games Nintendo's making for it? If the system is releasing in the summer (which it seems like there's a good chance for it to be), it would make more sense for it to be fully shown off in April. Especially when it's a full blown direct that'll last for the full duration of a direct.

@Grumblevolcano I strongly disagree here. As I mentioned in a post on another thread, I think they reveal the Switch 2's 1st party lineup for 2025 in the April Direct. Between that and 3rd party announcements during the summer showcases (SGF, Xbox Showcase, etc), Nintendo won't need to do anything on their end for Switch 2 outside standard marketing until September, which is when they start talking 2026 titles.

I expect there to be no June Direct at all, a Partner Showcase for Switch 1 at most.

@VoidofLight We knew a lot more about Switch 1 in October 2016 than we currently know about Switch 2 so I think the January Switch 2 reveal was a direct response to the December leaks and what Nintendo truly wanted was have a bigger initial reveal in March (something more like the October 2016 Switch 1 reveal).

There obviously needs to be enough hardware and software info for the Switch 2 Experience events to work. I just think that they'll save a lot of 1st party news for a mid/late June Direct and then launch the system in September.

The advantage of saving 1st party news for June is that you'll be seeing lots of 3rd party Switch 2 announcements in June via other events like Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase so you'd be able to tell people that on top of all that there's a stellar 1st party lineup incoming.

So ahh, something interesting for this thread specifically. Nintendo basically just confirmed there was a Switch Pro that existed

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Develo...

So we decided to make a prototype, but at the time, Switch 2 hadn't even taken shape yet, so the research was done on a Switch console with increased memory and an improved CPU. Because both teams had done so much research in advance, the prototype was completed in only six months, give or take.

So we decided to make a prototype, but at the time, Switch 2 hadn't even taken shape yet, so the research was done on a Switch console with increased memory and an improved CPU. Because both teams had done so much research in advance, the prototype was completed in only six months, give or take.

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I’d really love to know the specs of the Switch they used to prototype with, and if they tested with other games as well. Maybe in the next mega leak … 😔