Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FragRed
That's not the point. It's not about whether or not "most" will move across to the main series. I don't think anyone is suggesting they will. But it's hard to argue against the idea that Pokemon Go is free advertising for Pokemon. It's raising awareness for the brand. So when the full game comes out? I reckon it'll do better than it otherwise would have because of that.

This has been what Nintendo has said from the start. That mobile isn't there to replace other platforms it's there mostly as a kind of advertisement for their IP. One that happens to also make a bit of money on the side. In the case of Pokemon Go quite a bit of money.... but still...

Exactly. It wasn't my suggestion that 50million consumers of Pokemon Go or whatever would suddenly become 50m consumers of the Pokemon series, but that a fraction of that base may decide to invest in other Nintendo hardware to play Pokemon titles.

I've already seen around a lot online people who are interested in picking up Red/Blue/Yellow again from the eshop after getting back into Pokemon via the app. If they can cleverly coincide Pokemon Sun/Moon in-app content later this year then this again might interest people in picking up the new title.

@dtjive Brand awareness is the biggie. PokemonGo has such a wide spread audience of 'non traditional gamers' that when their kids or future kids want a present, they are going to think Pokémon instead of not having a clue and buying them something they don't want (we have all been there lol)

They've already said that the mobile animal crossing will link into the proper games somehow. And that's probably not going to be any of the games already out...

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2016/07/gamestops_boss_just_hi...

Tbh I think this and Xbox One S are part of why nx is 2017. In addition to games not being ready yet, I think the hardware rumors earlier in the year spooked them.(they'll never admit it though.) After all we must remember how Nintendo's holiday 2013 went with the launches of ps4 and xbone

@WebHead I think nintendo is wise enough to not compete in a crowded space. They tried being first with the wii U and that worked wonders... the holiday period of launching is understandable yet not a given.

If they time it, the march thing seems plausible. If they really did have hardware constraints themselves, I don;t expect anything before june.

Is it just me or has it been a long time since we had any meaty rumours to get misled into a frenzy by?

@gcunit The rumour sources are too busy playing Pokemon GO

@gcunit Shhh omg you'll jinx it!

@Grumblevolcano
Nah, its the Nintendo Ninjas, they have been working overtime. It is a bit curious that Nintendo managed to keep the Nes mini (that must be already in production) from having a single leak.

I wonder if the massive success of Pokemon GO would make investors not care if the NX was delayed.

@Grumblevolcano -slaps- shut up don't encourage them.

Btw, the nes mini will probably have arm in it. So the arm rumour was probably that.

@Therad ARM just got bought up by a Japanese company. Not entirely sure what relevance that bears on anything.

Nintendo once again stated March 2017 for nx launch in their annual financial report. So unless something disastrous happens nx is coming out next year.

That's almost surely a thing with the NES Mini being as cheap and low powered as it is.

Despite the latest comments from Nintendo's annual report, we still don't have official word on whether the NX is a home console, portable, microconsole, a HDMI dongle, a trampoline or whatever. It's still a "gaming platform". Here's my prediction. If it's a portable as I expect, don't expect a detailed reveal until after the Christmas shopping season, so it doesn't cannibalize 3DS sales. (See: "Osborne Effect"). If it's a home console, expect a detailed reveal this fall since they've essentially abandoned the Wii U at this point.

@cwong15
I'll say it again, I was pretty convinced that the NX would be a portable. It made quite a lot of sense at the time. However as soon as they announced that the new Zelda is coming to it? And even more recently that the game would run better on the NX? I think it's all but confirmed the NX is a traditional home console.

Now what exact form it takes, what its specs are and what the selling point is are all up for debate. But at this point you're kidding yourself if you're not ruling out a whole bunch of stuff. Portables, microconsoles, HDMI dongles and so on.

@skywake When did they say Zelda would run better on NX?

I don't remember them saying the nx version would run better or indicating it. I do remember someone posting a video of popin, detail missing sometimes and assuming that this was the wii U stretched to its limits while nx would probably be better.

However, I do not think it's reasonable to suggest that the new system will have in any way an inferior experience to the old system. That would be silly for their own business.

I get the reasoning there. I do think NX is more hardware agnostic though, from a platform / architecture point, where hardware will slowly scale up and improve in shorter iterations until you end up with some newer stuff being incompatible for your hardware. That would make it home system now, portable after, and move with technology over time.

One game library, multiple form factors is still my bet. But the nx as far as we know it now indicates a system that improves upon the wii U in a way significant enough to make it some form of home system.