Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@parallaxscroll I have a feeling a SCD could be an optional extra.

See, this is the problem with the whole hybrid idea. If it has more power when docked then you split the dev base, or force them all to make games that can run without the dock. If it just streams to a TV the it's just a glorified handheld. Why even bother? If the NX is such a great concept this cant be all there is to it.

I don't understand why some people seem in a tizzy over hard drive space. If it is mostly a portable, god I hope it only uses flash memory and probably will have 32gb. But if the system is going back to cartridges, you really don't need much memory on the actual thing.

Yea, that means really limiting your downloadables, I know. But maybe they can take a true nostalgia/hipster approach to this and pretty much require that you use the cartridges? lol I know that would be suicide, though.

I totally agree and hope the NX is better than what is being rumored. Maybe the rumors uust make it sound worst case scenario or sonething, I don't know

@EOTW Nintendo could simply be keeping quiet because they know the huge backlash that's waiting for them. Look at Federation Force for example, that game was bashed so much that it didn't even feature at E3 2016. Nintendo just kept quiet on the matter.

@Grumblevolcano If that is what Nintendo are doing then they are gonna be for an even bigger backlash when it finally does get revealed. The longer they wait, the more people want to know what the NX is and the more they will riot if Nintendo are right about getting a backlash.

@Grumblevolcano i would ask why even release the product if you know there will be that big of a backlash?

@DefHalan Well they've already released a bunch of games that have been known to cause a huge backlash (Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, Animal Crossing amiibo Festival, Metroid Prime Federation Force) with another big backlash title coming in just over a week (Paper Mario Color Splash).

Why release it? Well there will be people who do want it, for example I'm more excited for Color Splash than the NX.

@Grumblevolcano arguably, Nintendo wouldn't have known there was going to be that much backlash from those projects before announcing. If they knew there was going to be that much backlash before announcing, they would probably want to rethink the product they are announcing

Why would the Nintendo Store be closed for the NX Reveal?

@AlternateButtons They're not going to have stupid Yokai watch dress up party as a follow up of their NX reveal. It's literally nothing.

Wasn't that supposed to happen this month? They're going to have to reveal it eventually, but the ''rumours'' are predicting every single upcoming month. It wasn't E3, so it's July; no August or Gamescom, then it was September and now it's October. When it doesn't happen next month, they'll say November..

Stop watching YouTube videos. Then you won't hear NX as much lol

@AlternateButtons unless the NX is delayed even later than March

@AlternateButtons That's my point, it will be revealed ''soon'', anyone can predict that. So I don't really buy these reveal date rumours, they're nothing more than educated guesses at this point. Besides, Square Enix actually talked about an NX version of DQ earlier this year, we didn't get a reveal either. So I don't think there's a correlation between the BG&E tease and NX; it will likely end up on all other platforms anyway.

@AlternateButtons Not quite Zelda has a 2017 release date, not March 2017. People are assuming it's March because of NX release month, a typo around E3 and a release date for the Archer amiibo.

@AlternateButtons they could always release it on Wii U in March and NX later. But game delays are very common, so I doubt it would be that big of a deal.

@MarcelRguez plans change sometimes

@MarcelRguez I am just talking about possibilities. Things can change. NX reveal/release dates. Software release plans. There is nothing that states Nintendo must announce the NX this year or the NX must release by March 2017.

@EOTW @Grumblevolcano @FragRed @DefHalan One thing I'm sure of is that the silence and the lateness of news regarding the NX has nothing to do with Nintendo fearing any kind of backlash.
I can't believe for a second that they would be releasing another platform that they aren't proud of and confident in.
Nintendo second guessing their product doesn't make sense at this point in time, especially after the kind of endorsement that Ubisoft has given (specifically the line "that’s what I like – that they come with something new that is adapted to what we actually want now.")

The lateness of news can only be because of either some practical issues (delay in game, hardware production) or an unconventional premeditated marketing plan (aggressive multi-front marketing that takes place in a relative short span of time).