New hardware next year? Not to pick a fight, but I find that doubtful when President Furukawa consistently mentions how the Switch is only "halfway through its lifecycle". I understand that Nintendo iterated on their hardware in the past, but I think Nintendo is content with riding the Switch's current success all the way down to the eventual Switch successor; no mid-gen refresh. We're looking at new hardware in late 2024 to early 2025, imo.
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@Magician
It's going to be a new dock with better airflow and its own fan combined with a final driver update that will help them eke out just enough power to keep some AAA support for the next few years, not an entirely new Switch. They could sell it for like 50 bucks and everyone can just move on with their lives. That's my theory.
@Magician The Switch is a family of devices which currently contains the Switch and the Switch Lite. Adding another member to the Switch family of devices doesn't make the comment about the halfway point any less true. He also mentioned that the Switch's successor will need to offer a new experience which likely means experimental Nintendo is still around and the Switch's successor won't be a Switch.
I think he means they're not going to release a mid generation refresh if it doesn't offer any new advantage over the existing Switch.
Supposing DLSS is off the table until next gen when they can integrate tensor cores, it's Mariko for the life cycle. Which means they can't really offer any improvements over the current model aside from tweaking the battery life to power balance.
Once they can figure out a way to actually offer a real advantage (like how Switch Lite was actually smaller, and actually pocketable) then we'll see a refresh.
I think that's what is meant. Not "we're totally ditching the hybrid concept for something new"
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My thought exactly. Furukawa's comment of "new experiences" could come to mean 1080p portable / 4k docked gaming. Something that a DLSS-enabled Switch successor could provide, once the cost of parts and distribution fall within guaranteed profitability. Nvidia is invested in the Switch concept for the long haul. https://www.pcmag.com/news/nvidia-expects-20-year-relationshi...
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I feel like 2022 is gonna feel a lot like 2017 ver. 2. With Splatoon and the new zelda coming then all we need now is a big mario game, which I think is very likely rn. This year will probably seem pretty good, but not amazing, but next year will be an amazing year for anyone. Just my thought
@rallydefault Pretty sure they didn't mention the Zelda anniversary because they have nothing for it. SS HD is all we'll get within the year. We're not going to get any sort of thing for Zelda, or DK (Kirby is questionable), they'll just put all the anniversary focus on Pokemon.
@Blooper987 2017 v2 sounds likely. We're also due for a new Monolith Soft game in 2022 as well (since XC2 came out 5 years ago and the main team wasn't involved much with XC:DE per the interviews). Toss in some new IP as an ARMS analogue and a Wii U/3DS port or two and you've got basically the same schedule.
Actually, 2 journalists came out yesterday and confirmed we're getting Zelda Windwaker and Twilight Princess later this year. Whether as a bundle or sold separately, I don't know.
But ya, they said it's 100% for sure happening, and sounded really confident, both of them, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume they know what they're talking about.
We'll then have Zelda Windwaker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, Breath of the Wild 2 and Link's Awakening all on one hybrid handheld console.
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People might not realize this is a really strong year so far.
2019 was amazing and till June with Mario Maker 2 where games started flowing there was New super Mario U, Yoshi crafted world ... and that’s it
This year we got Mario 3d world and Bravely default 2 this month, Monster hunter in March, Pokémon snap in April, Famicom detective club and miitopia in May. Also Nintendo almost never release big games in the first half of the year.
@Duboiss Plus No More Heroes 3 in August, and Skyward Sword in July(?), Mario Golf in June, Monster Hunter Stories 2 in June -August somewhere, we probably know most of what's coming pre-September at least. And SMT V should be one of the exclusive holiday titles at least.
@StuTwo Atsushiba Iba and Kideki Kamiya implied in a interview that Bayonetta 3 is gonna be more ambitous then previous Bayonetta games(open-ended Bayonetta game?)@JaxonH oh no!Nintendo is gonna do a Wii U 2.0 they are not gonna continue the hybrid format of the Switch(oh Nintendo).
@link3710
Yea, again, you're crazy. I can't keep doing this with you. We're getting Wind Waker and Twilight Princess ports whether you like it or not. And Nintendo is going to acknowledge a Zelda anniversary.
I feel like whatever world you live in doesn't have pepperoni pizza. I may be wrong, but that's the feeling I'm getting.
My bet is we don’t even know the holidays title yet too, Pokémon of course since it’s an annual license ( dlc was replacement for 3rd version last year ) but could also be something other than Botw 2. No one was expecting Age of calamity last year.
@Duboiss given that sadly Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 don't seen to be no longer the Holiday title of 2021 for Switch, the remake of Gen 4 is problaby the Holiday title of 2021 for Switch.
Where’s all this BOTW 2 can’t being coming out this year coming from? There’s nothing to suggest that at all. It reminds me of when people convinced themselves BOTW wasn’t gonna be a Switch launch title for no reason.
@jump They said they would show the game later in the year, so there is no reason it cant be this year. But people were so quick to cry over it not being shown right now that they overlooked that bit of information.
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