@Grumblevolcano
It's possible but also not necessary. Nothing about it "needs" virtual currency. Can be sold on the shop same as anything else. Just cause certain other games do that doesn't mean every game does.
@Giancarlothomaz
You read the leak same as me. But no game needs a battle pass to enjoy. It's just extra content. It's a fancy name for time limited access to DLC content.
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@Grumblevolcano
Gotcha. Well, either way I'm excited for the prospect of the next MH going to Switch 2.
This is both good and bad.
Good, as it indicates Switch 2 will finally close the gap, and the vast majority of big AAA games that are currently skipping Switch will actually see a Switch 2 release. No more watching MH World release wishing for a Switch port.
Bad, as it indicates Switch 2 will finally close the gap, and the vast majority of big AAA games that are currently skipping Switch will actually see a Switch 2 release. Which means no more bespoke titles such as Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak. Multiplat games aren't developed with portable play in mind, as we saw with MH World auto creating online lobbies without any option of creating an offline lobby, unless you were disconnected from the internet. You could always just disconnect after the online lobby was created or limit it so others can't join, but it's a stark contrast from MH Rise where offline is the default.
That's a price that will need to be paid for getting included with the latest multiplat releases. And it means instead of two Monster Hunter games being released per generation- one for power consoles and one for hybrid, we'll just see one more elongated release across all platforms.
Personally I think the pros outweigh the cons in that assessment, but still. Rise is a very special game and could well be the last bespoke portable Monster Hunter. End of an era.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JaxonH if the next Monster Hunter game is coming to Switch sucessor, it means or Switch sucessor is a tradicional home console like Wii(Nintendo has dicted the hybrid concept of Switch for it sucessor or it have similar power to PS5 e Xbox Series X/S( that i found unlikely given that since the Wii, Nintendo no longer focus on power console, it last power console was the Game Cube) and problaby have some kinda of inovation
@skywake Game Freak is incompent with Nintendo hardware since the sixth generation of the franchise, i recall playing Pokémon Y in my 3DS and when i used the 3D the framerate droped dratically.
Switch 2 will be a hybrid system just like Switch, roughly on par with PS4/X1/Steamdeck and will be perfectly capable of running any modern game developed for it. We already know this because we know the Nvidia chip they're using. It's a mobile chip.
Furthermore, just use some common sense. Never in a million years will Nintendo forfeit the portable gaming market. Ain't happening. It's the bedrock of their entire business.
They're not gonna abandon all the red and purple for the blue
@JaxonH Nintendo is unpredictable, is very hard to predict what could be Nintendo next inovation, no one expected Switch after Wii U, Nintendo could easily do a new inovation/concept for Switch sucessor, let wait for futher information on Switch sucessor, in the meantime let enjoy Switch.
Nintendo is about as likely to abandon portable hardware and go all in on a traditional home console as Sony is to abandon the home console market and go all in on a PS Vita 2.
Nintendo is unpredictable, not stupid.
Whatever else the successor does, it'll also allow you to play games away from the TV.
@Giancarlothomaz
What are you talking about? Plenty of people speculated something like the Switch could come after the Wii U. Literally the first post on this thread is a poll from a full year before the Switch reveal asking what the NX would be.
Most people, including myself, were picking the relatively status quo answer. That Nintendo would come out with a home console and a portable console and that "NX" would be one of them. In my mind the only difference this time around would be that these two consoles would be significantly more cross compatible. Maybe even the same architecture. But in my mind you'd still have a home console with a higher power/thermal limit so they could compete on power and separately a portable version of it that was more of a sub-360 tier product
The second most popular option way back a full year before the Switch reveal trailer? A portable console you could connect to your TV. Second page of this thread I said this option was possible but then went on to say that this "wouldn't be a hybrid" like some pedant. That it would be a 3DS successor. And in my mind was... going to be a step back from the Wii U in terms of power
The only surprise to me was that it ended up being a bit more than the Wii U, not under, and I forgot that Nintendo doesn't care about what Sony/Microsoft are doing
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@Giancarlothomaz
Unpredictable within the confines of certain predictability
For example.
We didn't know what Switch would be, but we did know it would play video games. That much was predictable. Likewise, we knew it would play games on the TV, handheld or both. That much was predictable. We knew it would have a controller with buttons and analog sticks. That much was predictable.
Being "unpredictable" just means not being able to precisely predict exactly what it will look like. Doesn't mean we can't predict the general form it takes.
And that's more true now than ever before.
Because Nintendo eliminated their separate console and handheld departments to merge and form one unified division that does both, we know for a fact it's not going to abandon portable play. That is predictable. That is certain.
We also know the chip they're using, which is a mobile chip on par with PS4/X1/Steamdeck. This ELIMINATES UNPREDICTABILITY. We literally know what they're doing because the chip is mobile. There's no "unpredictability" when you already know the answer. We have the answer already.
Furthermore, common sense dictates there's only 3 options- TV, handheld or both. There's no other viable mainstream choice. Now, using the brain God gave us let's do some logical deductive reasoning. It won't be TV only. Why? It's irrational and senseless, as history proves it's a losing proposition- there's not one justifiable reason to suspect that would be the case. Likewise, it won't be handheld only. Any handheld can just as easily dock to the TV adding additional value by also catering to TV players. There's no logical reason to release a handheld that can't dock to the tv (unless it's a supplementary model like Switch Lite).
That only leaves one option... hybrid.
On top of all this, Nintendo never abandons a successful direction. Gameboy was massively successful and we got GameBoy Color, then GameBoy Advance. DS was massively successful and we got 3DS. Wii was massively successful and we got Wii U. All of these successors carried on the core concepts of their predecessors. Switch's massive success will give us Switch 2. And more importantly, hybrid gaming has been the holy grail Nintendo has been trying to achieve for decades, going back to Wii U off-tv play, GameCube handle with a screen, GBA Player on GameCube and even the GameBoy player on SNES.
So no. The only "unpredictable" aspect of Switch 2 will be the finer details and gimmicks. The core system WILL be hybrid, 100%, guaranteed, take it to the bank, pigs will fly before Switch 2 isn't hybrid.
Nintendo only ever took completely new, radical changes in direction when their business was failing or trending downward, and they wanted to throw something at the wall to see if it would stick. Every single Nintendo console from NES to GameCube took the same form- TV only power console, and even after that it was still TV only. The core format never changed until Switch.
Every single handheld from Game & Watch to GBA was a handheld only single screen pocket device. And even after that, was still a portable pocket device. The core format never changed until Switch. Likewise, the core concept of Switch will remain unchanged.
From the early 1980's to 2017- almost 40 years, Nintendo was predictable inasmuch that they released tv-only consoles, and portable-only handhelds. They may have dabbled with new buttons or analog sticks, motion controls, an extra screen or a cheap 3D effect, but at the end of the day, one thing was certain- they made tv-only consoles and portable-only handhelds. As of 2017, they now make tv-portabe hybrids. Maybe the next Switch has a Jetsons antenna, or a curved screen, or pops out a hologram... who knows. But one thing is certain- it will be hybrid. That is the new normal, probably indefinitely.
I'd argue that Nintendo has never really been that unpredictable it's just that they tackle the problem from a different angle. Nintendo is a game developer/publisher who happens to also have a hardware platform. Sony and Microsoft have hardware platforms and just happen to also own some game studios. Wo when Nintendo gets to the R&D stage for new hardware? They have game developers in the room, in the executive.
Picture the Wii R&D meetings, the hardware team comes in and lays out what new technologies they can play around with. They drop onto the table Bluetooth 2.0, wireless controllers with ~1Mbps of bandwidth. A platform minded company would just go "cool, more reliable controllers". A game development minded company? You can bet someone chimed in and said "can we put a mic on it like we had on the Famicom? What about a speaker?". Hardware guys chime in saying "sure, you could possibly even push a low res B&W video stream. Maybe an IR camera?". "IR? Like a TV remote....." etc, etc
The Switch? I think the Switch was just the inevitable end game for Nintendo. As soon as portable hardware got to the point where it could scale well enough to TVs? You don't need a home console. As I said above the main surprise for me with the Switch is that Nintendo's threshold for "scale well enough" was a tad lower than mine and mobile hardware progressed a tad faster than I expected
And when I look at what new tech has come out since the Switch? I mean, there's nothing really obviously game changing in there. Lots of nice things but nothing that will massively alter form/function. We already have a portable you can hook upto your TV with (relatively) high capacity, low latency media and a reasonable amount of controller bandwidth. I mean Bluetooth 5.0 can do 2Mbps but while that's double it's.... eh....
I mean they could go down the WiFi controller route they did with the Wii U, that's more viable now than it was back then. That would allow them to throw a camera, screen, mic, speakers etc on it. But that's also something they could already do on Switch if they wanted. And even then, the Wii U was basically a HD version of the Wii with a screen in the controller. It was a huge gamble and a large part of the cost but it wasn't fundamentally different. Nintendo could have bailed on the concept in the same way Microsoft did with Kinect on XBOne
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@skywake maybe VR is the next inovation Nintendo is planing for Switch sucessor, they tried VR on Virtual Boy, but failed, did VR on Labo but was midly sucesufull.
I'm confident that "Switch 2" will be a hybrid successor to the Switch. It will be the most "iterative" Nintendo console since the SNES.
There will be interesting things in it/surrounding it - maybe some aspects will build on the better ideas of Labo (a better screen, built in accelerometers and more power could potentially make a low end VR solution a more interesting possibility). Maybe we'll see Nintendo more confident in leaning in on some "handheld only" features like TATE mode that they deliberately hobbled in their initial marketing push because of the stigma of it being pigeon holed as "just a handheld".
There might also be odd or quirky things built in that we're not expecting that will be big in the initial marketing but which ultimately prove peripheral. I'm skeptical about this though - Nintendo got burned with Wii U and I think their approach to marketing even slightly strange things will be more Labo like in the future - revealed only when the format is well established.
At it's heart though "Switch 2" will be a more powerful Switch. I'd also be astonished if it's not backwards compatible - I think they will want to continue releasing some select software on Switch (probably lots of fairly "easy" HD ports of second tier Gamecube and Wii games) for years to come and backwards compatibility makes that a smoother process.
Confirmation from Kamiya himself Bayonetta isn't going anywhere. I said it from the start. They're not just gonna abandon their most well known character.
Now maybe ppl can finally stop trashing the ending
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