@Gryffin TL;DR: Nintendo left behind the persuit of excellence it embodied under Iwatas executive leadership and Miyamotos creative leadership, and instead adopted a Westernized lean profit maximization principle in the vein of EA, Activision, and 2K under Furukawas executive leadership.
@Jawessome It's exactly the same, between taxes and upkeep you'll never actually own the home you "bought" anyway, and with dlc, mandatory downloads and drip feed content, you'll never own the games, either! 😂
@RCGamer multiple users on your machine, who aren't also account holders on that family plan or any other plan also get access to all the membership software and online play? I didn't think nso worked like that. E g. People like myself with alt accounts for Splatoon need a family plan to each account..... Did they change that?
I'm still surprised at how many are justifying buying it at all. For a family membership, required for multiple users on one machine, we're taking $45 PER YEAR, to play a $25 DLC and old Genesis and N64 roms. That's $90 to access a $25 dlc and play Sonic 3 & knuckles for 2 years. That's $315+tax to access a $25 dlc and play toejam and Mario 64 for a typical 7 year console generation. I have a drawer full of genesis games. They haven't gotten any more interesting since 1993.
@johnvboy Yes, I see the error of my ways. The world is right. Starlordermanerine Avantherwars of the Galaxy 4eva!!
In fact, can I just link Disney and Nintendo directly into my bank account? They can just garnish wages or something. It's their right. Heck, throw Xi in there, too, he earned it!
@johnvboy The mass majority also likes endless Marvel films, and now endless Marvel games. Not sure I give a faff of what the majority thinks about much of anything.
@johnvboy We can agree that the expansion adds value and is good. But it's just "too late" to win back someone that was unsatisfied with the game but still tried to make it work. I think I'd have been much more in your camp of enjoyment of the game if it released in this state originally. Same with Mario Tennis, Mario Golf....the whole litany of incomplete games Nintendo sells first, then finishes making if it sells well. Furukawa's Nintendo is not the Nintendo I've known for 35 years. Feels a lot more like the EA I've known for 15.
@johnvboy Nah, I'm happy when I get a complete game in a box for $60 that's not worse than prior iterations of the same game. I'm unhappy when I don't, and then a year and a half later they offer me the rest of the game
"iPhone XII $1299.99. Wifi, Bluetooth, video playback, iris scanning, telephoto lens, video recording to be enabled in 18 months absolutely free!"
They are more than DOUBLING the price to add N64, Genesis, and a Freaking DLC for a single game?!?!?! WTF are they smoking? They're making Jim Ryan look good!
Think about this for a moment, the EXPANSION costs MORE than the actual base membership. And all it adds are two ancient consoles and a DLC. They are charging you $30 a year per user, or $45 per family to access ROMs for 2 ancient consoles and a single DLC pack you could just buy once. And forcing you to rent at ultra premium, DLC for a game you might not even own, if you wish to access ROMs for old consoles.
The "Family" membership which is required even for multiple logins on the same console to use it, costs almost as much as Game Pass. Which gives you access to tons of big AAA games, all first party games, and can be shared by all users on the machine.
This has got to be the most egregious cash grab in gaming history.
This update seems great. But it's depressing that it feels like this is the game that was actually supposed to launch as ACNH, with a lot of the missing content that should otherwise have been in the box, milking it for another year. If it launched with this content last year, I may have loved the game. But as is, we spent a year and a half with what felt like an unfinished public beta, and only after burning out on that minimal content to the point that I'm not sure if I ever want to see AC again from sheer frustration and disappointment, do they release the rest of the game.
If I'd waited to buy it for a year and a half, it may well have been a favorite game. Now it's kind of a bad memory that probably gets fixed soon, but I don't feel motivated to consider going back to it.
The headline makes it sound as though there's a scandal involving credits that should have been present being removed. The details make it clear there's a policy in the contract about how long you need to be on the project to be in the credits. Sure, that clause in the contract might suck somewhat, but it's not like there's a scandal that people that should have been credited were cut....there's just people who contractually never made the deadline for credits as short term staff, and thus aren't in them. Unless there's more complaints not in the story.
E.M.M.I/PS5 edition for me. I love the R/B splash of color, actually, but I've had that for 4 years already and I know they'll market the OLED with white going forward, so I'd feel a little left out if I stuck with a repeat.
85 posts and the only thing I come away from this comments section with is an even deeper hatred of soulsborne then I already harbored. Please tell me the joys of Undertale and Pokemon SnS in this thread while we're at it!
I'm mostly loving Dread, bit I have to admit the emmi parts are really really annoying to me enough to ruin the fun of the flow. It's the same die over and over until you get the right result pattern I hate about Souls.
@ModdedInkling I assume the shot with him in the mask is an old stock photo he has sitting around. Nothing in the picture indicates it's a new picture taken for OLED or Dread launching.
@BlueOcean It amazes me how they can't just order better analog modules... It's not like the joycon design itself is bad, it's just terrible modules for analog...
@BlueOcean Is that like improving tv reception by wearing a wire coat hanger as a hat?
@ULTRA-64 If you're not intimidated by jewelers screws, I'd trust self repair more than shipping them. And it's cheaper, too. I went and replaced, I think, 4 left sticks in an evening last year. The replacement sticks, strangely, seem to be holding up better, though or could just be a lack of Splatoon and moving to more psxb since then. Once Bayonetta is out, I'll be screwed!
I would hope that since these are standard features on the system there wouldn't be any risk involved in using them. If there were, I'd think Nintendo would disable those features or have Wii wrist strap type warnings when you use them.
3DS still remains my all-time favorite system. Something about it, the games, the whole era it was part of from launch period through Switch launch, the Iwata/Reggie E3's, everything about that period of hardware somehow remains an absolute favorite memory. Switch should have continued that but it's mostly existed with two big surges (with a third on the way) and a bunch of dead-air time in between. That was some of the best years, I think in gaming history. PS4 got abandoned thanks to it, and I spent too much time playing couch handheld because 3DS games were more interesting than PS4 games most of the time.
Seeing the launch Aqua color again....brings back memories. Can we go back to 2011? Pleeeaaase?
OMG I just read through the ACNH transfer article. That's just inexcusable.
@TDRsupserstar My understanding from what I'm reading, is that you can just swap the card from the old machine to the new, but nothing other than screenshots and videos will be visible on the new system, game data will have to be re-downloaded.
Generally the system is identical to other systems and if you subscribe to NSO there's no reason to do these transfers rather than just let the cloud saves handle everything.
Except....Splatoon 2, Pokemon, ACNH, Machina, and a handful of others. It's ridiculous that they actually allowed those games to escape cloud saves.
With Splatoon 3 coming soon, I probably will just let my Splatoon 2 data rot on the old machine which will become a backup. Might not bother with the transfer.
@Dan420 Heck for a lot of PC/PS/XB games, 800GB is "patching 2 games." If it's Call of Duty, it's just the vanilla install size before patches!
It's Nintendo's subtle way of "encouraging" people to buy digital instead. Make it so inconvenient to use the cart slot, everyone just gives up and starts using digital.
@PickledKong So much this. The entire game feels designed not as a game, but as a vehicle for social marketing. ACNH is like Facebook itself. You're the product being sold.
@electrolite77 Generally agree, though I think 2023 is the earliest chance. It will depend on how well current system sales are doing. With cycles running 7+ years for PSXBWiiDS, I don't see them wanting to kill off their super-selling system until they absolutely have to. With them talking about a longer generation over and over, I think as long as this one maintains sales they'll push off the successor to maximize this one. Nintendo's not one to move on in tech just because tech has moved on. They do it only to spur sales once they lag, with the exception of Yamauchi pushing along N64 when PS1 3d was putting Mode 7 to shame.
Normally I'd think sales would drop by 2023, but, with Switch, who knows.
@Ryu_Niiyama I'm pretty sure the new Virtual Boy will feature an updated Game Pad........
My assumption is still that Bloomberg is talking to people who either got hands on with a previously expected but cancelled due to shortages "Pro" that ended up becoming the OLED, or a preview for the eventual "Switch 2." Whatever was in the works, it would be unfathomable for them to release a new revision of the Switch (other than an OLED Lite) in the next year, after just launching a new model and marketing it. Too much market confusion to have an annual new console which could cause people to "wait" for the next one, lowering sales. Nintendo favors the "everyone buy the same thing at the same time until everyone has one, then sell the next thing" approach to the "have scheduled refreshes and catch part of the market as it's available" model that phones and tablets do. I don't imagine they'd want to pull out new hardware until they feel OLED saturated its potential market. That won't happen in a year. And doing anything else would be marked departure from the one reliable thing of Nintendo's business strategy.
Nintendo will Nintendo, so who knows, but I can't imagine they'd think the market prospect of that schedule would be favorable for the expense. It wouldn't make sense to do it within a year of OLD, and if it's more than a year after OLED, we're into year 6, heading toward year 7 of the system, at which point they'd really be crazy not to refit it and remarket it as a successor console with a separate library.
The outlier is, especially with rumors of Apple and others coming out with their own competitor systems, Nintendo, which shies away from direct big-tech competition, could easily end up having to bail on the hybrid market and move onto a "Revolution" type blue ocean again. They can't take on Apple in a direct marketing war, no matter how beloved Mario is. If that's the plan then they WOULD try to milk current Switch with a Switch Pro, but that would be instead of a Switch 2, which would instead end up as a "new concept system" type deal like the Wii or DS.
In fact, now that OLED is out and being marketed heavily, I think the only scenario in which a "Switch Pro" exists is if they're absolutely not doing a Switch 2 at all, and moving onto a new concept. Switch Pro would be a legacy swan song for Switch to go to pasture with over time. And we'll have our new fitnes-jumprope controlled console incoming. OLED kind of cemented the position of Switch, for the next 2 years, I'd think.
@Octane Knack already has PlayStation Smash Bruhs All Star's Battle Royale. Leave the abandoned dude to his abandoned shell of a copycat project. No need to drag him through the Smash fanbase. He's been through enough.
@Gwynbleidd I think it's a mix of Apple's popular because Apple's popular, plus Apple's seen as a status symbol/designer fashion accessory, so anyone wishing to project status will buy Apple (A Lexus is just a tarted up Toyota but it doesn't stop people overpaying for the status projection), plus they've built their fame on technology for the tech illiterate, so a LOT of people that need tech because it's 2021 but don't really understand tech beyond cursory knowledge (which is probably the majority of humans) are likely to choose Apple. You don't buy a computer, configure it, secure it, customize it, and use it. you go to the boutique shop, sit at their brain bar or whatever they call it, they guide you through options, show you the one and only way to make it work like a set of instructions. Not much to go wrong. That's worth money to a lot of folks.
As for their gaming revenue, so much has to do with the scale of that install base. If every one of their installed phones bought just one $.99 IAP in games, that alone would probably net them more than Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft gaming revenue combined.
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Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy Haha, that's the spirit! And a humbug to you as well!
Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Price?
@Gryffin TL;DR: Nintendo left behind the persuit of excellence it embodied under Iwatas executive leadership and Miyamotos creative leadership, and instead adopted a Westernized lean profit maximization principle in the vein of EA, Activision, and 2K under Furukawas executive leadership.
@Jawessome It's exactly the same, between taxes and upkeep you'll never actually own the home you "bought" anyway, and with dlc, mandatory downloads and drip feed content, you'll never own the games, either! 😂
@RCGamer multiple users on your machine, who aren't also account holders on that family plan or any other plan also get access to all the membership software and online play? I didn't think nso worked like that. E g. People like myself with alt accounts for Splatoon need a family plan to each account..... Did they change that?
Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Price?
I'm still surprised at how many are justifying buying it at all. For a family membership, required for multiple users on one machine, we're taking $45 PER YEAR, to play a $25 DLC and old Genesis and N64 roms. That's $90 to access a $25 dlc and play Sonic 3 & knuckles for 2 years. That's $315+tax to access a $25 dlc and play toejam and Mario 64 for a typical 7 year console generation. I have a drawer full of genesis games. They haven't gotten any more interesting since 1993.
This almost makes WATA games look like a bargain.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy Yes, it's ok to like bad things.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy Yes, I see the error of my ways. The world is right. Starlordermanerine Avantherwars of the Galaxy 4eva!!
In fact, can I just link Disney and Nintendo directly into my bank account? They can just garnish wages or something. It's their right. Heck, throw Xi in there, too, he earned it!
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy The mass majority also likes endless Marvel films, and now endless Marvel games. Not sure I give a faff of what the majority thinks about much of anything.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy We can agree that the expansion adds value and is good. But it's just "too late" to win back someone that was unsatisfied with the game but still tried to make it work. I think I'd have been much more in your camp of enjoyment of the game if it released in this state originally. Same with Mario Tennis, Mario Golf....the whole litany of incomplete games Nintendo sells first, then finishes making if it sells well. Furukawa's Nintendo is not the Nintendo I've known for 35 years. Feels a lot more like the EA I've known for 15.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
@johnvboy Nah, I'm happy when I get a complete game in a box for $60 that's not worse than prior iterations of the same game. I'm unhappy when I don't, and then a year and a half later they offer me the rest of the game
"iPhone XII $1299.99. Wifi, Bluetooth, video playback, iris scanning, telephoto lens, video recording to be enabled in 18 months absolutely free!"
Re: Random: Please Don't Submerge Your Zelda Game Boy Cartridges In Orange Juice
Come on, citric acid baths are supposed to be good for electronics!
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Release Date And Pricing Revealed
@Yorumi I don't even have words.....I just needed to summon you for emotional support.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Release Date And Pricing Revealed
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Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Release Date And Pricing Revealed
W. T. Actual F.?!?
They are more than DOUBLING the price to add N64, Genesis, and a Freaking DLC for a single game?!?!?! WTF are they smoking? They're making Jim Ryan look good!
Think about this for a moment, the EXPANSION costs MORE than the actual base membership. And all it adds are two ancient consoles and a DLC. They are charging you $30 a year per user, or $45 per family to access ROMs for 2 ancient consoles and a single DLC pack you could just buy once. And forcing you to rent at ultra premium, DLC for a game you might not even own, if you wish to access ROMs for old consoles.
The "Family" membership which is required even for multiple logins on the same console to use it, costs almost as much as Game Pass. Which gives you access to tons of big AAA games, all first party games, and can be shared by all users on the machine.
This has got to be the most egregious cash grab in gaming history.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All The Returning Special Characters
This update seems great. But it's depressing that it feels like this is the game that was actually supposed to launch as ACNH, with a lot of the missing content that should otherwise have been in the box, milking it for another year. If it launched with this content last year, I may have loved the game. But as is, we spent a year and a half with what felt like an unfinished public beta, and only after burning out on that minimal content to the point that I'm not sure if I ever want to see AC again from sheer frustration and disappointment, do they release the rest of the game.
If I'd waited to buy it for a year and a half, it may well have been a favorite game. Now it's kind of a bad memory that probably gets fixed soon, but I don't feel motivated to consider going back to it.
Re: Metroid Dread Staff Say They've Been Left Out Of The Game's Credits, MercurySteam Responds
The headline makes it sound as though there's a scandal involving credits that should have been present being removed. The details make it clear there's a policy in the contract about how long you need to be on the project to be in the credits. Sure, that clause in the contract might suck somewhat, but it's not like there's a scandal that people that should have been credited were cut....there's just people who contractually never made the deadline for credits as short term staff, and thus aren't in them. Unless there's more complaints not in the story.
Re: Poll: So, Which Switch OLED Did You Buy?
E.M.M.I/PS5 edition for me. I love the R/B splash of color, actually, but I've had that for 4 years already and I know they'll market the OLED with white going forward, so I'd feel a little left out if I stuck with a repeat.
Re: Back Page: The Dark Secrets Of Brewster's 'Pigeon Milk'
This is why we can't have nice things.
Re: Random: Yoshi From The Super Mario Series Apparently Have Different Names
@billychaos I mean, Yoshi eggs can't come from nowhere......
Re: Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Includes A Cracking '80s Soundtrack, Here's The Full Songlist
We've just been rick rolled and nobody noticed...
Re: Feature: Steven Spohn On Strides In Accessibility For Gaming, And Nintendo's Room For Improvement
85 posts and the only thing I come away from this comments section with is an even deeper hatred of soulsborne then I already harbored. Please tell me the joys of Undertale and Pokemon SnS in this thread while we're at it!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 9th)
I'm mostly loving Dread, bit I have to admit the emmi parts are really really annoying to me enough to ruin the fun of the flow. It's the same die over and over until you get the right result pattern I hate about Souls.
Re: Random: Nintendo America's President Doug Bowser Celebrates The Return Of Samus
@ModdedInkling I assume the shot with him in the mask is an old stock photo he has sitting around. Nothing in the picture indicates it's a new picture taken for OLED or Dread launching.
Re: Random: Nintendo America's President Doug Bowser Celebrates The Return Of Samus
Why does the shopping bag have a green side panel for the Nintendo logo?
Game Pass on Switch confirmed?
Re: Nintendo Says It's Continuously Working On Improving Joy-Con Durability, But Wear Is "Unavoidable"
@BlueOcean It amazes me how they can't just order better analog modules... It's not like the joycon design itself is bad, it's just terrible modules for analog...
@ULTRA-64 lol 😂. Ain't that the truth!
Re: Nintendo Says It's Continuously Working On Improving Joy-Con Durability, But Wear Is "Unavoidable"
@BlueOcean Is that like improving tv reception by wearing a wire coat hanger as a hat?
@ULTRA-64 If you're not intimidated by jewelers screws, I'd trust self repair more than shipping them. And it's cheaper, too. I went and replaced, I think, 4 left sticks in an evening last year. The replacement sticks, strangely, seem to be holding up better, though or could just be a lack of Splatoon and moving to more psxb since then. Once Bayonetta is out, I'll be screwed!
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Metroid Dread On Switch
@120frames-please Great Ace Attorney
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
Sounds like Pokehunter Stories.
Not necessarily a bad thing, though. It's open enough if so.
Re: Bethesda Congratulates Nintendo On Metroid Dread's Launch With Special DOOM Artwork
@Ralizah And just like that, you've broken DeviantArt....
Re: Video: Here's How To Change The Screen Settings On Your Nintendo Switch OLED
I would hope that since these are standard features on the system there wouldn't be any risk involved in using them. If there were, I'd think Nintendo would disable those features or have Wii wrist strap type warnings when you use them.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Metroid Dread On Switch
So jealous. I have my digital pre-order but refuse to play it until my delayed OLED arrives!
Not that I don't need to finish GAA... But that doesn't show off the OLED well.
Re: Video: Analysing The Performance Of The Switch OLED Versus The OG Switch
It uses the same soc as the lite. It will perform like the lite. We've known this for months.
Re: Random: This Nintendo Switch Birthday Cake Makes Us Want A Thick Switch
@ObeseChihuahua2 I thought it tasted like salty tears and shattered dreams? Maybe that was just mine.
Re: Random: This Nintendo Switch Birthday Cake Makes Us Want A Thick Switch
So this is a "What if Switch had Game Pad's Proportions" article?
I wouldn't advise eating that. I heard it's bitter.
Re: Random: Did You Know The Switch OLED Model Includes A "Softer" HDMI Cable?
"please feel how flexible it is."
-Nintendo
I read this paragraph and instantly knew it was Iwata Asks/Ask the Developer. I love the odd phrasing their translations always end up having.
This is like Nintendo PR's own version of an NL "Slow news day"
Re: Nintendo Says It's Continuously Working On Improving Joy-Con Durability, But Wear Is "Unavoidable"
We're getting Joy-Conned.
"By continuous improvements, we mean we put a little piece of foam-rubber under the stick. We're always looking at how to improve our products"
Re: Poll: The Nintendo Switch OLED Is Out Today, Are You Getting One?
Tracking tells me it's being delivered today. Tracking also tells me it arrived 4 states away yesterday and never left......
oh well...
Re: Random: Food Website Bon Appetit Is Posting About Switch Games
If Snacktaku can exist, so can Nintendo Knife!
Re: Random: Fan Spotted Filming Bring Me The Horizon Concert With A Nintendo 3DS
3DS still remains my all-time favorite system. Something about it, the games, the whole era it was part of from launch period through Switch launch, the Iwata/Reggie E3's, everything about that period of hardware somehow remains an absolute favorite memory. Switch should have continued that but it's mostly existed with two big surges (with a third on the way) and a bunch of dead-air time in between. That was some of the best years, I think in gaming history. PS4 got abandoned thanks to it, and I spent too much time playing couch handheld because 3DS games were more interesting than PS4 games most of the time.
Seeing the launch Aqua color again....brings back memories. Can we go back to 2011? Pleeeaaase?
Re: Nintendo Switch Transfer - How To Transfer All Saves, Games, Profiles, And User Data To Another Switch (OLED, Lite, Regular)
OMG I just read through the ACNH transfer article. That's just inexcusable.
@TDRsupserstar My understanding from what I'm reading, is that you can just swap the card from the old machine to the new, but nothing other than screenshots and videos will be visible on the new system, game data will have to be re-downloaded.
Re: Nintendo Switch Transfer - How To Transfer All Saves, Games, Profiles, And User Data To Another Switch (OLED, Lite, Regular)
Generally the system is identical to other systems and if you subscribe to NSO there's no reason to do these transfers rather than just let the cloud saves handle everything.
Except....Splatoon 2, Pokemon, ACNH, Machina, and a handful of others. It's ridiculous that they actually allowed those games to escape cloud saves.
With Splatoon 3 coming soon, I probably will just let my Splatoon 2 data rot on the old machine which will become a backup. Might not bother with the transfer.
@Dan420 Heck for a lot of PC/PS/XB games, 800GB is "patching 2 games." If it's Call of Duty, it's just the vanilla install size before patches!
Re: Soapbox: We Need To Talk About The One Thing Nintendo Got Wrong With The Switch OLED
It's Nintendo's subtle way of "encouraging" people to buy digital instead. Make it so inconvenient to use the cart slot, everyone just gives up and starts using digital.
Re: Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch OLED - The Screen's The Star
@rjejr You can DO that?!
Re: Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch OLED - The Screen's The Star
@rjejr Assuming you live in a strip club or happy endings massage parlor, your statement would be correct! Which brings us back to damo....
Re: Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch OLED - The Screen's The Star
@rjejr I'm not worried about the pic being of a docked OLED. I'm more worried about Damo's hot pink neon lighting in his room....
Re: The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct Will Air On 15th October
@PickledKong So much this. The entire game feels designed not as a game, but as a vehicle for social marketing. ACNH is like Facebook itself. You're the product being sold.
Re: Teardown Suggests The Switch OLED Dock Is 4K 60fps-Ready And 'Future Proof'
@Ryu_Niiyama Coincidentally, no one can use Virtual Boy for more than a few minutes and it wasn't any use to anyone.
->Virtual Boy Owner<-
Re: Teardown Suggests The Switch OLED Dock Is 4K 60fps-Ready And 'Future Proof'
@electrolite77 Generally agree, though I think 2023 is the earliest chance. It will depend on how well current system sales are doing. With cycles running 7+ years for PSXBWiiDS, I don't see them wanting to kill off their super-selling system until they absolutely have to. With them talking about a longer generation over and over, I think as long as this one maintains sales they'll push off the successor to maximize this one. Nintendo's not one to move on in tech just because tech has moved on. They do it only to spur sales once they lag, with the exception of Yamauchi pushing along N64 when PS1 3d was putting Mode 7 to shame.
Normally I'd think sales would drop by 2023, but, with Switch, who knows.
@Ryu_Niiyama I'm pretty sure the new Virtual Boy will feature an updated Game Pad........
Re: Teardown Suggests The Switch OLED Dock Is 4K 60fps-Ready And 'Future Proof'
My assumption is still that Bloomberg is talking to people who either got hands on with a previously expected but cancelled due to shortages "Pro" that ended up becoming the OLED, or a preview for the eventual "Switch 2." Whatever was in the works, it would be unfathomable for them to release a new revision of the Switch (other than an OLED Lite) in the next year, after just launching a new model and marketing it. Too much market confusion to have an annual new console which could cause people to "wait" for the next one, lowering sales. Nintendo favors the "everyone buy the same thing at the same time until everyone has one, then sell the next thing" approach to the "have scheduled refreshes and catch part of the market as it's available" model that phones and tablets do. I don't imagine they'd want to pull out new hardware until they feel OLED saturated its potential market. That won't happen in a year. And doing anything else would be marked departure from the one reliable thing of Nintendo's business strategy.
Nintendo will Nintendo, so who knows, but I can't imagine they'd think the market prospect of that schedule would be favorable for the expense. It wouldn't make sense to do it within a year of OLD, and if it's more than a year after OLED, we're into year 6, heading toward year 7 of the system, at which point they'd really be crazy not to refit it and remarket it as a successor console with a separate library.
The outlier is, especially with rumors of Apple and others coming out with their own competitor systems, Nintendo, which shies away from direct big-tech competition, could easily end up having to bail on the hybrid market and move onto a "Revolution" type blue ocean again. They can't take on Apple in a direct marketing war, no matter how beloved Mario is. If that's the plan then they WOULD try to milk current Switch with a Switch Pro, but that would be instead of a Switch 2, which would instead end up as a "new concept system" type deal like the Wii or DS.
In fact, now that OLED is out and being marketed heavily, I think the only scenario in which a "Switch Pro" exists is if they're absolutely not doing a Switch 2 at all, and moving onto a new concept. Switch Pro would be a legacy swan song for Switch to go to pasture with over time. And we'll have our new fitnes-jumprope controlled console incoming. OLED kind of cemented the position of Switch, for the next 2 years, I'd think.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Final Fighter Is... Kingdom Hearts' Sora!
@Octane Knack already has PlayStation
Smash BruhsAll Star's Battle Royale. Leave the abandoned dude to his abandoned shell of a copycat project. No need to drag him through the Smash fanbase. He's been through enough.Re: Apple Made More Profit From Games In 2019 Than Nintendo, Sony And Microsoft Combined
@Gwynbleidd I think it's a mix of Apple's popular because Apple's popular, plus Apple's seen as a status symbol/designer fashion accessory, so anyone wishing to project status will buy Apple (A Lexus is just a tarted up Toyota but it doesn't stop people overpaying for the status projection), plus they've built their fame on technology for the tech illiterate, so a LOT of people that need tech because it's 2021 but don't really understand tech beyond cursory knowledge (which is probably the majority of humans) are likely to choose Apple. You don't buy a computer, configure it, secure it, customize it, and use it. you go to the boutique shop, sit at their brain bar or whatever they call it, they guide you through options, show you the one and only way to make it work like a set of instructions. Not much to go wrong. That's worth money to a lot of folks.
As for their gaming revenue, so much has to do with the scale of that install base. If every one of their installed phones bought just one $.99 IAP in games, that alone would probably net them more than Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft gaming revenue combined.
Re: Feature: How The Super Mario Musical Got Made, And Avoided Nintendo's Cease & Desist
I.....it's just.....this....its'.....I mean....that's....I mean it has to....I mean there's......
NVM, this is just too British, guv.