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Traders usually buy on the rumour, and sell on the news. This is totally typical stock market behaviour

And I was trying so hard not add to my backlog! Definite Wishlist for me after watching the trailer, I love a space sim.

It's also just £8.74 on the UK eShop, which is also it's lowest price ever
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/MONSTER-HUNTER-RISE-1843169.html

I'd just assumed Ace Combat was never coming to the Switch! I'm very excited for this, even if it's going to come out right at the tail end of the Switch's life 😏

Didn't all this come out in the original coverage of the M$ vs FTC case a few months back? I don't see what is new in this story. Are NL reporting on a Verge click-bait article?

I loved (and still love) the originals, but I'll wait for an e-shop sale for Re-Boot

@SwitchForce It looks like OreXda is more of a Samsung Uncle, than a Nintendo Uncle, and they've unintentionally triggered the Switch2 leak alert alarms
Nintendo won't release anything until all the components are ready, and what this leak does hint at is that there's more to T239 than just being an Orin knock-off!

@tjhiphop Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought to select just 3 holes!

I got Switch Sports after Golf was added to it, as that was the sport I was most interested in and loved playing the in Wii Sports and Sports Resort. However I was disappointed it was just the basic 18 holes (not even the mad extra holes from Resort) and while being graphically better they lacked the character of the originals. Switch Sports really needs an extra sport or two

@Dom_31 I think there's a potential slot in April https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2023/January/Here-s-how-2023-is-shaping-up-on-Nintendo-Switch--2323948.html
But June would probably be better for the game to get some distance from the latest Fire Emblem.
Personally I'd love a shadow drop in a February Nintendo Direct, that way I could have it for my birthday.

@Discostew I agree with almost everything you say, and I voted for 2023 announcement and launch above. But I did hesitate, not just because of the DF rumour (which could well be a Bloomberg style confused interpretation of legitimate info), but also the rumours about T239 not initially hitting its thermal/power consumption targets. If those were true then T239 could be a year or more behind Orin while they redesign and prove a die shrink (which would also increase the sale price of any Switch 2 by quite a bit)

@progx You're gonna be disappointed if you're hoping for something in the recent Apple A class range. Think something more like the Tegra Orin NX ball park, and your expectations will have less chances of being dashed

Wikipedia call it II, and I’d trust them way more than sales or marketing types. And like lots of others I haven’t played this one before despite playing the first one multiple times (I think IV times on the GC, plus just finishing off a run through on the NSW now) so I’m kinda hyped for this release. I may even pay full price 😮

I guess this article works as a companion piece to the flight sim and space shooter list. More to add to my wish list/backlog 😱
I can strongly recommend Starlink, it’s especially fun in Co-op mode with younger family and great value when (frequently) on sale. And Manticore (from the space shooter list) list is a massive blast as well.

@Zyph yep, I read it as they started adopting industry best standards around 5 years ago. Considering Sony had their big PSN hack back in 2011 I’d suggest Nintendo weren’t just using withered technology for their consoles!

Over half my Switch collection is 3rd party, so I'm OK with this

I mostly solo player or couch co-op, so this isn't going to put me off. Still looking forward to it very much, and if the reviews are good I may not wait until it goes on sale either!

@zbinks I’d heard it was a launch exclusive as well. Maybe the exclusivity is only for a few months? Unless it’s gonna shadow drop after Nintendo’s direct later this month!

@SwitchplayerJohn Tying soundtrack listening into NSO makes a lot of sense if Nintendo really want to build on their Nintendo Accounts users. If Nintendo could find the resources, maybe they could do a mobile app too that ties into NSO subscriptions?

I'd add The First Tree to the list. Most of the game is quite chilled, but the end of the journey is very sad. I thought it was quite affecting, bu my offspring (who beat me to the end of the game) enjoyed playing most of it, but was so upset by the ending they asked for the game to be deleted from our Switch so they wouldn't have to see it in the list and be reminded of it

I've got my fingers crossed for this release. I've heard lots about NMS, but not played it yet (I'm a Nintendo only gamer). And with Star Fox absent, the Switch could do with more good space based games.

Can the Switch keep on selling around 4 million units a year for another couple of years in Japan? If so, it could take the crown. If it's still around for more than couple of years (and it probably will be!), then it's still in with a chance of being number one even if sales rates slow down. No wonder the Saudi's decided to want a (5%) slice of the action.

ShopTo in the UK have a discount for Family NSO membership to £24.85 (12 mnths). Looking at Deku Deals that seems to be a permanent deal

I play and enjoy it when i get the time, which isn’t enough to be honest. I would like more content as well. If they did DLC, I wonder if they’d add it to NSO expansion?

The freezing was a recent issue, from the last few weeks. Also my child's account was experiencing a lot of lag as well (my adult account wasn't). Both issues are now sorted with this update

@Austrian @RadioHedgeFund I read somewhere else that BoTW wasn't optimised to run on the Switch, it was just natively powerful enough for the port from the WiiU. So 5 years experience with the game engine, plus optimising for the Switch should make a noticeable difference to BoTW. I also doubt Nintendo would be inexperienced enough to show game footage from a future model before it's been announced (which personally I do expect in 2023)

Nintendo must be feeling the heat of competition, or they’ve realised if they want to keep the Switch around for another 5 years then it’s going to have to evolve a little

@RupeeClock @1UP_MARIO cheers as well

@Chapapa Thanks for the heads up. I must have been too early last time. Breaking news ahead of the facts and all that. My offspring is gonna be totally over the moon when she gets home from school

@Chapapa Yeah, they definitely should do demos more often

There's no option to download a demo from from the www.nintendo.co.uk site, so I can't surprise my offspring with it ready-to-play
Oh well, I'll just have to tell them the news this afternoon
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I always wanted to play this second game, but I just had the GameCube. This news has made my morning 😀

I wonder how those 360 new 2DS LL owners feel this week now that Nintendo have just started to sunset online support for the platform in a few months time?!

Nintendo's product page says the supported features are
Tabletop mode and TV mode
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Nintendo-Switch-Sports-2168292.html#gameDetails
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/nintendo-switch-sports-switch/
That doesn't mean you can't play on the Switch Lite. It'll be awkward perhaps, but I'm sure some YouTuber will post a vid of them doing so come late April

I'm not a PC gamer, so I've no experience of FSR so far, but I've heard it's inferior to DLSS. However if it's something the Switch can run with now, it'll be fascinating to see how it works if they are using it in Sports. It's a definite buy for me anyway, so I'll guess I'll find out later this year.

I’ve wanted to play this for a good while, but I don’t have a powerful PC or other consoles, so I’m nervously looking forward to this.
Please be good, please be good, please be good 🤞🏼 …

This deal falling through is probably for the best for Nintendo. Nvidia can keep their focus on them as their major consumer market customer for CPU/SoC

I was going to wait a bit, possibly for my offspring's birthday. But with this discount I've pulled the trigger now, and it'll be an early treat. For me!

@yuwarite Yes, mobile is also a massive market that Nvidia have found little success in, excepting Nintendo's Switch of course. Nvidia were very clear they weren't going to force the rest of the mobile industry to buy Tegra instead of just Arm (but I'm sure they would if they thought they could get away with it!)

I'd never thought of Nintendo getting a subsidy from Nvidia beyond a volume discount. Interesting idea, but I would expect the power of any 'Switch 2' to be most dependant on what model of Tegra will be current at the time that Nintendo want to produce a new model.

@Pod Most of the stock in the IPO is probably going to go to major players (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc), and other big tech investors/VCs first, before any trickles down to the actual public on the street.

This won't make any difference to Nintendo. Nvidia's plans for the next Tegra SoCs already included existing Arm CPU designs. And the benefit to Nvidia getting Arm would have been around high performance computing for big businesses and academia anyway, with little impact on mobile.

@GannonBanned SMO was in an e-shop sale a few months before Christmas so it would have last charted high back in October

Looking at the original gamesindustry.biz article, it seems like this guys predictions for 2021 were right for any generally trending technology, but not right for anything regarding specific companies or products/services . So based on past performance I'd say the forecast of a next-gen console in late 2024 is also likely to not be right.

@HedgehogEngine Interesting what you say about 28nm as one of the chip shortages is in that and larger nodes. The other one is at the 7nm and smaller end where TSMC have had a monopoly so far. However TSMC still produce those older sizes as well (https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/logic). There was a rumour earlier this year about Nvidia closing down 16nm production. The rumour came out in the middle of the Switch Pro hype, and was never substantiated (or even repeated by other sources AFAIK). Are you thinking of that story when you say 'TSMC closes their 16nm line(s)'?

@SwitchForce Yes, Pat Gelsinger has made a habit of playing up the chip shortages several times this year. Some of it will be to distract from Intel's problems of the last 5 years. I'm not aware of any of semiconductor manufacturer predicting problems past the end of 2022 yet.
However there is a counter-narrative. Intel are due to launch their own GPU cards soon. In order to compete with AMD and Nvidia, Intel are actually getting TSMC to produce their designs for them! That means Intel probably do have an idea how hard it is to get 5nm and 3nm capacity from TSMC in the next year or so.

@HedgehogEngine TSMC don't need to close 16nm fabs to build new fabs. They've already got 7 & 5 nm fabs and their first 3nm fab is due to open next year. No-one is closing fabs of any size node in the current market!

@Silly_G It's no joke about potatoes, McDonalds in Japan are rationing french fries!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59750613

@Axecon So co-op is still in the realms of fanboi dreamland at the moment? Shame, but if there aren't even any rumours on the internet for it, I'll keep my hype stowed away for now!

@VoidofLight I wouldn't agree with 'never work'. Co-op could be added without full freedom for the 2nd player, like Cappy in SM Odyssey perhaps. Or Nintendo could do something totally inventive! But yeah, I wouldn't argue with you about 'probably won't' at the moment.

@Axecon I'd love to see a co-op Zelda, but is there any substance to that hope?

I’m not a PC gamer anymore and I don’t have any Xbox, but if Elder Scrolls 6 was actually very good when it came out, then I’d consider getting an Xbox. Depends how well it ran on the Series S at the time