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I have a feeling if Nintendo leave it too long from now (another month or 2) the wind could be taken from their sails when they do eventually announce it, especially if what we've been seeing these last weeks are true. The big plus is we've seen no game footage yet

When I saw a guy on a flight in 2017 with a Switch (I didn’t know what it was at the time) I thought it looked ridiculous for a handheld in terms of size - it was massive! - however now it’s normalised, same will happen with Switch 2

@Dazman Oh and a Switch 2 patch for Arkham Knight please!

@Dazman that graphic would be cool to see, I'll have a look for it! I must admit i'd love GTA6 on Switch 2 but I cant see it myself, maybe 5? Some nice 3rd party ports would do me just fine, theres so much out there I've not played

@Dazman I played a few of their games on my Steam Deck and they were decent, Horizon and Unchartered 4 though I must admit they do go on abit too long for me - then again, being on PC they're not exlusive now
Actually - heres hoping for Switch 2 ports of Sony games!

Didnt Nintendo also say directly that they're producing alot of units to meet demand and fend of scalpers?

Oh and on the USB port on top - could that just be a development kit we're seeing? Developers could be using that port for uploading their game builds onto a unit for testing and we could see that port missing from the consumer models

Id say that docked it will have higher power consumption than the OG Switch and on top of this while playing it also needs to be charging the battery too so need to take that into account

@WhiteTrashGuy is like an option like that too but Nintendo being Nintendo I’d be surprised if they made such an option available to us but very happy to be proven wrong

@user0 thanks, that name rings a bell! I have no idea what they are but when they said resolve joycon drift it sounded positive

@John_Deacon that sounds like it could be painful, I had to change mine once but was easy with new joycons (but a total waste of otherwise usable joycons)

@mikegamer on one of Digital Foundry's recent weekly videos I'm sure they mentioned that it appears as though Nintendo are using a different mechanism for their joycon but for the life of me I cant recall what it was called - they seem to think if true it would eliminate drift which I really hope so! I always wondered how Switch Lite users got on if they had drift, as its a single unit so not easy to replace

If patching games for Switch 2 is a thing, I really hope Arkham Knight gets one else the new console is able to brute force it with additional performance available - thats if Nintendo dont throttle it to Switch performance/clock speeds for emulation in which case

Really looking forward to this, just hope my fond memories aren’t being affected by rose tinted glasses

A few of these I want on the next console, especially Civ 7 which I hope receives a Switch 2 patch as the map size is going to be limited on Switch

@Yosti I wondered a while back if Nintendo were toying with the idea of a pro back before OLED/was supposed to be the OLED refresh but what with supply chain issues (transistors etc) at the time OLED was the only feasible route. I doubt we’d ever know anyway, or if we do it’d be in decades time. Either way new console inbound, that’s all that matters as I think the hardware is in desperate need of a refresh

I’ve noticed quite a few pop up on Amazon for preorder lately which is nice, I saw yesterday Caravan Sandwitch is getting a physical which I’ll get, Little Kitty Big City also on Amazon for preorder aswell

@Cipher36 that sounds promising, thanks, hopefully it is the case - I’ve had the dlc issues before with imports which made me weary on online connectivity

@dartmonkey @MattAllsopp yeah it was fine for me, I bought UK time around 10:20pm yesterday, I assumed it was a 10pm launch as I’ve seen titles available around that time

I bought it last night in the UK with no issues, installed and played fine - it wasn’t available prior to this

@rvcolem1 I enjoyed it for a while but I think an NSO app would have been better

@JohnnyMind certainly will do

@JohnnyMind thanks for the reply, based on this I’ve taken the plunge on the English physical - if online doesn’t work I’ll just get digital

@Cipher36 do you know if the online aspect would work cross region? Would I need a Japanese Nintendo account? I’m in the UK but would like a physical

F1 Manager 24 for me, though an acquired taste. My most played of 2024 iirc from my year in review

@KBuckley27 good point! It does say in the original post it’ll be 9 years since Nintendo announced the existence of Switch (March 2015) - I’m hoping this announcement isn’t something along the same lines and we still have quite some time to wait yet for reveal/launch

I really feel a reveal in January is coming based on the recent leaks/traction it’s getting. As for release, no idea

I have enjoyed the game so far, but I was actually disappointed with the way the overworld was handled - I was hoping for a more dynamic campaign map however it seems very linear from what I've played and looking at the zone levels online (world map). Still, a good game

@NintenGuy for me i think what we're getting is just Switch with more power and refinements. Im fine with that as I think theyre onto a winning formula with the design (hybrid) but it really does make me wonder where they could go next with a console - thats where the creative ingenuity at Nintendo comes in

@Dee123 yep PEGI will be in the pocket of these big firms - they can cry from the rooftop that they arent but hell would freeze over the day they give an EA title like FC 25 an 18+ rating

I have a feeling if these latest news articles are true then we'll see a reveal and launch real soon, a few months. Or knowing Nintendo it'll be November next year.....

@Ryu_Niiyama agreed and this sounds right to me. Its between the developers, Nintendo has nothing to do with this apart from removing the games from the store front should the origional Unpacking dev win a lawsuit asking for such action

@MattAllsopp ooof I was looking for a date but the 30th has abit of a sting to it! Thanks for letting me know!

Big fan of the movie so I do need to play it, hopefully it’s on the European eShop soon. I’d love to see and Alien Isolation treatment of The Thing

@tektite_captain I’m hoping if these designs are relatively accurate their marketing department take the most logical approach and slap a 2 at the end of the name - nothing fancy to avoid confusion like Switch Next or some such

Really hoping those triggers are real, they look like they could be analogue triggers which would be a nice addition

Really looking forward to this, love the 1982 movie and never had a chance to play this, the only other The Thing material I got to enjoy were the comics

I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’d love to see this come over to the Switch successor at some point in the near future

Looks like a free to play mobile game to me?

this is a reason i've not really started this game and will probably trade in, its too long and im not all that interested in it - from what i've heard online it sounds like it can be abit of a drag also after a while so i've moved on to other shorter games

@XiaoShao I finally did some reading online and it looks like it is in a pretty bad state from what others are saying - I did get the black box bug for an enemy once but no other issues. I'm going to stop playing this for now until its patched.
Thanks for the heads up on this by the way! Glad I didnt waste alot of time on it to get blocked at some point

@XiaoShao I played almost the entire intro chapter and havnt noticed any bugs so far, though it may just be down to luck

@XiaoShao Really surprised they didnt review Wildermyth (yet) - I bought digital and will have the physical in a few weeks, great game!

Such a shame, I played Rime recently and thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay and story - a game that will leave a mark on me for some time.
Hopefully the staff come out of this ok

Wow, Grove Street Games removed from credits - I'd guess Rockstar wont be using their services again

The inventory menu system in Fire Emblem Engage baffled me and was just a mess from what I recall - why these devs cant come up with intuitive menu systems is beyond me

@jco83 @awp69 from the little time I’ve had with it running the latest patch unfortunately not, SwitchUp confirmed this also in one of their all patched up videos from months ago. Maybe next Nintendo console could receive an update or just brute force it to work better with the more capable hardware

@tonyp1987 I found that too with Knight, it ran great on deck

@JohnnyMind I checked the same and looks like physical end of March next year so a wait for me too

Really enjoyed this back in the day, I remember it being buggy but superb at the time. Nice to see a solid Switch port