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Tentacle-tropes said:
So far it looks like Nintendo is afraid of:
  • Election years
  • Stuff concerning MS
  • PS5Pro
Truly wonder what else we can put on here so we can explain a “delay” from Nintendo .
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I was the one that brought up the election thing. That was just speculation from Doctre81 which I echoed. He's good at looking through LinkedIn but this was never anything definitive from an insider like Jeff Grubb.
yusufied said:
Doctre81 has been speculating that November and the months leading up it would be a bad time for release because of the US election. For those outside of the states, our election cycles are a little over a year long. As we get closer to the election day more and more ad slots are bought up by various candidates running for election which means fewer opportunities for a Switch 2 ad. And news media is less focused on other things in pop culture like a new console release.
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yusufied said:
I was the one that brought up the election thing. That was just speculation from Doctre81 which I echoed. He's good at looking through LinkedIn but this was never anything definitive from an insider like Jeff Grubb.
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sounds like even more reason to release the console in May/June to get ahead of the election nonsense.
 
eye0h said:


At first I thought grubb was just suggesting they were moving the partner showcase but now he's confirming he has heard things about it being moved. There's a chance nate and necro's sources were correct at one point.
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Reset the clock!
 
The whole direct thing not occurring today just makes it more likely that march will be the reveal month imo

So, what do you guys think are the chances of getting a higher hz display? Kinda like the deck oled with 90 for example.
Zero chances or just slim?
 
VagrantValmar said:
The whole direct thing not occurring today just makes it more likely that march will be the reveal month imo

So, what do you guys think are the chances of getting a higher hz display? Kinda like the deck oled with 90 for example.
Zero chances or just slim?
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Very low. I could see something similar to Steam Deck + VRR output, where VRR is just used to deal with the range of supported refresh rates. I'd rather have flat VRR for output and a 60hz screen, but that's me.

I think they just make it 59.95/60hz. I don't think Nintendo would be chasing this. It's easiest to support and owners of VRR supporting TVs that know what VRR are basically an edge case anyway.
 
Hermii said:
1. That terrifies the entire world, not just Nintendo.

2. MS making more multiplatform games can only be good for them.

3. It's going to be a nieche product imho.
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  1. Never said otherwise but not sure why that would preclude Nintendo from releasing a product around that time period
  2. And? Supposedly we are entertaining the thought that Nintendo places this much importance upon an MS related event to move their own
  3. Hasn’t stopped people from mentioning as such as if we all know it’ll be as damaging as PS4 was to the Switch
 
VagrantValmar said:
The whole direct thing not occurring today just makes it more likely that march will be the reveal month imo

So, what do you guys think are the chances of getting a higher hz display? Kinda like the deck oled with 90 for example.
Zero chances or just slim?
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I think they will stick with 60hz for this base Switch 2 and maybe they'll do like Valve and have a higher 90hz OLED screen on the revision years later.
 
Bonejack said:
Can you believe it, after today, it's clear road ahead. No more "obligations" or anything else that could Nintendo stop from finally moving over.

I hope Eurogamer or any other big outlet will make this week great with another ReDraketed leak.
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We’re better without any leaks tbh

Shows that Nintendo is in full control of the narrative
VagrantValmar said:
The whole direct thing not occurring today just makes it more likely that march will be the reveal month imo

So, what do you guys think are the chances of getting a higher hz display? Kinda like the deck oled with 90 for example.
Zero chances or just slim?
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120hz is a given
 
Shareholder Chad said:
As a “forum poster” and “criticizer”, you also always “win” because you never put your own ass on the line and just sit back and criticize others from the safety of being just another forum poster.

“How can you criticize a creation in good faith if you yourself have never created”
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We (the internet in general) do this same song and dance every few months. Cant wait until people inevitably turn on pyoro and claim he never knew anything the entire time for getting something wrong despite almost leaking entire nintendo directs multiple times. LMAO
 
Teal'c said:
Because of Microsoft? I don't understand why if it's true 🤔
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Seems like MS themselves had to change plans because of all the hubbub over rumors and speculation. I can totally understand another party deciding the air has been sucked out of the room and smaller announcements made on the same day wouldn't get the attention they want them to.
 
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Shareholder Chad said:
As a “forum poster” and “criticizer”, you also always “win” because you never put your own ass on the line and just sit back and criticize others from the safety of being just another forum poster.

“How can you criticize a creation in good faith if you yourself have never created”
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Ass On the line lol.
You brave person you.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Seems like MS themselves had to change plans because of all the hubbub over rumors and speculation. I can totally understand another party deciding the air has been sucked out of the room and smaller announcements made on the same day wouldn't get the attention they want them to.
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I agree that they basically had no choice but to quench the PR fire that appeared and reveal this stuff far earlier than they would've liked. The only real repercussion for us though is that it makes Nintendo far more unpredictable by proxy.
 
This is an illogical line of argument made on bad faith. For this and a history of similar behavior, you are being threadbanned for one month. - meatbag, Volcanic Dynamo, Party Sklar, xghost777
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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its the second time you are trying to push this, nobody agrees.
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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That’s a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a Direct date being wrong lol
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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Wait for the MS thing TBF, if Hi-FI rush is going to be pushed for Switch (highly indicative based on datamines). It'd be extremely stupid and kill cross-platform trust for Nintendo to run ahead of MS's own third-party annoucning presentation and say "HI GUYS XBOX IS GOING MULTIPLATFORM!"

(Note, there could very well still be no direct. But on a rethink of the general industry situation and it being a Partner Direct in rumor, MS being a major Partner for one would make sense and be reason to even have one for Switch 1)
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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simmer down
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
i have no reason to rage bait, especially since almost everything we heard from nate & necro sounded too good to be true for a freaking nintendo console
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Care to elaborate on why you think it's too good to be true?
Everyone here has very solid evidence and arguments on why most things mentioned are likely.
You have evidence of your own or just "because I hate Nintendo and I don't want them to have a good system"?
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
i have no reason to rage bait, especially since almost everything we heard from nate & necro sounded too good to be true for a freaking nintendo console
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so your response is to be illogical? You see where we have an issue lmao?

And I'm saying this as someone who has accepted 12gb ram(hopes 16 is right) and thinks people are little optimistic on the storage.

VagrantValmar said:
Care to elaborate on why you think it's too good to be true?
Everyone here has very solid evidence and arguments on why most things mentioned are likely.
You have evidence of your own or just "because I hate Nintendo and I don't want them to have a good system"?
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I don't think he's in the i hate nintendo so let's troll camp. He's in the "because Nintendo" camp. But like way too in there lmao
 
Hocot8 said:
I don't think he's in the i hate nintendo so let's troll camp. He's in the "because Nintendo" camp. But like way too in there lmao
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Is it really all that different?
I mean, the Switch had pretty decent hardware when it launched so there's already a precedent of Nintendo having decent performance before.
Thinking they wouldn't do the same thing is either trolling, hating, or ignorance.

Or very strong evidence to suggest otherwise too, I guess
 
Hocot8 said:
so your response is to be illogical? You see where we have an issue lmao?

And I'm saying this as someone who has accepted 12gb ram(hopes 16 is right) and thinks people are little optimistic on the storage.
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never forget that nintendo tends to use the cheapest parts possible (ram, storage, etc...) and considering how switch 1 had the least expensive parts, why would they start going all out with switch 2? especially since switch 1 sold well regardless of how "weak" it was
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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To be clear, I don't believe any of them claimed a specific time and date, while much of what we know about NG Switch is from factual data and datamines.

8GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and no BC do not make FACTUAL sense with the technical specifications we know for a fact, regardless of insiders. They provide reassuring corroboration, no doubt, and that's valued, but they're not the only source, and it's simply incorrect to suggest those numbers are "point zero" and that 16GB is "wrong".

Have some decorum, by the way, these people use this forum and regardless of one's personal feelings on them we don't need to go around calling them liars and ignoramuses or any such nonsense.
 
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If Nintendo delayed it is not that hard to believe. Microsoft is going to dominate the news cycle for the rest of the week with its announcements. Nintendo if its indeed a partner direct has no interest in having its news buried under the Xbox headlines that are going to spam the internet both good and absurd
 
Because Nintendo is notorious for saving money on their components, I believe that the Switch 2 will cut costs by not having a CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, screen, battery, or controllers.
 
Concernt said:
To be clear, I don't believed any of them claimed a specific time and date, while much of what we know about NG Switch is from factual data and datamines.

8GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and no BC do not make FACTUAL sense with the technical specifications we know for a fact, regardless of insiders. They provide reassuring corroboration, no doubt, and that's valued, but they're not the only source, and it's simply incorrect to suggest those numbers are "point zero" and that 16GB is "wrong".

Have some decorum, by the way, these people use this forum and regardless of one's personal feelings on them we don't need to go around calling them liars and ignoramuses or any such nonsense.
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Decorum, on this forum? /s

That guy did just make his way onto my ignore list though.
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
never forget that nintendo tends to use the cheapest parts possible (ram, storage, etc...) and considering how switch 1 had the least expensive parts, why would they start going all out with switch 2? especially since switch 1 sold well regardless of how "weak" it was
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Depends on what price point they are shooting for. They've been afforded to shoot for $400 because of inflation and competitors. 16gb may be a bit high but 8 is just not logical. If you wanted your stance to be treated more seriously then maybe say 12 gbs. Storage, that I'll agree. People saying 512 gbs or 1 tb i think are on that copium. I've been in the 128gb-256gb camp. Then BC? If they are still doing these small cartridges I don't see how we don't look at this similar to how they treated the game boy and ds lines when it comes to bc.

But this is a reaction to a friggin partner direct not happening(yet). It's insanity lmao.
 
Alovon11 said:
Wait for the MS thing TBF, if Hi-FI rush is going to be pushed for Switch (highly indicative based on datamines). It'd be extremely stupid and kill cross-platform trust for Nintendo to run ahead of MS's own third-party annoucning presentation and say "HI GUYS XBOX IS GOING MULTIPLATFORM!"

(Note, there could very well still be no direct. But on a rethink of the general industry situation and it being a Partner Direct in rumor, MS being a major Partner for one would make sense and be reason to even have one for Switch 1)
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Were people expecting Hi-Fi Rush in this potential Direct for some reason? I mean, it's clear it will come out eventually. But I don't think it would make sense to have expected it here (even before Nate specifically said it wouldn't be).

Though if they wanted to, they could tack it on after MS does their thing today lol
 
antonz said:
If Nintendo delayed it is not that hard to believe. Microsoft is going to dominate the news cycle for the rest of the week with its announcements. Nintendo if its indeed a partner direct has no interest in having its news buried under the Xbox headlines that are going to spam the internet both good and absurd
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I find it hard to believe considering Nintendo has shared news cycles with some pretty big events that have overshadowed their own. Not sure why they would supposedly feel different about that now.
 
TechnicalTip6578 said:
now that the Direct leaks are proven wrong, it's time to admit that Nate, Necro & every other nintendo leaker (aside from pyoro) who backed up the rumor are now considered not trusty anymore

which by extension everything they said about switch 2 is wrong, we're now back to point zero which is 8gb ram, 64-128gb storage & possibly no BC
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