Fair but as far as we know Switch 2 is really a...Switch 2 with no major new gimmick. Maybe an AR camera, but I doubt they name their system after that.
If that’s the case…then why or how did they end up typing “Switch Attach” in the first place? Why put a made up name that no one will recognize in a survey like this over something more easily understood like “Switch 2” or “future Nintendo console” or something like that? And why, for that matter, ask people if they’d buy a console that hasn’t even been officially announced yet? It only really makes sense if it was either something that accidentally slipped through, possibly because the system may have been originally intended to have been revealed by now, or if this survey is specifically from Nintendo and they’re gauging interest in the next system compared to the competition, and/or they’re testing “Switch Attach” as a potential name for the system.
Sure, maybe, but that would be quite the coincidence that the word just happens to work so well with “Switch”.
As of late?
Holy shit, I had already forgotten about this. That has “Attach” written all over it! lol
It sounds better in the Japanese. If you use アタッチ.
I mean, yeah, I noted in my earlier post that it works even better in Japanese, but I think it still works well enough in English, too. It’ll naturally sound kinda odd at first, just like how I thought “Nintendo Switch” sounded a bit weird initially too.
I'd be sad if this is what it is. Joy-cons are a better piece of hardware than a 2nd screen....Holy shit, I had already forgotten about this. That has “Attach” written all over it! lol
Doesn’t mean Joy-Con couldn’t potentially still be used, and assuming it’s backwards compatible with Switch (which it absolutely will be if it’s called “Nintendo Switch Attach”) it would essentially require that to be the case, anyway. Wouldn’t be much different from the Switch Lite, which doesn’t have Joy-Con of its own but Joy-Con can still be used with it wirelessly. They could also be making a new Joy-Con-like controller specifically for the new system, too. We have very little context with this patent, after all, if it does end up being what the new system actually is.
I don't get why everybody is convince that Switch 2 "won't have any majoc gimmick". AR camera as you say is a major "gimmick" (I hate the word), but Miyamoto also expressed dissatisfaction with the current state
Finally, knowing Nintendo, you can imagine them going crazy with Switch'2 Tensor Core for something weird. An avatar? A pet?
Holy shit, I had already forgotten about this. That has “Attach” written all over it! lol
It would basically be the Wii U, but better and (presumably) much more successful! The Wii U was already pretty much all of those things first, after all, though while it had handheld elements it wasn’t truly a portable system since the Gamepad still had to be within range of the console.
I know, I said as much in my post. I know the Wii U wasn’t a true portable, but it was still able to play Nintendo DS games since to the dual screens, which is absolutely did have thanks to the GamePad; the screens just weren’t connected like on the DS, but it was dual screen nonetheless. Wii U also felt like the “ultimate Nintendo system” at the time since it could play games from pretty much every past Nintendo system (whether officially or not—for example, Nintendo never released GameCube games for the system, but the hardware was technically capable of natively playing them in Wii mode). The Switch was a step backwards in that regard, but if this patent and “Switch Attach” really is the next system, it would be capable of fixing that, while being a true portable too!
I’m not saying I definitely believe it’s real…but I also don’t think it can be so confidently disregarded, either. I mean, don’t you think it’s odd how well the name “Attach” matches up with the patent? And the fact that the name “Switch Attach” appeared on a survey that someone is paying for on YouTube in the first place, while also being a name that just works really well but was never thrown around by anyone before? It totally could just be a series of coincidences, but I feel like there’s a decent chance that there could be something more to it than that, too… Why are you so confident that it’s absolutely not real?
Are neither of these scenarios plausible to you then?
As others have also said, and as it was rumored until recently with the alleged delay, the system could have been originally planned to be revealed earlier this month, and that survey could have been something that someone—potentially even Nintendo themselves—had ready to go prior to the delay, and somehow this accidentally slipped through without being canceled or altered to remove “Switch Attach” since it didn’t actually get revealed as planned. It could have also been something that was scheduled to automatically start at a certain date and they just forgot to change things before it went live. Again, not saying that this is absolutely the case at all…but I don’t think it would be that farfetched.
Would be a nightmare from a software development perspective, and who would develop a game that requires 2 consoles to run?
