The NX was announced in 2015 and rumors about a hybrid console swirled for a long time, before the official reveal in October 2016, 5 months before release. But it was very much a known quantity by then.
The information about it being a hybrid happened only a few months before the system was released, and it was a new concept. As per the earliest article I can find being from Eurogamer.
The successor to the switch…. Will still be a switch. There’s not much of note to discuss for a system that will largely be… a hybrid system with detachable controllers.
I would expect to hear something if it wasn’t a switch at all, it was a completely different device and it only just so happened to have Bc in games and those can only be used in a certain form or mode. Has a completely different control scheme and a completely different form factor.
It’s my hot take on this: but I think people are grossly overthinking the idea of what the gimmick of the new system will be and thinking it’ll be something so out there that it
needs to be reported to the masses when it can just be that it has no grandstanding gimmick that makes it that different. Maybe it’s just the GBA to the GB/GBC.
if it uses two detachable controllers that can be turned sideways for two people to play on co-op, uses a dock to display to the TV, its main body is a tablet with a kickstand that is Tegra powered, it is still pretty much a Nintendo switch.
Nintendo switch is their
only platform these days, they can’t afford to change it too much leaving it unrecognizable, they still have to be strictly at the confines of what made them successful as a platform. That’s my hot take with respect to this gimmick discussion that has plagued this thread a plethora of times.
I know people are going to disagree, that’s fine, I’m not here to say you have to agree with me 100% because everybody has their own stance and opinions on things.
However, I think there’s a possibility that people are overthinking this and leaning on “well they’ve always done this and changed that!” But also exaggerate how often and what changes so often.
Especially the portable devices. The biggest change (and then back) for them was going from 1 screen to 2 while keeping the bottom as the main body.
And for the record, if it was launching in 2024, we would have already heard about it’s uniqueness form a developer kit way before the system released anyway.
Like seriously, if it’s 7 months out, if it’s 11 months out, if it’s 18 months out, we would’ve heard about something different and weird about its developer kits. Even earlier developer kits with a unique gimmick and twist. And as time went on it evolved into a more concrete kit.
We somehow know about the PS5 Portable Q-Lite
accessory system that is over a year out supposedly and even it’s size of screen and it’s purpose, but we don’t know a thing about the successor that we assume is going to be very different because of company history?
I’m calling out that it’s not that we aren’t hearing anything because there’s no one that has one, I just think there’s nothing to report about it because it’s not that different and people are expecting
too much to be different that needs to be reported but isn’t.
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I’m on it but could be released before 1st quarter 2024.
