Depends on how long they want to ride out those Booster Course sales and exactly when they wanna release it. I can see it being an October title for 2025 with a June reveal, that way you can have a short turn around while squeezing out the last of that DLC before the announcement.
I’m honestly expecting a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Ultra/Plus whatever at this point. Maybe a proper MK successor two years after that
I can't see this happening, especially if Drake is backwards compatible with the Switch. MK8D is still selling gang-busters and the BCP is successful; I don't see the need to release yet another version when Nintendo is already profiting off of what's already available and will very likely continue to sell well for a while.
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Good point. Maybe Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be one of many crossgen titles that will carry support to the OG Switch for a year or two
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I believe they are going to keep trying to sell Switch 1s at a lower price even after the Switch 2 launches, but since I think they are going to keep the same basic concept I wonder how Nintendo is going to try to distinguish Switch 2 from 1 so average consumer understands it’s a NEW upgraded product. Like there’s no confusing the PS4 and PS5.
I believe Furukawa has stated that they aren't planning to drop the price yet. Personally, I don't expect a price drop until two years after Drake is out, that would also be when I assume they'll release a Lite model for Drake with around the same price as the OLED.
That’s within the realm of possibility, but it’d be a very long con (account registered in 2009). I don’t know the person, and cannot vouch for him.
Sorry it was an attempt at a joke based on an urban legend/horror trope. The Nikkei article claims that the next-gen console is “rumored for release in 2024” without citing any sources. Since the most recent “2024” rumor published by a major press was from Nikkei themselves, I found it a bit sneaky that they reinforce their own story (which didn‘t cite any sources either) without explicitly saying so.
Now that you mention it, I can see that happening after Drake is released and there's enough cross-gen games available to justify holding off for something cheaper.
lmaoo got it
I believe the 3DS was discontinued three years after the Switch’s release. If so, this could be a fine timeline:
I know this was discussed awhile back, but I think it's gonna take a lot more than a gimmick to make the next Mario Kart stand out. A part of me wants to say open world or to take notes from other racers, like Crash Team Racing, but I feel Nintendo would want to go above and beyond whatever concept they want to tackle. Also, I know it'll upset a lot of y'all, but Nintendo Kart would be pretty based, imo >
Certainly don't want that removed, especially if Drake is BC with Switch games. But with that in mind....
Are you talking about Prime 4? Because, no offense, I feel like that would be a terrible idea.
If by "canceled" you mean "retrofitted for a newer smaller process node while eating a terrible cost" then sure.
the only option for that is TSMC's 3nm. that'd be a hell of a performance boost though
Did anyone speculate about if a Drake Pro could be on 3nm? What nodes are able to be downsized? Because I remember hearing 8nm was a dead end node.
More conservative in the sense that he's a lot more "by the books" than Iwata. They leaned much more into the "fun and wacky" style of games in every way under Iwata; between the marketing (E3 2015) and the games centralizing around hardware gimmicks for big releases within established IP (Skyward Sword, Star Fox Zero, countless DS games). Ever since Kimishima, Direct formats have become standardized normal presentations (do you see current Nintendo doing a Robot Chicken skit where Reggie vaporizes a Mother 3 fan with eye lazers?) and the vast majority of Switch games haven't done anything special with the Joy-Con's ability - while it's absolutely not a big series, the fact that WarioWare of all things avoided using hardware gimmicks for its Switch entry is very telling. Furukawa has done nothing to alter this course.#Team2023
Like a fellow user suggested: I think Nintendo is juggling between Super and 2.
Excuse my ignorance, but what gives you this impression?
no. I think it just depends on what Nvidia is moving to within the next 4 years. Assuming a Drake Pro does happen, I highly doubt it though.
I don't think they'd have MK8DX DLC running to late 2023 if they were going to launch an all-new game in early 2024. BUT I think it will still be a fairly early game for the system, as all Mario Karts are. Late 2024 I'd believe.
I feel like they could change the font for the system name and be doing more than Sony does.
It's not like it's a giant dealbreaker for me. BotW is one of my favorite games of all time, but since it released there's always the thought in my head of "this is run smoother, look crisper, load faster, etc on other hardware in this day and age." Hell I loved No More Heroes 3 despite it running like dogshit on Switch lol.
I'm not sure this follows. If you have very fast storage, why bother compressing assets, when it's faster to just read them straight to memory? If your storage is slow, then compressed assets make more sense - it costs time and CPU power to decompress, but reducing how much you have to read off storage makes it a win.
The Xbox One X and the PS 4 Pro used 5400 RPM HDDs, both of which capped out at 80MB/s. GameCard speeds are technically unknown and hard to benchmark, but a reasonable guess is 100MB/s.
I can clearly see your point. It’s true. They’re focused in consistency of software versus creativity
I don't know about that. With Switch, every game INHERENTLY adopts handheld, TV and/or tabletop play. Switch Lite also somewhat limited what games could do, but really, Warioware isn't NOT using the gimmicks! It's using the BEST gimmick: multiple playmodes. It's intentionally so simple that you can play with a single Joy-Con, or a Pro Controller, or on a Lite, or on an NSO NES controller.
If assets were not compressed, then we'd be looking at extremely large game sizes. I guess we'd need to know just how fast Drake's hardware decompression is to know where storage speed should balance around. It becomes a waste if storage is faster than it, but becomes a bottleneck if storage is quite a bit less. Compression makes sense with slow storage mediums, but now that we have massive games, compression has become critical beyond transfer speeds.
The microSD slot in the Switch is certainly able to handle 90MB/s+, but we don't see those results because of software decompression being the bottleneck in asset loading. If Drake's hardware decompression can't handle more than 100MB/s input, then microSD would be fine, though disappointing.
there are other parts to load times that spending more on storage doesn't fix, like decompression, which the PS4 and XBO did slowly
in regard to Metroid Prime 4 been a potencial cross-gen game for Nintendo next hardware, i believe/predict Nintendo will follow a similar path they followed with Breath of the Wild(been as the final first party game for this console and released on the next console, with almost no changes between each version, because if Switch sucessor version of Metroid Prime 4 is substancialy better then Metroid Prime 4 on Switch, everyone that bought the game on Switch, will be furious at Nintendo, they need to release near identical versions of Metroid Prime 4 on both consoles, like they did with Breath of the Wild, to not anger everyone, of course i would love Metroid Prime 4 to be a visual showcase for next hardware, but sadly despite Metroid been a amazing franchise, it sadly is not a system seller like Legend of Zelda or Mario)
i think there is an obvious understanding that the next console will be more powerful, people dont act as if the ps5 being more powerful than the ps4 is something outrageous.
in regard to file size to Nintendo next hardware, it would depend on the game scale/complexity, smaller scale games like a WarioWare i believe would be 10-20GB, with the average file size been 25-30GB, and more ambitous large scale games such as a 3D open world Mario or the next Legend of Zelda been 50-60GB, i could be wrong of course in my estimates of how file size could be on Nintendo next hardware
Thank you. Happy Eid to you too.
I believe you can speak about it here since it is meant for speculative and discussion purposes, just not piracy and the sort.
Tears of the Kingdom is massive in scale and only 16GB. Relax.
Wait how do we know Tears is only 16gb? Been out the loop so not sure if i missed something
I think that we have to look at it from a different perspective. I’m going to use a PlayStation 5 as an example, and I’m gonna use the Nintendo 64 as another example. Both were made with a feature that allows for instant load times or very low load times. However, the difference is that the two have a magnitude of difference in terms of speed of loading from its source into an actual game. It’s not so much that Sony wanted to point out the super fast SSD as the sole feature on the PlayStation5, it’s also about how they can have that much data at any given time compared to before per second.
the decompressor is to alleviate the cpu from decompressing data. you compress data to overcome the slow transfer speeds. my point is that having faster memory isn't going to do you any good if you're still decompressing data on the cpu. the XBO/PS4 having a SATA SSD didn't help load times because the bottleneck was elsewhere, namely, decompression
with Thor being lovelace, and possibly 4N, then Drake isn't going to be much different from it. similar to how the TX1+ wasn't too different from the TX2
isnt this options extremely expensive for Nintendo
this is so confusing, now i dont know if 18.2GB is the real file size for Tears of the Kingdom, or 16GB is the actual file size of the game( more likely to be 16GB)
