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PlasmaOne said:
99% chance this is fake, but just wanted to share

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So is that standard procedure at airports? Cuz this sounding extremely fucking goofy and I'm not talking about the movie. Why would it get pulled for screening? Do hardware engineers just travel with those things? Also, size of the Xbone? Even if it's a devkit, I have to call cap.
 
Andre3333456 said:
Is he reliable?
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Hell no

P4bl0 said:
Rare look at a Switch dev kit

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What is that and where did you find it? Reverse image search turns up nothing. The motherboard isn't shaped like a Switch motherboard so it isn't just a deconstructed Switch, and that looks nothing like the Switch devkits that have been shown before.
 
chocolate_supra said:
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What is that and where did you find it? Reverse image search turns up nothing. The motherboard isn't shaped like a Switch motherboard so it isn't just a deconstructed Switch, and that looks nothing like the Switch devkits that have been shown before.
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I’m in Japan right now
 
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D36 said:
So is that standard procedure at airports? Cuz this sounding extremely fucking goofy and I'm not talking about the movie. Why would it get pulled for screening? Do hardware engineers just travel with those things? Also, size of the Xbone? Even if it's a devkit, I have to call cap.
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Because such things could be interpreted as explosives. And no, they don't travel with such things on their person. At least, I assume they don't because why?
 
ILikeFeet said:
Because such things could be interpreted as explosives. And no, they don't travel with such things on their person. At least, I assume they don't because why?
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They wouldn’t ship it, too much risk, they have to send an engineer to deliver it and install it and how to to the game studio
 
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I feel like posting obviously fake leaks is in line with posting Zippo "leaks." It's just a time waster for everyone involved.
 
P4bl0 said:


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"Hello, I take simple Speculation of some random posters on a forum as rumors, mix it with actual rumors that should be taken with a grain of salt and then I act like as if everyone else is stupid because they seemingly believe in unrealistic things. Also I’m not aware of the irony of my Tweet."
 
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Concernt said:
The Wii U Pro Controller is not compatible with the Wii Accessory Port. As for production and provision, the Wii Accessory Ports and Wii Classic Controllers were kept in production for the purposes of testing, but only for testing, and continued to be produced and distributed well into the Nintendo Switch lifespan as part of the SDEV Development Kit.

There aren't random warehouses full of the stuff, they fulfilled a purpose. Before Nintendo Switch launched, Nintendo did not have an official controller that used USB. Now they do, so there's no reason, economic or technical, to stick with the Wii Classic Controller Pro, over the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, and a bunch of benefits to the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, like its motion controls, NFC, etc. devs might want to use or test.
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I don’t even think the Wii pro controller works with the dev kits anymore
At least as far as I know
 
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Oh it's a prototype, okay. Still doesn't look like the devkits that were sent out so I'm not sure tagging this as a devkit is really right. Unless... do prototypes count at devkits?

Edit: also I just looked through the twitter account that posted that photo and.. that's the only thing they've ever posted? Why does that strike me as shady..?

@P4bl0 again, how did you manage to come across that photo? Did that just randomly hit your feed or something?
 
Hocot8 said:
hopefully not for Carowinds 0_o
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What's wrong with Carowinds?
Has management fallen through?
Iirc most cedar fair parks are well managed....even though Michigan's adventure and ValleyFair will forever be neglected.
Although to be fair, my sample size of Cedar Fair Parks is mainly my (numerous) trips to King's Island due to my grandparents being in Northern Kentucky near Cincinatti
 
chocolate_supra said:
Oh it's a prototype, okay. Still doesn't look like the devkits that were sent out so I'm not sure tagging this as a devkit is really right. Unless... do prototypes count at devkits?

Edit: also I just looked through the twitter account that posted that photo and.. that's the only thing they've ever posted? Why does that strike me as shady..?

@P4bl0 again, how did you manage to come across that photo? Did that just randomly hit your feed or something?
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I looked a bit more into that account after posting and they had a couple replies to people about 3ds stuff. Interestingly they were trying to sell it for $15k on a forum https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/sdev-prototype-for-sale-15k.1242678/ and they included a higher res image there: where you can see it has an odin eng sample.
 
Instro said:
With the comment from that dev on era that kits are out there, but seemingly not super widespread, 2024 looks increasingly like the safest option. Probably still in the earlier waves, but beyond the only 1st party and key Japanese pubs stages. I was starting to lean towards 2025 based on AB not having specs/kits, but I feel pretty comfortable about 2024 at this point.
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When was this comment made?
 
Alovon11 said:
What's wrong with Carowinds?
Has management fallen through?
Iirc most cedar fair parks are well managed....even though Michigan's adventure and ValleyFair will forever be neglected.
Although to be fair, my sample size of Cedar Fair Parks is mainly my (numerous) trips to King's Island due to my grandparents being in Northern Kentucky near Cincinatti
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They are in a bit of a hot water right now. Some rollercoaster had a broken support, and they didn't know about it until customers reported it, and then didn't do anything about it right away either. Probably would have failed and killed a bunch of people at some point.
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When was this comment made?
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Earlier today

www.resetera.com

[Rumor] A Spanish Studio has received Switch 2 Development Kits Rumor - Nintendo

Reddit gives credit to this youtuber, that in the past has leaked some Nintendo things including Metroid Dread https://twitter.com/NWeedle/status/1266833951898906632?s=20 Translation "Leak Express: New Metroid 2D for Switch could be "Metroid Dread" It would be the sequel to Fusion. This game...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com
 
chocolate_supra said:
Hell no


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What is that and where did you find it? Reverse image search turns up nothing. The motherboard isn't shaped like a Switch motherboard so it isn't just a deconstructed Switch, and that looks nothing like the Switch devkits that have been shown before.
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I posted a video of this when the seller listed it a while back. It's one of the first few SDEV prototypes.

chocolate_supra said:
Oh it's a prototype, okay. Still doesn't look like the devkits that were sent out so I'm not sure tagging this as a devkit is really right. Unless... do prototypes count at devkits?

Edit: also I just looked through the twitter account that posted that photo and.. that's the only thing they've ever posted? Why does that strike me as shady..?

@P4bl0 again, how did you manage to come across that photo? Did that just randomly hit your feed or something?
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There are communities for obscure hardware prototypes who post these things, often from trawling Taobao listings.

It is a prototype of a devkit, essentially.
 
I don't know when it was that Nate started commenting on late 2024, but even then I was on #Team2022 initially, and then #Team2023, because my expectation was that there was no way that Drake won't be coming along “the sequel to Breath of the Wild”.

Now, personally, I am waiting a few weeks because Nintendo might be announcing some kind of model in July. While I'd love to, I don't expect that to be Drake. It might be something that caters myself, or a new Lite refresh (maybe a smaller Lite, but with HDMI out support), as it's the less sold model, or any other thing, not too disruptive with the current models' line-up. I honestly don't see them releasing a TV only model. It might even be a small price adjustment on some of these models. If August continues approaching, and we got nothing, I'll renew my launch unit with an OLED and stop thinking about Drake for a time (or I hope so).

Me contributing to their 15 million estimate for this year would be perfect for Nintendo I guess, as I will be most probably day one when Drake launches…

20% chance for 2023 (each day half a percent point goes to 2024 and 2025)
70% chance for 2024
10% chance for 2025
 
Regarding the superb leak about an Spanish studio having dev kits - yeah, that guy is a proven clout chaser, Samushunter would have a better track record. From the top of my head, he has "leaked" (read: invented) several 99 games for NSO (at least two last year), inminent releases of the Switch Pro/2 every six months, and quite some fake leaks regarding TotK, including deep aerial combat with several options that never materialized - appart from saying that, well, there was a sequel to 1-2 Switch that was gonna be exclusive to Switch 2, a game we actually know was already done in 2022 with absolutely zero relation with Switch 2 even at that time. And, yes, he's one of those that doesn't hesitate to delete his demonstrably false tweets. So, yes, MS with a dev kit? Safe guess, but just about that - a guess, not a leak. MS working on a 2D Metroid? Already leaked at that time. Tweeting that was gonna be Dread? A guess with no consequences if you can then delete it, and not even an original one as they were a lot of people at the time saying that. As always - the common practices of fake leakers. Nothing to see here.

I get that we're thirsty for confirmation. But when we have someone who has a proven track record of just being a fake, to have something that matches our mental expectations and assume that maybe this time he has sources it is not critical thinking, but confirmation bias. And I think one of the best things of this thread is that it tries to be critical.
 
You folks, you're always getting heated when i'm not here. You gotta learn behave when i'm not around, i need my weekends, okay?

;]

ILikeFeet said:
once waters starts dribbling out, it gets difficult to plug the hole
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I'd say if one company might be able to do that, it's the one where the mascot is literally a plumber! ^^

Skittzo said:
2025?
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"Et tu, Brute?"

PlasmaOne said:
99% chance this is fake, but just wanted to share

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I'm both, nervous and flattered, that my continued memeing and into-existence-willing of Scrollwheel-Shoulderbuttons has made it's way into fake leaks.

I couldn't have done it without you guys and gals.
 
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The Lite needs more love. Base colors are okay, but Pokemon special editions have been... not great. I'm here once again asking for 2DS/New 2DS style special edtions. I want super colorful Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, Metroid, etc. editions.

And make them cheaper please.
 
Instro said:
They are in a bit of a hot water right now. Some rollercoaster had a broken support, and they didn't know about it until customers reported it, and then didn't do anything about it right away either. Probably would have failed and killed a bunch of people at some point.

Earlier today

www.resetera.com

[Rumor] A Spanish Studio has received Switch 2 Development Kits Rumor - Nintendo

Reddit gives credit to this youtuber, that in the past has leaked some Nintendo things including Metroid Dread https://twitter.com/NWeedle/status/1266833951898906632?s=20 Translation "Leak Express: New Metroid 2D for Switch could be "Metroid Dread" It would be the sequel to Fusion. This game...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com
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Is this finally real smoke?
 
Bonejack said:
I'm both, nervous and flattered, that my continued memeing and into-existence-willing of Scrollwheel-Shoulderbuttons has made it's way into fake leaks.

I couldn't have done it without you guys and gals.
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Don't tell me you made that!
 
MP! said:
I don’t even think the Wii pro controller works with the dev kits anymore
At least as far as I know
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It doesn't work with any of the updated kits, yeah. Only SDEV. The latest kit, ADEV, only has USB.

EDEV, HDEV and ADEV all exclude the Wii Accessory Port, so I'd very much expect NG Switch's dev kit to do the same.
 
D36 said:
Don't tell me you made that!
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I think you underestimate how lazy i am. And how much i don't like 4chan.

Opening up a 4chan account, coming up with such a story, and writing it down also, is way too much work that i would ever consider doing.

I wouldn't even entertain writing such a lengthy post here on Fami.

Especially not on weekends. ^^
 
Skittzo said:
No I'm still team 2023 has a chance, I'm just trying to point out how silly it is that for like 2 years now many people keep saying "it's obviously next year"
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what about those of us that have been team 2024 since the start

ahem

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Ampere Analysis forecasts the next Switch for late 2024 ; return on predictions made last year

GI.Biz made their annual new year round of predictions, inviting analysts to make a bunch of general predictions on the gaming landscape for 2022 as well as go back on their predictions from last year to see what ended up right or wrong. A thread was already made on Serkan Toto's claims that...
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ignore the typo, should be splatoon 3, not 2
 
Andre3333456 said:
Is he reliable?
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No, I think he is being sarcastic. When the Direct was being rumoured he was also sarcastic about people being sick on the Direct hype etc.

I think he is just tired of how people keep showing the Switch Pro, Switch 2 etc while those leaks never seemed to end up true (even if there was truth in the background). So I think he is just being sarcastic on the matter now.

I do doubt that outside MVG, Nate and to a certain extend Spawnwave (John I believe?) himself the rest of the Spawncast has deep insider knowledge. I can be wrong of course, at least they do not really talk about it too much. So I wouldn't take RGT's tweet as anything other than sarcasm for the time being. Maybe he makes a video with some real evidence who knows :p.
 
DariliumA said:
Is this finally real smoke?
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Things are visibly accelerating. We re still short of the major feature for the system though. But once it is here, then I guess an official presentation is less than three months away judging on past experience:
April 2011 Nikkei talks about the new console and the controller's built-in screen, June 2011 reveal of the wiiu. July 2016 eurogamer leak of switch tablet and detachable controllers ---› October reveal.
That is, if there is any major feature to reveal at all, not just some power upgrade..
Connecting the dots, if leaks occur around September as the insiders here are saying, then you would get a reveal before the end of this year or very early next year at the latest, and maybe - hopefully - an end of Q1 release a la switch? (I know this has been discussed already). I have to say I have not been that excited in a long time over a new console. Nintendo is really on top of their game these days.
 
Skittzo said:
While I agree it's funny that people keep thinking it's the current year, I think it's sillier to keep thinking it's next year based solely on the notion that we haven't heard anything.

Because if we haven't heard anything why immediately jump to next year? Why not 2025? Why not 2027?
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If people keep saying it’s next year then one year they’ll be right and we’re running out of years for them to be wrong 😆
 
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