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lemonfresh said:
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Ah, so this is the Player's Pulse. Fascinating!
 
LiC said:
The Lite trailer was made private sometime between July 8 and July 11, 2021 (its original upload date was July 10, 2019), so at least two days after the OLED reveal trailer went live on July 6, 2021. I couldn't find any contemporaneous discussion of the Lite trailer from 2021, but we did discuss that at the time the OLED trailer went private last year, and I was able to confirm that date range using the Internet Archive.
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Interesting, not much to work off of, though if that did mean anything to help avoid people getting confused between revisions, this shows that there isn't a set time period as to when it needs to pan out, which is good. The reveal being tomorrow makes no sense in my eyes, lol.

Concernt said:
Well. The former, pretty clearly, since the suggestions around licencing are illogical. I would rather we didn't put things into such boxes, though, I don't think LiC is being pessimistic at all, they're pretty measured. They're offering an alternative reason why these videos COULD be being privated, and why one reappeared. However I find that reasoning unconvincing for the reasons outlined above;

Nintendo is generally good at licencing and can keep trailers and Directs up for years at a time, some much older than this.

One of the examples was OLED Model reveal going private and coming back, but it's unlikely Nintendo would renew a licence agreement AFTER privating a video, rather than being proactive, or more likely, they just have a perpetual licence.

The other was the Lite reveal, which didn't use identifiable music, it was pretty much stock music, which could have been in house, but such music is rarely if ever subject to strict licencing beyond the initial fee.

Finally, if licencing was an issue, then we'd see mirrors of the trailers going down, or being copyright claimed, but we don't see that happening at all.
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2 things I want to point out:
1. "Nintendo Switch My Way" ads tend to go private 1 - 2 years after the original upload. Most of the time, it's just 1 year, to my knowledge. There are no public videos after this, and this is clearly due to licensing, the ads don't serve enough purpose for Nintendo to be willing to keep on renewing the licenses. Them taking this trailer down 7 years after should be the biggest thing people raise an eyebrow at and not the fact they privated the video itself, though that's still a very weird thing to do for a trailer that basically began a new era for the company. Makes no sense to me that they just wouldn't care to renew it. With the Lite being taken down in 2021, it was possibly for the OLED revision, and they didn't take down the original Switch trailer. The same thing goes for the Splatoon 3 OLED in 2022, they only took down the trailers for the 2 other revisions, so the fact the OG Switch trailer was privated and not the OLED trailer again is weird, and it being during such an odd time and not "1 year" after, "5 years" after or "10 years" after, I have a very hard time believing a license is the only reason why made it private.

2. If my Amiibo theory still holds any merit, if we look at the 16-day average I talked about,16 days before November 10th, the date where all of the remaining ones are restocked, is October 25th, Wednesday of next week, which has been the typical day for them to announce stuff. It would be weird if they waited longer than a little over a week, so maybe on Tuesday of next week, we get something. I do believe the reveal, if it's going to be before March, has to be before their November 7th Earnings Report. Going after that without any news doesn't make sense if you're trying to release a new console and you don't give investors heads-up by showing it before the report. It's why I don't think we'll get anything 16 days after November 10th unless it's just a Prime 2 Port shadowdrop or something.
 
For reference, here's all that's happened in the past around trailer videos. All dates are for the western hemisphere and for NOA's YouTube channel.
  • October 20, 2016: Nintendo Switch trailer uploaded

  • July 10, 2019: Switch Lite trailer uploaded

  • July 6, 2021: Switch OLED trailer uploaded
  • Between July 8, 2021 and July 11, 2021: Switch Lite trailer made private*

  • Between July 2, 2022 and July 5, 2022: Switch OLED trailer made private**
  • July 6, 2022: Splatoon 3 OLED trailer uploaded
  • Between August 20, 2022 and August 27, 2022: Switch OLED trailer made public again***

  • Between October 11, 2023 and October 17, 2023: Nintendo Switch trailer made private****
* I can't find any contemporaneous info on this, so I don't know exactly when it happened.
** This was first noticed on July 5, so that's probably when it happened.
*** Can't confirm exactly when this happened either. The Splatoon 3 OLED was released on August 26, so the timing is admittedly suspicious.
**** This was first noticed on October 17, so that's probably when it happened.

You can see there isn't actually much of a pattern here. The Lite trailer went private at least two days after the OLED trailer was uploaded, and never came back. The OLED trailer went private a day before the Splatoon 3 OLED was announced, and came back after the latter was released. Now we have the original Switch trailer going private three days before its 7-year anniversary.

Personally, I'm not going to get my hopes up based on this (again). Heck, even if you wanted to see it as a pattern, it would only be a pattern for new models or special editions to date, which isn't what we're hoping for.

Edit: Linking the Twitter post with the 2016 Switch trailer just so we can see if it also disappears. But I don't think it will.


Link (the embed isn't working now because apparently you need to be logged in to see the tweet, but it is still up as of 2024-05-06)


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Edit 2: Adding more links to trailers for my own use.

Regarding the NCL Switch trailer, I assume it was made private either in July or October 2019, and more likely the latter. This page (which is a scrape/repost of this 2ch thread) seems to have added an embed of the video when the page was created on July 14, 2019, so it was presumably still up then, making October 2019 the likely time of its removal.

The blog only has a text URL of the video now, but I think that was either edited manually or is just the result of the embed failing to load now. The archived version from November 26, 2022 indicates it was originally an embed (the embedded video also loads, but that's just because the archive saved the video; the actual YouTube upload was definitely still private in November 2022), and other pages have an embedded video in that spot that gets archived the same way.
 
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Will we finally know if Shoulder Buttons are going to become a thing? Because curious minds want to know, damn it!

I am intrigued by this OG switch reveal trailer going private at this particular time. Could be nothing, but it’s most definitely something. Even if it was a Nintendo intern who accidentally tripped over the power cord, and hit the private button on his computer, it would still be something!
 
LiC said:
Definitely a real find this time. Although I think it's another one that doesn't really narrow down the window for the start of production from "between now and six months from now," which has been the case for a while.
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Hmmm. The chip name is mentioned so the default should be that this is chip verification. But considering we already saw electrical validation work, and that devkits being shipped, this might be motherboard QA.
 
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lemonfresh said:
Nintendo getting ready to upload the switch 2 trailers and they probably dont want people to get confused and click on the switch 1 trailers while searching it im guessing

edit: yep just searched all over it is gone I can only find a re upload by gamespot, its happening
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Yep. Not on Nintendo's official YT channel at all even when I sort by date and look around the timeframe of Oct 20, 2016.

Could be something.
 
oldpuck said:
Hmmm. The chip name is mentioned so the default should be that this is chip verification. But considering we already saw electrical validation work, and that devkits being shipped, this might be motherboard QA.
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From the shipping records, we know that Nvidia (and specifically their India office in Bangalore) use the Tegra model numbers to refer to not just the chip, and not just the motherboard, but even entire Nintendo devkits. There were 2016 shipments with names like "T210 Software Development Platform" that had serial numbers proving they were Nintendo SDEV units. And we know Nvidia has been shipping similarly-named T239 things to that office since late 2022.

If I had to guess what specifically this position will be working on -- while feeling like I should point out that a job opening does NOT mean a new project or start of work -- it would be QA of units that are coming from some new stage of the production process. The Switch's development throughout 2015 and 2016 had several different prototypes and revisions of retail models and devkits before they eventually reached the final MP units.
 
Well that job listing puts to bed that ridiculous rumor of the T239 being cancelled, hoping for some good things these next few weeks
 
I cant add any knowledge about when and why videos go private but revealing the NG just ahead of the holiday sales surge for the final big Switch holiday would have to be the worst business decision ever . I would be happy to be proven wrong but this seems highly illogical
 
Paraspikey said:
Is there a source for this? I only see that it was taken down on July 5th, 2022, alongside the OLED model trailer.
If so, then that's more times than not this has meant something.
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I got it confused with the Splatoon OLED reveal. It’s all a blur 💀. Either way, something is definitely happening. Something always happened after they privated a video.
 
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LiC said:
For reference, here's all that's happened in the past around trailer videos. All dates are for the western hemisphere and for NOA's YouTube channel.
  • October 20, 2016: Nintendo Switch trailer uploaded

  • July 10, 2019: Switch Lite trailer uploaded

  • July 6, 2021: Switch OLED trailer uploaded
  • Between July 8, 2021 and July 11, 2021: Switch Lite trailer made private*

  • Between July 2, 2022 and July 5, 2022: Switch OLED trailer made private**
  • July 6, 2022: Splatoon 3 OLED trailer uploaded
  • Between August 20, 2022 and August 27, 2022: Switch OLED trailer made public again***

  • Between October 11, 2023 and October 17, 2023: Nintendo Switch trailer made private****
* I can't find any contemporaneous info on this, so I don't know exactly when it happened.
** This was first noticed on July 5, so that's probably when it happened.
*** Can't confirm exactly when this happened either. The Splatoon 3 OLED was released on August 26, so the timing is admittedly suspicious.
**** This was first noticed on October 17, so that's probably when it happened.

You can see there isn't actually much of a pattern here. The Lite trailer went private at least two days after the OLED trailer was uploaded, and never came back. The OLED trailer went private a day before the Splatoon 3 OLED was announced, and came back after the latter was released. Now we have the original Switch trailer going private three days before its 7-year anniversary.

Personally, I'm not going to get my hopes up based on this (again). Heck, even if you wanted to see it as a pattern, it would only be a pattern for new models or special editions to date, which isn't what we're hoping for.
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I'd like to point out that at this point I'm just playing devil's advocate here to rule other possibilities out but they could've also made it private to advertise the red Switch OLED model. The closeness to the original October 20th Switch reveal is the thing that compels me to think this might be related to new hardware but October 20th is also the official release date of Super Mario Bros Wonder. But also in that case why take down the OG Switch's reveal instead of the OLED?
 
Hermii said:
5X is not an efficiency win though. It's able to be clocked higher, but at the cost of power consumption (unlike 4X which is more power efficient than 4).

So it may not be that attractive to Nintendo for that reason.
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You aren’t clocking higher in portable mode though, it’s for TV mode.
 
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RumHamRigRunner said:
I'd like to point out that at this point I'm just playing devil's advocate here to rule other possibilities out but they could've also made it private to advertise the red Switch OLED model. The closeness to the original October 20th Switch reveal is the thing that compels me to think this might be related to new hardware but October 20th is also the official release date of Super Mario Bros Wonder.
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If that were the case, they would have made the OLED trailer private (like they did around the announcement of the Splatoon 3 special edition), not the original Switch trailer. And Nintendo doesn't have a dedicated Mario OLED video announcement for people to search for (which they did for Splatoon 3).

Which also makes me think, another problem with the SEO theory is that the OLED trailer didn't go private for the announcements of the SV or TotK special editions, even though those both also had dedicated announcement uploads. And in SV's case (September 7 announcement), they could have just left it private at the end of August when it had already been made private ahead of the Splatoon 3 edition announcement.
 
NintenDuvo said:
Well that job listing puts to bed that ridiculous rumor of the T239 being cancelled, hoping for some good things these next few weeks
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Maybe it tucks in the covers extra tightly. Other job listings, Linux commits, and customs records had definitely already put it to bed.
 
captain_N said:
I cant add any knowledge about when and why videos go private but revealing the NG just ahead of the holiday sales surge for the final big Switch holiday would have to be the worst business decision ever . I would be happy to be proven wrong but this seems highly illogical
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You'd think so, but not necessarily. Switch has been on the market for several years, sales aren't really expected to go up, since everyone who wanted one already bought it; and people who waited to invest into the ecosystem 6 years into its life cycle aren't the type to buy into a new system at launch. In fact, the Switch itself was announced under similar circumstances— it was officially announced in October 2016, and 3DS sales were largely unaffected that holiday season. You could argue that 3DS had a big holiday title (Pokemon) to keep the momentum going and offset the impact of the Switch announcement, but Switch will definitely move a non-trivial number of units this Christmas thanks to Mario Wonder and the new bundles.

Now this just ocurred to me, so it isn't based on any data, and probably only makes sense in my head so excuse me if it's silly: but could announcing before the holiday season actually be a good idea for Nintendo, PR-wise? People might feel cheated if they buy Switch consoles only for a competitively-priced successor to be announced in, say, early February or even March. Going into the holiday season with a fair warning that improved hardware will come later in the following year (even if there's no set release date for it) could be a good strategy to avoid making casual consumers (i.e, the type who doesn't keep up with gaming news, and is therefore unaware of the nature of console lifecycles) feel like they should've saved their hard-earned cash.
 
I'm still very anti-"but the patterns!" when it comes to anything but I find the music license argument to be really silly. White Denim is not a big group and I can't imagine the licensing fee to continue using their music is too high that Nintendo is like "yeah, we'll pass for renewing", especially when the reveal trailer was their most viewed video on YouTube.

I actually don't think a reveal this year is out of the question for a variety of reasons but I'm hesitant to say this means an announcement is imminent. Though I wouldn't complain about waking up to a surprise tomorrow morning.
 
Based off of the fact that T239 is all but confirmed, DF's video on the RTX 2050 laptop is going to be eye-opening for sure. It's basically going to give us a glimpse of the extent to which DLSS can help claw back in terms of performance on a chip that's essentially very underpowered Ampere. I think the ports for this thing are going to surprise us just like the OG Switch. Could possibly see a fair amount of cross-gen PS4/PS5 era games.
 
CeramicPigeon said:
I'm still very anti-"but the patterns!" when it comes to anything but I find the music license argument to be really silly. White Denim is not a big group and I can't imagine the licensing fee to continue using their music is too high that Nintendo is like "yeah, we'll pass for renewing", especially when the reveal trailer was their most viewed video on YouTube.

I actually don't think a reveal this year is out of the question for a variety of reasons but I'm hesitant to say this means an announcement is imminent. Though I wouldn't complain about waking up to a surprise tomorrow morning.
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Well, it could also be licensing for the actors' likenesses. But either way, it's not actually about the amount of money, and it could be both licensing- and announcement-related in a way.

Personally, I don't think we can ignore the timing of this happening around anniversaries, and former NOA marketing employees Kit and Krysta saying that's what happens with music licensing. However, I agree with you that, all else being equal, Nintendo would just keep licensing the music/actors for the Switch trailer far into the foreseeable future. But, think of it this way. Sometime between now and October 2024 (the next 12 year extension for licensing), the new hardware is going to be announced. If you're going to have the Switch 2 trailer replace the Switch trailer before then anyway, then you might take this opportunity to stop renewing the license that you know you won't need in a few months.

So in a sense, I can definitely see this being indirectly related to an announcement. But I think the timing of it happening this specific week is likely because of licensing, not because an announcement is necessarily imminent.

And what's funny is that, from my perspective, an announcement could still be imminent! It just kind of won't prove anything to me either way, although it would make me pay a lot more attention to videos going private in the future, lol.
 
goudsoup said:
Now this just ocurred to me, so it isn't based on any data, and probably only makes sense in my head so excuse me if it's silly: but could announcing before the holiday season actually be a good idea for Nintendo, PR-wise? People might feel cheated if they buy Switch consoles only for a competitively-priced successor to be announced in, say, early February or even March. Going into the holiday season with a fair warning that improved hardware will come later in the following year (even if there's no set release date for it) could be a good strategy to avoid making casual consumers (i.e, the type who doesn't keep up with gaming news, and is therefore unaware of the nature of console lifecycles) feel like they should've saved their hard-earned cash.
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I agree with this. A successor announcement would dampen momentum but Nintendo has two big Mario games and evergreen titles like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing to use this holiday to keep momentum going, and they definitely could even with a successor being announced.

People who are buying a Switch now (if they didn't have one already) are mostly going to be casual players and little kids. They don't buy into hardware launches. Anyone who is actively interested in Switch stuff either already has one or already decided to wait it out for the successor, because it's no secret it's coming next year. Even then, a casual consumer deciding to buy the successor rather than a bundle this holiday isn't a lost sale, it's just a delayed one. With Nintendo being ahead of their sales projections this fiscal year, perhaps they could stomach that. Or perhaps that's wishful thinking.
 
P4bl0 said:
I’m split between Nintendo wanting to announce before GTA 6 trailer (this week) or after (first week of November)

They defo not announcing next week on GTA 6 week


It will be one or another.

Wonder has nothing to worry about in both cases
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I mean they would announce it alongside GTA6 if it's coming to the Switch 2.

They announced the Switch the same day as RDR2.

However, I personally think we aren't getting an announcement until March 2024.
 
ILikeFeet said:
That 68Gbs is for low power games like Switch BC and 2D games
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Right. That seems like a no brainer.
Cuzizkool said:
Okay, thanks for the feedback!

The only thing I kind of want everyone on here to know though is it seems there IS power efficiency gains with 5X, at least. This thread, I got the impression, thought there was no efficiency gains with 5X. Can we at least fully confirm this? At least so I can say that I added to the conversation instead of just asking n00b questions. 🫣
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Some of the regulars know. I brought up the 20% efficiency of Samsung's LPDDR5X last Saturday.
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But I could see it still to be possible to do something like this. Just not for the normal model. Something like a Pro Dock with more power, but protected by a mechanism to enable the switch. Thus you get say PS5 power in Pro Dock, but it always is a few seconds process to do the switch. This...
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For the gazillionth time, announcing before the holidays is something they have to do if the release date is in early 2024. The release date is decided first, then announcement and marketing are planned. If you don't think the release date is in early 2024, fine, just say that. Lots of people are expecting a release in the latter half of the year, including the two pieces of reporting we've gotten from VGC and Eurogamer, so that's not a controversial position! But the whole holiday sales justification for announcement timing is (a) not backed up by empirical evidence and, more importantly (b) irrelevant, because it's backwards.

When it comes to the Switch's October announcement, people often say "well, Nintendo could do that because they didn't care about their Wii U sales that holiday." Setting aside how that ignores the 3DS, this argument is simply coming at it from the wrong direction. The release date was decided first! Nintendo originally wanted to release the Switch in November 2016, then they were forced to delay it, and chose the earliest reasonable time instead, in March 2017. Once that decision was made, they had to announce it before the holidays. And I don't think anybody seriously argues that Nintendo would have preferred to delay the launch even more just so they could avoid an announcement before the holidays, and might have done so if not for the Wii U situation.

So now, if you think Nintendo can't announce Switch 2 before the holidays, then what you're really saying is that Nintendo can't release Switch 2 in the window of February to May. And honestly I'm down to have a whole argument about that, it would be a breath of fresh air. But basing it on the announcement timing and the Switch's holiday sales is totally backwards and unworkable logic even if it were true that the last holiday sales for the Switch asre critical and an announcement would hurt them.
 
CeramicPigeon said:
I agree with this. A successor announcement would dampen momentum but Nintendo has two big Mario games and evergreen titles like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing to use this holiday to keep momentum going, and they definitely could even with a successor being announced.

People who are buying a Switch now (if they didn't have one already) are mostly going to be casual players and little kids. They don't buy into hardware launches. Anyone who is actively interested in Switch stuff either already has one or already decided to wait it out for the successor, because it's no secret it's coming next year. Even then, a casual consumer deciding to buy the successor rather than a bundle this holiday isn't a lost sale, it's just a delayed one. With Nintendo being ahead of their sales projections this fiscal year, perhaps they could stomach that. Or perhaps that's wishful thinking.
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Could be a playstation or Xbox gamer wanting to try out the Switch for the first time and the 2d mario trailer finally did it for them you never know. Not just casual gamers
 
NintendoMariah said:
As a massive Nate podcast fan, didnt he say he would do a podcast soonish on some new info....

and today he requests questions...

and today this happens....

omg....

its

happening.....
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i really think that's just a coincidence, i mean nate knows things but would he have insider knowledge on nintendo's social media team? i thought it was from elsewhere in the company and industry. the video being taken down doesnt seem like something he'd know about in advance.
 
LiC said:
For the gazillionth time, announcing before the holidays is something they have to do if the release date is in early 2024. The release date is decided first, then announcement and marketing are planned. If you don't think the release date is in early 2024, fine, just say that. Lots of people are expecting a release in the latter half of the year, including the two pieces of reporting we've gotten from VGC and Eurogamer, so that's not a controversial position! But the whole holiday sales justification for announcement timing is (a) not backed up by empirical evidence and, more importantly (b) irrelevant, because it's backwards.

When it comes to the Switch's October announcement, people often say "well, Nintendo could do that because they didn't care about their Wii U sales that holiday." Setting aside how that ignores the 3DS, this argument is simply coming at it from the wrong direction. The release date was decided first! Nintendo originally wanted to release the Switch in November 2016, then they were forced to delay it, and chose the earliest reasonable time instead, in March 2017. Once that decision was made, they had to announce it before the holidays. And I don't think anybody seriously argues that Nintendo would have preferred to delay the launch even more just so they could avoid an announcement before the holidays, and might have done so if not for the Wii U situation.

So now, if you think Nintendo can't announce Switch 2 before the holidays, then what you're really saying is that Nintendo can't release Switch 2 in the window of February to May. And honestly I'm down to have a whole argument about that, it would be a breath of fresh air. But basing it on the announcement timing and the Switch's holiday sales is totally backwards and unworkable logic even if it were true that the last holiday sales for the Switch asre critical and an announcement would hurt them.
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Nintendo could have just announced... Earlier?

Again, there were plenty of weeks without big Switch releases and when the Switch was not in a major sales season.
 
Upon checking the thread, I am convinced that the trailer takedown is nothing more than internal marketing shenanigans, I work in marketing and it is very often that this happens, whether is music licence, or nintendo wanting you to see other things when you type in "Nintendo switch" in the youtube searchbar, it is not that deep guys, it has happened before and will again in the future, specially nearing holydays.

This is all a case of confirmation bias from some of yall.
 
lemonfresh said:
Could be a playstation or Xbox gamer wanting to try out the Switch for the first time and the 2d mario trailer finally did it for them you never know. Not just casual gamers
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They would likely identify as a more "core" consumer and probably have decided to wait for the successor. Like I said, they know the likelihood it'll be in the public's hands in the next 12 months is significantly high.
 
What I don’t understand is why every trailer is deemed to have music rights issues but we have dozens of Direct that are a lot longer and have a lot more content from more sources and they rarely get removed or privated.
 
Chauzu said:
What I don’t understand is why every trailer is deemed to have music rights issues but we have dozens of Direct that are a lot longer and have a lot more content from more sources and they rarely get removed or privated.
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the music industry is a cluster fuck when it comes to rights and licensing. plus, directs are essentially just compilations of commercials. the switch reveal aint exactly advertising the song used.
 
Chauzu said:
What I don’t understand is why every trailer is deemed to have music rights issues but we have dozens of Direct that are a lot longer and have a lot more content from more sources and they rarely get removed or privated.
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On the other hand, you have the Labo announcement video being made private somewhere between November 24, 2021 and January 26, 2022, after originally being uploaded on January 17, 2018, so that could have been around the 4 year anniversary as well. And unlike the debatable Switch model videos, that was definitely not because of SEO or because something was replacing them.
 
mjayer said:
Bro I so want this. I want Jensen to walk out like a PIMP in the big Nintendo event showcasing the next console and proceed to wax eloquent about Drake. How good would that be? Please be a true rumor.



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Leak Express: Nvidia wants its name on Switch 2.The work of customizing the chip for the new Nintendo console was such and they are so proud of the result that they want to be part of the presentation of the console or even have the Nvidia brand appear on the box.

SUPER (NVIDIA) POWER
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Calling BS.
 
who would win?

a multinational corporation with cash reserves among the highest in Japan

or

four dudes from Austin who tour and write songs sometimes
 
Raccoon said:
who would win?

a multinational corporation with cash reserves among the highest in Japan

or

four dudes from Austin who tour and write songs sometimes
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Tbf any business is always looking to cut costs, even in the littlest ways. I personally would not be surprised if Nintendo just didn't want to renegotiate/pay more royalties. The trailer did it's job afterall.
 
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I remember when the OLED reveal disappearance was obviously one year license expiration

those were a fun twelve hours
 
Hermii said:
It's alway that.
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It literally isn't always that, as has been discussed above. In fact, I don't know if any Switch hardware trailer has ever been set to private over music rights, but they have been privated right around new hardware trailers twice now.
 
a curious veil of smoke continues to waft over, suggesting a possible announcment in the next few weeks.

  • amiibo restock theory points to something early Nov
  • various rumours of 1H 2024 launch
  • relevance of March - it could be the launch date
  • Switch announcement trailer privatized

maybe not this week but something could be brewing imminently. Funcles don't seem to be saying much though, Switch RTX soon?
 
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HankyPanky said:
a curious veil of smoke continues to waft over, suggesting a possible announcment in the next few weeks.

  • amiibo restock theory points to something early Nov
  • various rumours of 1H 2024 launch
  • Switch announcement trailer privatized

maybe not this week but something could be brewing imminently. Funcles don't seem to be saying much though, Switch RTX soon?
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Y'all should stop discovering things when I'm asleep, I just looked through the last 3 pages with the "Kronos" music from Incredibles slowly blaring in my mind.

A part of me genuinely thinks I shouldn't get excited but the threads and strings that all of these are tying together is just a bit too tantalising for me.
 
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