We already know that there will be call of duty on switch 2, which is not nothing. Still on the side of Microsoft we can think of hi-fi rush and sea of thieves. I also imagine Elden Ring and red dead redemption 2 being part of the launch window.I think the expectation are huge for 3D Mario, since Bowser fury showed us a glimpse of the next Mario game. An seamless open world, in which you can go boot up the game and not think of loading screen, like having the thought of Mario having a platforming challenge of climbing a mountain to reach a secret Snow level, just sounds like absolute Cinema. Like the 3D Mario team are in my opinion one of the most impressive developers in the industry.
I'm wondering what the remaining line up might be.
My expectation are pretty low, when it comes to third party, despite the bigger influx of third party games expecting to come for the switch 2.
Like what makes the Switch 2 extremely unique is that this will be the first time in Nintendo history in which we'll see Nintendo handheld and console division being there at the beginning, since the 3ds got support for 3 years and also that the handheld division are more knowledgeable of console hardware.
I think that with Switch 2 our beloved gorilla will return with a new adventure.If there's a new Donkey Kong game for the switch 2 i'll be set for live
I really think we need to remember how much of a bubble we operate in here. Like, your regular ma and pa aren't sitting there staring at third party releases running at sub-30 FPS thinking that a new Switch has got to come soon. It's still selling. Yeah, the hardware sales are declining, but they can't go up forever like the bean counters want and expect.
If the new Switch launches late next year with a new Mario Kart or 3D Mario or Metroid (lol) it will be fine. And if it isn't fine, it isn't because they waited too long.
It seems unlikely someone buying a Switch in year 8 is also a potential early adopter that will feel hard done by when the next system drops.Your regular ma & pa are mostly content with the Wii still (exaggerating a bit here lol). I have seen plenty of people outside of this bubble complaining about the Switch and its old hardware, people who aren't really tech savvy even.
You know what the bubble is? Still believing that your regular ma & pa are what most of the Nintendo userbase is.
Nintendo losing momentum and that having effect on third parties, or user adaptation is a very real thing. Wanting to milk everything out of the Switch could also lead to people buying a Switch this year and feeling screwed over when Switch 2 drops soon after the holidays.
The tl;dr version of this is look what happened when Sega decided to abandon the Saturn for a year to put all their eggs in the Dreamcast basket. Now yes, the Saturn was a flop outside of Japan, but a year of actually no games (not this pretend "no games" people in the gamer(tm) bubble cry about when Nintendo has had a new retail game every month) meant they had virtually no money coming in and it killed consumer trust. Continuing to feed the 140 million+ Switch owners for the next several years should still be very important to Nintendo, as much as getting the successors features/price/launch/titles right.It seems unlikely someone buying a Switch in year 8 is also a potential early adopter that will feel hard done by when the next system drops.
There’s still a lot of people buying a Switch, and gradually dialling down support for a popular platform, and even having a few games release on it immediately before and after the successor launches, isn’t unusual, as why would they ignore a 140m strong user base they’ve built if it’s something they can support with a handful of titles while most of the development effort is working away on next year’s stuff. If you have a period of deciding no games should release on the hardware you currently sell, in order to avoid people buying the hardware you currently sell so they don’t feel bad when you release your new hardware the following year, all that does is mean a terrible year for existing customers to avoid upsetting hypothetical ones who haven’t bought a system in the last 8 years, rather than a managed decline.
I mean, how far in advance of a Switch 2 launch do you think Switch support should stop? Because I can see them still supporting Switch with smaller titles for a year or so after Switch 2 launches, on the basis that early adopters following the release zeitgeist are important but aren’t everything. I still remember Switch early adopters complaining when the 3DS still got its last few first party games after it launched.
In theory, there should still be games coming to the Switch 1 if they're still a fair bit simpler than the games that they're currently making for Switch 2. Stuff like your Wariowares, Mario sports, remasters/rereleases, eShop titles, 99 titles, hell even some of their AAA titles can probably be downported with some effort.The tl;dr version of this is look what happened when Sega decided to abandon the Saturn for a year to put all their eggs in the Dreamcast basket. Now yes, the Saturn was a flop outside of Japan, but a year of actually no games (not this pretend "no games" people in the gamer(tm) bubble cry about when Nintendo has had a new retail game every month) meant they had virtually no money coming in and it killed consumer trust. Continuing to feed the 140 million+ Switch owners for the next several years should still be very important to Nintendo, as much as getting the successors features/price/launch/titles right.
This kind of thing is, I think, very hard to tell. Absolutely there will be people new to gaming or portable gaming or Nintendo specifically who will be early adopters next time around, but have had 0 chance to show it yet because they weren't there for a 2017 launch.It seems unlikely someone buying a Switch in year 8 is also a potential early adopter that will feel hard done by when the next system drops.
For sure, but not in great enough numbers that they, above all others, should encourage Nintendo not to release Switch games in case those customers buy a Switch and then feel disappointed at seeing a Switch 2 launch shortly afterwards. It feels like a concern of minor impact to the timing of winding down Switch game releases.This kind of thing is, I think, very hard to tell. Absolutely there will be people new to gaming or portable gaming or Nintendo specifically who will be early adopters next time around, but have had 0 chance to show it yet because they weren't there for a 2017 launch.
I often read this notion of milking the cow to the last drop about switch 1 and quite honestly I do not know where it comes from or what it is supported by.Your regular ma & pa are mostly content with the Wii still (exaggerating a bit here lol). I have seen plenty of people outside of this bubble complaining about the Switch and its old hardware, people who aren't really tech savvy even.
You know what the bubble is? Still believing that your regular ma & pa are what most of the Nintendo userbase is.
Nintendo losing momentum and that having effect on third parties, or user adaptation is a very real thing. Wanting to milk everything out of the Switch could also lead to people buying a Switch this year and feeling screwed over when Switch 2 drops soon after the holidays.
All the talk about Nintendo having to maintain "momentum" honestly feels like rationalization for why the successor has to come sooner rather than later.I often read this notion of milking the cow to the last drop about switch 1 and quite honestly I do not know where it comes from or what it is supported by.