There is also the matter that is there anything out there that can really really change up gameplay? A new form factor? A new control method? If none of us can come up a serious new idea to change gaming, how can we even expect Nintendo to even find such a gimmick? Touchscreens and motion controls are the low hanging fruit of interfaces. Anything else aside from VR is not worth designing an entire gaming platform around.
Only thing I can think of that would be considered a significant change pace and possible for a switch successor would be allowing for additional devices to be used as additional screens and that's only possibly on the radar based on nintendo having that mobile device AR patent.
I don’t think it’s actually even possible to hit the same TDP of the V2 switch even on 4N, and hardly be able to hit the V1 battery life even remaining with the current battery of the switch. It’ll be really tight I think.
Wii U, where art thou?
Advanced eye tracking could be absolutely huge, though it may fit in a Switch-like form factor.
BOTW is a title made for casual gamers? I wasn't talking about million sellers, I was talking about different groups of gamers and Nintendo Switch Sports was released years after Breath of the Wild.
I know, and Qualcomm has chea
Batteries have gotten larger but not by that much. The S23 has a 3900 mAh battery while the larger one is pushing 5000. Density has definitely gotten better though. 5000 mAh wouldn't be crazy
I feel like they could reveal as late as mid October for a November release. It would be unprecedented but I think they could pull it off.
Genuine question: How does this mesh with Nintendo’s claim that they won’t release new hardware this fiscal year?
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They didn’t state that, only that the 15M forecast doesn’t calculate any new hardware in.
They never made that claim. It was based on mistaken reporting in an article by VGC. They removed it from the article, but by that point it had circulated and everyone accepted it as fact. Nintendo published a transcript of the Q&A session translated into English, and there's nothing about not releasing hardware this fiscal year.
Cowabunga it is
Who knows. Not that important anyway
lmaoo lots of heat warnings over where I live!
That would be veeery unprecedented. I think the shortest could be three months.
, so I dread the July/August monthsI don't know if you're overestimating us or underestimating Nintendo, but I sure as hell couldn't predict an IR camera and Labo, or glasses free 3D. I can personally think of a half dozen ways to change up the Switch - I have plenty of faith in Nintendo's ability to turn at least one of those lukewarm ideas into something special. Even the Wii U got Nintendo Land.
It’s only 24C/75F where I live, buts it’s rather humid.
I don’t do heat
I don't agree at all. People like Koizumi and Kawamoto were chosen by Iwata himself, Kawamoto being the Director and Koizumi Producer. The reason why Switch has IR Camera, HD Rumble and all these features is because EPD4, they really are "Nintendo team" in every possible way. They even talked about it how hardware team made fun of them if they are gonna even use all of these features. Many people think that Switch 2 will be just Switch but better, which makes sense as the core concept of home console you can take with you will stay, but there will be something new, whatever that may be, as you said in your last part of the post. Which drives me crazy, these new features + name of the console are my most ancitipated things of new hardware.
It’s usually fine here for September, it’s closer to sweater weather for me and the winds are cooling down and there’s no humidity.
So, two things. First, I'm not an electrical engineer, so this is a little outside my realm of expertise.
Still, these numbers are probably excessively conservative. It should be noted, that Thraktor has used the high load numbers of Orin power draw to get his curves, but you're using the average consumption numbers over the course of a test as your ceiling. That's probably apples to oranges, and the 8W peak consumption is a more reasonable ceiling.
The driving force is that people aren't going to buy the "same thing but improved" forever and tastes change every generation. A part of the Switch install base isn't going to buy a Switch 2, another part of it won't buy Switch 3, another part won't buy Switch 4.
Vr is still a good 10-20 years away from being mainstream viable. Maybe as a niche side product that at best sells ten million units.
They had already indicated it was coming earlier this year. So it's not an out of nowhere announcement.
Completely disagree. One of the core issues we have with current VR is locomotion. And that's only a problem because:
Same, I do not like the word, but agree that the Switch USP was different from the control options they provided.
I think we may hit a terminology gap here, going back to what Thraktor said about not liking the word "gimmick." I think we probably agree on the path forward, which is new features, but I'm not sure I'd put that in the same category as, say, motion controllers or the GamePad.
Better off comparing the 4080 to the 3090.
Can you not
Difference being that having people use smartphones, switches, and other devices for extra screens would save nintendo money from having to manufacture and fit second screens on the main consoles, would be an easy way to ensure they sell their remaining switch stock, and would make it possible for local multiplayer where everyone has their own screen.
TBH I don't think Nintendo will struggle with delivering unique or Great VR games. I just see only two problems.
The core issue with VR is that it is a radically new gaming paradigm, top to bottom. It appeals to a subset of non/casual gamers who find themselves instantly taking to it when in a situation where someone convinces them to put on the headset, but for whom overcoming that initial tech-reluctant barrier is extremely high. It also fails to appeal to a large subset of gamers who just wanna come home from work and shoot some bad guys.
Sony can just adapt to the player base taste because it's not their 1st party which are selling their new consoles to those who didn't own the previous console. 3rd party do that for them and no single publisher needs to do that every generation either. In one generation IP A and B are main drivers, then if their publishers decide to play safe and bank on success or simply fails to keep their momentum, another couple more takes their place. And 3rd party also takes care of retaining the user base which didn't drift.
And I didn't mention young games. In fact, its easier to appeal to their taste without "new ways to play" as they don't even know the old ways yet. It is the people who didn't care about Switch or moved to another platform or changed hobbies or got bored which you need something significantly different to entice them.
I still think a sit down experience would be niche but a customizable virtual room/office experience with full voice control would be neat. Like an enhanced version of discord.
Nintendo largely hasn't been making concrete statements about hardware. That's mostly come from interpretation and analysts.
I don't think you can really minimize the locomotion problem like that. The explored design space that the average human body can tolerate is pretty small, and any hardware that attempts to work around the problem is going to be pretty expensive for safety reasons, barring a pretty fundamental shift in technology.
Well, we still got Yoshiaki Koizumi-san, maybe he has some ideas for it.
I feel like this is the best thing Nintendo can do. Bring back past successes and integrate them to the Switch. And any future idea they have, adapt it to the Switch. I can see a Switch VR, but not in the near future.
