they did do this in april 2016, way before the october reveal...wildly different situation. but an announcement before the reveal
I entirely disagree, but hey, the next IR report is on Thursday, so...I don‘t know. While I see that times have changed, I would not rule out that they could just say around their next IR report something like „hey we plan to release ne hardware for next year, more information soon, please don‘t ask us annoying questions in the meantime.“ (With soon meaning a reveal trailer at some point this Winter).
they did do this in april 2016, way before the october reveal...wildly different situation. but an announcement before the reveal
Why doesn't NX count? Even foregoing that, they've had a press release or statement predate proper reveals of pretty much every other console they've released in the past 20+ years. I can't say they won't forego that strategy and just have a YouTube video drop or something, but... why? Like, yeah, NX's initial announcement was tied into the DeNA partnership, but as I just said, announcement before reveal was still par for the course either way.Not to mention, Nintendo doesn't do those kind of announcements anymore. The last hardware to be announced without a true reveal (NX doesn't count) was the Wii U, which happened before Nintendo Directs even existed. It's prehistory.
This discussion's been done to death and I don't feel like rehashing it. I'll let Furukawa speak for me instead.Why doesn't NX count? Even foregoing that, they've had a press release or statement predate proper reveals of pretty much every other console they've released in the past 20+ years. I can't say they won't forego that strategy and just have a YouTube video drop or something, but... why? Like, yeah, NX's initial announcement was tied into the DeNA partnership, but as I just said, announcement before reveal was still par for the course either way.
Yeah, Sharp's been manufacturing mobile IGZO OLED displays for Sharp's AQUOS smartphones (e.g. Sharp AQUOS R6, Sharp AQUOS zero6, Sharp AQUOS R8 Pro, etc.).From my understanding igzo is not a display pannel but a display tech that works in conjunction with lcd, tft or even oled. I may be wrong, but there is some documentation floating around on google. Can verify.
well Furukawa stated in most recent Q A with Nintendo shareholders, that the anouncement of Switch was a special case, and in the case of Switch sucessor, i will be different, maybe this thursday, Nintendo will Knowles, Nintendo is working on the Switch sucessor, stay tune for future informarion regarding the console next year/fiscal year.I don‘t know. While I see that times have changed, I would not rule out that they could just say around their next IR report something like „hey we plan to release new hardware for next year, more information soon, please don‘t ask us annoying questions in the meantime.“ (With soon meaning a reveal trailer at some point this Winter).
But this is about the March 2015 reveal of an NX https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-17-nintendo-nx-console.htmlThis discussion's been done to death and I don't feel like rehashing it. I'll let Furukawa speak for me instead.
And like I said, past consoles are prehistory. The Wii U was announced over 12 years ago. You might as well ask how we know Nintendo is going to do a simultaneous worldwide launch and not stagger it by several months.
i kinda predicting a summer reveal for a fall/holiday releaseThis discussion's been done to death and I don't feel like rehashing it. I'll let Furukawa speak for me instead.
And like I said, past consoles are prehistory. The Wii U was announced over 12 years ago. You might as well ask how we know Nintendo is going to do a simultaneous worldwide launch and not stagger it by several months.
Read a few pages back he's preparing an article about the Switch 2 iirc. Had no idea who he was.veteran journalist. what did he say?
summer of next yearSo a summer reveal, and we only have this month left in summer season. Nice
Read a few pages back he's preparing an article about the Switch 2 iirc. Had no idea who he was.
Yeah? The March 2015 reveal of "NX" is what made it possible to put out periodic updates like that to keep people interested in it and not thinking about the failures of the Wii U. You can't just look at the April 2016 tweet* in isolation and say they could theoretically do that for a future console. It wasn't a hardware announcement and it doesn't stand on its own. That was all part of the entire unique way Nintendo handled the Switch, which will never again be replicated (even if there was another Wii U flop, it won't coincide with something as major as the merging of two distinct types of hardware into one).But this is about the March 2015 reveal of an NX https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-17-nintendo-nx-console.html
the tweet i posted was April 2016 and gave the launch window (they also annouced zelda botw would be available around launch for it at that time).
I'm commenting on Grubb's statement saying this summer.summer of next year
This discussion's been done to death and I don't feel like rehashing it. I'll let Furukawa speak for me instead.
And like I said, past consoles are prehistory. The Wii U was announced over 12 years ago. You might as well ask how we know Nintendo is going to do a simultaneous worldwide launch and not stagger it by several months.
To be clear, I'm not saying Furukawa confirmed they'll never do a Wii U-type announcement again. I posted that to support my argument that "the NX doesn't count." It was very unique circumstances, and we don't know what would have happened in the alternate universe where it was business as usual for Nintendo ahead of the launch of the Switch (or Indy or whatever).I feel like he was literally talking about timing in that Q&A. As in, they wouldn't have talked about it as early as they did if it wasn't for the DeNA partnership, as opposed to how they would have communicated it in a different way. Nintendo has always just talked about future hardware before showing it, so it may sound a bit stubborn, but I don't see that answer as an indication saying that they'd do otherwise for the Switch NG. I'm convinced that we'll get an announcement first, then an actual reveal later. If we do get a reveal right off the bat as you suggest, I'm not going to complain at all, though.
Regardless, I'd be shocked to hear Nintendo talk about the hardware themselves before the holiday season is over, but that's just because I've been assuming this is a Holiday 2024 launch. If it is dropping in summer of next year, then them talking about it by the end of this summer makes sense. Feels like it would take too much attention away from their current Switch lineup though, but if they feel like their sales projections wouldn't be harmed too much, then why not?
what is gonna happen this summer? can you elaborateI'm commenting on Grubb's statement saying this summer.
Thanks for this. I don’t know if Grubb’s info is accurate, but a summer 2023 reveal would only be odd if one believes in VGC’s report of an H2 2024 launch, of which I’m not so certain.Grubb said he has been hearing all year (stresses the all year part) that an announcement would be this summer. Almost verbatim. Around 17 minutes in, no timestamp because it’s live but yeah.
I’ll let Washington Post introduced his background:Btw, who is Stephen Totilo? Is he reliable? Sorry I’ve no idea. Don’t think I read the name before.
Probably one of the best investigative journalists in gaming.Btw, who is Stephen Totilo? Is he reliable? Sorry I've no idea. Don't think I read the name before.
He's expecting some sort of reveal this summer and been hearing about it all year. How reliable he is though, no idea.what is gonna happen this summer? can you elaborate
Grubb seems decently reliable, so I'm lead to believe he has a reason for thinking it'll be revealed this summer. Whether that comes true or not, it's clear that there's real info out there now, and we're on the edge of hearing much much more.
should be a worthwhile read if its coming from Totilo, and further verification if it corroborates whats been leaked so far.Read a few pages back he's preparing an article about the Switch 2 iirc. Had no idea who he was.
He said all throughout this year he has been hearing about an announcement in summer.Would be pretty exciting for a reveal to happen in the next couple months.
I think there’d be value to putting to rest the idea of backwards compatibility earlier than later. I might actually start to pick up digital titles from this year forward if I have some assurance that those same titles will still be there for me over the next generation. It’s one of my big sticking points on Nintendo digital right now.
Grubb has been saying “I’ve been hearing {{floating_date}}” in regards to Switch revisions or successors since 2021. He’s never confident in it when he says it, but it’s hard for me to take anything he says on the subject seriously.
I haven’t had a listen yet to this round, so maybe the framing is a bit different?
I transcribed what Grubb said in two videos today here.Would be pretty exciting for a reveal to happen in the next couple months.
I think there’d be value to putting to rest the idea of backwards compatibility earlier than later. I might actually start to pick up digital titles from this year forward if I have some assurance that those same titles will still be there for me over the next generation. It’s one of my big sticking points on Nintendo digital right now.
Grubb has been saying “I’ve been hearing {{floating_date}}” in regards to Switch revisions or successors since 2021. He’s never confident in it when he says it, but it’s hard for me to take anything he says on the subject seriously.
I haven’t had a listen yet to this round, so maybe the framing is a bit different?
should be a worthwhile read if its coming from Totilo, and further verification if it corroborates whats been leaked so far.
4 years ago lol. That was Mariko/lite.Some time ago there were rumors of an IGZO screen made by Sharp for a new model of Switch.
Correction: August 7 2019. It was for V2/ lite.A top Sharp executive said that Sharp plans to provide Nintendo with IGZO displays according to a Wall Street Journal article on 7 August 2020.
Of course it will be suitable why wouldn't it be? Once again I don't think anyone is arguing that LCD is not suitable and is completely trash it's just that it's weird to take a step backwards in terms of display technology on a successor
I don't believe it's ever been disproven that the innolux panels in lite/ v2 are not Igzo.Yes, as you follow up IGZO is a TFT tech. Sharp has made IGZO LCDs before, and presumably still do. My understanding is that IGZO screens are thinner and brighter, but the power savings mostly come from the ability to hold an image for a long time while turning the refresh rate down to nothing, something that is super useful on a phone looking at a static webpage, but not a huge advantage in video games.
No idea what the relative cost is!
they did do this in april 2016, way before the october reveal...wildly different situation. but an announcement before the reveal
About 24 hours from now.when does the earnings release come out?
Iowa uses the exact same Innolux displays Icosa used.I don't believe it's ever been disproven that the innolux panels in lite/ v2 are not Igzo.
And as I posted probably dozens of times. Innolux and sharp are basically the same company.
Sharp and Innolux to integrate their display business - with a focus on IGZO and OLEDs | OLED Info
A few weeks after Sharp agreed to sell a two-thirds stake to Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision) for $3.5 billion, the Taiwanese company is starting to integrate Sharp's display business with Innolux, Foxconn Taiwanese display arm.Innolux AMOLED prototype, 2012Today we hear a report from Taiwan that...www.oled-info.com
I mean it's a port of a Wii game... I can't imagine the 1080p 60fps was too hard to program on the switch. I'm sure the split controls took the longest to develop. They could have improved lighting and texture, but oh well. QoL features were nice and took care of the smaller stuff.I find it rather interesting that at the time there was disappointment with Skyward Sword remaster because as far as I could tell, it had a ton of QOL improvements, more control options, AND most importantly, 60FPS!!!
Seriously, it's one of the things that I hear very little about, but I would argue the jump from 30fps to 60fps is huge, especially since it's typically rare to see for any Zelda game these days.
Easily A. I've said this before many times, 16GB for Switch 2 isn't needed at all. It's nice to have, but diminishing returns to have the same amount of RAM as PS5/series X, especially when the OS likely won't be as big. 12GB RAM would be fantastic, and having more bandwidth at 12GB vs less bandwidth at 16GB is better.So what would be the more ideal RAM configuration for Switch NG?
A) 12 GB of LPDDR5X (10 GB available for games)
B) 16 GB of LPDDR5 (14 GB available for games)
Would the extra bandwidth of LPDDR5X make up for having 4 fewer GB?
Exactly 24 and a half hours from now.when does the earnings release come out?
Iowa uses the exact same Innolux displays Icosa used.
See: https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate/blob/6e954f5cdff2e73d68ff2c9b463197c99544b387/bdk/display/di.h#L728
1Do you know what the difference between AZ1 and AZ2 is?
Exactly, my memory is probably not serving me right, but a quick question for those who remember:Grubb seems decently reliable, so I'm lead to believe he has a reason for thinking it'll be revealed this summer. Whether that comes true or not, it's clear that there's real info out there now, and we're on the edge of hearing much much more.