Says the guy who posts daily in the hardware thread.
It just shows that Nintendo has not abandoned their policy of waiting till tech becomes old until they start to use it. Probably so they can go to as low a price point possible but still make a profit from Switch 2 sales day 1.
Yes, I would expect some of the larger 3d games to increase their development time by about a year, while most small to medium sized games won't see much change.
If a 1 percent chance is "possible", you're right.
Except there are no rumours. In fact theres been confirmation after confirmation after confirmation T239 will be it.
No, but its probable that Nintendo is terrified of transitioning to Switch 2, nothing they are doing oozes any sort of confidence.
If it's true they are delaying to give their games extra polish, I respect that decision. Both other platform holders would either crunch their employees, release the games in an unpolished state or both.
MS delayed their intended launch title (Halo Infinite) by a full year and still launched the system, adding in a 3rd flavour of handling this scenario for the other platform holders. Which (with 20-20 hindsight) did not lead to a particularly successful generation.
The employees were still most likely getting crunch because how mismanaged halo infinite was, there was also the problem of them not knowing the engine since the people who worked on the engine for halo were contractors who left.
Yea, and that was only after a disastrous showing. If it wasn't for the backlash, they would probably have released it in the state it was.
Aren't we already stacking chips? 3D Nand for example.
When Nintendo has made what might be called courageous decisions in the past, more often than not those decisions turned out to be more arrogant and harmful than anything else.
Architectural improvements aren't what they used to be
handheld pcs are almost certainly going to be announced this year with SDExpress slots. some cameras as well, I guess, since they already have SD Card slots in addition to CFExpress slots
Was Brazil referring to either a Direct or Indie World, or just a Direct?
Initially he said Indie World (might?) happen before general Direct.
May 1st direct let’s go
The plot twist was that the Indie Showcase was in April. We take those.
i thought missing 2023 was already a mistake with the SOC being complete and TOTK launching. sure the Switch can hobble along relative to it's peak but seems like a missed oppurtunity to have a 'smooth transition' with lengthy cross-gen period.
It just seems to be about shifting the time widow on transitioning to new system ever into the future, to keep the Switch alive as the main system ever longer. I mean Nintendo is not even comfortable about even confirming that they are working on a successor to the Switch, and the president got panicked when gamescom rumours happened and went out of his way to deny the whole thing as fast as he could, and Nintendo were so frightened by those gamescom reports that afterwards they started boycotting gamescom. Thus their panic is even causing them to self sabotage themselves by removing the whole aspect of building relations with third parties and showing of their hardware to more third parties, like they did last year at gamescom.
Switch was revealed in October. They can still reveal by then
We did get an acknowledgement it was coming that FY alongside the earnings release in late April 2016.
Eh, I feel like Nintendo could reasonably get away with pushing out a PR statement at the end of the month confirming that the thing will drop at the end of fiscal year and then just... not say anything else about the console until January (driving everyone in this forum insane in the process). Granted, they probably won't if only because third-parties will want to start announcing that their 2025 titles will be on the hardware no later than TGS in September, which could pressure Nintendo to at least do a reveal trailer by then that teases their own first-party titles. But even if they decide to do a reveal trailer this year, I firmly believe that we aren't going to see any marketing blitz for the Switch 2 until the holidays are over, if the console is indeed March 2025.
kinda overly alarmist IMHO. We didn't get a "more than just a passing mention" of Switch till October 2016, for March 2017 release. And THAT was with Nintendo trying to hurry things a bit due to the Wii U disaster..
Yes, but Shuntaro Furukawa himself has said that we should not expect the same sort or announcement/marketing cycle
something tells me the production pipeline will be commence around late summer and that's when it'll get announced. earlier than the OG Switch but that's based on the last Funcle intel & speculation the delay is more software related so they'll use the extra time to stockpile. perhaps something pointing to it in the FY forecast if we're lucky.
To be fair that was in response to a question about how the NX was announced in early 2015,
if it's dropping this FY they have to announce it much earlier than this, mass production would start in Fall at the latest so there would be leaks galore by year end.
yup but we should expect a lot more rumbling by then. if it's literally radio silence in all directions when we get to September this FY will be a ??
Absolutely. I think there's gonna be some initially slow dev time because of next gen growing pains, but after that it'll be business as usual. The dev time saving if Nintendo moves to a full RT pipeline is going to be immense, and as a result the full dev cycle of the game may not get much longer provided the scope of the game isn't massive.
They aren't shipping all of that hardware for fun, unless you believe that it's a red herring.
Good point, wasn't thinking about that. I retract the "maybe" part of us getting a reveal trailer by the end of September.
I always felt like that was more in regards to the fact they announced it as an aside in a press conference about an entire different subject matter. Like, "we're doing a partnership with DeNA to make mobile games, btw we're still making consoles don't panic, and here's what that partnership will entail." They announced it when and how they did because they felt it was needed in order to clarify their business model going forward, and that is a unique scenario we shouldn't expect again anytime soon, hence his statement. They aren't going to put themselves in a situation again where they have to talk about their next console before they're truly ready to just to clarify or bring peace-of-mind regarding some other business move. A good number of Nintendo's consoles have been announced in press statements ahead of hardware reveals before, so to do that again with the Switch 2 wouldn't be an enigma.
Well that's intuitive. /s
