I'm more interested in speculating if Switch 2 has been delayed multiple times. The SoC was finished around 2022? Meaning it will be released 3-4 years later after it was finished. Was that their original plan or did Covid and continued good Switch sales lead to them just sitting on a finished SoC for years?
With 2023 having Super Mario Bros. Wonder that we have absolutely no reason to believe was ever targeting to release any earlier, I think it's safe to assume the soonest Nintendo ever expected to release Switch 2 was early 2024 - that's if, they ever targeted anything other than late 2024.
Just having the SoC finalizing doesn't mean the hardware was finished since there's a lot more to it.
They probably had a roadmap with an intended very conservative life for Switch early in its life, but development of the next machine, COVID and Switch's success made them target 2024 ever since they actually had a plan.
It kinda lines up that they'd release 2D Mario in 2023 then 3D Mario with the new console in 2024, Mario Kart in 2025 or something. It also adds that it's about where we'd expect all the possible major games to arrive.
From the probably earliest team to jump to the next platform (3D Mario team, released a game that sold 27m right at the start of the gen, major re-released were planned for later so they really didn't have to make anything more for the Switch) to the latest ones, I think the vast majority of first party major games targeting the launch window of the Switch 2(so fall 2024 through fall 2025) started development by 2019 through 2022. And again, that seemed super reasonable back then since pretty much all games for the Switch took less time than their sequels.
Any expectation of RE9 arriving to Switch 2…
Also would be cool if Capcom did Remake collection, something like this, but for the remakes.
I think Capcom will put just about everything on the Switch 2. Unless they're already aiming for a Monster Hunter Rise sequel to launch in 2026, World is a prime candidate for late port - and so are all the REmakes, Biohazard and Village. RE9 late port is something I definitely expect.
Well I would still want to believe on the Switch-first Resident Evil game just coming alongside The Succ but that seems to be dead and buried for awhile now
Maybe the reason for revealing the switch 2 is because they don’t want to make the “switch” to fully create Switch 2 games because of ballooning budget?
They already made that switch from early life Switch games to late life Switch games. Just look at Breath of the Wild to Tears of the Kingdom, Splatoon 2 to 3 and heck even Super Mario Odyssey to Wonder.
Most games started taking longer and longer to make with bigger and bigger teams working on them. I don't think they can run away from it and I doubt many games will end up costing as much as late Switch games like Tears of the Kingdom and Metroid Prime 4.
But yeah, I don't think they'll really aim for "true next gen experience" with anything but the next Super Mario and Mario Kart until Animal Crossing. Switch games but higher resolution is what I really expect most of the output to look like. And hey, that's in no way a bad thing!! Everyone was dreaming about Tears of the Kingdom being the launch title and I don't anyone would complain if it was.
RE9 launching like two months before the Switch 2 gives very little reason for optimism that this is intended for Switch 2 as… they could have just waited the two months.
Then again, maybe the Switch 2 is later in 2025, blarghhhhhh
Wait RE9 was officially announced? Or are there new rumors on it?