kevboard
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probably 2 guys sitting on a park bench, or in a plane playing CoD Zombies together... calling it now!
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Multiple sources are stating Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal is on January 16th
probably 2 guys sitting on a park bench, or in a plane playing CoD Zombies together... calling it now!
Focusing on hardware surely doesn't mean no games, perhaps just no new announcements and teases of unannounced games instead. I can see them wanting to give a new 3D Mario the spotlight seperately, but they can't do that when the console hasn't been revealed.
No doubt they want us to speculate over a few seconds of different franchises.
The big difference this time is the new feature is...it's the same, but better. So maybe they confirm Prime 4 is cross-gen and highlight enhancements on Switch 2. That wouldn't be very Nintendo, but it's been a while since their main sell has been the new device is more powerful than the last one.
No doubt they want us to speculate over a few seconds of different franchises.
The big difference this time is the new feature is...it's the same, but better. So maybe they confirm Prime 4 is cross-gen and highlight enhancements on Switch 2. That wouldn't be very Nintendo, but it's been a while since their main sell has been the new device is more powerful than the last one.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
I've changed four jobs since that reveal.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
One thing that we need to remember in regards to the Switch 2 reveal is that this is a different Nintendo; a fat, happy, profitable Nintendo coming off of their most successful console ever. The 2017 Switch launch lineup was shockingly good; but this was Nintendo in a humiliated and humble state, backs against the wall, coming off the unmitigated disaster of the Wii U. Will Nintendo be able to stay hungry and “wow” us with another BOTW/Mario Odyssey style launch lineup?
Or could this be what was originally promised with the “Switch Pro” rumors? Back-compatibility with Switch 1, offering superior performance on supported Switch 1 games and “better” performance on Switch 2 games but with games releasing on both Switch 1/2 for the foreseeable future?
Or could this be what was originally promised with the “Switch Pro” rumors? Back-compatibility with Switch 1, offering superior performance on supported Switch 1 games and “better” performance on Switch 2 games but with games releasing on both Switch 1/2 for the foreseeable future?
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Emedan
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Nintendo has many teams that haven’t released any bigger titles in a few years. They be cooking good I’m sure. 3D Mario should be at least launch window.
kevboard
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the Mario Odyssey devs haven't really shipped a full blown game since 2017, they only made stuff and helped on a smaller scope, so I think they will have something ready for the first year of the Switch 2.
Metroid Prime 4 will be cross gen for sure.
and at launch Mario Kart 9, the successor to one of the best selling games of all time.
I feel like they will be probably fine with these 3 as their standout titles, and will probably have smaller ones in-between those releases to keep the flow going.
maybe ARMS 2? I loved the concept even tho it got stale fast. but a more fleshed out sequel that feels more substantial would be amazing imo.
and there will be Pokemon Z-A of course, which will probably at least be Switch 2 enhanced, or also fully cross gen. and Pokemon sells... the Wii U didn't have Pomemon, which that alone is a huge difference maker I feel.
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RetroGamingUK
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It’ll be like the Switch 1 reveal where we saw a glimpse of Mario Odyssey on the console screen.
dragonyeuw
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Yes it does, but I was referring moreso to how quickly the last 8 years have gone. Hell, we're closing in on 5 years since the lockdowns.
dragonyeuw
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Shit I moved countries and then moved back because of covid since that reveal lol.
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Rumours say that Silksong might be releasing with the Switch 2.
Source: me.
Source: me.
Buggy Loop
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Woopah
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Arms came from the same production group as Mario Kart. So I see Arms 2 only being a thing if they got support from an external studio.
Hudo
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I am one of the few people who genuinely liked Arms.
Trilobit
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It'd be fun if they'd spice that up a bit.
Scene one: Two serial-killers in a Scandinavian prison laughing and playing Mario Kart together on a 4K TV. Two arsonists walk in smiling and pick up their controllers.
Scene two: Two men laughing and playing CoD on the Switch screen in nature. Picture zooms out, they're real soldiers in the trenches during a war. Their superior is screaming at them, but once he sees the Switch 2 he smiles at them.
Scene three: A woman is riding on a bus playing Zelda. She jumps off and walks up the street. She takes out a gun from her bag and assassinates a business person. Next we see her smiling and laughing playing Zelda on a TV in her dark safehouse.
All with this music playing:
Woopah
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I borrowed a copy amd found it okay, but would have liked it to be more fleshed out. I'm a single player gamer primarily.
Hudo
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This is what I hoped for Arms 2: A more fleshed-out Arms 1.
Robb
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They’d have to change it up fundamentally for me to be interested again I think. The whole ‘fighting from a distance’ thing isn’t all that exciting imo.
I did love the art though. There are fantastic character designs in that game.
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BFIB
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I bought a PS5 Pro, but I think that might be the last of any, I guess I would call it traditional console I'll probably own. With the Steam Deck and Switch, and upcoming Switch 2, I really don't see a need for a PS6, etc. Hell, most of my PS5 playtime is via remote play on my Steam Deck at this point.
Little Mac
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Little Mac
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If there is a hardware reveal on Thursday, when will we get the announcement of the reveal/direct?
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PatientGamer
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All the hype is gone already. We've already seen the device.
Very lukewarm, unless Nintendo has something special to share besides just the console.
Very lukewarm, unless Nintendo has something special to share besides just the console.
deriks
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Hudo
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Ngl, it's hard to go back to any Punch-Out game for me after Arms.
Humanity needed a new Punch-Out and Arms got in the way of that.
EDMIX
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Nah, I don't think either move is stupid.
I think they are right to delay a reveal if they don't have everything in order, they must show their best hand.
I also don't think anything is wrong with announcing Switch 2 while selling Switch 1 and Switch 1 games, how else are they going to fucking reveal this thing? lol They know they will lose a bit in sales on Switch 1, like ok...we know 2 is coming in a few months, thus lets not buy 1, but the money will still go to Nintendo.
Switch 2 is BC to Switch 1, thus ask
Danjin44
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
if Switch 2's reveal is stopping em from buying XCX Definitive Edition remaster. They can play it on Switch 2, I'm sure we'll all buy Switch 2 software too, but I don't see how they have anything set up now, as a bad thing They are trying to sell both and so long so you buy a Switch regardless if its 1 or 2, Nintendo don't care
Nintendo wins regardless, so I think they are ok here
lol same
I'm just here for the Xeno series and Animal Crossing and what ever remasters and remakes they do.
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Shaki12345
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It won't get revealed this week unless they announce it within the next 53 minutes. Normally they announce a reveal 2 days before at a maximum of 1800 CET and it's mostly always on Tuesday or Thursday.
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touchfuzzy
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Nah, even big general directs often get announced just the day before. I'd give it 24 hours and 53 minutes.
They'll send out something like 24h before, maybe even less. I don't think just dropping without warning is out of the question either, all eyes are on them so they don't need to warm the public up to the first look.
HeisenbergFX4
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Little Mac
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
The very act of predicting a reveal date causes it to be delayed. The only way we will get a Switch 2 is if we completely let go of the idea of a Switch 2.
struggler_guts
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So when they inevitably don't announce it on the 16th are we going to stop listening to these "sources"?
...see ya in the next announcement thread lol
...see ya in the next announcement thread lol
BlackTron
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My life changed massively since Switch 1 was revealed. Complete overhaul. It's bizarre to think it was the "final form" Nintendo we got "after all their crazy lessons and battles", it went on forever, and now we're moving past that. Time passed, old af.
Jeff Spicoli
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The same sources of Switch pro from many years ago?
apple_of_enlightenment
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I looked at one of those sources. Eurogamer podcast. Was a bunch of guys chatting on webcams from their bedrooms.
Little Mac
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Nevermind. I’m way too hyped.
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Zannegan
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I always dreamed the would turn it into a 3v3 or 5v5 arena brawler/shooter. Call me crazy, but the first had the feel of going 1v1 in an acrobatic fps way more than a fighting game, IMO.
Give me the same basic mechanics in Halo-eque arenas with respawning limited-use power arms distributed around the map, and allow for the grab move to be used for traversal (by grappling statues). All in all, I think it would make for an insanely fun and chaotic multiplayer experience. Would work really well with the rumored mousecon too.
Using that setup as your base, the campaign could be a corridor brawler taking out mobs capped off by boss fights in those same arenas. It could even have co-op.
Never going to happen, but I can dream...
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HeisenbergFX4
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blacktout
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For the OG Switch they dropped a trailer that was basically an extended commercial followed by a full presentation a few months later. If this rumor is true, it looks like they're going to repeat that strategy. And as much as I just want them to announce fucking games already, I can't really blame them, given how successful that approach was with the Switch.
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Sooner
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Some of those rumors had truth to them at the time. Switch Pro was a thing behind the scenes, as are many products that never come to fruition and we never hear about.
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