Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console 'Within This Fiscal Year' (ign.com) 8
Nintendo has said it will finally announce its Switch successor console "within this fiscal year," so at some point before March 31, 2025. From a report: In a statement published to X / Twitter, Shuntaro Furukawa, President of Nintendo, confirmed the new console as Nintendo published its financial report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. Furukawa also confirmed a Nintendo Direct for this June, but said there will be no mention of the Switch successor during that presentation. Instead, it will focus on Switch games for the latter half of 2024.
Consistent with Nintendo practice... (Score:2)
... the controls will be weird AF and it'll have about half the processing power of a Steam Deck.
"The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape them together." [hackaday.com] - Chris Hecker
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the controls will be weird AF and it'll have about half the processing power of a Steam Deck
Yes. It absolutely will do this. But if a powerful console is what you were expecting, clearly you haven't been paying attention to Nintendo since the GameCube. They aren't looking to capitalize on hardware power but on their Intellectual Property. That's literally what they have going for them. The fact the people will fall over themselves in droves for a good Mario platformer, another open-world Zelda, a shoot 'em up Metroidvania, a Mario Kart, or any other of the IP that Nintendo commands a pretty h
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That said, I won't be buying Nintendo's newest trash. I'm pretty done with supporting their massively hostile approach to consumers. But even so, I'm not doubting that should they actually market this fucking thing, that they'll convince enough people with their strong IP to fork over another couple of thousands on a garbage system.
How soon they forget. Switch was turning into a dead-walking console. And then Nintendo was LUCKY that the COVID pandemic hit.
Suddenly, parents decided that a thing to occup
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a steam deck is also twice the weight
Nintendo burnt too many older fan's bridges (Score:2)
Better be a superset of the original Switch (Score:3)
All my current Switch games had better work on this thing. I've got a lot invested and very few are on cart.