Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

Back me up! said:
Reading about it more did the dude put in a Switch 1 or Switch 2 game? I don't think the Switch 2 is a brick day one it's that Switch 1 games required a update Day 1. It looked like the dude didn't have any Switch 2 games just Switch 1 so threw in a Switch 1 game to test it out.
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This channel before the other video was taken down, showed the Switch 2 being able to play switch 2 games, the firmware update seems to only be for switch 1 emulation
 
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marvlouslie said:
Switch 2 definitely deserves the Wii U treatment.
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I can honestly see this happening. I feel like there is fuck all buzz about it and i was surprised to see it is coming out next week.

There's a few shops locally that i've walked past that have been advertising pre-orders for the past few months and their posters are still up for them. I reckon you'll be able to walk in Currys or where ever on launch day and just pick one up off the shelf.
 
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trent said:
I can honestly see this happening. I feel like there is fuck all buzz about it and i was surprised to see it is coming out next week.

There's a few shops locally that i've walked past that have been advertising pre-orders for the past few months and their posters are still up for them. I reckon you'll be able to walk in Currys or where ever on launch day and just pick one up off the shelf.
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UK pre-order uptake seems to singularly weak, but the economy in the UK is total trash at this point, isn't it?
 
Metamorpho said:
I hate how Pauline's been turned into a little girl in Donkey Kong Bananza because we're now going to have a bunch of dumbasses going OOOOOOOOOO CUNNY 😭😭😭😭😭.
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Wonder where Diddy went with his nigger monkey nigger boom box... I like how cheeky Rare DK was, having the monkeys using boom boxes and even giving them a rap song in 64. Funny shit.
 
trent said:
I can honestly see this happening. I feel like there is fuck all buzz about it and i was surprised to see it is coming out next week.

There's a few shops locally that i've walked past that have been advertising pre-orders for the past few months and their posters are still up for them. I reckon you'll be able to walk in Currys or where ever on launch day and just pick one up off the shelf.
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That's been my impression too. I don't hear any talk about it unless you go look for it. Almost no talk on Social Media until the rumor of the console being bricked. Even like a week ago, I mentioned to a friend, "You know, this thing comes out in like 3 weeks and I haven't heard anyone talk about it" and he didn't realize it was even coming out this soon. I think it's just going to be relegated to the tendies which certainly wasn't the case for Switch 1

Kind of on this point, I noticed Switch 1 sales for the last few years have mostly been the OLED model. I'm wondering if a lot of the more recent Switch sales have just been people upgrading. I'm wondering if interest in Switch pretty much died with ToTK.
 
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Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
I'm wondering if interest in Switch pretty much died with ToTK.
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I don't have any numbers to back up my shit, but I believe the two Zelda games were the highlight of the console and after that it just fell out of fashion. I remember a certain buzz around Metroid Dread too, but not the usual AAA media treatment other games receive.
 
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Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
The point is Mario, an old brand, isn't going to excite people to spend the several hundred dollars to buy a console.
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Why wouldn't it? People want good games, not just new franchises. Zelda is an old brand and it sold the Switch. You're just wrong on this.

Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
The SNES sold less despite having another Mario title. Why did it work for the NES and not the SNES.
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Because there's more factors than just Mario?

Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
You've played Mario before. You haven't played Sonic. This is the core of what I'm getting at. A new console needs a new experience.
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If Mario was the only game then yeah, maybe you'd have a point. I don't think an N64 type launch with just two games, one being Mario, would fly today, but it's undoubtedly a boon to have it available too.

Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
Flooding it with old stuff doesn't work. Even looking at the Wii U and 3DS you see this. Nintendog and NSMB Wii sold a fuck ton. But when they were launch titles for the new systems, they sold a lot less.
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Wii U was a disaster that Mario couldn't save, that's not a reflection on Mario. 3DS was struggling before Mario even landed on it, it wasn't a launch title. If 3DS was priced better and had a good Mario game to launch with then it'd have had better word of mouth and momentum. Nintendo just did retarded shit that generation, in fact that includes how they handled Mario. I like the NSMB series but it was overdone, 5 entries is overkill.

Fox Girl Enjoyer said:
No one wanted to buy a console to play Nintendogs AGAIN or Mario Bros AGAIN.
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No, nobody wanted to overpay for weak hardware that didn't have a great launch lineup (Mario would've helped).

Metamorpho said:
I hate how Pauline's been turned into a little girl in Donkey Kong Bananza because we're now going to have a bunch of dumbasses going OOOOOOOOOO CUNNY 😭😭😭😭😭.
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I've gladly never heard that about Mario characters until this very post, and there's other little girl characters in the series.

Lone MacReady II said:
Wonder where Diddy went with his nigger monkey nigger boom box... I like how cheeky Rare DK was, having the monkeys using boom boxes and even giving them a rap song in 64. Funny shit.
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Rare's DK is the best, even better than the original games, and selling Rare is the biggest mistake Nintendo ever made. No DK game has come close to their stuff since, not even the overrated Retro duology.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I guess they technically didn't but I think they had a majority of near-majority stake in their company, didn't they?
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Nintendo bought a 25% stake in Rare early on in their partnership, increased to 49% later on. So they did own a large part of Rare, but Rare was still an autonomous company the entire time and it was effectively just a cash injection from Nintendo to Rare. From what I read from a former Rare employee once, Rare had pretty bad management and Nintendo's whip-cracking helped get their games out the door, but they were starting to buckle under the weight of increasing costs and tech needed to make next gen games. Rare's management really wanted Nintendo to buy the company so they could finally cash out, but Nintendo wasn't interested in fully taking Rare on as a subsidiary they would have to fully manage themselves. So Rare got put in a bidding war between Microsoft and Activision which the former won, and deals were worked out so Rare took all their original IPs to Microsoft while Nintendo kept full rights to anything Rare made for Donkey Kong or Star Fox.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I guess they technically didn't but I think they had a majority of near-majority stake in their company, didn't they?
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At one point, nintendo had a minority holding of 25% of their shares. I've seen 49% thrown around as well, but never any hard sources, and until I see some, it's always sort of felt like one of those internet urban legends. Nintendo saw the writing on the wall though after dk64 (regardless of what you think of the game, it was extremely costly for the time, had troubled development, and the atrocious memory leak caused nintendo a massive loss due to having to bundle the n64 expansion pak with it), and begun selling off shares. Rare offered a buyout to nintendo, who declined, and then tried getting Microsoft and I think it was Activision into a bidding war, the only one of which who really bit was Microsoft, and allegedly only because they thought nintendo had given rare the rights to donkey kong.
 
trent said:
There's a few shops locally that i've walked past that have been advertising pre-orders for the past few months and their posters are still up for them. I reckon you'll be able to walk in Currys or where ever on launch day and just pick one up off the shelf.
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There's a GameStop near me having a midnight release. I should go there and see if anyone is there on Wednesday night or just tumbleweeds for shits and giggles.
 
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