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

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Every single one of these "switch 2 bricked FOR LITERALLY NO REASON" articles from polygon and kotaku always hide in the fine print "ok, he might have tried going online while playing a pirated game, but it was definitely because of this random innocuous thing he happened to be doing at the same time, and not that". People knew not to go online with pirated games in the damn ds era, why are zoomers so retarded?
 
Markorian said:
Every single one of these "switch 2 bricked FOR LITERALLY NO REASON" articles from polygon and kotaku always hide in the fine print "ok, he might have tried going online while playing a pirated game, but it was definitely because of this random innocuous thing he happened to be doing at the same time, and not that". People knew not to go online with pirated games in the damn ds era, why are zoomers so retarded?
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Too much discourse online downplay Nintendo consoles by essentially promising people that it's very easy and legal to just emulate Nintendo games on PC.

So zoomers are genuinely surprised when they try it and get instantly fucked. I do think the golden age of piracy is over, and a big reason for that is that every game Nintendo has released is available in some form on Nintendo Switch already. There is no need to pirate obscure JRPGs that were never localized, for example.
 
残念。 said:
It only depends on the sales. If the 3ds launch week sales, or early sales in general were anywhere near what switch 2 did, they wouldn't have dropped the price. Nintendo didn't drop the 3ds price out of the kindness of their souls.

Only time will tell.
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Switch 2 sold 3.5 million at launch. For reference, the ps4 and ps5 hit about that much in their first two months. And those weren't just random months, that's launch, black Friday, and all of December combined. Basically every analyst out there is putting the floor for the switch 2's first month around 5 million, and it's pretty consistently selling out every restock almost instantly. While it's definitely bolstered by significantly enhanced cross gen games, it's got a decently packed release schedule for the rest of the year, not counting how insane holiday sales are gonna be for it. I think a 3ds style desperation price cut is already out of the question.
 
Markorian said:
Switch 2 sold 3.5 million at launch. For reference, the ps4 and ps5 hit about that much in their first two months. And those weren't just random months, that's launch, black Friday, and all of December combined. Basically every analyst out there is putting the floor for the switch 2's first month around 5 million, and it's pretty consistently selling out every restock almost instantly. While it's definitely bolstered by significantly enhanced cross gen games, it's got a decently packed release schedule for the rest of the year, not counting how insane holiday sales are gonna be for it. I think a 3ds style desperation price cut is already out of the question.
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PS5 was supply constrained for more than a year while Switch 2 spent six months building inventory supply due, possibly, to a last minute delay. I'm not saying S2 is fucked or anything, but its not like its clear skies ahead either. There's still questions with market support for pricing, potential future price increases, Nintendo's continuing ability to release games in a timely manner, when Mario and Zelda are coming, etc, etc.
 
whatever I feel like said:
PS5 was supply constrained for more than a year while Switch 2 spent six months building inventory supply due, possibly, to a last minute delay. I'm not saying S2 is fucked or anything, but its not like its clear skies ahead either. There's still questions with market support for pricing, potential future price increases, Nintendo's continuing ability to release games in a timely manner, when Mario and Zelda are coming, etc, etc.
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My prediction is that if we don't get a good Nintendo Direct this month it's gonna be a really bad year for Switch 2, at least in terms of exclusives for players (it might continue to sell well despite that, it's not impossible because PS5 somehow keeps selling).
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
My prediction is that if we don't get a good Nintendo Direct this month it's gonna be a really bad year for Switch 2, at least in terms of exclusives for players (it might continue to sell well despite that, it's not impossible because PS5 somehow keeps selling).
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I don't think we need a direct this month, but it would be good to get one by next month at the latest to set up the Christmas season. Will Splatoon make it or not, thats really the only question I have left. Otherwise its crossgen Metroid and Pokemon, not lightweights but not going to wake the hardcore up as crossgen titles. Of course, Mario Kart bundles have been winning Black Friday for most of the last decade so it could easily carry the torch for Nintendo again, regardless of new titles.
 
whatever I feel like said:
I don't think we need a direct this month, but it would be good to get one by next month at the latest to set up the Christmas season. Will Splatoon make it or not, thats really the only question I have left. Otherwise its crossgen Metroid and Pokemon, not lightweights but not going to wake the hardcore up as crossgen titles. Of course, Mario Kart bundles have been winning Black Friday for most of the last decade so it could easily carry the torch for Nintendo again, regardless of new titles.
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I suppose next month might be enough time promote a big, new game for a November/December release, but my expectations will be cut in half if they announce a direct any time after July.
 
whatever I feel like said:
I don't think we need a direct this month, but it would be good to get one by next month at the latest to set up the Christmas season. Will Splatoon make it or not, thats really the only question I have left. Otherwise its crossgen Metroid and Pokemon, not lightweights but not going to wake the hardcore up as crossgen titles. Of course, Mario Kart bundles have been winning Black Friday for most of the last decade so it could easily carry the torch for Nintendo again, regardless of new titles.
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I suppose next month might be enough time promote a big, new game for a November/December release, but my expectations will be cut in half if they announce a direct any time after July.
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Nintendo is probably holding off on hosting a Direct this month due to a Pokémon Presents stream happening on the 22nd, we'll probably end up seeing one in late August or early September.
 
It's still ridiculously hard to get one of these bing bing wahoo machines in Japan. I thought I'd try for the lottery pre-release, nope, if you are a new customer you don't meet the conditions of already having played Nintendo games on your account so you are out of luck. Tried again today, still not possible to even enter the lottery as a new customer. Local stores have no stock and are either doing a lottery system or not offering it entirely until more stock becomes available.
 
Still genuinely impressed by the fact it's running Cyberpunk at all, CDPR spent enough time tweaking the port prerelease that it's doing a ton of graphical optimizing tricks no other port does while still using raytracing at 8 watts power draw in handheld. Mario Kart's an absolute ass way of showing the system off compared to this, the new EXPAND DONG game next week better actually push the system more than "we put global illumination on the MK8D engine" considering they did so little work trying to debase that engine from the Switch 1 hardware spec that a 4 player race still drops the entire game down to 30 FPS.
 
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