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

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
The main processor was revolutionary for multi thread operations.... But modern devs are too incompetent to use multithreading well. It did let the USA air force make a semi Supercomputer for cheap at least.
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Not just revolutionary, but still used in million-dollar IBM mainframe rigs. Cell is a spectacular design. It was just silly to expect lowly game developers to comprehend how to properly use the hardware. That expectation has proven a lost cause in the decades that followed the PS3's launch.
 
Here's the Pikmin version of the video for anyone interested (courtesy of Stealth40k)

I already had an inkling of this being the case when I learned that Nintendo bought out the studio which created the Pikmin short movies, but I guess this means that we're getting more Pikmin shorts. The construction site video that they uploaded to their YouTube channel has over fifty million views, so it makes a lot of sense.

Honestly, I'm not a fan of Nintendo's recent attempts at humanising the Pikmin since I greatly prefer them being characterised as wild, homogenised animals like they are in the first three games. That being said, I can deactivate my cynical asshole mode for a second and appreciate these shorts for what they are.

There's a lot of coping in the Stealth40k replies about the Pikmin timeline being retconned by this short, which is kinda funny. The common cope is that this timeline tracks since Nintendo never explicitly mentioned that humans are extinct (as if the environmental storytelling across 1 - 3 didn't heavily hammer home that humanity has perished). One person even went as far as to say that 1/2 were dreams/hallucinations and 3/4 take place in the "real" timeline, which makes even less sense with how much Pikmin 4 fucked up the timeline (the game implies at multiple points that Pikmin 3 has already happened and has also yet to happen).

Honestly, I've never understood why Nintendo fans are so autistically obsessed with the continuity of Nintendo games. Nintendo is clearly adopting the whole "Pikmin in the human world" slant to make the series more appealing and relatable to children, even if it greatly harms the identity and appeal of the series. Truth be told I only like Pikmin 1 & 2, so this is no sweat off my back.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I don't doubt there will be plenty of people calling it based for both the mother and baby being white.
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Lol, you got me. First thing I said when I skimmed throught the ad.

Super Mario Brothers said:
This is the most boring thing I've ever seen in my life. I kept waiting for them to announce what the game was supposed to be only for the video to end. Maybe Nintendo really wants to really hammer in the "you're playing games for babies."
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It's the typical emotionally manipulative slop that companies like coca-cola and Disney have been doing for decades. They have reached the stage where they know they are corrupt so have begun to abuse the nostalgia around them to get people to forgive and/or forgot the fact they are being ripped-off.
 
There is this weird sterilization of Nintendo now. Before it was just felt like it was "for everyone" and maybe a bit juvenile at times but its starting to become more and more complete baby shit. Pikmin being magical little creatures people can't see and not just bugs is lame and gay. That's really Nintendo now. It's more of what you remember but even more for toddlers than ever before. This shit has never worked for Nintendo because kids don't like this shit either.
 
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