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Nintendo makes first Switch 2 announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
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[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 6 months ago

I think Nintendo is dancing into dangerous territory here. I have a feeling this thing is going to be loaded with anti-features here specifically designed to curtail modding, piracy, and even unlicensed peripherals. The games themselves are going to get HD re-re-eleases and Nintendo will charge you full price again for the moderate upgrade.

[-] jack@monero.town 27 points 6 months ago

So everything as usual

[-] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The steam deck isn't successful for nothing. It's the ultimate open mobile gaming platform

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Sold my switch for a deck 🤷your move Nintendo

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm betting on a game streaming service

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

They got so cheesed after Nvidia shipped the device with the RCM exploit.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 56 points 6 months ago

I hope they follow tradition and call it the Super Switch

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago

NewNintendo3DSwitch&Knuckles

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago

Also featuring Dante from Devil May Cry Series.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Nah, Switch U or go home.

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

No u

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Switch OLED

[-] Fogle@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago

The Super Nintendo Entertainment Switch

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How is that tradition? It happened one time. Successor name suffixes and prefixes used: super, color, advance, mini, 64, i, 3, new, u. It could be anything.

Edit: ah no, there was also super game boy, I guess that's the only one they repeated. But that was specifically for super NES compatibility.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 months ago

Switch

Super Switch

Switch 64

Switch i

New Switch

Switch U

These are all confirmed by the comment above!

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

New 3Switch 64i

[-] Mechanite@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Switchty Four

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Do "i", "mini" and "new" really count as new consoles? i and new were just upgrades to the same console, I believe, and I'm not sure what "Mini" was even for..

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Uh, there was a GameBoy Micro, but that's the closest that comes to mind.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Oops yes I meant the micro, not mini

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

I mean, they were direct successors. I imagine the next console won't be something completely different than the switch, so I imagine I will be some sort of switch 2.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

None of those were direct successors, though

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

How about the Swiitch? You get the roman numeral 2 in there and the name's similar enough to the original Switch, so customers will be confused as to whether this is a new console or an iteration of the current one. Just like the Wii U!

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Super Switchtendo

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's an Nvidia chip, so Switch Super.

Who am I kidding, if they followed Nvidia it'd be Switch AI.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Super Switch 4064 Ti Super Ti (one is pronounced T-I, the other is "tie")

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Or Ultra Switch, as a throwback to the 64's name before it was officially announced, which also means lots of Ultra games.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

SwitchU, if anything.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I don’t think they’re in a hurry to repeat the WiiU

[-] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Switch Advanced

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago

A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we'll hear of Switch 2 "this fiscal year" - before the end of March 2025.

But the message also damps down any expectation we'll hear about Switch 2 in the next few months - as Furukawa rules out any further details being shared in an upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for June.

Furukawa wrote. "We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.

"We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation."

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Fuck me, they announced the first switch in 2015?

That thing was underpowered when it came out, let alone now. They could likely grab a bunch of sales by coming out with a higher-powered system alongside a cheaper version, because many people would like to play games at higher than 25 fps.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 6 months ago

Who cares if it was underpowered ffs. I just want to play fun games.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because Tears of the Kingdom felt like it was running at 24 fps and 720p, with even further framerate drops, making it feel unplayable.

So it's become difficult just to actually play games on it. The games have surpassed the ability of the hardware.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

And yet it was one of the best gaming experiences ever, no matter the framerate and resolution.

Been a long time since fidelity was interesting to notice, tbh. Don't get me wrong, all else being equal I'd take 165Hz and 4k over 24Hz and 720p. But all else isn't equal. And the better game easily wins.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I read all the time that TotK has terrible performance, but i never noticed in all the time I played it. I guess growing up playing on old pc hardware made me tolerate shitty framerates.

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

While I disagree that the game was unplayable, I first played the game emulated at 4K@60K with AutoHDR (surprisingly decent) and it's almost criminal how poor it looks on native hardware by comparison. The game scales really well.

Maybe with a new Nvidia kit we'll get DLSS and Frame Gen. And I expect ToTK to get a new port.

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 4 points 6 months ago

Felt like it was doing just fine to me for how advanced the systems were on a console that was six years old. I do wish you were able to play it, it's an awesome game, it indeed has ambitions that surpass the hardware, but I do think they managed to pull it off, if only by the skin of their teeth.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I fucking care when I only play docked and games like xenoblade chronicles 3 fucking lag in places. The switch is used least for me between an s, ps5 and a midrange pc despite it having "fun games"

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I use the switch for specific console games, and my PC for everything else. Don't compromise with shitty consoles to play PC Games.

[-] PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

Can also confirm excessive lag with XC3. Also, when jumping into the depths in TotK, game would freeze off and on. These Nintendo apologists are wild. The Switch was utilizing outdated hardware when it dropped. I'll be impressed if the Switch 2 has at least PS4 level hardware.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago

Keep in mind, underpowered hardware means lower price, which means more sales. It worked with the Wii, it worked with the Switch. I fully expect people to bitch about the Switch2 being underpowered, using "ancient" stuff from 2020-21

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

"Lateral thinking with withered technology." Nintendo gave up on competing technologically with its competitors after the GameCube, and it proved to be a good decision.

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

Maybe the new Switch will have the equivalent power of a PlayStation 3.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The Switch already is better in some ways. OG PS4, maybe?

[-] That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I sincerely hope you're right.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

So, it's an announcement for an announcement? We don't know anything about it, other than that it's in development.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

They are announcing that they are ready to announce the announcing of a future announcement of further announcements.

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