If I was Nintendo I would not launch a "Switch 2" in 2024. I would wait for 2026

If I was Nintendo I would not launch a "Switch 2" in 2024.
I would wait for 2026

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have this Backbone feeling that OP might be gay, But I can't quite point out what it is.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Haha

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >OP might be gay
      This is never not the case, your evidence aside.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Then you would be moronic because their hardware sales are tanking. They're on pace for 13-14m this year down from 18m last year and 23m the year before that. If they don't have a new console next year they'll fall to 7-8m and then 2-4m in 2025.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      No. It will still be strong in 2023.
      And 12m for 2024.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >And 12m for 2024.
        There is zero chance. The regular model is completely saturated, sells like dogshit. Reselling people the OLED model is also becoming saturated. While the Splatoon 3 OLED model sold 260k extra consoles in the month after release in Japan, the Zelda OLED sold only 80k in the same period. If they try to run ANOTHER oled model, it's gonna move almost nothing, and at that point, what can they do to extend sales?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Just sell games lmao. Xbox and Playstation sell consoles at a loss I doubt Nintendo is making that much from Hardware sales

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Just sell games lmao. Xbox and Playstation sell consoles at a loss I doubt Nintendo is making that much from Hardware sales
            Half of Nintendo's profit comes from hardware sales. They're probably making $150 off every console at this point.

            And about software, big games take 6 years to make now. If they drop a 3D Mario for the switch in 2025, they're gonna have to wait until 2031 to release the next gen one. That's not an option. It's coming next year I would literally bet money on it.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Just launch Mario Galaxy 2 1080p Remaster
              Or 3D Land Remaster
              And keep the modern Mario bullet in your sleeve.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                They're not gonna last 2 years on remasters. It's just time for a new system, no need to overthink it. They can profit from day 1 at $400 which is where they will price it.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            homie, Nintendo is using very outdated and cheap tech. They easily make 100+ dollars on every regular Switch sold, more on OLEDS

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >There is zero chance
          Price cut

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Price cut
            It's not gonna do anything. The 3DS eventually dropped to $80 and that still wasn't stopping the decline late in its life. There's just nobody left who wants a switch, the price isn't the issue, they've saturated the market. All cutting the price would do is decrease their profits and devalue the switch 2.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >The 3DS eventually dropped to $80 and that still wasn't stopping the decline late in its life.
              Yes it did. It literally reversed the bell curve

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The 2DS released in 2013 and the price drop happened in 2016. I have no idea why the sales went up in 2017, but that isn't why.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I have no idea
                That seems to be the case

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >That seems to be the case
                Do you have an explanation?
                Because it doesn't make any sense that a price drop on the 2DS reversed the sales decline when the sales fell heavily in the year that happened.

                If I had to guess, the switch probably got a lot of new people back into Nintendo and some of them figured they might as well dump 80 bucks and play the last gen games.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I disagree

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    My guess is 2025

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's not coming until holiday 2024 at the earliest. If they were doing holiday 2023 they missed their window already

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i don't need more powerful hardware.
    Look at the type of games teh PS5 and series x are getting, same shit the ps4/one had. hardware hasn't been used at all to give us neat things outside of VR.
    I just want portability so I can do the same shit I always do but outside or on the couch

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendo will never compete with Sony or Microsoft in the graphics department. They know their lane and will stay there and it works.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nobody should. It's unsustainable. PCs will always win either way.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It'll be 2024 Nvidia hacks/leaks confirm it exists and Nintendo tries really hard to stick to the 5-6 year console cycle

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why doesn't Nintendo release their games on Steam already? Do they hate money?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That would hurt their console sales. Look at Xbox. All their games are on pc. Why buy a fricking Xbox? The Xbox series is dead last in console sales atm. PlayStation 5 has double the amount. Even the Switch (a 6 year old console) is out selling it

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sure but Nintendo makes their own games and the Switch has to have reached saturation point by now. Would it really hurt sales to start putting some games on Steam? Imagine MK8 and Splatoon on PC. Everyone wins.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Please stop baiting

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Are you moronic?

            Can you children act like the adults you're supposed to be and tell me why Nintendo doesn't put their games from a dying console on Steam already? They make their games so it's nothing but pure profit. It makes sense to do it.

            For now Splatoon sells way too well in Japan for them to sacrifice it to PC.

            They can do crossplay. It's a win-win.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Instead of getting money from the consumer buying both your console (to play the game) and the game itself, they are now just buying the game instead. They would lose money unironically.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Are you moronic?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          For now Splatoon sells way too well in Japan for them to sacrifice it to PC.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Sure but Nintendo makes their own games
          And? BOTW sold nearly 30 million copies alone. Some articles said it needed to sell 2 million to break even on development costs. It exceeded that heavily. Nintendo shilling their own money to make their own games doesn't matter when they will rake in frick you money in return. It's sustainable. It's fine. They have no reason to do what you are saying.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Some articles said it needed to sell 2 million to break even on development costs.
            Probably more like 5-6 million but yeah, huge profit

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I looked it up and google was saying it costed about 120mil to make give or take. Divide that by $60 and you get 2mil. Whether these figures are true or not idk since there is obviously no official cost. I don't believe botw costed more than 200mil to make. Anyway it's impossible to know so I'm just going off speculation.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nintendo's hardware is a large chunk of their profits and their software is what sells their hardware. Removing incentive to purchase nintendo hardware would be a net negative to their hardware sales. The tempory initial boost in profits from the PC software sales would be negligible. 3rd parties do this because all they care about is total software sales/profit and want to get to the most platforms as they reasonably can. Sony does this because the writing is on the wall, they are kinda fricked long term. Only case where nintendo does this is if they dump their old shit to a PC platform. But Nintendo would own and operate the platform. There is no sense in selling through steam when they can easily make their own storefront.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I address that

              Instead of getting money from the consumer buying both your console (to play the game) and the game itself, they are now just buying the game instead. They would lose money unironically.

              here. I agree with you. It's just plain stupid.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah meant to reply to

                Sure but Nintendo makes their own games and the Switch has to have reached saturation point by now. Would it really hurt sales to start putting some games on Steam? Imagine MK8 and Splatoon on PC. Everyone wins.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I agree.
    More power is not going to make their games better. It's just gonna help lazy devs who don't optimize their games.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How about more power so that totk can at least run at 60fps?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        For me it's about resolution. I am sick of my games looking better in handheld mode because I have a big TV and it has to stretch the game out a lot. A higher resolution would do wonders.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Would DLSS help upscale games that run native 720p to 4k at least docked? I also want video out and the USB-C connectors to be separated. Yes this means a new dock model. And I want the new dock to be a cradle.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            They can definitely do 1080p->4k. It's not exactly the same but you wont notice any difference in gameplay. It will be a huge step up from the 900p with drops to 540p the switch does currently.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm thinking Nintendo will be fine at native 720p or 1080p at most for a long time. They were very slow with HD development for the Wii u. If DLSS can do most of the uplifting then it will save development time that would be wasted on 4k. At least until AI streamlines developing 4k assets.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Day one purchase
    >Console may even be relevant up to Xmas 2024
    The switch was a godlike investment goddamn

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >everything runs like shit
      >everything even remotely decent looking runs at sub 720p on the tablet itself or looks like shit on my TV docked because it's sub-1080p
      >nintendo dripfeeds everything
      >unnecessary sequels out the fricking ass
      I enjoyed my Switch in 2017, about maybe to 2020 but it's fricking time for some new hardware. The thought of the Switch going into 2024 is depressing at this point.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    that's oled is switch 2. get with the program moron

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