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Nintendo breaks 8 year streak, could be getting ready for a Switch 2 announcment
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Holiday Bundles Annouced Instead 
Cornbread78
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Ridicululzz
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I sure hope so. The Switch had so many great games, and I'm ready for another gen of the same hopefully
Loomy
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I can almost 100% guarantee it has not. The logistics of manufacturing, shipping, and delivering units to stores and people can't just be 'sped up' because someone leaked a few inconsequential details about the product. Not to mention the games and other software that have a timeline that is carefully mapped to the production of the console.
Gamerfan81
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All I care about is backwards compatibility and a more powerful switch, with that I'm good.
RCU005
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SSB complete edition? Hell yes!
Nelly_Nel_7.1.3
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Exactly. That why I believe that January 2025 we could get the Switch 2 reveal. But I could be wrong though. October is the last month of the year for a Switch 2 reveal so whatever Nintendo is doing and planning they better make it quick.
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I am sure the leak has sped up their timeline if they wanted to wait longer. Nintendo has been very quiet lately. Do you believe a Switch 2 announcement is coming soon? I am getting a chubby thinking about it
I AM READY
What ‘leak’?
The vague rumors that don’t leave us much to work with?
We’re yet to see the final design. Or the controllers. Or any screenshot from any in development title. Or any word on the storage expansion
March Climber
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GAF: This is the month! Nintendo will announce!
Nintendo:
Nintendo:
James Sawyer Ford
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Nintendo has acknowledged that they will reveal hardware this quarter. Seems like they're following a similar rollout to the Switch 1 reveal.
So yes October sounds reasonable
So yes October sounds reasonable
I think the OP is referring to speeding up the timeline of the announcement itself, not manufacturing and release.
abstract alien
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Holiday 2024 would be insane, but I'm down. My Amex card is at zero balance and ready to get obliterated.Holiday Bundles Annouced Instead
Darkness_Arises
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I would love to get a Switch 2 announcement as I need to get one to replace my dead gen 1 Switch (the hackable version). However, the timeline does not line up. If they announce it now in October and the release is in March, they essentially have completely derailed the Switch 1 holiday sales. October announcement makes sense if Switch 2 is releasing holiday 2024.I am sure the leak has sped up their timeline if they wanted to wait longer. Nintendo has been very quiet lately. Do you believe a Switch 2 announcement is coming soon? I am getting a chubby thinking about it
I AM READY
Codes 208
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As much as I really want them to, I doubt it. They won’t cannibalize their holidays sales.
I suspect a march reveal and a late summer/early fall release
If the chinese leaks are true and the switch 2 has already started mass production, that just tells me we wont have to wait too long after the reveal for the release
I suspect a march reveal and a late summer/early fall release
If the chinese leaks are true and the switch 2 has already started mass production, that just tells me we wont have to wait too long after the reveal for the release
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Loomy
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Ah, yes. That would make more sense.
Robb
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Pretty sure they haven’t, assuming you mean between October to December this year.
They’ve said they’ll reveal something within their FY, but that still leaves Q1 of 2025 open as well. At the very latest 31 March 2025.
Kataploom
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It's gonna be January or February 2025, they still have a holiday to for selling consoles
SiegeDamage
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As much as I want it to happen, I don’t see the announcement taking place till Nov. at the earliest. Early next year more likely (I know…).
James Sawyer Ford
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True, it could be later than October. I should have said, if they are following a similar pattern to the Switch 1 reveal it will happen this month, but obviously no guarantees. I think it benefits them to get the discussion going now, assuming Switch 2 is ready for a Q1/Q2 release. January seems a bit late.
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Nikodemos
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Nintendo love money; like, in a sexual way. They are unlikely to torpedo sales of their current console, especially with buying-spree season so close. Especially since the next version is supposed to be a considerable performance jump, so it would instantly render the existing one obsolete.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
This. It would be a bad business move to make this announcement with 11 weeks to Christmas.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
But that's exactly what Nintendo did with the current Switch.
Official announcement: October 20, 2016
Official release date: March 3, 2017
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
To be fair, people are saying they won't announce before Christmas because they don't want to harm sales of their current system, which wasn't a problem in 2016, because their system at that time was WiiU.
vaibhavpisal
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Thats cause WiiU would’ve sold a couple of thousand units anyways.
Cyberpunkd
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This, WiiU was a disaster, Nintendo had nothing to lose. They probably want one more Mario Kart 8 bundle season.
Regginator
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Honestly all I want from Nintendo at this point is:
That's literally it. That's the easiest €400 they can get out of me for what is nowadays considered to be pretty much the bare minimum.
- Better hardware for docked play (according to rumors between PS4 and PS4 Pro, which sounds great to me)
- Full backwards compatibility with the Switch 1, physically as well as digitally (ideally boosting Switch 1 games on the new hardware like Sony and Microsoft do)
- A unified storefront that will span multiple generations (ideally starting from Switch 1)
- Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remaster before releasing 4
That's literally it. That's the easiest €400 they can get out of me for what is nowadays considered to be pretty much the bare minimum.
GinSama
Member
I really hope they continue switch games on switch 2 and having s boots would be awesome... I mean it sucked that physical games on Wii could not be played on Wii u and Wii u games could not be played in switch...
I know it was different media back then but is there any legit rumours saying that they will continue cartridges?
Robb
Gold Member
Oh, for sure. Or rather to turn it the other way around, I haven’t seen a single rumor mentioning a new format. It’s always cartridges.
Last I heard it was rumored to be a DS to 3DS solution, where the new, Switch 2, cartridges will have some kind of protrusion so that they don’t fit in the old system while also allowing the new system to accept the old cartridges. Which would make sense.
Little Mac
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deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
It's not smart to launch everything day one. The Switch was a success because the first year and a half window of releases were all great
Crayon
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All I know about that is gay the cartridge slot itself is very cheap. So even if switch 2 didn't use cartridges at all, they could include the switch 1 cartridge slot if they want to.
Woopah
Member
You could play physical Wii games on the Wii U no?
Nintendo pretty much always does BC where it made sense.
That's way too short. Nintendo and third parties will need time to market the hardware and software.
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