Ezquimacore
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Don't even try with these people, according to them Nintendo is for kids and Zelda and Mario are the same game with 0 innovation and just sell 25 million copies because , because reasons.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sequel delayed to Spring 2023
Don't even try with these people, according to them Nintendo is for kids and Zelda and Mario are the same game with 0 innovation and just sell 25 million copies because , because reasons.
Codes 208
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tbf the change is likely only by several months. I could see this making a march release just like the first game.
We had no official date yet but many people were expecting a q3 or q4 release, so it couldve been planned for like November. half a year's delay is certainly better than the year after year of delays we got with the first botw
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S0ULZB0URNE
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Nintendo releasing alongside new hardware.
Balducci30
Member
Goddammit
Oberstein
Member
Xenoblade 3 was already a big open-world for the end of the year, the delay of Zelda Botw 2 seemed obvious. For a console that is halfway through its lifetime, there will logically be many big games left in 2023 alone. And there's still Metroid 4 next year...
Let them take their time.
Let them take their time.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Do you really think it's halfway through its lifetime?
Oberstein
Member
Of course not, but when Shuntaro Furukawa says it (and mostly repeats it), we can understand his confidence.
- MK8 DLC will continue throughout 2023.
- The Oled proves that Nintendo doesn't give a damn about increasing the console's capabilities.
- The Switch is selling (too) well, why break this momentum?
- Animal Crossings, with a development budget of $100, manages to sell better than any multiplatform IP that costs millions to produce.
- The Switch is finally the hybrid that Nintendo has been preparing since the Wii U: it sells as much to the mainstream (Switch Sports is coming soon, by the way) as to the old gamers.
Time may tell me I'm wrong, but at least until 2024, why change a winning formula? Besides, the PS5/XSX releases didn't change anything to this situation.
Elysion
Banned
The DS sold just as much (if not more) than the Switch, but that didn't stop Nintendo from releasing the 3DS six years after the DS launched. And by spring 2023 the Switch would be 6 years old. And it's not like a Switch successor would prevent Nintendo from releasing cross-gen games for a while longer, just like Sony and MS. They could easily sell the Switch successor as a premium product for something like 499 if they wanted to, leaving the normal Switch (especially the Lite) as the budget option as long it remains on the market.
darrylgorn
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KungFucius
King Snowflake
I could sort of see Nintendo doing this. Switch 2 is just a little more powerful but basically the same as Switch1. All systems will play all games. Switch 2 can upscale a little so they can claim it is 4K. Switch 3 comes out 6 years later and maybe is native 4k. Either way they are still developing 1080p games for the next gen.
The thing is that Nintendo has always made a clean break with new systems. Do they dare not do that now?
Bragr
Banned
3 years? Elden Ring was more like 5-6.
James Sawyer Ford
Banned
Sekiro released in 2019
R6Rider
Gold Member
Work had already begun on Elden Ring back in 2017 I believe.
Bragr
Banned
Do you think studios only work on one game at a time? Elden Ring production started in 2017, with pre-production a year or so before that.
Tarin02543
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Best gaming news this week.
James Sawyer Ford
Banned
What's The LOZ team's excuse?
They seem to only work on one game at a time and take forever
Elysion
Banned
I do expect the Switch 2 to be a traditional generational jump, with exclusive games and features (but with backwards compatibility). The only difference is that there would be a cross-gen period, which is something Nintendo hasn't really done before. They've usually dropped their older systems pretty quickly once a successor was out.
But I fully expect the stream of 3rd party ports the Switch has received to dry up once the industry has moved on to current gen. And 3rd party games are going to be much more important for Nintendo going forward, since they'll run out of Wii U ports to bolster their library pretty soon. Imagine where the Switch would be today if it wasn't for Wii U ports like Mario Kart 8, BotW or Splatoon.
That's why I expect a Switch 2 in the not too distant future: a system that's somewhere between a base PS4 and Steam Deck in terms of capabilities (especially if it has DLSS as rumored) would be good enough to receive a decent amount of ports of newer 3rd party games.