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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[DR3AM]

My ready is body

 

[DenchDeckard]

Switch 2 is going to be huge.

 

[Crayon]

I hope so.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This means I'll be buying a fuckton of 3rd party games on the NSW2. Can't wait!

 

[GHG]

As someone who is a late purchaser of the Switch the one thing I beg of Nintendo is that they don't fuck up in terms of BC.

 

[omegasc]

My ready is body

my rody is beady

 

[nial]

I don't really like the Switch, but I'll be looking forward to see what comes out of all this stuff.

 

[Draugoth]

How long all games are capped at 30fps again?

 

[MadPanda]

If publishers still implement that Nintendo tax it won't mean much for me. I'm not going to play so much more just to be able to play it handheld. Nintendo games, sure, and maybe some others, but not many.

 

[ADiTAR]

Coming April '24.

 

[Represent.]

RIP good graphics and ambition. If Series S held us back, Switch 2 will fucking sit on us.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I seriously doubt it's going to be more powerful than a ps4 pro

 

[Bonfires Down]

Yeah, I totally expect this. As long as the game has a performance mode on Series/PS then adapting it for Switch 2 at 30 fps shouldn't be much of an issue.

 

[Kuranghi]

I'm aroused

 

[ADiTAR]

Not surprised everyone here will talk about the GFX, but in reality I'm more interested to see what Nintendo is planning software wise and if there'll be some sort of extra stuff for it like the almost never used IR camera.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Here we go again with the extreme hopium. Always the same song.

Mortal Kombat 1 also came out on the Switch. Just saying.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Day 1 on switch 2 but I doubt I'll pick many multiplats for it. We'll see.

 

[BennyBlanco]

This is going to be the biggest console launch ever. MK9 and new 3D mario as launch titles.

 

[Ozriel]

I seriously doubt it's going to be more powerful than a ps4 pro

It doesn't have to be. It'll have a much faster CPU and faster I/O. Powerful enough to basically guarantee nearly every third party game comes to the console.

That's all they need, really.

 

[ckaneo]

This is going to be the biggest console launch ever. MK9 and new 3D mario as launch titles.

I thought the rumor was the Mario team was working on donkey Kong.

 

[ckaneo]

It doesn't have to be. It'll have a much faster CPU and faster I/O. Powerful enough to basically guarantee nearly every third party game comes to the console.

That's all they need, really.

Nearly every 3rd party game? You guys are getting your hopes up too much or this generation is seriously lacking lol

 

[Nonehxc]

My ready is body

DERPELOVES!

 

[gothmog]

Not sure why that's exciting. I'd rather see more first party and exclusive content than yet another port.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

It doesn't have to be. It'll have a much faster CPU and faster I/O. Powerful enough to basically guarantee nearly every third party game comes to the console.

That's all they need, really.

"nearly every third party game" would be surprising. Maybe 50%, but I seriously doubt top tier AAA games will be able to run well on it

 

[Edder1]

I just find it funny how Switch 2 holding graphics back seems to bother nobody as they cheer this news, but anyone mention Series S and everyone swarms up. And I'm one of those who thinks Series S is a disease, but surely peeps have to keep the same energy for Switch 2 that will likely be even less powerful. The irony and hypocrisy is not lost on GAF.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I thought the rumor was the Mario team was working on donkey Kong.

Next year will be 7 years since Mario Odyssey. That is their usual cadence for the big 3D Mario games.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Nearly every 3rd party game? You guys are getting your hopes up too much or this generation is seriously lacking lol

People already talking GTA6. It's the same shit every gen.

 

[zeldaring]

"nearly every third party game" would be surprising. Maybe 50%, but I seriously doubt top tier AAA games will be able to run well on it

I think it might. it's not some crazy prediction you will get some butchered ports like witcher 3 but Nintendo fans will happily eat it up.

 

[Putonahappyface]

RIP good graphics and ambition. If Series S held us back, Switch 2 will fucking sit on us.

Every gamers favourite little monster.

 

[nial]

Next year will be 7 years since Mario Odyssey. That is their usual cadence for the big 3D Mario games.

It really isn't.

 

[Banjo64]

I just find it funny how Switch 2 holding graphics back seems to bother nobody as they cheer this news, but anyone mention Series S and everyone swarms up. And I'm one of those who thinks Series S is a disease, but surely peeps have to keep the same energy for Switch 2 that will likely be even less powerful. The irony and hypocrisy is not lost on GAF.

The S has a detrimental effect on both the X and PS5.

Devs will just ignore Nintendo if they so choose, as they always have done.

No irony or hypocrisy, just a nuanced situation.

 

[zeldaring]

I don't think switch will be holding big AAA Games cause the majority of money comes from ps5xbox and pc. Switch will get ports that will be descent and some butchered

 

[LakeOf9]

I seriously doubt it's going to be more powerful than a ps4 pro

Apparently DLSS helps cover up some of the gap

 

[Thirty7ven]

The S has a detrimental effect on both the X and PS5.

Devs will just ignore Nintendo if they so choose, as they always have done.

No irony or hypocrisy, just a nuanced situation.

Obviously the buck will stop at the cpu side of things. You can always make a game uglier, but if you don't have the CPU all of a sudden you have to make a different game almost.

 

[BennyBlanco]

It really isn't.

64 —> sunshine 7 years

Sunshine —-> Galaxy 5 years

Galaxy —-> Galaxy 2 3 years

Galaxy 2 —-> 3D World 4 years

3D World —-> Oddysey 5 years

If anything were overdue for one

 

[Pejo]

Hope they call it the SwIItch or the Switch U.

 

[A.Romero]

Doesn't really mean anything. Fortnite runs on everything, for example.

 

[Edder1]

The S has a detrimental effect on both the X and PS5.

Devs will just ignore Nintendo if they so choose, as they always have done.

No irony or hypocrisy, just a nuanced situation.

There's no nuance, lol. Switch 2 will highly likely sell way more than Xbox consoles, which will make all the publishers force their studios to make ports for it. There's no way publishers will be releasing a game on Series S and not releasing one for Switch 2. This is common sense.

 

[Thirty7ven]

There's no nuance, lol. Switch 2 will highly likely sell way more than Xbox consoles, which will make all the publishers force their studios to make ports for it. There's no way publishers will be releasing a game on Series S and not releasing one for Switch 2. This is common sense.

So you're expecting Switch 2 to have a cpu on par with the Series X.

Some of you guys must think these consoles are a gpu in a box.

 

[Banjo64]

There's no nuance, lol. Switch 2 will highly likely sell way more than Xbox consoles, which will make all the publishers force their studios to make ports for it. There's no way publishers will be releasing a game on Series S and not releasing one for Switch 2. This is common sense.

Except your logic completely falls apart when you consider that every publisher didn't force their devs to make games for the Switch when it was steamrolling the Xbox One and PS4.

 

[amigastar]

Hope they call it the SwIItch or the Switch U.

Jeez, no.
But in all honesty if the hardware is good enough i think of purchasing a Switch 2 or what its called.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

A strong Nintendo console with all 3rd party games would drive me back to being a Nintendo fanboy....lol

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I guess cross-gen releases will be with us for a long long time now as Switch will be basically PS4 era performance...

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

This is going to be the biggest console launch ever. MK9 and new 3D mario as launch titles.

Sorry to say that but the biggest launch will be GTA VI next year.

 

[Guerilla Munch]

Nintendoubters punching the air rn

 

[amigastar]

Sorry to say that but the biggest launch will be GTA VI next year.

You sure it will come out in 2024? I don't think so personally.

 

[nial]

Except your logic completely falls apart when you consider that every publisher didn't force their devs to make games for the Switch when it was steamrolling the Xbox One and PS4.

To be quite fair, the Switch 2 will be MUCH closer to the Xbox Series S than the Switch 1 was to the Xbox One.

 

[Ozriel]

"nearly every third party game" would be surprising. Maybe 50%, but I seriously doubt top tier AAA games will be able to run well on it

People get nearly every AAA game to run on a Steamdeck without the devs even trying hard. And the Switch 2 is most likely more performant than that. Devs will get games running on the Switch 2 if it's anything near the success of the Switch.

 

[Black_Stride]

I seriously doubt it's going to be more powerful than a ps4 pro

If it has access to DLSS it doesnt need to be.

P.S It probably is.