His previous state of play leak came from a discord leak which many people had access to. Even then he still missed things because the person who leaked onto that discord didn't leak everything to him like the Koji metal gear game and the SH short message.
To make sure I understand your point, what would the difference between a Switch Pro and Switch 2 be in your mind?
They won’t release a pro revision of old hardware and a next-gen console that close together. And 7 years is the longest they’ve ever gone with a platform without a successor. And sales have declined now 3 years in a row. A next-gen platform is coming soon for sure.
What we know of the chip behind the next Switch chip so far (the T239) suggests the former rather than the later.
I see what you're saying, but I can't think of a time a Pro console has had that kind of impact on sales. They tend to sell fairly well but stay a pretty small fraction of the console's overall installed base. They have neither the initial sales boost nor the stating power of a successor.
Agree to disagree. They don’t operate in a vacuum as you seem to suggest. Switch hardware was updated per 3rd party partners requests, for example. They definitely want to ensure future support. It’s a back-and-forth process, as with any system.
After 7 years I don't think a Pro is on the cards. Their strategy seems to be to reach the capacity level of a pro version of the previous gen's consoles. So we should be getting PS4 Pro levels- that should be beyond Tegra.
What does the Wii have to do with this? That's a different animal altogether with a different strategy: a motion controls USP.
The difference with the Switch, compared with WiiU/3DS, is that other companies arent coming for it. There is no emerging App Store. There is no Kinect on top of everything. The Hybrid playing field is pretty much theirs at this juncture.
Its been since September 2022 since Nintendo pussed out and only made half the direct full of farming simulators. Nintendo needs to grab its balls and make the entire direct farming simulators, for this one. Fucking do it Nintendo.
In Feb 2023 they did a Direct all about detective games and September 2023 was all about Mario games.
If we're sticking to niche/obscure genres hit up some RTS/4X games Nintendo, I dig those. For as much as people give the farming games shit, I do like Rune Factory and did pick it up, but yeah that Sept. direct was definitely heavy on the genre lol. At this point my expectations for the direct are fairly low, it's pretty obvious Nintendo is starting to slow the software pipeline for the device, but if I at least get a few games to look forward to out of the direct I would consider that a win. I doubt this will have anything about a switch successor though, so it probably won't be too exciting for most people here.
I think he meant a Switch 2 that was equivalent to PS4+ in raw power would still be a full generational leap over the Switch, which has roughly 1/3 of an Xbox One's TF when docked and half that in handheld mode. Even if Switch 2 was only equal to a base PS4, it would still be something like a 4x leap, and that's without taking into account architectural improvements let alone what decebtly performant DLSS would bring to the table.
The T239 in the next console is far more custom than the X1 that is in Switch.
Limited in what way?
Gotcha
The T239 files from the Nvidia hack specifically refer to "nvn2". That's one of the reasons we knew T239 was for a Nintendo profuct.
We heard you like farming sims, so we put farming sims in your farming sims.
Kamitani actually wants to port this game to modern systems but the problem is the licensing issue. This game is one of the few Vanillaware games Atlus didn’t publish.
So with your logic, unless it's a handheld PS5 it's not a switch successor? And with the same logic Wii wasn't a successor to GC, just a GC with a new controller? Since when does specs alone decide whether a device is a successor or not?
