Right. This happens all the time with Nintendo. The reason their hardware and games are so good is because they spend the time to get it right before releasing it. Expect for online, they just always suck at that.
Nintendo hardware is crap though… the switch feels like a crappy knockoff of something that doesn’t exist. And the software itself is crap too, it’s only the games that are good.
I agree that they shouldn’t say that,it wasn’t announced.
But your wording you make it sound like that would be impossible like they would have announced it already, maybe is just me making up things on my mind sorry if that was not your intention.
We are on just February… like you don’t have to announce it on Jan 1, if it releases around Q4 for example.
If you’re releasing a console in a specific year, the announcement to publishers and vendors has to happen the year before.
Why? In any case when you say publisher and vendors you mean a close doors thing? Or a public one which is basically the announcement for everybody? Because if it was a private thing…it could have happened no? I don’t think the previous Switch was leaked with something like that so earlier…but maybe I misremember.
In any case for the rest the timing could have been fine, the Switch for example was announced to the general public barely 5 months before release, October 2016 and released March 2017.
Like the new one could have been announced in the next months and release after the summer for example without much issue.
Publishers need time to develop the software, distributors need time to merchandise and sell the product, retailers need time to prepare the display space.
None of this is instant. A console launch is a year long project.
Well if we were to believe the rumors some developers already had dev kits of it. And that also Nintendo might have done demos to them.
Of course nothing is confirmed so take it as you wish.
And again all you said could perfectly been talked it’s not publicl knowledge.
The thing you learn by watching all of this for decades is that the “insiders” and “analysts” are talking out their ass most of the time.
My favorite was a guy named Michael Pachter, back in the PS2 era he was saying “Oh yeah, there won’t be a shortage of PS2s because Sony can just re-direct some from Europe…”
Forgetting that neither the European PAL video standard nor the 220 voltage system will work in the US…
I am curious if even just a minimal part of it has anything to do with MigSwitch.
If the MigSwitch is really emulating a physical cartridge perfectly and the Switch can’t detect it… it can be an issue for a new one, either because they use the same cartridges/security for the new games, as let’s be honest I don’t see why Nintendo would need a new physical cartridge for this revision, at best a tab like in the 3Ds to not allow them on the old Switch.
And even if it does not affect the new games, the retrocompatible games could be affected and be playable by it.
So some changes could be required physically or by software.
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“Was targeted for the end of 2024…”
No it wasn’t. If it was coming out this year, there would have been an official announcement. There hasn’t been.
Right. This happens all the time with Nintendo. The reason their hardware and games are so good is because they spend the time to get it right before releasing it. Expect for online, they just always suck at that.
Nintendo hardware is crap though… the switch feels like a crappy knockoff of something that doesn’t exist. And the software itself is crap too, it’s only the games that are good.
Well that’s good then. As that’s kinda the point of this thing…
I agree that they shouldn’t say that,it wasn’t announced. But your wording you make it sound like that would be impossible like they would have announced it already, maybe is just me making up things on my mind sorry if that was not your intention.
We are on just February… like you don’t have to announce it on Jan 1, if it releases around Q4 for example.
If you’re releasing a console in a specific year, the announcement to publishers and vendors has to happen the year before.
There has been no announcement.
If it’s coming in '25, there will be an announcement sometime this year, and this aint it.
Why? In any case when you say publisher and vendors you mean a close doors thing? Or a public one which is basically the announcement for everybody? Because if it was a private thing…it could have happened no? I don’t think the previous Switch was leaked with something like that so earlier…but maybe I misremember.
In any case for the rest the timing could have been fine, the Switch for example was announced to the general public barely 5 months before release, October 2016 and released March 2017.
Like the new one could have been announced in the next months and release after the summer for example without much issue.
Publishers need time to develop the software, distributors need time to merchandise and sell the product, retailers need time to prepare the display space.
None of this is instant. A console launch is a year long project.
Well if we were to believe the rumors some developers already had dev kits of it. And that also Nintendo might have done demos to them. Of course nothing is confirmed so take it as you wish.
And again all you said could perfectly been talked it’s not publicl knowledge.
I’m still waiting on the Switch Pro that’s been clickbaited by so many “insiders” and analysts over the years.
The thing you learn by watching all of this for decades is that the “insiders” and “analysts” are talking out their ass most of the time.
My favorite was a guy named Michael Pachter, back in the PS2 era he was saying “Oh yeah, there won’t be a shortage of PS2s because Sony can just re-direct some from Europe…”
Forgetting that neither the European PAL video standard nor the 220 voltage system will work in the US…
I am curious if even just a minimal part of it has anything to do with MigSwitch.
If the MigSwitch is really emulating a physical cartridge perfectly and the Switch can’t detect it… it can be an issue for a new one, either because they use the same cartridges/security for the new games, as let’s be honest I don’t see why Nintendo would need a new physical cartridge for this revision, at best a tab like in the 3Ds to not allow them on the old Switch.
And even if it does not affect the new games, the retrocompatible games could be affected and be playable by it.
So some changes could be required physically or by software.
Seeing all the recent controversial trends in video game related companies, i think they just go full digital, without cartridges at all
I hope not, they are the last bastion.