Nintendo: General Discussion

And the way Nintendo are using old stock for this Mario bundle, instead of a special edition, only further adds to the speculation that there's new hardware on the way. I was thinking it'll launch around next March, but I now think it could be on the market by next Christmas.

Also, Nintendo saying, "this year’s E3 show didn’t fit into our plans" was maybe because it's a little too early for them to do a reveal. I think it could be announced in August/September and on shelves by mid November or December.

Couple that with all the speculation and rumours, and Nintendo's schedule for the second half of the year being fairly barren, it might just happen. Switch sales don't have to die when a successor releases, it can sell alongside it for another couple of years at least. Plus maybe a price drop, making it a cheaper alternative.

Sales of Switch are slowing down, Nintendo won't want to let the Switch brand die a slow death and become irrelevant, like the Wii brand did(we seen what happened there). You have to strike while the iron is hot and it's alive.

Some people, I swear... It couldn't be made more clear that it's a rumour, it's the first word in the headline. Probably not serious, but you can't put font in red on this new version of this site. The person doesn't doesn't claim to know the answer, he goes through the possibilities and the consequences. Your response here was quicker than the video is long. All the major respectable sites have posted the story.

WAIT...The Nintendo Switch 2 WON'T Play Switch Games?!

well said RGT. Some people though are way too sensitive.

I believe I've covered this subject before, I know I've talked about it in the last few days, maybe it wasn't on here. I don't know, I read a couple of years ago, that backwards compatibility isn't possible if Nintendo move away from the Tegra X1 chip, which they will, unless they include it as well as the new chip, and then they'll probably need another cartridge slot, similar to what happened with the DS, but that drives up the cost of the next hardware, which MVG covered in the video.

It's not really in Nintendo's interest to allow backwards compatibility, unless they can charge extra for it, and I bet they're thinking of ways that they can justify it, e.g a €10 charge for an individual game patch. They'd charge for the air that you breathe while playing video games if they could. Nintendo want people buying new games, not playing old ones. You can say it would drive sales of existing games, but sales are usually front loaded, though some Nintendo games are evergreen. But still, the majority of a game's sales come upon its initial release.

On the subject of the successor, I think Nintendo will charge €70 for the majority of their games, even though the hardware in all likelihood will be a generation behind, again. They see others doing it and think they can do the same. I wouldn't be surprised if the next Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros are turned into live service games. Games that are predominantly played online, so Splatoon would be in there as well. Maybe not on the next system, but that's where I think they're heading.

LMAO 🤣

"Dimitris Giannakis (born: April 24, 1973 (1973-04-24) [age 49]), better known as Modern Vintage Gamer (or simply MVG), is an Australian-American programmer and YouTuber known for making videos about video game emulation, homebrew, modding, preservation and security."

I was the developer of Shantae for the Nintendo Switch | MVG

He knows more than some people on this site.

It was where I seen the story. I posted the headline, link and original link. Ya, the headline is a bit clickbaity and it's something I despise myself. But I didn't care or notice it, I was concentrated on the story. That's what a lot of sites do these days and it's only getting worse. But the video itself is interesting and it is something to think about as the Switch comes towards the end of its lifecycle.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie Direct – 09/03/2023 (Final trailer)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Final Trailer

Has anyone seen the Super Mario Bros Movie cinema trailer on RTE TV? It's different from the other trailers, it's very good. I was looking for it on YouTube, but it's not there.

It's been a day. There's no official trailers outside of what we've seen already. Who knows when it'll be allowed air. I'm tempted to ask in the Television forum if anybody recorded The Simpsons yesterday.