Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024::Nintendo will release its next-gen console during the second half of 2024, according to a new report.
I’m hoping this means we’ll get an Nvidia Shield TV refresh.
This. Totally this.
As long as there’s idiots buying them they will keep releasing closed hardware/software consoles
As much as I would like that, majority of steam deck users don’t care it’s mostly open, and that would make finding vulnerabilities to allow pirating easier, which companies hate for no good reason. And there is all that iderto drm switch stuff floating around They have little reason to open it sadly, which will always make the steam deck a better option in my opinion
The good thing was that so far they’re consoles have been hacked for home brew for nearly 2 decades now.
I just hope they don’t pull the same bullshit regarding the joy-cons and the drift issue
Or SwitchU or something and it falls flat…knowing nintendo, this is exactly what they will do. They’re like the microsoft of consoles, releasing a solid console every other generation.
And here I was thinking the Xbox was the Microsoft of consoles. 😅
Jokes aside, you make a good point.
The Microsoft way would be to build the most powerful console on the market, but forget to make any games for it.
I hope of has a relative per pixel performance of the Series S but at 800p instead of 1080
We might actually get some modern ports at lower resolutions if they pull it off.
They’d better keep everything in the NSO store
Whether I get their next console depends entirely on them keeping the NSO games and backwards compatibility with switch games.
That and the state of their controllers. I have 7 pairs of joy cons and only 1 pair haven’t gotten drift yet, mostly cause I just got em with the TotK edition switch. These controllers have been the worst I’ve dealt with for any system especially considering how much they cost.
Steam Deck + Switch = Switch 2. Probably better hardware, and not much else besides some nifty software gimmicks
I hope it’s just “Switch Pro”
It’s not even that, it’s got an LED screen rather than an OLED.
I doubt it. Next year the Switch will be 7 years old. That’s firmly in “next generation” territory.
The new console should be backwards compatible (and if Nintendo have any sense at all, boost framerates for Switch games), but I wouldn’t expect new games to keep coming out for the old Switch once the new one picks up a decent number of users.
Yeah but Nintendo doesn’t seem interested in pushing hardware. Just being well “Nintendo”
Let this be true.
I really want them to make a foldable, the Nintendo DS was freaking badass and it’s a shame that they’ve abandoned that unique concept.
Oof, as much as I love the idea of bringing back DS/3DS titles to the eShop, I really don’t trust that Nintendo hardware would withstand a fold.
I think a safer option would be for the Switch-2 to beam to the Switch Dock, like a WiiU game pad, and have the option to have two screens if desired by devs. That would give the option to bring back WiiU and select DS/3DS titles using the NSO model.
I doubt it’ll keep up performance wise with x box and playstation, but it can probably do pretty well just updating to newer mobile hardware vs the 7 or 8 year old chips they use right now.
No way it will every reach a current gen console because of the thermal restrictions of how small it is and the battery not being able to power a chip that is capable of modern games with 4/HDR/etc. But I’m sure if they use a modern efficient SoC it can push out some pretty good graphics.
Steam Deck is pretty similar size and weight. I don’t see why Nintendo gets a pass on glorified mobile phone specs.
Steam deck is way bulkier and heavier at 1.6 lbs vs .9 lbs and 1.9 inches thick vs .55 inches thick
The 1.475 pounds is only 0.575 pounds heavier. 60% of the weight of a can of soda. It’s only 2 inches on the controller grips. It’s only 0.8 inches in the middle. Both very reasonable sacrifices to make for significantly better performance.
1080p resolution but better performance would be good enough for me.
My body is reggie.
Miyamoto body is Reggie.
Nintendo can’t do as well as they did with the swtich without a failure somewhere. Such as the way of the Nintendo universe. Wii U, Virtual Boy, Game Cube. I think they are due.
This may be rose colored glasses talking, but IMO the GameCube wasn’t a failure. It had quite a few iconic titles (SSBM, Animal Crossing, Mario
GalaxySunshine) and to this day the GC controller is still considered one of, if not the best, way to play smash bros.GC controller was also the decacto way to pwn in Mario kart Wii.
It may have been fun, but it didn’t sell well.
Agreed, but it was comparable (in sales) to the Xbox and not too far behind the N64. It certainly didn’t put Nintendo under, but of course you could say the same for the Wii-U. Financially you could argue it was a failure (and be largely correct), but IMO whether a console failed or not is more than just the raw units sold.
Also, I misspoke in my original comment - Galaxy was on the Wii, not the GC. Must have been thinking about Sunshine.
we’re talking about sales, not the quality of the product itself.
Going by the pattern this one is gonna suck
Only Nintendo console that sucked was the Wii U. Crazy talk!
I still love my Wii U and use it to play games that run like crap on the switch. It’s a more powerful system
All they have to do is make a more powerful Switch and they’re golden. But this is Nintendo, so…
They might make it more powerful, but the latest version of the OG Switch has an OLED screen, this will not…
It will be a switch embedded in a power glove.
It will be called switch U but the controller will be a tandem unicycle.
Pattern? Are you implying that the GameCube or SNES were bad consoles? That’s crazy talk.
The WiiU wasn’t even terrible, but was the only console release that could be considered “bad.” I’m not sure what pattern they’re talking about.
I mean the Switch is no masterpiece, it’s just the perfect storm of good games and accessibility that people crave. If that continues, it stands to reason the successor to the Switch has a chance to break the curse. And is it really a curse? The Gamecube fucking rocked.
Even if its great like the Gamecube. If Nintendos curse still holds true the next one will flop
All they gotta do is release a more powerful (backwards compatible) console just like the Switch and call it the Nintendo Switch 2.
Don’t call it the New Nintendo Switch.
Don’t call it Nintendo Switch U.
Don’t call it Nintendo Switch XL.
Just Nintendo Switch 2.
That’s it. Nothing more.
…this is Nintendo we’re talking about.
These fuckin cunts just 2 months ago claimed there is no next gen console in the works
I remember back in the 90s N64 magazines were always posting rumors about the “Dolphin” console that Nintendo was supposed to be developing, which eventually became the Gamecube. Nintendo also was more open back then, with their famous Mario 128 tech demo for example. Also the Nintendo DD rumors were huge as well, which turned out to be a big failure and never released outside of Japan.
I mean, they kind of have to do that, or else you get the Osborne Effect where everyone just waits for the new version, and your business suffers.
ETA: also, source? They usually say they won’t comment, or that there’s always something new in development at all times. Don’t they?
I have a sneaky suspicion today Nintendo were only driven to make this because of the Steam Deck. If it didn’t exist they’d be more than happy to continue with the current Switch for a few more years.
No it’s because the switch is underpowered and like 7 years old lol. As my as I love my Steam Deck, they’re not even in the same market.
In this case competition is no bad thing. I’m sure the next version of the Steam Deck will be well worth it.
I don’t think that’s the case they probably have had at least a small team working on this before the Steam deck was announced. I don’t think the audiences overlap that much to be honest and the two devices have different use cases.
The steam deck is just a powerful hand held computer (relative to other gaming hardware is pretty weak though) that runs PC games with all the ups and downs that come with that. I think there are number of steam deck buyer that are not that familiar with the underlying hardware that are going to be disappointed when new games are not going to run acceptably on it. Where as for the switch/switch 2 games will at least run acceptably
Tears of the Kingdom has shown that the Switch is at it’s limits here. It runs and it’s playable, but it’s perilously close to not being.
7 years is about right for a hardware generation. PS4 and Xbox One had that too, and they had a mid-gen performance refresh to boost the longevity. Base PS4 games were borderline unplayable by the end.
Tears of the Kingdom is a miracle of engineering. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity did a lot more to show that the console isn’t keeping up with its own ambitions anymore.
That said I don’t think generations need to last the same forever because technological advancement doesn’t happen at the same rate forever. The PS4 isn’t being obsolesced by insufficiency, but rather by extravagance and marketing interests. Many games still run just fine on the PS4 to this day, even Jedi Survivor is being backported to it.
There was a rumor that Nintendo was developing a Switch Pro that was intended to release in 2020, but due to the chip shortage they had to scrap the chipset upgrade and that became the Switch OLED. I love my Steam Deck but I’m pretty sure this has been in the works for a while.
