[HN Gopher] Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
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Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
Author : ethanholt1
Score : 31 points
Date : 2024-05-07 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| teruakohatu wrote:
| It would be madness to pivot away from the successful Switch
| hybrid handheld/docked console but Nintendo have done crazy
| things in the past.
|
| There have been rumours that the reason for Nintendo DCMA
| takedowns are to clear the emulation field for the next-gen
| console. The Dolphin emulator was able to emulate the Wii two
| years after release.
| kemayo wrote:
| There was a comment in the results call where Furukawa was
| asked whether it was a whole new console-type or another
| Switch, and he said "Switch next model is the appropriate way
| to describe it", so it sounds like they're staying the course
| on this one.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Considering the explosive popularity of the Steam Deck and
| its doppelgangers, the Switch-esque form factor is clearly
| doing well right now, so it makes sense to stick to what
| sells.
|
| Plus the fact that Nintendo's never been shy about iterative
| console updates: NES > SNES, GB > GBC > GBA, DS > 3DS >
| New3DS. And arguably Wii > Wii U, and then the Wii U was sort
| of the missing link between the Wii and the Switch.
|
| Historically they haven't been great at the
| marketing/positioning around those iterative updates, but
| maybe this time they've finally learned :P
| jimbobthrowawy wrote:
| Note: Nintendo's fiscal year ends march 31st.
| tempaskhn wrote:
| I posted "Ask HN: What do you think about Nintendo phone
| competing with iPhone/Android?" [0] 8 months ago. Wondering if
| anyone else thinks it might be a phone.
|
| [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385793
| accrual wrote:
| I can't imagine a phone being a component. Nintendo has always
| had a conservative take on communications between users. It's
| usually filtered or reduced to set of preset phrases or
| emoji/reactions.
|
| Animal Crossing let you freely chat, but without a keyboard,
| it's difficult to get more than a couple short words out.
| Splatoon is a popular multiplayer game that greatly benefits
| from team communication, but all you have are "booyah!" and
| "over here!" and a couple other preset means to communicate to
| your teams.
|
| Miiverse on the Wii U was an exception and let users post text
| and drawings, but it felt pretty heavily moderated, and was
| eventually shut down. I do miss it though, it was a great
| community while it lasted.
|
| Given their target demographic I can't imagine Nintendo would
| put any effort into allowing general communications through
| their hardware.
| 14 wrote:
| This is one of the most lacking features I see with nintendo
| products. Being able to play with friends is a massive
| feature other consoles have and I am unsure why nintendo is
| so against it. Gone are the days where kids sit in the same
| room on a TV playing games. It is much more common for them
| to go home after school, grab their headset and start gaming.
| I do have a couple switches but I don't think I would be
| grabbing future model without things like text or chat as it
| is much more fun to get on a PS5 and be playing with several
| friends at the same time.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| Not sure if you mentioned "through their hardware"
| specifically in reference to the Nintendo Switch Online
| mobile's voice chat capabilities, but man, that's always
| struck me as a weird/interesting choice.
|
| On one hand, bizarre to silo voice chat into a completely
| different piece of hardware than the one you're gaming on
| that already has a microphone built in. On the other hand, it
| does make sense as a way to keep kiddos off the airwaves,
| since to use NSO's app you either need to have a phone or
| (hopefully...) get permission from a parent to use theirs. On
| the other other hand I'm just glad they've finally enabled
| any kind of voice chat at all.
| oniony wrote:
| It's a VR contact lens.
| throwaway5959 wrote:
| The Virtual Boy final form.
| drbig wrote:
| Why link a tweet when Reuters has an actual article:
| https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-expects-sell-135...
| (title: "Nintendo to make announcement on Switch successor by
| March-end").
|
| Is it because the tweet here "is the source"? Regardless of how
| bereft of context it is?
| kemayo wrote:
| That article is just a journalist who read that tweet, and is
| bulking it out with a bunch of sales numbers in a kind of
| rambling manner. The tweet on its own was a better way to get
| this information.
| colechristensen wrote:
| The article adds zero additional information I needed or wanted
| to know, and it took considerably more time to read.
| drbig wrote:
| Thanks for the replies. Points of view are valuable.
| rgovostes wrote:
| See also: Osborne effect
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
| bombcar wrote:
| Announced next year (by March) means shipping even later. Some
| might put off purchasing but that's easily countered by a price
| drop.
| ProfessorLayton wrote:
| I'm super excited for the next iteration of the Switch, which has
| been one of my favorite Nintendo consoles ever. While I
| appreciate Nintendo's commitment to mix it up significantly
| between generations, I hope they don't deviate from their wining
| formula too much on their next console. The main thing I'd like
| for the next generation is for it to have enough horsepower to be
| able to play big 3rd party IPs like GTA.
|
| And joycons that don't drift!
|
| An _announcement_ as late as 3 /25 is gonna be rough though as
| current gen games start tapering off. As always the bottleneck is
| the launch lineup needing more time.
| legitster wrote:
| I finally bought a Switch for the family this last Christmas.
| Then immediately I get swamped by articles from Google about how
| the hardware is tired and they need a refresh.
|
| I think people are off their rocker. The experience is still
| pretty magical in 2024. I get that people are tired of the old
| thing and want the new thing, but it's hard to imagine what stops
| Nintendo could pull out to make me want to pay more than the
| current MSRP for the existing Switch.
|
| It's either just going to be an even beefier Switch, or something
| so out of left field that it's not going to cannibalize their
| still pretty brisk Switch sales.
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