Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

Myrddin · 18-03-2015 03:27PM

Uncle Ruckus wrote: »

Now I don't know whether to get this or a PS 4 in four months. I really want to play Street Fighter V and Mortal Kombat X so I am worried Nintendo won't have third party support again.

There's no way the NX will hit shelves in four months, so you'd be safe enough to go with the PS4/XBO for the foreseeable future. The NX is quite a way off yet I'd imagine, & with 3rd party support for Nintendo being in a volatile state, I'd not bet that the NX will hit the ground running, early on.

iamtony · 18-03-2015 03:36PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Fresh nintendo games and fresh nintendo consoles is always a good thing.

Not if it fails miserably and becomes the last home console they ever release and instead they focus on there new mobile market.

Corholio · 18-03-2015 03:40PM

iamtony wrote: »

Not if it fails miserably and becomes the last home console they ever release and instead they focus on there new mobile market.

It's a good thing because everything you said is a complete unknown.

CiDeRmAn · 18-03-2015 03:59PM

Regardless of the home console world, and Nintendo's recent sales problems with the WiiU, they have no such issue with the handheld market, so I wouldn't expect them to be going full Android/iOS anytime soon.

Myrddin · 18-03-2015 04:01PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Regardless of the home console world, and Nintendo's recent sales problems with the WiiU, they have no such issue with the handheld market, so I wouldn't expect them to be going full Android/iOS anytime soon.

I'm tellin' ya', I've a feeling the NX will have some Android functionality. Maybe it could be a user-mode though, an offshoot of the main OS, and it can tie directly into their mobile gaming options.

CiDeRmAn · 18-03-2015 04:34PM

Myrddin wrote: »

I'm tellin' ya', I've a feeling the NX will have some Android functionality. Maybe it could be a user-mode though, an offshoot of the main OS, and it can tie directly into their mobile gaming options.

I know!
I know!

Ahem....

The Nintendo Retron 6!

Banjo · 18-03-2015 04:55PM

The NX will be a Nokia 3360 phone available in Red w/ white trim or Green w/ white trim. When asked they'll talk about how they're not in direct competition with Sony or Microsoft. The phone will be about €68, so cheaper than it's Android and Windows competitors, and fairly uninspiring hardware-wise, but it's core functionality of taking and making phone calls will be excellent and it will have the greatest version of Snake you've ever played available for download for only €12.99.

RossD12 · 09-04-2015 01:18AM

NX = Nintendo Ten or NinTENdo?

DARK-KNIGHT · 12-04-2015 12:14PM

I honestly think the nx will accompany the wii u.. like take your wii u games with you via the nx handheld???

DARK-KNIGHT · 12-04-2015 12:14PM

#tinfoilhattime

iamtony · 12-04-2015 12:27PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

I honestly think the nx will accompany the wii u.. like take your wii u games with you via the nx handheld???

Now that would be awesome! But it would want to be some marvel in technology to squeeze a wii u into a 3ds sized thing.

Captain Chaos · 12-04-2015 12:56PM

iamtony wrote: »

Now that would be awesome! But it would want to be some marvel in technology to squeeze a wii u into a 3ds sized thing.

PS4 can do remote play with the Vita, it's nothing new, you just need decent broadband and wifi for it to work. Same as the WiiU controller acting as a TV for the console but expanded upon.

DARK-KNIGHT · 12-04-2015 01:18PM

exactly what i was thinking lads that a nintendo handheld powerful enough to run games from 3g or 4g or wifi signal via the wii u... no way will they cull the wii u yet it would be madness to do that.

iamtony · 12-04-2015 02:44PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

PS4 can do remote play with the Vita, it's nothing new, you just need decent broadband and wifi for it to work. Same as the WiiU controller acting as a TV for the console but expanded upon.

not the same thing as I was thinking. Being able to stream to the 3ds would make for an awesome update to the current handheld but having to power to natively run the games would be a different ball game and that would excite me.
I've done the ps vita streaming it's good but not perfect and I don't really use it much due to the hassle of setting it up when your out and about.

dmcg90 · 12-04-2015 02:47PM

I'm guessing VR...

CiDeRmAn · 12-04-2015 08:15PM

dmcg90 wrote: »

I'm guessing VR...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhTv2kSBMhc

Star Lord · 12-04-2015 09:23PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhTv2kSBMhc

This from the only person I know that owns a virtual boy?

smokingman · 12-04-2015 11:02PM

Star Lord wrote: »

This from the only person I know that owns a virtual boy?

I used to have one

Banjo · 12-04-2015 11:09PM

smokingman wrote: »

I used to have one

Me too, but he ran away to an enchanted island that turns truants into donkeys, learned the value of telling the truth and became a real boy. They're common as feck and not collectible at all.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 06:58AM

Banjo wrote: »

Me too, but he ran away to an enchanted island that turns truants into donkeys, learned the value of telling the truth and became a real boy. They're common as feck and not collectible at all.

I didn't buy it because the VB was rare, I got it because it is cool, which it is!
I've got mine some 17 years now, still going strong!
I have a real boy as well but he's costing me a fortune!

cloud493 · 13-04-2015 11:29AM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I didn't buy it because the VB was rare, I got it because it is cool, which it is!
I've got mine some 17 years now, still going strong!
I have a real boy as well but he's costing me a fortune!

Is he the kind of cool in that he makes the rest of you look good?

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 01:39PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Is he the kind of cool in that he makes the rest of you look good?

No, but soon, we'll be cool by association...
"Ciderman is his Dad? He must be a little bit cool so..."

Mr E · 13-04-2015 01:48PM

"Ciderman is his Dad? He must be a little bit cool so..."
"No, I said Ciderman, not Spiderman."

:pac:

Allyall · 13-04-2015 03:35PM

Just browsing different sites and reading more about it.
Wouldn't it be more crazy to assume that nintendo weren't working on a new console?
I'd imagine Sony/Microsoft have already started to develop their next console too (Although, their formula doesn't really stray much farther than the basics.), or at least ideas for it.

Someone here said already that they may have only mentioned it because they didn't want people to get the wrong impression when they announced they were entering the mobile market.

Iwata also said “It is too early to elaborate on the details of this project, but we hope to share more information with you next year.”

Which could mean, they may be able to show some sort of proof of concept next year, with much more to add.

Although, This is from over a year ago, 2017 sounds more believable to me.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 05:43PM

This is the madness of it all.
Every tech company is building the next big thing.
While trumpeting the new Apple Watch, Pebble, Samsung Galaxy, Nexus, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo and so on will have a bunch of men and women beavering away on something better.
The idea that any of them will sit on their success and worry about the follow up another day is bad business.

But for those who look for a cheap, click bait headline the news of a new Nintendo product is mana from heaven, as their fevered sweaty finger tippy tap on theor keyboard, hammering out a conspiracy of betrayal, failure and incompetence on behalf of Nintendo.
Of course, they're full of sh1te, but they post it as they need to generate traffic to make money from the ads on their sites.
And we all know that.
But the vibe they generate can hurt and fatally damage a console, and these parasites seek to gain fame and fortune by being on the winning side of history.

Notice how quiet they have become about the Xbox One, now that the sales have really picked up in the US, once upon a time they predicted doom gloom and failure with barely disguised glee, and now with sales picking up they have fallen silent. Now they move back to the WiiU after the successes of the WiiU release schedule in 2013 and 14 become yesterday's news.

Whatever the future brings for Nintendo you can be sure these parasites will follow, like jackals looking for an easy meal.
Let's ignore them, and focus on the great games instead.

Machismo Fan · 13-04-2015 08:48PM

Allyall wrote: »

Wouldn't it be more crazy to assume that nintendo weren't working on a new console?
I'd imagine Sony/Microsoft have already started to develop their next console too (Although, their formula doesn't really stray much farther than the basics.), or at least ideas for it.

As CiDeRmAn said every company is doing this. The NX development cycle started in 2012, the next Playstation and X-Box development started last year. The second one is out they move on to the next.

The only reason Nintendo unveiled the NX was to alleviate shareholder concerns that Nintendo might be out of the console hardware market. They haven't mentioned it in any consumer directed stuff, just when talking to shareholders. As I said earlier in the thread I'd be shocked if the NX was released any earlier than Christmas 2017, and if I was a betting man I'd say it'll actually be released a year later.

cloud493 · 13-04-2015 09:08PM

I'd be bolder than that, and say the Wii U will be replaced sooner than the PS4 or XB1. Possibly by the end of 2016/early 2017.

Star Lord · 13-04-2015 10:29PM

Yeah, I'd put a guess on late 2016 / early 2017 myself also!

Machismo Fan · 13-04-2015 10:53PM

When it does launch it'll more than likely be Q4 of that particular year (like the vast majority of consoles launched in the last twenty years to get it in the Christmas and now Black Friday market) which is why I really don't think it'll be ready by 2016. And hopefully when they do launch it they learn from the Wii U's mistakes in terms of clarity of branding and available launch titles. And some half decent storage.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2015 11:24PM

cloud493 wrote: »

I'd be bolder than that, and say the Wii U will be replaced sooner than the PS4 or XB1. Possibly by the end of 2016/early 2017.

Looking at the protracted lifespan of the PS3 and 360 we'll be still using their replacements into the next decade.
The WiiU is getting a lifespan akin to the original Xbox, 4 years and done, it'll leave a wake of great videogames though, so far superior to any concurrent system.

Nintendo Switch (Nintendo's next console)

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