• @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    I’m not expecting an announcement until late March. They’re not going to want to commit to a price any time soon. Blame that clown in oompa loompa makeup.

  • @[email protected]
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    375 months ago

    “Nintendo WILL announce the Switch 2 in March. Everything I’m hearing dating back to Gamescom last year has indicated something was happening in March. That talk has resurfaced in the past few weeks, and it is indicating that the Switch 2 is set for a reveal or an announcement in March.”

    That’s from the same RELIABLE leaker from a year ago and that’s just the first one I saw. The amount of leakers who claimed it would get announced over the last year is comically large. I guess if you post this once a week eventually you’ll be right. I mean, yeah an announcement seems likely at this point but there’s no need to bring Randomguess McGee into the conversation.

    • @[email protected]
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      85 months ago

      Nintendo themselves confirmed that the console will be released in 2025.

      So half the accurate leaks will be people mapping out when this will likely be and then backwards marketing plans to release and announcements

    • @[email protected]
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      115 months ago

      Plans can change in the course of a year. At the time, that probably was their plan, and that it didn’t happen doesn’t make it a guess. We’re hearing this same reveal on the 16th from multiple corroborating sources at this point.

    • Smarf DurdenOP
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      115 months ago

      Tom Warren from the verge is also saying that it’ll be this week, so that gives this leak a lot of credibility imo.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Maybe Wilds will be a launch game and Nintendo anticipated the release to capitalise on it? Dunno, just playing devil’s advocate.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      Probably. I have 2 kids, and I still love Nintendo games. It does depend on a few things so I will wait to see what its capable of. I also don’t see myself buying it at release, I’m to old for that FOMO.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Same here.

        Santa will be buying it for Xmas this year no doubt.

        Kids will be reminded the hard way that Mario kart skills cross titles.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      Only if I have to for Metroid Prime 4, if I can’t play it on Switch or emulate it.

          • @[email protected]
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            155 months ago

            Sure but that’s far less convenient than early switches where you could use a bit of aluminum foil in the controller socket lol

            • chingadera
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              45 months ago

              Lol wat

              Can you please link me to where I can find this in action

              • @[email protected]
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                75 months ago

                https://noirscape.github.io/RCM-Guide/

                You need to bridge a few pins in the controller connector. There’s several ways to do that as shown in that link. Then you can upload jailbreak software from a PC.

                I personally used aluminum foil successfully, then bought an actual jig later.

                • chingadera
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                  15 months ago

                  Huh, I did just skim through that but I didn’t see why you would want to bridge the connection, what exactly does bridging accomplish? Is it some sort of maintenance mode or something?

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      Depends if I have to be in a rat race with scalpers and their bots again. I do not wish to relive the PS5 fiasco.

      “Oh deer…”

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      Nope, but there are surely deals that are locked up in this thing’s launch, and I’ve got an unannounced 3D Mario game on my Fantasy Critic roster.

      • @[email protected]
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        This better just be you saying you would rather buy a PS5 and not also a prophecy of what’s to come. Heh.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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          45 months ago

          Do you think me a poltroon? A veritable cabbage of a man? Am I the corn chip that a bird sold to Satan himself? Please reconsider.

    • LordWarfire
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      95 months ago

      If it’s backwards compatible with digital software then yes, day one. I held off on the Switch for over a year, just long enough to get one without vulnerabilities but not long enough to get the higher efficiencies.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      GameCube.

      Allegedly the price of switch online will be going up and this is the only reason I can think of

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Nintendo is a corporation. Corporations like money. That is the reason.

        If Gamecube games come out to their service, that will just be their thinly-veiled excuse.

        • @[email protected]
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          75 months ago

          even with the price increase, they cant realistically do it haphazardly, as the switch has a very low online subcriber rate (~20%) compared to Sony, whos rate sits closer to 80%.

          just increasing the price without offering some feature of value will hurt shareholders trust in nintendo, at least in the longterm.