Reliable leaker and podcaster, Nate the Hate, announced on his podcast that the Switch 2 will be  announced this Thursday, 16th January. Meanwhile, Tom Warren of The Verge corroborated on X th…
Cosmonaut_Collin
link
fedilink
English
414d

I’m hoping for the virtual boy switch

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1
edit-2
14d

GameCube.

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

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
314d

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]
link
fedilink
English
713d

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.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
413d

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]
link
fedilink
English
4114d

Breaking news! We might have news sometime soon!

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
513d

Good gods! Already? Could they not have prepped us for this with an announcement like last month?

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
413d

It would have killed xmas hardware sales so no

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1214d

Silksong launch title?

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1213d

You know, the timeline makes sense but I’ll leave this here anyway: 🤡

penguin202124 (he/him)
link
fedilink
English
114d

Took them long enough.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
814d

Y’all gonna buy this thing?

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1014d

Only if it’s jailbreakable

Just to spite Nintendo for shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1114d

You’ll probably want an early model then they usually have the most vulnerability

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
713d

Modern switches are all jailbreak able through mod chips.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1513d

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

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
213d

Lol I used a pencil a few times

chingadera
link
fedilink
English
413d

Lol wat

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

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
713d

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
link
fedilink
English
113d

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?

The Snark Urge
link
fedilink
English
114d

I would sooner buy a PS5 lmao

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1
edit-2
14d

This better just be you saying you would rather buy a PS5 and not also a prophecy of what’s to come. Heh.

The Snark Urge
link
fedilink
English
414d

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.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
014d

Going to depend entirely on the specs and launch titles.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
514d

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]
link
fedilink
English
613d

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]
link
fedilink
English
214d

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]
link
fedilink
English
114d

Potentially, but only for a new Smash Bros. (same reason I got the Wii U and Switch)

LordWarfire
link
fedilink
English
913d

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]
link
fedilink
English
214d

nope.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1
edit-2
13d

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

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
114d

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…”

VindictiveJudge
link
fedilink
English
114d

Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
113d

yes

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
3514d

“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]
link
fedilink
English
813d

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]
link
fedilink
English
114d

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

@[email protected]
link
fedilink
English
1114d

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 Durden
creator
link
fedilink
English
1114d

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

Create a post

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

  • 1 user online
  • 47 users / day
  • 465 users / week
  • 1.95K users / month
  • 6.39K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 4.99K Posts
  • 103K Comments
  • Modlog