The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms
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I’m mildly interested in seeing ad-free clips.
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I am hyped
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I’m mildly interested in seeing ad-free clips.
... The entire hour long show IS an ad.
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Why is this newsworthy?
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Why is this newsworthy?
It's the successor to one of the most successful consoles ever, and word is Nintendo's had a lot of games that were done for some time now, but they've been holding them back to better position this launch. An hour-long Direct is about twice the usual length, and basically the entire industry is basing its plans around the Switch 2 and GTA6 right now.
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... The entire hour long show IS an ad.
Maybe that's the point. You begin the video, the host says "Hello, and welcome!", then you immediately stop the video having just watched 15 seconds.
"That was a pretty interesting Nintendo Direct!"
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It's the successor to one of the most successful consoles ever, and word is Nintendo's had a lot of games that were done for some time now, but they've been holding them back to better position this launch. An hour-long Direct is about twice the usual length, and basically the entire industry is basing its plans around the Switch 2 and GTA6 right now.
I'm honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.
Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.
Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
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I'm honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.
Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.
Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
I was talking about this with some friends. Anecdotally, almost everyone we know who plays games has a Switch, but very few of them seem to care about a Switch 2, for one reason or another. What will undoubtedly still move units are their marquis franchises, not the least of which is expected to be a new 3D Super Mario game. Mario Kart does extremely well for them, but I'll bet some amount of its success is tied to very cheap console hardware, which the Switch 2 will not be out of the gate, so that parents can buy each of their kids a handheld to play with each other in the car, at the laundromat, at their siblings' soccer practice, etc., and as the hardware gets cheaper, that probably contributes to its "long tail" of sales.
But yeah, for people who live and breathe video games, consoles have lost their luster. Games take longer to make now, which means there are fewer first party titles, which means we have fewer reasons to buy another machine that plays the same games as some other piece of hardware we already own. That will be especially true for the Switch 2, since they don't have a Wii U library to plunder for titles that they can port cheaply for people who've never played them.
All that to say, my expectations as an armchair analyst whose word isn't worth anything on the matter and whose predictions may as well be a dice roll are that the Switch 2 will do very well, but I'd be surprised if it did better than the first Switch, and I don't know that we'll ever see a console do as well as the Switch, or the PS2 for that matter, ever again.
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I think that's the name of Nintendo's legal department.
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I’m mildly interested in seeing ad-free clips.
just wait for the MKBHD style vlog overviews. or theverge.com 50 word summary.
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Nintendo is never getting another cent of my money.
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Reboot of Mario 35 on launch day please
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if you guys have any interest in context, theres a great 'history of nintendo' on the 'Acquired' podcast, starting with gambling cards for the Yakuza in the like 1800s.
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I'm honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.
Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.
Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
The same way they have been for a while, by making charming, accessible, and fun games. The average consumer doesn’t care about how litigious they are, unfortunately.
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Nintendo is never getting another cent of my money.
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I was talking about this with some friends. Anecdotally, almost everyone we know who plays games has a Switch, but very few of them seem to care about a Switch 2, for one reason or another. What will undoubtedly still move units are their marquis franchises, not the least of which is expected to be a new 3D Super Mario game. Mario Kart does extremely well for them, but I'll bet some amount of its success is tied to very cheap console hardware, which the Switch 2 will not be out of the gate, so that parents can buy each of their kids a handheld to play with each other in the car, at the laundromat, at their siblings' soccer practice, etc., and as the hardware gets cheaper, that probably contributes to its "long tail" of sales.
But yeah, for people who live and breathe video games, consoles have lost their luster. Games take longer to make now, which means there are fewer first party titles, which means we have fewer reasons to buy another machine that plays the same games as some other piece of hardware we already own. That will be especially true for the Switch 2, since they don't have a Wii U library to plunder for titles that they can port cheaply for people who've never played them.
All that to say, my expectations as an armchair analyst whose word isn't worth anything on the matter and whose predictions may as well be a dice roll are that the Switch 2 will do very well, but I'd be surprised if it did better than the first Switch, and I don't know that we'll ever see a console do as well as the Switch, or the PS2 for that matter, ever again.
That first part really resonates because I experienced the DS lite. I didn't see many phat NDS consoles, but kids everywhere had a DS lite. Mariokart did insanely well on that console, but not just because it was Mariokart, but also because of the download play feature.
It seems like Nintendo wants to replicate something like that through it's virtual game card sharing feature. But it also seems like it's a feature on the original Switch, so I wonder what new things they've planned.
I too will be surprised if the Switch 2 does better than the Switch. The 3DS, arguably the real sequel to the NDS, as opposed to the DSi, didn't really touch the same highs that the DS lite did.
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Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
The same way they have been for a while, by making charming, accessible, and fun games. The average consumer doesn’t care about how litigious they are, unfortunately.
For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but... Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2... Not so much...
I don't doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it'll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.
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It will be 10 minutes to announce the new console and 50 minutes to announce Silksong
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For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but... Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2... Not so much...
I don't doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it'll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.
I dunno why people are so downvote heavy in this comm…
Yeah I agree that Nintendo has seen the most success when they have a compelling gimmick; time will tell if the same gimmick with more power will do the trick. I doubt the mouse gimmick will be more than a novelty, but we’ll see what they show tomorrow.
