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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo to reveal "new way to play the Switch" in 12 hours from now.

Nautilus said:
OTBWY said:
What did Emily Rogers say? What reveal?

That a new direct was comming tomorrow.Just that.

Actually no,she said to expect something for casual audiences and to not expect an direct format for the reveal.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-direct-mini-january-11th-early-2018-games.15661/page-70#post-3309470



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This is interesting... While I am probably not the target, I will still have a look at it. I wonder wether it is sofware or hardware related...or both.



I legit have no idea but I'm thinking it's a new toys to life range for the ubisoft starlink game and possibly attachments for the joycon for steep.

Something along those lines.

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Here it comes guys.
Nintendo smart watch.



Disney Infinity/Skylanders Amiibo game?

I mean, it is targeted towards "kids and kids at heart" and it would be a new way to play on Swi... No wait a minute, Skylanders already came out on Switch.

Alright, never mind. I don't have a clue either.
But regardless, I'm going to watch this with zero expectations.



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TheGamer_1995 said:
It probably will be a portable only Switch for 200-250$ (Keep in mind those 6 new SKU by GameStop)
Does anybody know if there’s going to be new games shown or anything?

Portable only makes little sense. You can't get much cost savings from ditching the little hardware required to connect to the TV. You can only get rid of some plastic and the output ports.If they were to make an SKU ditching the hybrid concept, a home-console only SKU would make a lot more sense. You can ditch costly parts like the screen and the battery, and ofcourse you could still ditch excess plastic.



Sounds ominous



Well I’m a kid at heart but not sure what this could be if not a new controllers attached smaller handheld only version of Switch. I know kids in the 5-7 range have a hard time with the whole Switch/joycon setup and that needs to be addressed. I doubt any “attachment” will be successful enough to remedy that fully.

I hope it isn’t a Wii U gamepad type device that allows kids to do the “separate from tv” function on a more kid friendly device, syncing up with the Wii U... that would just muddy the Switch waters and only really be useful in home. The worst thing they could do for Switch is make it more complicated outside of it’s product definitions. Consumers will start running away from it if it gets anymore technical. Simplicity, even if just in appearance, is a big part of the appeal.



The folks on ResetEra claimed that it is tied in to a certain accessory aimed at children and/or those that do not have a lot of experience with gaming consoles.

Here is what my theory is (more like wild musings and whatever this reveal is will most likely not turn out to be anything like what I am going to say here).

They are going to make use of the Switch's modularity to build some sort of robot-like device (potentially a DIY robot or a line of robots for kids) . The Switch console could connect to the robot accessory wirelessly or through the rail system. I predict this because of the passive walking device/passive walking module (module, implies it ties into a core device that is modular, much like the Switch) that Nintendo patented in December 2017. Kimishima has also said that he wants to use the IR camera on Joy-Con R for something this year; now obviously he could be talking about a game experience but he could also be talking about a robot like device with Joy-Con R used to detect depth and surrounding objects (the Joy-Con could serve as an arm). The user would be able to interact with the robot with Joy-Con L held side ways like an NES controller, potentially voice (if it has the AI for voice in its software and a microphone in the Robot's body), real objects through the IR camera, and Amiibos (the NFC reader is also placed in the hand like Joy-Con R).

Now the more obvious (and less exciting, for me anyway) reveal could be a slightly different Joy-Con with fewer buttons and more emphasis on motion or maybe some sort of camera joy-con. But none of these really fits the kids audience, at least in my eye, they are going after (the simplified motion controls for motion games, etc. seems to fit more with the much older Wii audience, like middle age and senior people). Then again, this is the cheapest route and the one Nintendo will most likely take (imagine how much a robot body would cost).