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hinch on 03 January 2023
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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
hinch said:

Between the chip shortage during the peak of the pandemic and the already decent sales of the NX, it was probably a very late decision considering we had multiple sources saying devs have a dev kits for a more powerful Switch in late 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-29/nintendo-switch-4k-developers-make-games-for-nonexistent-console?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Whats interesting is that Nintendo were concerned with the immenent release of the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. But that came at the time of crazy chip shortages it made more sense to cancel that and release an iteration with improvements instead and we got the OLED NS where manufacturing isn't affected so much. I wonder if Nintendo also worked with Nvidia to get a better deal for a new chip, instead of what we were going to get with the Pro. 4K was the target for Nintendo, which is quite a high bar for a handheld console.

Also other red flags that a new console is imminent is that we're still waiting for some flagship titles from Nintendo (Next big Mario release, Mario Kart 9 and Metroid Prime 4) some still MIA and LOZ ToTK delayed to 2023.

Mario Kart 9 definitely won't happen on Switch. Nintendo is still releasing the DLC courses for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Next big Mario release, maybe there's still some time, but it also wouldn't make much sense.

Metroid Prime 4... Well, who knows what happened to this game. It was announced for Switch a looooong time ago.

Maybe, wouldn't be too sure. There is a lot of NS(1) users there and they want to sell as much as they can. They'll probably release on both as a cross-gen title with different versions respectively. As I don't see the new one being backwards compatible with the current one.

I just find it a little stange that there hasn't been a new MK for nearly 7 years when the game came out last generation. And there hasn't been a proper mainline Mario game release outside of rereleases+DLC repack for the NS and that was Odyssey, back in 2017. Which makes me think they are readying up for the next generation of titles spread through the next several years. And there is no unnessesary overlap in releases.

Like with new subscription models, re-releases and Pokemon along side third party releases are doing very well so far so it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo are holding back development of certain titles for use on a new console to spur more interest in said new machine. Also with better hardware devs are getting their visions more realised than still working on Tegra X1 which is (at this point) fairly underpowered compared to modern mobile SoC's.

That is unless Covid hit their dev teams hard, which wouldn't be a surprise.

Last edited by hinch - on 03 January 2023