| Soundwave said: Or you know like they are prepared and ready for Switch 2 in 2024. That could also very easily be the case. I think you are operating from the POV that Nintendo is inherintely unprepared and thus just needs more time because well they need more time. But I suspect they have been planning this and laser focused on Switch 2 for many years now frankly. A lot of their bigger teams have been quiet, way too quiet for a long time now. It's by design IMO. They made the call for example I think to not give the Switch its own Mario Kart game years ago and instead "save" that for Switch 2 and just let the Switch have lower budget DLC content of old tracks that a junior team could remaster. That's by design, that's not random happenstance. Now they can launch Switch 2 and feel confident that they'll have the biggest IP in their IP drawer (Mario Kart) ready to go for that system early on, possibly even day 1. Same with Odyssey 2 ... I think they made a call probably even years ago now at this point that Odyssey 2 (or whatever the next 3D Mario is called) was going to skip the current Switch and go straight to the next system. They likely know with a new Mario Kart and new 3D Mario ... they have a pretty rock solid 1-2 foundation to base a launch off of. I don't think this is a case of the calendar turning to 2022 or 2023 and them waking up and saying "ok, what are we gonna do with the next system". They've had Mario Kart Next and 3D Mario Next at minimum in their back pocket for the next system's launch year I think for a long, long time now. |
You yourself are operating from assumed notions as nothing I've said highlights them being unprepared in fact it says the very opposite rather than trying to read between lines that aren't there read what I'm actually putting forward in that they have a huge safety net and no pressure to press on with the type of suggestions people have made not only here but beforehand hence why we're still in 2023 with no successor or any pro model it's not some mystery why as the market situation hasn't required them to Nintendo may work in their own way but this is just them using the additional time to refine what they have planned, people two years ago were even suggesting TOTK would be a cross gen launch title.
Switch has it's own MK game it's MK8D porting it was a clear decision to give Switch another killer app early on and to save costs no need for another one hence why they did DLC to differentiate it from the WiiU version, Nintendo are always focused on their next platform as is evident from Switch being announced as NX two years into the life of WiiU then coming out two years later that's how platform holders and R&D operate in order to react to their situation in the market and right now the situation isn't exactly demanding it.
Early 2025 itself is not even that far off of a release date.
