| curl-6 said: No harm whatsoever is being done by people speculating on an Ocarina of Time remake or a new Starfox game. We are literally just talking about video games here, it's not that serious. |
The harm is propagating rumors as fact. Rather than propagating real facts as facts.
Which has been demonstrably demonstrated in this thread.
| Soundwave said: I don't even care but if you think Nate is wrong, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and bet against it. |
You are either not reading my statements or not understanding them in it's intended context.
It literally doesn't matter if he is correct or incorrect in this instance, that's not even the god damn issue.
| Soundwave said: Nate gets the benefit of the doubt because he's been correct many, many, many times before. This isn't some guy that just has gotten 1 or 2 things correct. |
The fact he has gotten anything incorrect in the past, should put a question mark on all claims going forth.
| Soundwave said: Nintendo isn't that easy to predict because "Nintendo" isn't even the same company as 10 years ago, next person to bring up the Wii should get slapped upside the head. That entire management team is basically not even with the company anymore, that was 20 plus freaking years ago. Even from 2015, the board of directors of 2025 is almost entirely different. Miyamoto is still there but he's basically semi-retired from gaming at this point and just works on the movies and theme parks. |
No. Nintendo is very easy to predict.
Everyone and their dog knows that Nintendo will follow up with a "safe" successor once they have a huge success.
Case in point:
1) NES with the SNES.
2) Gameboy with Gameboy Advance.
3) Nintendo DS with 3DS.
4) Wii with WiiU.
5) Switch with Switch 2.
There is a trend there. A predictable one. Companies are generally adverse to risk unless they need to reverse a decline.
| Soundwave said: The modern management at Nintendo probably has more in common with Sony's Playstation division today than the Nintendo of 20-25 years ago under Iwata that was going blue ocean trying to make hardware appeal to soccer moms. |
Nintendo still runs it's own course.
But they are bound by the confines of technology trajectories more than ever as they aren't relying on fully custom and alien silicon designs.
And that makes predicting their releases far easier.
| Chrkeller said: All I know is nate was wrong about the pro, wind waker and twilight. So, we shall see. |
Wrong about:
1) Pro.
2) Wind Waker and Twilight.
3) Kirby Planet Robobot HD.
4) Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War remake for Switch 1.
5) Metroid Prime Trilogy HD in 2021.
6) Metroid Prime 1 HD was supposed to release in 2022, dropped in 2023.
7) Halo Infinite Multiplayer he said was dropping in November 15 2021. It came in December 2021.
8) Nate said Final Fantasy Rebirth was coming for Switch in 2023, came out in 2024.
And that's what I could be bothered researching.
I am not saying he doesn't get more shit right, than wrong.
But he does get shit wrong.
And if he gets shit wrong, it means we take it with a grain of salt, not worship him unless his statements can be verified with other independent sources, nintendo or there is empirical evidence.
| Chrkeller said: In terms of S2 hardware predictions, lot of us got many things right. I recall saying it would max at 112 gb/s which would impede resolution and fps... guess what, memory bandwidth is 102 gb/s and is a bottleneck for resolution and fps... the idea that the forum was clueless about the S2 is a false narrative. Most people here, with their predictions, where within 10 to 20% of S2 performance. |
Many people in the forum were clueless about the Switch 2's hardware.
Again, I made hardware predictions about the Switch 2 back in 2017, which were correct. (Tegra Orin)
That's not from a source of information given to me, that was using common sense of what would be available and viable on the market.
Nor does it discount other claims other people got right.
We were speculating. We are speculators. We got some stuff right. Others got stuff wrong.
None of us (Myself included) should have their statements about our hardware predictions taken as gospel until evidence corroborated them. (I.E. Nintendo unveiling or from engineers)
And that same standard needs to be applied to all sources of rumors, speculations and leaks.
It is actually okay to say "we don't know" about something.
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