As it has for the past …5 years?
Maybe this time it’ll be the one!
I can’t see how they could possibly market a “Switch 2” handheld successfully.
The average parent/consumer isn’t going to understand or care about slightly updated graphics or hardware. It’d have to be something fundamentally different.
I keep hearing this argument when it’s about Nintendo, but it never happens with the other companies. What Sony and Microsoft do is upgrade the hardware and change the aesthetic of the console, and that’s about it. The reason the Wii U failed is because it felt like an accessory (marketing focused on the pad and the actual console was very similar to the original Wii).
I don’t think they can do anything that isn’t hybrid now.
I can’t see how they could possibly market a “Game Boy Advance” handheld successfully. It’d have to be something fundamentally different from the Game Boy Colour. 😉
For the average consumer, it’s all about the games. If the next platform has awesome games you can’t play on the current-gen platform, it’ll sell. (Well, barring some disastrous marketing…)
People ate up the switch oled. I’ve heard a ton of people who already had a switch say they bought one. Sales numbers are also pretty good I think? If they just call it a Switch 4K or something people will definitely buy one. I think you’re mistaken about both the insane popularity of the switch, and also the demographic that uses nintendo handhelds. They’ve frequently done refreshes with the gameboy and DS lines, and people buy them because they can hand off the old one to a family member or friend.
I honestly hope I’m wrong. I have an OLED model. We’ll see what happens!
I hope not. We’re just at a point where we can emulate Switch games easily
I’m putting my money on “false”
Wishful thinking at best. Nintendo has no incentive to rush forward with a new platform yet. Hardware ain’t where the money is, and they’re not struggling to sell software when they have something good.
If it didn’t come with Tears of the Kingdom, it won’t come for at least this year.
This game release was the biggest opportunity to introduce a stronger Switch or even a successor.
The WiiU also had BotW but the Switch ran it slightly better. I ended up playing through it again on Switch. If they would release a Switch2 which could run TotK at 60 FPS or even 40FPS VRR or something I’m sure it would convince a lot of people to upgrade.
But I agree with you that it’s probably not what Nintendo will do.
Would a smaller one be popular?
I’d buy it. Right now the only time I use the Switch portably is on vacation. Something with a smaller form factor, even a Switch Lite OLED, would be great for mobility around town.
Pretty sure they already said it’s not going to happen before a year or so (assuming it’s going to happen next year I strongly doubt they’ll announce it now. But sure I hope so. Let’s see)
At some point it’s going to be true, it’s not like Nintendo won’t implement a DLSS capable gen2 Switch at some point, with full backwards capability like the 3DS.
Please, yes. I need totk in 4K 120hz 👀
Lower those expectations to about 1080p60.
I think it will absolutely support 4K as a marketing point, but nothing is going to run at that natively. They have a partnership with nvidia so the next switch will definitely have DLSS, and probably run heavily upscaled to output at 4k. Still wouldn’t expect good performance though.
That would be a gross failure by Nintendo .
People have been saying that for years and yet Nintendo is performing quite well. The average consumer does not care about resolutions and framerates. If a Switch 2 does come out in the next couple of years, I would expect it to perform similarly to a PS4 Pro/Xbox One X with 1080p and 60fps as @ampersandrew had already mentioned.
That would be the dream haha
I do expect an announcement some time this year or early next, but probably not tomorrow.
