Nintendo Responds To Switch 2 Questions... 

Although they haven't announced anything about that, the fact there's a late 2024 line up right before the release of the next system almost guarantees backwards compatibility.

It will 99% be BC with older Switch titles. If they didn't, Nintendo would angry a lot of Nintendo consumers.

That AND I need to be able to play ALL my digitally purchased games. If I can't, then I'm never buying digital on switch 2.

​@@nworder4lifeYES 100% AGREED. Already ive been pretty sparse on switch digital because of my bad experiences with digital wii/wiiu purchases. I dont want to buy the same game 10x over just because nintendo cant be bothered to provide cross library compatibility.

​@@Kirby5588not really, 3DS games were being released even when Switch was already released, for example. Nintendo, being solely a videogames company, makes every hardware move an extremely sensitive one. You never know.

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F-Zero fans: The best we can do is Battle Royale of a SNES game ☠️

F-zero fans haven't eaten well in years

Metroid fans will have to wait entire life times

When the NES started games were 32k now they are a couple of GBs and on the PS5 over 1TB. All of that takes time.

Or..... shocking more folks just buy digital

Their graph shows that "downloadable versions of packaged software" fluctuated between 42% and 77% of digital sales this year, digital sales being around 50% of all sales.

I don't really see this. Alan wake 2 didn't have a physical release last year and that is only big triple A I can think that is the case for. Indie games rarely have physical releases but honestly indie games are getting physical releases more than they were a decade ago through websites like limitedrungames. I think it's genuinely just the convenience of digital vs physical that is making people switch over time.

You do realize Steam is 20+ years old, right? Stop deluding yourself. Games have been digital for AGES now. Nothing to do with “digital exclusives”

@@Bargate And Alan Wake 2 under performed in terms of sales. I'm still hoping for a Physical release. If not, I'll just skip it all together. No Physical, No buy.

There were a lot of ridiculous comments on social media during the time of the Wii U. People often said Nintendo was doomed and going the way of Sega. I saw other comments saying kids no longer knew who Mario was and were not interested. I kept arguing that Nintendo was still making great games and the next system could always be a hit as Nintendo has had flops in the past and recovered. Nintendo also had so much money they could afford to fail quite a few times. People insulted me, and repeated that Nintendo was dead. I have to say though that Nintendo was also unpopular because they had ridiculous restrictions on RU-vidrs playing their games during the Wii u which luckily they eventually scrapped. Even with the announcement of the Switch and when it first released there were lots of comments saying it was crap and would fail. Those idiots who had lots of likes are awfully quiet these days. Nintendo has had more sales on the switch than the combined sales of the last 30 years. The switch is fast approaching the best selling console ever behind the PS2. They are more popular now than ever.

​@@makasete30alot of ppl were saying that the switch was gonna flop when it was announced lmao

It’s going to be THE most popular console ever in 2 years

I spent the Wii u era looking at it on store shelves saying next week as I moved over to the 3ds shelf 😂 Wii u wasn't a real console

Nintendo might be the only real game console maker left soon. They have good games and refuse to go full crazy over powerful hardwares. I hope more people can at least appreciate that attitude from Nintendo.

I'd say reasonable rather than genius, it just still makes sense

@@mkjjoe genius because others dont see physical being popular in the future

In japan physical media is still more bought than digital. I don't see nintendo, a japanese company, stop focusing on the type of media most people from asian countries buy. So yeah nintendo's physical not going anywhere soon!

The Nintendo online service is not that bad. I think the E shop is a hot mess, but overall I like the Nintendo on online better than Sony or Microsoft’s.

If my physical games don't transfer over I'm mostly in the same boat.

Lol sensational 👏

Magnetic boogaloo*

New Switch Cube Advanced XL plus Rabbids Decade of Luigi Collector’s Edition. Nintendo gonna Nintendo.

@@JasonJrakenew funky mode

took 6 years for them to press control c and control v on the breath of the wild files

We can't really speculate either way, surely it affected them but we don't know at what points and how much. We don't even know when different phases of development occurred, as you suggest the bulk of development may have been when covid hit but as a project stemming from BOTW the bootstrap might have been quicker and earlier, and at least on paper they had already started by late 2017. The physics and mechanics apparently were a concern throughout, but for the overall design it's unclear, maybe a forced hiatus made them reconsider the scope and at some point they had to say "we have to finish" before that extra year of polish. TOTK is a major technical achievement but I think it shows that they are still figuring out how to follow up on these massive games. Hopefully a more streamlined process, a fresh setting and the new hardware will allow them to express their vision in even more impressive ways.

The issue that slowed development of TotK had little to do with a virus. To a much greater degree, it was tyrannical government control which stole people's jobs and individual fear of the effects of the virus. The virus didn't infect the game and corrupt files although there likely were a few TotK developers who got sick which surely had some negligible effect on production time.

@@ericwindsor339 I think you should not play video games anymore.

Whats covid?

That's pretty optimistic, are you sure you can get one, day one? Everyone is gonna want one.

Ehh not for me like the original switch I waited until there was a game that truly caught my attention. No not Botw that was a wii U game originally.

@@conspiracyspiderdid you have a Wii U?

I second this!

Same. The first one is one of the best systems of all time!

For real, people used to laugh at that name, but now having a context for it, it makes a lot more sense, and it sounds kinda snappy.

Technically the current joy cons also attach to the switch , just in a different manner so I don’t think a name like switch”attach” would be enough to differentiate between the consoles

@@edgaracosta9976fax, Nintendo doesn’t need another wii u situation

Yeah, please Nintendo, don't call it that. I'd take Switch 2 or Super Switch.

@@edgaracosta9976I think it sounds good but the initials of the console would be the Nintendo S.A I’m not sure they want that branding haha

Pokemon sure can use the extra power but it's fundamentally glitchy, better hardware won't make it overall better. Hope that the next entries are well polished this time.

@@mkjjoeit ran pretty flawlessly on pc so it might just need the extra power. Did have s lot of crashing on release though personally but that might be the game trying to use more power than allocated

@@Jzwiz More power wont fix the atrocious art design, and 30 year old animation and physics.

@@alibabaschultz352 alas too many people accept the games as is for that to change, at least they tried on the plot this time, havnt seen that since b/w and mystery dungeon

I would not hold my breath on a proper next gen patch from Gamefreak of all companies. Best case they improve the framerate and resolution, but you're still left with the horrible pop-in, muddy textures, questionable art design, low fps animations, etc.

Online trackers will be your best bet.

gotta preorder as soon as it gets announced lol

Preorder on day one as soon as it's announced. Otherwise you won't get one. Don't do the whole "I'll think about it..." "Maybe when I have money..." "Maybe next paycheck." Then you'll literally never get one. Preorder the second it's announced and you'll be in. Credit cards exist for a reason. They don't charge you until it ships anyhow.

​@@Coplanersirtax9the same minute.

Do like I do and wait 6 years and buy someone else’s preorder down the road for Pennie’s on the dollar 😂

I'll get at least one or two pre-orders in for Switch 2 (and will obtain day one). There hasn't been any launches in the past 15 years that I haven't been able to acquire day one.

A great visual showcase certainly, but I don't think it could be a system seller which Mario is more likely to do. If so, it would be overshadowed at launch so it could come later in the year. Or we see it this year on Switch.

@@mkjjoe I think Mario will come later in the year. A core title like Metroid would be a great fit for launch since the core gamers are the early adopters anyway.

@@RETR0_P0CKET Right but between a game targeting a couple million early adopters, and a game that can easily attract 10+ million almost right away, I know which one makes the investors happier.

@@mkjjoe fair enough. I wouldn’t be surprised either way

@@RETR0_P0CKETthe real move would be to launch it with a new Mario Kart game, honestly.

I'm playing Metroid prime remastered on my switch oled for the first time and wow I don't really like the traditional Metroid games but this is great

Nintendo does have to address Metroid prime 4 this June , since they originally announced and claimed the game was coming for Nintendo switch

​@@edgaracosta9976 itll be crossgen they dont need to say anything about it until it makes sense to do so

*Christmas

@@edgaracosta9976 As I said, they can show a 2min trailer for Metroid Prime 4, with a 2025 release date. And then close to the Switch 2 release they can show more. Heck, they can announce in their Switch 2 press conference that Switch 2 console will play Switch 1 games and then use Metroid Prime 4 as a Switch 1 game being played on Switch 2.

Why would anyone want to try to change your mind on personal preferences on how you like to buy your games? I prefer physical but each has it's pros and cons lol

@@nocfox3050 Are you new to the internet?

​@@DeadPhoenix86DPI guess he is a mature person

@@DeadPhoenix86DP Ironic, since once upon a time you got butthurt so you started deleting and reposting your comments because someone disagreed with you Just amusing seeing someone like that says "change my mind" lol

​@@DeadPhoenix86DP 🤡

Did you vote for megaman to come back in the capcom vote?

@@azenar1894 yeah I did and surprisingly enough they even mention battle network and star force for the results

dont we all.... megaman 12, X9, Legends 3, Star Force 4, Legends 1 & 2 remakes, anything would do....

@@azenar1894 yeah I did,and surprisingly enough, Capcom mentioned BN and SF in the end result

I'm still salty about MegaMan Legends 3 to this day.

Plus discs are just pointless because they're slow, you have to install it then practically download it to patch it, dying media just live the VCR, DVD and so on.

SAME, I still find it strange when I plug up my PS4 Slim to my 4K TV and 1080p is the max resolution it's so weird, its been over a decade since 4K TV's came out, I'm expecting the Switch 2 docked to support 4K...

Analog TV's were around for decades before DVD's and the PS2 took full advantage of the screen. I'm guessing that it's going to be 2k (which is a PC option for many games)

Speculation

So backwards compatibility means nothing with only 10 titles worth your time. The switch doesn't explode after the successor releases

@DankMemeCenterX it means that I'm not expecting the switch successor to have any titles worth my time. So in other words Nintendo would need to have backwards compatibility not only for me to spend hundreds of dollars on it but also for other people who don't play every single game released for the switch or for other systems

@DankMemeCenterX Also, depending on next month's Nintendo direct, I might have more games that interest me enough to buy them.

Helldivers 2..... 😂

the 3ds changed the cartridge shape but in such a way that the cartridge slot still accepted ds games

What's actually going to happen is that the console manufacturers will attempt to move to all-digital at different times and whoever does so last will crush the others, forcing them to return to physical.

Furukawa said it would be a "Switch next" model, so definitely a continuity

@@mkjjoelook how dumb you sound which Nintendo console was called 2 the NES it was named Super Nintendo not Nintendo 2 what’s Super Nintendo called next Super Nintendo 2 not really called Nintendo 64 what’s Nintendo 64 next console Nintendo 64 2 not really Nintendo Wii the next one was Wii U then Switch there are no numbers stop crying

@@mkjjoeeven if it’s a handheld again doesn’t make it called switch 2

@@peterparker346 For now it's the "Switch successor" and people call it Switch 2 for short. Not sure what you're saying but that's all this is.

@@mkjjoeDude do you have problems understanding the next Nintendo won’t be called Switch even ? Where is breath of the wild 2 everyone said Zelda was going to be called breath of the wild 2 I see the Nintendo called tears of the kingdom stop with these nonsense names there will be no tears of the kingdom 2 Nintendo doesn’t go by numbers like capcom street fighter 6 now just like Nintendo doesn’t go by numbers for their consoles like Sony does which is PS6 after PS5 wake up kid

You didn't have to pay money to do a Wii to Wii U system transfer. You just need a reliable internet connection.

So long as you have a Nintendo account and an NSO account, That should be enough to be able to backwards comp all your digital purchases.

@@user-pe7up5od7i Well, for any VC games that were also available on Wii U you can download them onto the Wii U side at a discounted price.

You didn’t have to pay at all for the Wii u. Nintendos online was free.

@@user-pe7up5od7i yes you did

Nintendo should've saved Tango Gameworks like how they save Monolith Soft

i’m expecting 399, or rather that’s what i’ve set side for it anyway

That's what we are in this model

Nintendo are milking it to try and dethrone the PS2 as best selling console of all time. Forget PS2 was also a DVD player, sales are sales. This bothers Nintendo. I promise

@@pennywisethedancingclown7139 Lol I really doubt that would be leading their strategy, if anything such anecdotal projections are a terrible way to make a business roadmap. I think ensuring the best release schedule for hardware and software for months and years to come has much more weight than the ability to say "we took the first place". People do the same with anniversaries and other arbitrary metrics but that never pans out. Surely they'll celebrate it whenever it happens but it's likely to come naturally, as long as they don't kill production and stocks right away. With a price cut Switch will keep selling for a couple more years.

@mkjjoe Taking first place has it's feats! Bragging rights. Investors also like the idea of supporting "The Best". If you don't think that's what Nintendo is after, I understand

​​@@pennywisethedancingclown7139There very well could be some "I want to beat the PS2's sales" in the culture of Nintendo employees right now. However, I highly doubt that's how they plan their roadmap. Because "let's be number 1" isn't a business roadmap. No company operates like that because it isn't a way to operate.

They said they learn from their mistake in past though. Of waiting too long. You don’t want to wait til sales die to release new console, you got to release it before that.

I 100% agree!