I don’t see any reason they would wait that long to announce it. I don’t think they’re going to want to stay quiet for the first several months of the year when usually they like to have news early in the year. They could just do some very low-key third party partner directs but their lineup is already thin enough…

The holiday season seems like the absolute latest it can possibly launch, and my guess would be on Fall. The upcoming slate for the Switch is very thin, and the system is almost 7 years old. There’s no way the next system doesn’t come out this year.

It seems most likely to me that it’ll be revealed by the end of February, so that Pokemon can announce a game for it on Pokemon day (2/27). The latest I can see it happening is early April (right after Princess Peach Showtime releases)

This will either be the game Pokémon fans deserve and Game Freak will never deliver...

Being updated to say it can be played on both Switch and Switch 2 makes sense, sounds like a good marketing move. If old copies are disappearing, that seems like they’d have to release the new versions soon, right? Like next couple weeks? And if the new versions mention Switch 2 compatibility, then the Switch 2 would…

If Sonic Frontiers was them breaking the Sonic cycle, I’d like them to kindly place me back into the Sonic cycle. Frontiers was an interesting game, in the sense that it was interesting to see what bizarre design choices they made.

Okay, fair enough, I get what he’s saying now, but I still think he’s making a mountain out of a molehill. Games take a while to download but most games don’t have patches very often (certainly not substantial patches) and even if they don’t automatically download you can just tell the game to update and walk away or…

Ah so while Fortnite is nearly instant to play unless it has patches, other games sometimes have patches to download that stop you from getting to them instantly.

I think it’s very unreasonable to blame all of a game’s problems on a single developer and act like once they’re gone everything will magically get better

The thing about the balls is mostly for additional customization options, more than utility. Back in gen 3 they started showing the Pokeball you caught a pokemon in on their summary page, in gen 6 they made it so bred Pokemon inherit the same pokeball as the parent, and in gen 7 they brought back apricorn pokeballs in…

My first hope is that they “delay” it a year. Make the tenth generation come out on the thirtieth anniversary. That would be a special generation on a special anniversary and it would get an additional year of polish. Win-win-win. After the backlash of the lack of polish in SV they surely had time to plan giving gen…

This series staple is well overdue for a modern glow-up.

I feel like by that logic you’re relegating every single Nintendo gimmick except for the Virtual Boy to “secondary gimmick” and that’s not really useful to the discussion. You can also play Smash Bros the same way on the Wii U and Switch, and I’m sure you’ll also be able to play it in the same way on the Switch 2,…

I see this suggestion tossed around a lot but I don’t really see any reason they would do that. They aren’t in the habit of repeating names. I can’t imagine they’ll call it Switch 2, that’s just a convenient way to refer to it now, but I don’t think they’d repeat “super.” We’ve gotten Super, Advance, i, new, 3, 2, U,…

Do you have a point other than just splitting hairs? The controller shaking things up is still the system shaking things up. The controller is an aspect of the system.

It’s very funny to see every gaming site and twitter reporting this as if it’s actual information and not just a prediction. It’s not even an interesting prediction. Launching in 2024? Duh. Games now cost $70? Yeah of course, especially after TotK already cost $70. An iteration rather than a revolution? It could be…

I feel like this misses the context for why these things happen. The Wii shook things up because sales in all Nintendo home consoles sold worse than the previous one. The Wii U tried to shake things up because the Wii did to great success. The Switch did something very different than the Wii U because the Wii U did…

I think latest the reveal could possibly be is right after Princess Peach Showtime (and even that feels a bit unlikely to me), waiting until the Paper Mario remake is out feels like way too late to me. We didn’t even get a release window on that, that’s probably coming in Summer. They’re not going to wait until they…

Oh absolutely. It already seemed like its days were numbered just based on how old the system was, but like you said, when the September direct revealed that the only things coming after Wonder were Princess Peach Showtime, a couple DLCs, and a couple remakes, it’s seemed pretty clear that the next system is on the…

Every Pokemon game that’s come out in the past decade has had backlash from a small number of very loud fans who can’t understand that it’s okay to move on if you aren’t enjoying a series anymore. That doesn’t mean the playerbase as a whole hates them. Arceus wasn’t perfect by any means but did a lot of interesting…