Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
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#2It would be madness to pivot away from the successful Switch hybrid handheld/docked console but Nintendo have done crazy things in the past.
There have been rumours that the reason for Nintendo DCMA takedowns are to clear the emulation field for the next-gen console. The Dolphin emulator was able to emulate the Wii two years after release.
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#3Note: Nintendo's fiscal year ends march 31st.
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#4I posted "Ask HN: What do you think about Nintendo phone competing with iPhone/Android?" [0] 8 months ago. Wondering if anyone else thinks it might be a phone.
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#5It's a VR contact lens.
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#6Why link a tweet when Reuters has an actual article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-expects-sell-135... (title: "Nintendo to make announcement on Switch successor by March-end").
Is it because the tweet here "is the source"? Regardless of how bereft of context it is?
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#7See also: Osborne effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Re: Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
#8I posted "Ask HN: What do you think about Nintendo phone competing with iPhone/Android?" [0] 8 months ago. Wondering if anyone else thinks it might be a phone. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385793
I can't imagine a phone being a component. Nintendo has always had a conservative take on communications between users. It's usually filtered or reduced to set of preset phrases or emoji/reactions.
Animal Crossing let you freely chat, but without a keyboard, it's difficult to get more than a couple short words out. Splatoon is a popular multiplayer game that greatly benefits from team communication, but all you have are "booyah!" and "over here!" and a couple other preset means to communicate to your teams.
Miiverse on the Wii U was an exception and let users post text and drawings, but it felt pretty heavily moderated, and was eventually shut down. I do miss it though, it was a great community while it lasted.
Given their target demographic I can't imagine Nintendo would put any effort into allowing general communications through their hardware.
Re: Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
#9It would be madness to pivot away from the successful Switch hybrid handheld/docked console but Nintendo have done crazy things in the past. There have been rumours that the reason for Nintendo DCMA takedowns are to clear the emulation field for the next-gen console. The Dolphin emulator was able to emulate the Wii two years after release.
There was a comment in the results call where Furukawa was asked whether it was a whole new console-type or another Switch, and he said "Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe it", so it sounds like they're staying the course on this one.
Re: Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
#10Why link a tweet when Reuters has an actual article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-expects-sell-135... (title: "Nintendo to make announcement on Switch successor by March-end"). Is it because the tweet here "is the source"? Regardless of how bereft of context it is?
That article is just a journalist who read that tweet, and is bulking it out with a bunch of sales numbers in a kind of rambling manner. The tweet on its own was a better way to get this information.