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[synchronicity]

well... can Bluray drives read Wii U discs? or can DVD drives read Wii discs? if they can, there's an easy and 100% legal way to play Wii u and Wii games on PC...
pretty sure Dolphin has custom bios files, so you don't need to download any bioses... not sure if CEMU has a custom bios

Sure. I meant just releasing them from the outset on PC. I'm not expecting it, and it's not a big deal, but I wouldn't hate to see the option.

 

[Camreezie]

YouTube and Netflix

 

[Cert.in.Death]

In all my years following Nintendo, the only I've learned about them is expect them to come at you from out of left field.

The most sensible idea I can imagine for them to undertake is Augmented Reality. Handhelds and mobile products are their core segment now and I anticipate they're going to be leaning as much into it as possible to give themselves identity. That said, they - along with Sony and MS - have to contemplate how to diversify and reach players who don't re-up from one device to the next. PaaS is the inevitable future of the gaming industry.

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

In all my years following Nintendo, the only I've learned about them is expect them to come at you from out of left field.

The most sensible idea I can imagine for them to undertake is Augmented Reality. Handhelds and mobile products are their core segment now and I anticipate they're going to be leaning as much into it as possible to give themselves identity. That said, they - along with Sony and MS - have to contemplate how to diversify and reach players who don't re-up from one device to the next. PaaS is the inevitable future of the gaming industry.

Agreed. At least theyre always trying something new and even though I dont own a switch (yet) their games are always clean fun. A nice break from the grim dark library of the other platforms.

 

[GiJoint]

Gekko 2.0

 

[Kdad]

They'll come out with a 5TF machine 2-3 years into the next gen.

Everyone will laugh at it being underpowered.

Nintendo will then reveal the device has the ability to record your dreams and turn them into playable games, ones that can be shared with friends (with multiplayer support included).

So Switch will be playing AO games...nice.

 

[PocoJoe]

Dildos

Haha I saw the title and wanted to come to say this.. Good first comment, nothing to add.

Well, maybe BIG dildos and mario shaped ones

 

[Jesb]

Surgical implants. You are playing even In Your sleep. You are completing much more games now. 1080p when sleeping. 4K when awake.

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Online multiplayer

Or

VR

 

[ResilientBanana]

You wear it.

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Even more sense than DualSense. Nintendoes what Sony don't.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Spoiler

Is this like those Amibo things?

 

[kingbean]

Mind control.

 

[LordKasual]

Nothing special.

They've proven that their niche is low-fidelity hardware and marketing towards those who feel dejected by the larger modern gaming scene, or those who are just into less immersive gameplay experiences.

So they don't really need many new features to push their hardware.

They just need Mario/Zelda and a new concept to spin.

 

[ZywyPL]

SSD.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

I wish Nintendo would quit being so scared and make a powerful console.
Quit the gimmick BS!

 

[StormCell]

Nintendo's next gimmick... I want to believe that they will offer a successor that allows the screen to detach from the base hardware -- so not only do the controllers detach from it, but the screen can also detach. This will allow for a more pleasant VR experience. The base hardware would presumably attach somewhere else on the VR setup as opposed to all of the weight of the screen + hardware being on the front.

Maybe the screen will fully detach with no wires. Not impossible.

 

[Bladed Thesis]

A graphically and mechanically subpar Zelda game with an empty world and dated gameplay, dated graphics and dated mechanics being heralded as amazing.

 

[Moogle11]

In all my years following Nintendo, the only I've learned about them is expect them to come at you from out of left field.

The most sensible idea I can imagine for them to undertake is Augmented Reality. Handhelds and mobile products are their core segment now and I anticipate they're going to be leaning as much into it as possible to give themselves identity. That said, they - along with Sony and MS - have to contemplate how to diversify and reach players who don't re-up from one device to the next. PaaS is the inevitable future of the gaming industry.

Actually, if it has a gimmick is probably more likely VR rather than AR IMO. They can keep the hybrid format, have a higher resolution screen and more power to do VR and then just sell an extra headset attachment to put the tablet part of the console in, VR controllers etc. to make extra money as accessories are high profit margin items.

AR could happen to of course as I'm sure it will have a camera and can do more advanced thing than what we see in Pokemon Go on mobile etc. Less profit there than VR and the extra accessories that would be needed.

 

[PhoenixTank]

DLSS.
Though I don't think that'd be a bad thing for a handheld.

 

[Silvawuff]

The ability to play N64 games on the console once you've signed up for their online service, downloaded their mobile app and sent them a 50 page thesis on Mario as a cultural icon.

Tho truthfully I'd be happy with a Switch 2. Just take the Switch and make it better in several delightful ways. Some of their best hardware was them taking something good and improving it rather than completely starting fresh with weird controllers and 3D whatever. If they wanted to swing out of nowhere, they could try to tap the burgeoning VR trend, but the hardware ceiling is probably too much for that. It's here, but it's not in any place to be mass-marketable yet or I'd put my chips on that. VirtualBoy 2?

 

[FeldMonster]

So liking good gameplay, means im a kid?

Gameplay and graphics are not connected. You can have great gameplay and poor graphics or poor gameplay and great graphics, etc. You can like one without liking the other. You are simply making an "reductio ad absurdum" argument, and not in good faith.

I feel very similarly to that poster. Growing up with NES, SNES, and N64, and being strongly in the Nintendo camp, I felt very let down, basically betrayed, by how cartoony Gamecube games were, and generally worse than their N64 predecessors (Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart), not to mention the strange controller, and weaker 3rd party games. I have been waiting for Nintendo to take a console seriously for once, i.e. without gimmicks, ever since, so therefore they get no money from me.

I understand many people enjoy motion controls and portable gaming, but I am not one of them. Perhaps when my children are old enough to play videogames I will feel differently about modern Nintendo, but today, they don't really offer anything of interest.

On topic, Nintendo's next gimmick will likely return to wearables, such as utilizing a Fitbit like device for each limb to map to onscreen character control.

 

[BitDust]

If Nintendo learnt something from the past is not to propose the same product again (hello Wii U). The Switch successor probably won't be the Switch 2 but something else. We will probably see a "New Switch/Switch PRO" to get the current library to the next level. Nintendo looked really hard at the haptic feedback long time back before the Switch, but the technology was still at the beginning and pricey, so I think it's something that will be part of the next Nintendo hybrid console, I believe the HD rumble technology and audio will play a big role on the next console.

 

[McCheese]

Just find out what Miyamoto's latest hobby is.

A lot of the switch design came about because he developed a fascination with guessing the size of things, so wanted a removable controller with a distance sensor, which led to the joy-cons. And yes, the right joy-con does actually has a distance sensor that nobody fucking uses apart from Miyamoto.

My guess would be acoustics, so a handheld that can do some really fancy binaural surround sound shit.

 

[Solarstrike]

New updated and "faster" servers will be announced soon to ease download congestion due to increased Switch sales. The gimmick ?

 

[pixelation]

How I wish they'd drop gimmicks and joined the power race, I wanna see a next gen Mario game (running on PS5/XBSX type of tech specs).

 

[OutrageousFacts]

Switch 2 will (finally) introduce variable joycons:
- GameCube-style (better analog sticks)
- SNES-style (proper dpad)

Some time after Switch 2, Nintendo will actually enter the VR business with Switch VR. It's basically a beefed up Switch 2 built into a VR headset on par with Oculus Quest (so not the best resolution), but with modern features (especially eye tracking!). It'll exist parallel to the Switch 2, a standalone VR system, with full support by Nintendo. A flagship title will be Metroid 5 that will become the best selling Metroid-game of all times. And if that's not enough, Monolith Soft shocks the world with a full-on Xenoblade Chronicles X-2 exclusively for VR.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Dildos

It's Chad Warden!

 

[BlackTron]

Dildos

 

[Bryank75]

Something like this..

 

[Caffeine]

vr headset 100%

 

[Bonfires Down]

It shoots water up your ass after you've taken a shit.

 

[Gargus]

The Switch doesn't really have a gimmick, though. It's pretty much just their new portable system except you can connect it to a TV which was always going to be the natural evolution of portable game devices.

Joycons are the gimmick. Every major Nintendo revision starts with one gimmick that isn't really used or implimented much and is quickly left behind. Wiiu pad, wiimotes, 3d in the 3ds, etc.

Joycons are the new gimmick that is quickly forgotten. No one really needs or uses it, no games truly make use of them aside from some basic games. And they are already ditching them when the switch lite. They are truly pointless controllers though and just gimmicks.

 

[D.Final]

It's hard to predict.

 

[MORJDK]

Gameplay and graphics are not connected. You can have great gameplay and poor graphics or poor gameplay and great graphics, etc. You can like one without liking the other. You are simply making an "reductio ad absurdum" argument, and not in good faith.

I feel very similarly to that poster. Growing up with NES, SNES, and N64, and being strongly in the Nintendo camp, I felt very let down, basically betrayed, by how cartoony Gamecube games were, and generally worse than their N64 predecessors (Mario, Zelda, Mario Kart), not to mention the strange controller, and weaker 3rd party games. I have been waiting for Nintendo to take a console seriously for once, i.e. without gimmicks, ever since, so therefore they get no money from me.

I understand many people enjoy motion controls and portable gaming, but I am not one of them. Perhaps when my children are old enough to play videogames I will feel differently about modern Nintendo, but today, they don't really offer anything of interest.

On topic, Nintendo's next gimmick will likely return to wearables, such as utilizing a Fitbit like device for each limb to map to onscreen character control.

If you had bothered looking at the rest of his posts, you would see that, that was not what i was doing.

 

[UltimaKilo]

it’s 5 years from now, the VR craze is reaching its height and Nintendo reveals the N-Holodeck. Holodeck addiction becomes a real problem, the world is turned upside down.

 

[yurinka]

Option 1) A potato bag: Nintendo Super Potator Controller

After praising cardboard accesories, a balance board and a strechable plastic, fanboys will praise Nintendo Super Potator as a genious accesory as a genious game changer innovation for the gaming industry.

Polygon: "Wow, you can draw Nintendo characters on these potatos and these new controllers have infinite batteries."
Kotaku: "This controller is trully inclusive. Here you have 234993 articles about memes of the new controller."

Option 2) Trophies

 

[Virex]

A small transmitter that shoves up your anus that beams the game right into your brain. No need for vr, a TV screen or a tablet screen.

 

[Virex]

Who knows what Nintendo will make since all their 1st party games are cartoon graphics and don't need very powerful specs to run The last Nintendo console i own was the Gamecube and that was also the last time Nintendo made a game console that was on par with Xbox and Playstation in term of power for it time but now all they make are weak sauce console that cannot run most 3rd party AAA Games. Im not buying another Nintendo console since i have grown out of playing carton kids game like Mario.

Owwwww.....the edge. Are you the mayor of Edgy Town? Or the Senator of the Great state of Edgington?

 

[HaveButOneLife]

Those penis enlargement ads

 

[jts]

Joycons are the gimmick. Every major Nintendo revision starts with one gimmick that isn't really used or implimented much and is quickly left behind. Wiiu pad, wiimotes, 3d in the 3ds, etc.

Joycons are the new gimmick that is quickly forgotten. No one really needs or uses it, no games truly make use of them aside from some basic games. And they are already ditching them when the switch lite. They are truly pointless controllers though and just gimmicks.

Pretty much every Switch user uses them, otherwise they need one Pro Controller per user when playing on TV. The Switch Lite is a cheaper model with smaller sales significance.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Even more sense than DualSense. Nintendoes what Sony don't.

This will be the first console my girlfriend cheats with..

 

[KungFucius]

Joycons are the gimmick. Every major Nintendo revision starts with one gimmick that isn't really used or implimented much and is quickly left behind. Wiiu pad, wiimotes, 3d in the 3ds, etc.

Joycons are the new gimmick that is quickly forgotten. No one really needs or uses it, no games truly make use of them aside from some basic games. And they are already ditching them when the switch lite. They are truly pointless controllers though and just gimmicks.

Huh? They are what enable the dock/ undock feature. I guess that is their gimmick, but it adds a lot of functionality. I use mine docked 90+% of the time, but it is nice to bring the thing on travel in case I get stuck in an airport or something.

 

[Orta]

I have seen the future of gaming.....

 

[Gamernyc78]

The Switch doesn't really have a gimmick, though. It's pretty much just their new portable system except you can connect it to a TV which was always going to be the natural evolution of portable game devices.

Tht wasnt even new as turbo express did tht years ago. I agree I don't see switch as a gimmick at all but them turning their focus to their strengths which is handheld gaming. I don't play my switch at all because I'm just not into most Nintendo ips but I appreciate and like the switch hardware.

 

[Great Hair]

It will be 100% water proof. The next hybrid will come with a climate detector sensor built in. Whenever you shower, the game world will change accordingly. Some levels require rain and others require a quick travel to the Serengeti.

 

[KAL2006]

Fuck gimmicks


Just give us a Switch 2
- enhanced BC for Switch 1 games, all games run in docked in handleld mode.
- Better joycons that ain't uncomfortable to hold
- Better stand
- Power of a PS4 in handheld mode, PS4 Pro in docked mode

Switch didn't have any gimmicks, motion controls were already done before, hybrid isn't new and I wouldn't call it a gimmick. The only new thing was HD Rumble.

The irony is the gimmick of detaching joycons, people assumed we would have crazy new joycon attachments, like fishing rod for a fishing game and etc. None of that happened.

 

[FStubbs]

If Nintendo learnt something from the past is not to propose the same product again (hello Wii U). The Switch successor probably won't be the Switch 2 but something else. We will probably see a "New Switch/Switch PRO" to get the current library to the next level. Nintendo looked really hard at the haptic feedback long time back before the Switch, but the technology was still at the beginning and pricey, so I think it's something that will be part of the next Nintendo hybrid console, I believe the HD rumble technology and audio will play a big role on the next console.

The Wii U wasn't the same product. It had a big old controller with a screen in it. The SNES, GBC, and GBA were times when they did offer the same product but more powerful, and those were successes. That would be the correct move here. Switch 2. But we're probably at least 3 years away from that.

 

[Kumomeme]

Yes facts they are Cartoon graphics or do you disagree that Mario and Pokemon and even Zelda have carton graphics

why so hate of these 'cartoon graphics' ..did it cause covid 19? because photorealistic one also didnt able to cure it

 

[Brumfieldhm]

I never felt the two ice cubes clinking together. Would like that.