Operationsports writes: "As you're fully aware, Nintendo announced early, last summer that they will be releasing a new, high-powered video game system, with a tablet based controller late next year! Although a ton of facts and specs have been confirmed, with even more possibilities being speculated and conjured up, but there has been one detail to remain guarded and hush, still following the announcement of the Wii U, and that is..."
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
It could unify the gaming community!
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Okay not the dumbest but it's close. Nintendo allowing third parties to structure the online does not mean it'll be open. Judging by how closed off the eshop and online gaming on the 3DS is I doubt well see anything cross platform especially between the Microsoft, Sony and nintendo. You really think Sony and Microsoft are gonna open their platforms for nintendo users? Dream on my friend.
Cross-platforming with competing consoles and or handheld devices is a no go. I highly doubt Nintendo would allow it.
"we are building a more flexible, robust online gaming hub that allows 3rd parties to build their own infrastructures" does not equal crossplatforming or thirdparties total control of online gaming.
If Valve puts Steam on the wiiu then it should be very interesting.
My best guess is that Nintendo will have a type of central (very simplified) hub for their online system which contains news, name, friends, maybe trophies, etc. Then it will branch out and other devs have their own system which is connected to the main hub in some sort of way.
they could mean that online will be the same as medal of honour on the wii,where you registered with ea and then joined their servers and could join any game you wanted like with pc.if it wasn't a ranked game you could set for sniper only or rifle only whatever you wanted and it worked great