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Nintendo Switch "Next-Gen" Hardware Hinted at by Monster Boy Developer

FDG Entertainment, developer of Monster Boy And The Cursed Kingdom, recently hinted at a Nintendo Switch "next-gen" hardware in the works

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Outlawzz1359d ago

I would like to see a new one. It's been three years I'm ready for an upgrade lol

SullysCigar1359d ago

Rumours are for next year, I believe. At least for a Pro if not an overhaul as such.

indysurfn1359d ago

Yeah pro rumores are for early 2021

One thing that article did NOT mention is that Monster boy is at 120 FPS! Not just native 4k.
The developer did not say the SWITCH would not be 4k or 120FPS for SwitCH!

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bouzebbal1358d ago

Question Is if zelda will be exclusive to it like they did with some new 3ds games at launch.. Could be the case.

mikeslemonade1358d ago

Too little too late for Nintendo. The pro should have been out already.

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UnSelf1359d ago

It takes the sequel of a game to come out in three years and y’all want a whole new system. Lol this generation I tel u

Outlawzz1359d ago

Yes, I want to be in this generation not the last one. The switch launched with outdated tech it's simple as that, no matter how much you want to cling to yours.

That said, nintendo is probably on your side, they are slowest to adapt to anything.

UnSelf1359d ago

I havent own a nintendo console since N64

FinalFantasyFanatic1359d ago

I know, it's the same with the PS4 and Xbox one, people just want shiny new things all the time and I don't understand it (own something for two or three years, buy a new one). I honestly thing they want consoles to be treated like phones where you upgrade every other year even if there's no significant difference.

Teflon021358d ago

Outlawzz by technicals, Switch is actually 9th gen with PS5 and XSX/S so even if you say that/ They were okay specs for when it released. If they rush a next system it'll just be the same situation again. It's better they wait it out a bit

Outlawzz1358d ago

@unself so your commenting on a switch article and don't even have the product or support the company. Trolls will be trolls I guess*Facepalm*

@teflon02
Yea nintendo is stuck in this awkward in between generations type thing they set themselves up with. So that when they put new tech in it's already behind the competition. It actually makes sense to wait from that perspective.

I just feel if the switch had better specs closer to ps4 or xb1 at release it wouldn't be as much of an issue for me personally since I feel the graphics for ps4 are more than adequate and don't hugely limit developers, so much so, that I don't feel the need to upgrade to ps5 or series x just yet. Switch specs I feel really do hinder many of the bigger developers.

UnSelf1358d ago

so i have to own the system just to speak on it? I cant just keep up with current news until i find something worth my money, huh

Outlawzz1358d ago (Edited 1358d ago )

@unself
Of course you can. But Your comment was obnoxious, generalized, and did nothing to spark an actual conversation about the topic. It's the equivalent of a spam comment.

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Lore1359d ago

I’m mainly waiting on an achievement system where Mario Coins and Stars are the trophies

-Foxtrot1359d ago

If they have a portable only Switch out now with joycons attatched and they have their standard portable/home console Switch then I would love to see a home console only Switch.

Pro Controller / Updated Gamecube Controller

Bigger Memory

Little bit more powerful which allows developers to focus on home Switch versions if they want

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bouzebbal1359d ago

Hope so, then they stop with the ports.. Current switch is wii u 1.5 nothing more.. Port machine..

whitbyfox1359d ago

Mario Odyssey 97 metacritic.

No single Sony or Microsoft exclusive is higher.

PS4 is port machine bioshock collection, nathan drake collection, resident evil collection, devil may cry collection, gta collection, etc etc.

TheScotsman1359d ago

Mate, I don't often comment but your talking nonsense. Did you miss that last 7 years of awesome ps4 exclusive?

bouzebbal1359d ago (Edited 1359d ago )

I never said Nintendo games were bad, I said switch was a port machine. Learn to understand what you're reading.

The question is, what would switch have left if you take wii u ports away??? Zelda Mario U luigi U Mario kart toad... So don't go there.. PS4 has lots of 1st party exclusives.

Father__Merrin1359d ago

Switch is a port machine it's not worth it for core gamers.

mkis0071359d ago (Edited 1359d ago )

I'll take new IP's over yet another Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong game thank you. It's like Nintendo is afraid that no one will like anything but their old IP's.

For every sequel Playstation gave us this gen, they also gave us a new IP. Ratchet=Bloodborne. God of war= Horizon Zero Dawn. Infamous SS=Days Gone. The Last of Us=Ghost of Tsushima...Then there is Until Dawn, Astro Bot, Detroit, The last Guardian.

Left out a bunch of games like Spider-man to make my point. Take away ports and sequels on switch and what do you have? Ooya?

oh and ps4 has 13 exclusives in their top 50 while switch has 10...Interesting how we can make the goal whatever we want huh? Above an 85 on meta everything is gravy.

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northpaws1358d ago

Yay!!! You are right, one original high score game is all you need for a console. /s

Zelda is a port, Mario Kart is a port... and you have a Pikmin 3...

I know there are a few more, but seriously lacking..., the new Mario Kart is a cool concept, but it will get old fast, how many people can constantly reserve enough space at their home for the whole track? And the development time could have been sent to Mario Kart 9

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--Onilink--1359d ago (Edited 1359d ago )

“ The question is, what would switch have left if you take wii u ports away???”

1-2 Switch
Arms
Astral Chain
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Bayonetta 3 (eventually)
BoxBoy + BoxGirl
Bravely Default 2 (eventually)
Cadence of Hyrule
Clubhouse games
Deadly Premonition 2
Fire Emblem Three Houses
Golf Story
Kirby Star Allies
Hyrule Warrios Age of Calamity
Zelda Breath of the Wild 2
Links Awakening remake
Luigi’s Mansion 3
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario Tennis Aces
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3
Metroid Prime 4 (eventually)
New Pokemon Snap (eventually)
No More Heroes 3 (eventually)
Ninjala
Paper Mario Origami King
Pikmin 4 (eventually)
Pokemon Sword & Shield (and expansions)
Pokemon Let’s Go (remake not port)
Ring Fit Adventure
Rune Factory 5
Shin Megamo Tensei 5 (eventually)
Snipperclips
Splatoon 2 (and octo expansion)
Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Odyssey
Smash Bros Ultimate
Super Mario Party
Tetris 99
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (and expansion)
Yoshi’s Crafted World
Xenblade 1* (remaster though you can take it out if you want to)

Sure not every game there is amazing (though certainly many of them are and just a few are mediocre or bad), but they are certainly not ports.

You might not like those games, but saying the switch only has ports is just straight up ignorance, not to mention seeing how practically no one bought a WiiU, those ports are finding quite a few dozens of millions of people that never had a chance to play them before

Chriswynnetbh1359d ago

Lol you can't use games that are years away for an argument about the Switch's current library that's like more than half your list that doesn't count at all. And if you're a Wii U owner like myself there is zero reason to buy a Switch considering most of the games worth playing ARE ports. Until they can match Xbox/ps4 in terms of graphic power and start delivering well done games in 4k I just see no reason to own a switch if you own a Wii U

--Onilink--1358d ago (Edited 1358d ago )

@chris

There are 8 upcoming games out of 41 on that list (42 if you count daemonXmachina which i forgot about).

How is that more than half? And thats leaving aside that upcoming games are just as important as the ones already out when looking at whether a console is worth a purchase.

Even if you take out the upcoming games from those 42, there are still 36 additional exclusives that are NOT ports of anything on that list

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Om4ever1359d ago

It will certainly be inferior to the xbox serie s... But anyway People will not complain in this case that it will be holding back the entire gen... Pffff

Games1st1359d ago

Switch gets it's own build months or years later.

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Every PlayStation Studios game available now on Windows PC

Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.

According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."

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ocelot072d ago

My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.

Elda2d ago

Every old Playstation game that is now on PC.

shinoff21831d 16h ago

Right. I definitely see what a headlined from a website named windows central was trying to do though. It's cute little wordplay to help out the green box

Flewid6381d 14h ago

Are PlayStation games no longer good or worth playing once they are old?

Elda1d 14h ago

I'm guessing my comment went over your head.

XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Good at least they can sell hardware

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Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.

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Obscure_Observer2d ago

Very very early in development. Still, fantastic news!

Let´s GO!!!

Lightning772d ago

I guess.

How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )

At least it wouldn't be MS of all ppl destroying them.

MS really should let go Tango go like they did TFB here.

darthv722d ago (Edited 2d ago )

one was under Bethesda (Tango) the other under Activision (TFB). Clearly each one handled the separations of their subordinates differently.

Obscure_Observer2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

"How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )"

Perhaps because Zenimax and ABK handles such matters differently based on their own internal policies as "independent" publishers.

Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future. Which could also be the reason why they ensured an exclusive partnership with TFB and its new game, before anyone else.

Sad and disgusting. But it is what it is.

Lightning772d ago (Edited 2d ago )

"Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future."

MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB.

It's inexcusable, they have options on how to handle studios they don't want anymore with killing jobs. Not just MS but the rest of the industry also.

Sad and disgusting sure how many will get shut down next year or this year even?

I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another.

Obscure_Observer2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

"MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB."

Imo, MS separated from TFB because they didn´t had a game associated with Xbox yet, unlike Tango.

"I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another."

Fair enough. It was indeed an epic dumb move from them to close Tango.

Still, all to be forgotten, like always have. This is not the first time a big publisher shuts down a beloved and/or successful studio out of nowhere and certainly won´t be the last. Do you remember Lionhead? Do you remember Evolution Studios? Yeah... both were beloved studios and yet, those companies kill those studios in q blink of an eye and got away with it.

anast2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The studio boss made some money from this transaction. Once the game releases, the studio will get chopped up.

-Foxtrot2d ago

Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately

...

Goes right back to them as partners.

Okaaaaaay...

darthv722d ago

Id venture a guess that TFB working directly with MS was a better outcome than working through Activision to get to MS.

VersusDMC2d ago

From the article...

"Toys for Bob spun out as an indie back in February after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 employees, which was more than half of the staff"

I doubt those 86 employees enjoyed the Microsoft experience over Activisions.

Inverno2d ago

MS shuts down studios because of lack of resources and then helps these guys by giving em resources. Also MS is what forced them to buy their freedom in the first place? What kind of logic 😂

Chevalier2d ago

The best thing is that the company that is worth $3 trillion and owns the company instead of Xbox lacks resources. How the hell does a company worth $3 trillion making a measly $70 billion purchase they 'can't' support. Lol

romulus231d 21h ago

Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

BlindMango1d 16h ago

The reason they would need to "partner with Microsoft" is simply to make a game that's part of a franchise that Microsoft owns. Meaning they're probably going to make a new Spyro game - they're still an independent studio, but are making a game in a franchise that Microsoft owns. It's kind of like Remedy partnering with Rockstar to be able to make the Max Payne remakes.

shinoff21831d 16h ago

It was probably the deal to get released from Ms

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Sciurus_vulgaris2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.

Chevalier2d ago

That's absolutely 💯 BS. Any sane 'autonomous' company would NOT put their games on Gamepass day 1 like COD will lose probably billions.

Also they're all under Xbox game studios so any autonomy is an illusion.

PhillyDonJawn1d 22h ago

No, I'm sure MS can and does step in when they want something done specifically but I'm also sure they let them also work independently

shinoff21831d 16h ago

I highly highly doubt this. Ms controls all. The guys aren't gonna be allowed to just shut something down like that without approval. No way

Elda2d ago

Either a kiddie game or something uninteresting.

Obscure_Observer2d ago

Don´t worry. You won´t be playing it anyway since their next game will possible be a next gen Xbox console game.

Elda2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Don't worry about my comments.

PhillyDonJawn1d 21h ago

Right probably something like astrobot

romulus231d 21h ago

Nah he said "uninteresting", lots of people are interested in Astro Bot.

Elda1d 19h ago

Never Astro Bot. Astro Bot looks better than any exclusive released on XB this entire generation & believe there hasn't been much.

Asplundh1d 19h ago

Crash 4 was good, so I'm hopeful.

PhillyDonJawn1d 17h ago

Hey you said that about SOT and looks like many ppl on PS is playing it. You also found bugsnax interesting ffs your opinion hold no weight lol.

Elda1d 17h ago (Edited 1d 17h ago )

Bugsnax is BS, tried it & quickly deleted it. It's a game that fits right on Gamepass. PS5 owners that are probably playing the boring SOT you could count on one hand. LMAO!!...don't try to come for me.

PhillyDonJawn1d 15h ago

So you admit bugsnax interested you enough to try? 😂 someone gotta call you out on the foolishness.

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What Happens to Your Steam Account When You Die?

The Outerhaven writes: While Steam has come out recently, stating that Steam accounts can't be transferred, we need to think about it since we all will eventually kick the bucket. But if Valve is denying transferring accounts, what can be done? Plenty, actually.

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thorstein3d ago

It goes to my kids because I gave them the passwords.

To Steam: Missio has a song that conveys my feelings about you stealing my purchase after I die. It's called "Middle Fingers"

shinoff21833d ago

Pretty much. My son knows my info.

Abear213d ago

Yeah worrying about digital ownership when you’re on the other side of the grass seems a little strange, but also on brand for these millennial journalists to worry about.

qalpha2d ago

I'm sure Keith will be happy to hear he's a millennial journalist.

Goodguy013d ago

I suppose if I have kids, I'd just give em my account details by retirement age. If I die young then...idk lol.

CrimsonWing693d ago

Yea, I mean just give someone the password to your account. Is that difficult to do or something? Like, I’m legit asking because I don’t know.

anast2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It's not difficult but It's against the policy. If they find out, they will lock the account permanently.

CrimsonWing692d ago

Ah ok, I had a feeling there was something like that. It seems kind of weird that you can’t just hand your account over to a family member or friend and let them take over the account.

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