Nintendo Switch Successor Announced

[Ashley]

I think instead of mouse-con we go with Joy-ce instead

 

[Happenstance]

[Julius]

2 hours ago, Nicktendo said:

I think most "upgrades" will be paid, but hopefully well-priced. Rumour mill is pointing towards BOTW and Odyssey "remasters" which will run in 1440p at 60fps. Both games were 900p on the OG Switch, and BOTW was 30fps, of course. 

I would be ok with stuff like this if it was a £5-10 upgrade, but I can also see them fully remastering some games to take proper advantage of the new hardware and charging full-whack for them. How heavy the lean into that will be interesting. Hopefully not too much. 

I think the most we can expect for "free" is simply for all games which use dynamic resolution scaling to always run at their max resolution, so BOTW would be 900p without frame dips. Stuff like Doom Eternal and The Witcher 3 would be interesting from that POV, I suppose.

Agreed with pretty much all of the above, that's how I see it playing out too. I think evergreen titles - you mention BOTW and Odyssey and I think both would absolutely fall under that umbrella - will be the ones to get true and proper remasters, and others will probably be brute forced into better performance where possible on a per-game basis. The only evergreen titles I struggle to see getting remasters are games which have since had sequels and are likely candidates for further sequels (such as Splatoon 2 and 3), as well as the Pokémon games. 

I could see them offering an upgrade path if you already own the game, purely because PlayStation do the same with their PS5 remasters of PS4 titles, and I think there's potential for bad publicity if it's not offered and the only way to play a higher fps, higher fidelity version of, say, Breath of the Wild is by dropping £60 or £70.

But then, it's Nintendo, so who knows 

2 hours ago, Nicktendo said:

We may also see some games treat Switch 2's handheld mode as the old docked mode, so if the rumours are to be believed, they will run at a higher res than 720p, given the talk that that new screen is supposedly 1080p, which is absolutely crazy IMO because it's a needless drain on battery for minimal visual gain at a size that small, but that's another discussion. 

While I generally agree, I think the release of the OLED means that they pretty much have to jump to 1080p if they're going to backpedal to an LCD screen. I'd argue a 720p screen should've got more blowback than it did back in 2017 with the initial Switch reveal and launch - purely because of where phones and tablets were at the time - and I think anything sub-1080p and which doesn't allow you to throw "HD" in there for marketing purposes is a terrible idea, even if it is a battery drain. 

It also leaves them room for a 1080p OLED model down the line, which, I'll be honest, sucks when it's more than feasible to have that from launch, but it is what it is. 

2 hours ago, Dcubed said:

I'd hope for no less than a full 4k 60FPS Docked for a native BOTW/TOTK port.  The hardware should be more than beefy enough.

This is the most positive/optimistic I've ever seen you about either game since the launch of BOTW  but yeah, I'll hop aboard this train. 

2 hours ago, Nicktendo said:

The fact the OLED can go 9 hours on a single charge, depending on the game of course, is a huge thing that attracts more handheld play

This is genuinely the first time I've heard about the OLED having such great battery life and now I'm even more gutted we're probably back down to the 4-5 hours range with an LCD for Switch 2 

17 minutes ago, Ashley said:

I think instead of mouse-con we go with Joy-ce instead

Nah, I'd vote Joi-Con instead, every day of the week 

[Ashley]

2 hours ago, Happenstance said:

tfw the joy-con drift hits