How close is the Switch 2 reveal? (Nintendo)
The Thursday letters page remembers the Dreamcast, as it prepares for its 25th anniversary, while one reader predicts Minecraft’s box office.
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Too soon
Much as I’d love to see a Nintendo Switch 2 reveal this month, I really can’t see it happening. Nintendo is blatantly going to do Directs on all three of their upcoming games, either separately or in one giant-sized Direct. I’d guess separately, so that is going to take up a lot of time and before you know it it’s going to be the end of the year.
The only thing I can see is some kind of vague teaser at The Game Awards in December. By that point you could argue that most people have made their Christmas present decisions, so there’s less people to put off from bunch a regular Switch.
I still don’t see the benefit for Nintendo though. The people that care already know it’s on the way and ordinary causal gamers won’t need to know more than a month or two before it’s out. So my prediction is that we’ll get nothing till next year.
If there is something brewing at the moment – and those are reliable sources in the story – then I’d suggest it’s either people getting confused over production starting up or maybe… maybe Nintendo is toying with the idea, but I don’t think they’ll do it.
Sean
Gimmick Wisdom
Loved hearing about Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom and I’m absolutely not surprised to hear it’s a cracker. It looked great the second they showed it. I love with Nintendo games you can not only get the gimmick instantly but given their track record you can pretty much guarantee they’ll make the most of it.
I think that explains some of their occasional failures. Things like Princess Peach Showtime! didn’t seem to have anything to them other than you play as Peach. I didn’t really know what it was the whole time and still don’t really, since naturally I never bought it.
But watching the trailers for the new Zelda you instantly get how it works and want to give it a go yourself. I feel this is the way you get people interested in new IPs too. It’s not about fancy cinematics and amazing graphics it’s ideas. If you’re promoting something that’s brand new but it has an actual clear idea that you can hook onto, I’m immediately interested.
Janson
Changing course
I love how everyone already knows that Sony is going to learn nothing from Concord, there’s not even a question that they might stop and think maybe they’re on the wrong course. Fairgame$ looks horrible based on the teaser trailer and I can’t imagine it having any different a response than Concord.
The world doesn’t need a new live service game. Even the successful new ones only last a few months, because people just don’t have the time. Unless one of the big ones …read more
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