Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed - BNN Bloomberg
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Nintendo Co. is advising game publishers that its next-generation console will be delayed until the early months of 2025, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it’s been pushed to q1 2025

  • Patches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    All that proves is Nintendo writes great software.

    It doesn’t make their hardware not criminally underwhelming.

    • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Also those games have a lot of typical nintendo stubbornness like not realising they’re still putting the buttons on the wrong way around.

      • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Nintendo put the buttons in their order 2 decades before the Xbox even existed, if anything Microsoft is putting buttons on the wrong way around. Unless of course you’re referring to something other than the order of X Y A B.

        • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 months ago

          After which the entire gaming industry decided Nintendo was silly and put them the other way around.

          Just because they were the first ones, doesn’t mean they did it correctly.

          • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not, ngl… if you’re being serious though then why do you suppose that having B be above A and Y be above X is the “correct” way? The way I see it, having A be the interact button seems more natural than having B be the interact button, and the former is how it’s set up on games like BOTW that use Nintendo controllers. Tbh though I actually wish bottom was X, left was A, right was B, and up was Y. An abomination to modern gamers, I’m sure, but it seems the most sensical considering the cultural perception of the symbol X imho.

            Also Xbox isn’t the entire game industry… Playstation doesn’t even use the same symbols, and I can’t think of any relevant consoles which use similar controllers to those 3. The only “official” controllers I can think of that use the Xbox order are ones made for specifically Xbox/Microsoft. I guess also the Sega Dreamcast? But that’s more because Microsoft played a large role in making the Dreamcast, and later based the Xbox heavily off of Sega consoles/controllers, and the button layout just came along with everything else. They didn’t want to conflict with Nintendo and potentially get into legal issues based off of controller button layout, so that was the easiest route.

            That being said, I’m so used to the Xbox controller layout that using Nintendo controllers gives me an aneurysm because Xbox switches the buttons. Any time I emulate a Nintendo game I just use my Xbox One controller and a mod to display the input tips differently. But that’s not anyone’s fault.

            • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Any time I emulate a Nintendo game I just use my Xbox One controller and a mod to display the input tips differently. But that’s not anyone’s fault.

              That’s very much where I’m coming from. Go look at the mods for any non-nintendo game and see how many mods change it to a nintendo controller. Other way around and you’ll find a lot more so I can’t base this on nothing, right?

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Do you only think the hardware is underwhelming because you’re comparing it to a PlayStation that’s about ten times larger? As a handheld console you can’t deny it was impressive.