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Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024 (www.ign.com)
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Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024::Nintendo will release its next-gen console during the second half of 2024, according to a new report.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

My guess is that it won't be. Nintendo is a toy company. They've never once just done an iterative version of a console. There's always some new gimmick, usually based around input, that they have to fuck with that makes everything incompatible.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    This was only true since the Wii.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    NES - The original

    SNES - Changed the controller

    N64 - Changed the controller

    Gamecube - Changed the controller, moved to discs

    Wii - Changed the controller, added motion controls

    WiiU - Changed the controller, added screen to controller with 'console' kept as a separate box

    Switch - Integrated the screen and the console into one form factor

    Meanwhile, look at the XBOX platform. After going to the 360 controller, the form factor of 'standard' gamepad + separate console box has been the same for 3 generations now without any significant changes other than more powerful hardware. The Kinect was an attempt to encroach on Nintendo's motion-controls turf but it, like the Playstation Move, withered on the vine when first party products intended for them turned out to be turds.

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