Nintendo Switch, the only console today making games which are games

[SixDead]

I composed a small poem about Nintendo.

Wii-U
Fuck you
Nintendo Switch
Fuck you bitch

 

[Morgoth]

Nintendo is trash.

 

[911 Jumper]

Nintendo Switch 2 could now launch in 2025, it’s claimed

Nintendo’s next console could launch later than expected, in early 2025, it’s claimed.

That’s according to Brazilian journalist Pedro Henrique Lutti Lippe, who claims in a new OX do Controle video that he received the information from five separate sources, who indicated they were working on games targeting Q1 2025.

Previously, VGC reported that Nintendo was targeting a launch for its next console in late 2024, per development sources. This was later supported by other outlets.

Two development sources VGC spoke to on Friday indicated that they were working on Switch 2 games planned for release early next year but could not confirm if that meant a later-than-expected launch for the console itself.

Although the company is yet to comment publicly, Nintendo’s Switch successor was widely expected to launch this year.

In its latest earnings meeting earlier this month, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa again declined to comment on plans for its next-generation console.

The exec instead insisted that the current Nintendo Switch iteration would be Nintendo’s “main business” heading into 2024. The company’s plan for the next fiscal year will be shared at its next earnings briefing in May, he said.

Nintendo’s next fiscal year will run until April 2025, so could include a console launch even if it has been delayed into calendar 2025.

Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Tokyo-based game industry consultancy Kantan Games, recently predicted that the new Nintendo console could launch at $400 – $100 higher than the Switch’s launched price – and there’s a chance its games could adopt the $70 pricing of many PS5 and Xbox Series X/S titles.

According to the industry consultant, Nintendo’s next console will again have portable functionality, as VGC reported last year.

Source: VGC

It wouldn't surprise me. I reckon Nintendo could squeeze an extra year out of the Switch, perhaps even hit 150m units sold before Switch 2 lands.

 

[911 Jumper]

UPDATE

Since publishing this story, VGC has heard from multiple sources who said Nintendo has told publishers its next console will now launch in Q1 2025.

According to the sources, third-party game companies were recently briefed on an internal delay in Nintendo’s next-gen launch timing, from late 2024 to early the following year.

One publishing source suggested the delay was so that Nintendo could prepare stronger first-party software for the console.

It’s possible the next-gen Nintendo console will now follow a similar timeline to the Switch, which was released in March but announced the previous year.

VGC has asked Nintendo for comment on this story.

VGC

So it looks like Switch 2 won't arrive until Q1 2025.

 

[911 Jumper]

 

[Ezekiel]

The richest company in Japan.

 

[Cologno]

Huh, the richest. I'd never would've thought that. One of them, sure.

 

[Abu Antar]

They have no debt, which helps immensely.

 

[911 Jumper]

ICYMI

Nintendo’s pastel pink Joy-Cons are now available to pre-order


One for the female codexers

 

[Taxnomore]

Those things vibrate, right ?

 

[911 Jumper]

$60 ! ! !

 

[Ryzer]

Is the vaseline pot included in the package?

 

[911 Jumper]

 

[911 Jumper]

 

[911 Jumper]

SYSTEMS

 

[911 Jumper]

I'm not surprised by this

 

[Taxnomore]

Perfect timing. Wait until you have a perfectly functional product that is widely used all around including on the Steam Deck and runs almost all games to make sure the product ceases to exist. Good job.

I hope they fight this. It shouldn't stand in court.

 

[Ezekiel]

I have a Switch with eleven games. Stopped buying them when I learned how easily they emulate. If you don't want people to pirate your console, build one powerful enough that it can't be emulated for several years. If you think that's not in your best interest, then accept that it will be pirated. Can't have both.

 

[911 Jumper]

Switch would have probably been the best selling console of all time by now if it weren't for emulators like Yuzu.
Whatever way you look at it, the existence of Yuzu (and other Switch emulators) ultimately means Nintendo takes a hit on hardware and software sales.
With that in mind, why wouldn't they [Nintendo] want to shut it down?

 

[Modron]

Then why didn't they launch a suit against ryujinx at the same time?

 

[911 Jumper]

Then why didn't they launch a suit against ryujinx at the same time?

Nintendo argued that Yuzu executes codes that “defeat” Nintendo’s security measures, including decryption using “an illegally-obtained copy of prod.keys.”

“In other words, without Yuzu’s decryption of Nintendo’s encryption, unauthorized copies of games could not be played on PCs or Android devices,” Nintendo wrote in the lawsuit. As to the alleged damages created by Yuzu, Nintendo pointed to the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Tears of the Kingdom leaked almost two weeks earlier than the game’s May 12 release date. The pirated version of the game spread quickly; Nintendo said it was downloaded more than 1 million times before Tears of the Kingdom’s release date. People used Yuzu to play the game; Nintendo said more than 20% of download links pointed people to Yuzu.

Though Yuzu doesn’t give out pirated copies of games, Nintendo repeatedly said that most ROM sites point people toward Yuzu to play whatever games they’ve downloaded.

Nintendo said its “expended significant resources to stop the illegal copying, marketing, sale, and distribution” of its Nintendo Switch games. It says that Yuzu earns the team $30,000 per month on its Patreon from more than 7,000 patrons. Nintendo said the company has earned at least $50,000 in paid Yuzu downloads. Nintendo said that Yuzu’s Patreon doubled its paid members in the period between May 1 and May 12, when Tears of the Kingdom was released.

Nintendo is asking the court to shut down the emulator, and for damages. Polygon has reached out to Nintendo and Tropic Haze for comment

Source: Polygon

Sounds like Nintendo is focusing on Yuzu's decryption of keys and the fact that Yuzu is making money from the downloads (via Patreon). Are the creators of Ryujinx doing this too?

 

[Modron]

Yuzu isn't distributing keys and instructs users on how to legally attain the keys needed from their system like 99% of all emulators in existence do. They are getting donations for their work sure but all of it is entirely their code which is perfectly legal but that's never stopped the courts from ruling in favor of nintendo.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Ryujinx has a patreon page too.

Yuzu has way more patrons though(they receive like ~30k U$D monthly vs less than 2k of Ryujinx). Maybe that's the reason.

 

[Melcar]

Yeah, they got big enough to catch Nintendo's eye.

 

[Abu Antar]

They tried to sue Dolphin, didn't they? They did try to sue some emulation group in the past, but they lost. This could possibly just be scare tactics.