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.
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.
I have a sneaky suspicion today Nintendo were only driven to make this because of the Steam Deck. If it didn’t exist they’d be more than happy to continue with the current Switch for a few more years.
There was a rumor that Nintendo was developing a Switch Pro that was intended to release in 2020, but due to the chip shortage they had to scrap the chipset upgrade and that became the Switch OLED. I love my Steam Deck but I’m pretty sure this has been in the works for a while.
I don’t think that’s the case they probably have had at least a small team working on this before the Steam deck was announced. I don’t think the audiences overlap that much to be honest and the two devices have different use cases.
The steam deck is just a powerful hand held computer (relative to other gaming hardware is pretty weak though) that runs PC games with all the ups and downs that come with that. I think there are number of steam deck buyer that are not that familiar with the underlying hardware that are going to be disappointed when new games are not going to run acceptably on it. Where as for the switch/switch 2 games will at least run acceptably