Nintendo Reportedly Plans to Release Next-Gen Console During Second Half of 2024 - IGN
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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.

  • @ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    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.

      • @ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•1 year 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.

    • @Exec@pawb.socialEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      GB ( -> GBC) -> GBA -> DS -> 3DS were all backwards compatible with the first previous system