I'm very excited for the new Zelda game!! I have been waiting for a playable Zelda game for a while ❤ i honestly like the cozy/builder aspects they've added to the game, I find it refreshing.
I’m glad where in a place where we are getting 3D games and new 2D. I like the overall direction of this. Just wondering if combat will be a bit finicky without directly attacking. But man I love the approach of summoning random stuff to get around the world
I would even say of any console ever. Reminds me of the persistent rumours roughly a year ago that Nintendo "had no big games for Switch" after Pikmin 4 and Tears of the Kingdom. Boy were they wrong.
@@bitsoftimemedia Good point. Playstation and Xbox are the ones stuck in the last generation. Nintendo reversed it, selling last gen's games for Switch, improved, instead of making new games for last gen consoles like Sony and Microsoft are still doing. And Nintendo saved 8 years of development time by re-releasing all those games. That means they will have a lot of games ready for Switch 2. Mario Kart 8 for Switch is probably the #1 best-selling game of all time for a single console. And Nintendo has had 10 years to work on the next Mario Kart. It will be so good that it will probably outsell the last one, as long as the new console sells well. Will it sell well? Nintendo has more years of experience than any other company, and they have more piles of cash to invest. They are selling more games and consoles than they've ever sold, so they also have plenty of time to plan the launch. They could start manufacturing this year and have 10 million consoles ready for launch. No console has sold more than 2 million at launch, or more than 10 million the first year, strictly because of shortages. The shortages happen because they launch the console as soon as they can, they're always pressed for time and money. Nintendo isn't pressed for either. And my theory is that the dock will have extra processing or even a parallel GPU. So they could start manufacturing tablets early and still keep making improvements to the dock for another 6 months prior to launch - hardware, firmware, clock speed, docked-only applications, peripherals, sensor bars or cameras for VR. Every single Nintendo console has introduced new features that became industry standards. NES was the first D-pad, SNES the first shoulder buttons as well as the 4-button layout that every console still uses. N64 introduced the analog thumbstick as well as rumble. Gamecube introduced the first official wireless controllers. Wii introduced tilt and motion sensors. The Famicom had the first microphone in the controller which is now standard for online play. And the Switch went beyond the controllers, innovating the entire console. Switch 2 could go further. They already built VR headtracking into the Wii U tablet - you use it on the Nintendoland park and the VR tour apps. The Switch has a cardboard headset for VR that would have worked exactly the same for Wii U. And that infrared camera on the right joycon is designed as a VR sensor. But Nintendo knew that VR wasn't ready yet, so they didn't go all in. They got ready just in case, but they decided to wait. They want to wait for the technology, like the 3DS. Would the 3DS be as good if it required glasses? No, so they made it 3D without glasses. Does anyone want to play Switch 2 wearing a big plastic blindfold headset? No. But would Nintendo release clear AR glasses that don't block your vision and are comfortable for anyone to wear? Maybe. When you look at your Switch 2 dock while you're wearing the glasses, does it create a painting in front of you like in Mario 64 that you step into to start your game? Could be. My point is that Nintendo always has big ideas, unexpected ideas, literally game-changing ideas. And those ideas are usually so good that all other game companies have to follow. And Nintendo's ideas have never had more time, money, technology, momentum, and popular support. Nintendo has never waited 8 years between consoles. Never. So all those other changes that revolutionized the industry were accomplished in less time than the amount of time they're spending on the next console. You can say Wii U was a bad idea, but if the iPad had released a little later, the Wii U would have launched the tablet craze. Maybe people would call every generic tablet a Wiipad instead of an iPad. Apple released iPads that don't use mobile data, so you can only use them on Wifi, which is like being tethered anyway. Plenty of people sat on the sofa and watched Netflix on a tablet, and it just happened that only 10 million of those people were using a Wii U tablet. It could have been 100 million, but the technology moved a little faster than expected. And even though Mario Kart 8 only sold 8 million for Wii U, 65 million people bought the same game for Switch. So it wasn't entirely the Wii U's fault, since presumably 50 million extra people actually enjoyed the same game when they eventually tried it. Anyway I'll keep this comment brief and just say the Switch 2 will be huge, unexpected, better than PS5, and potentially the first console to sell 200 million units.
@@customsongmaker I love your optimism, but I don't think the Switch successor is hitting 200 million unless somehow they say it's in the switch family which I don't think they will. I believe it will be the next generation for them. That is a lofty goal! Wild to think the Switch has hit these numbers without a price drop yet...you love to see a healthy Nintendo right now.
Interesting - I’ve never heard Zelda referred to as an RPG before.
Good video about a once in a lifetime direct 👍
Appreciate the kind words! A wild direct for a console at the end of it’s life cycle
I'm very excited for the new Zelda game!! I have been waiting for a playable Zelda game for a while ❤ i honestly like the cozy/builder aspects they've added to the game, I find it refreshing.
I’m glad where in a place where we are getting 3D games and new 2D.
I like the overall direction of this. Just wondering if combat will be a bit finicky without directly attacking. But man I love the approach of summoning random stuff to get around the world
I would even say of any console ever. Reminds me of the persistent rumours roughly a year ago that Nintendo "had no big games for Switch" after Pikmin 4 and Tears of the Kingdom. Boy were they wrong.
I remember those rumors too. Wrong indeed!
How many consoles had a 9th year?
Maybe two?
PS2 and maybe PS4 if you still consider it ha since plenty of games are still releasing for it
@@bitsoftimemedia Good point. Playstation and Xbox are the ones stuck in the last generation.
Nintendo reversed it, selling last gen's games for Switch, improved, instead of making new games for last gen consoles like Sony and Microsoft are still doing.
And Nintendo saved 8 years of development time by re-releasing all those games. That means they will have a lot of games ready for Switch 2.
Mario Kart 8 for Switch is probably the #1 best-selling game of all time for a single console. And Nintendo has had 10 years to work on the next Mario Kart. It will be so good that it will probably outsell the last one, as long as the new console sells well.
Will it sell well? Nintendo has more years of experience than any other company, and they have more piles of cash to invest. They are selling more games and consoles than they've ever sold, so they also have plenty of time to plan the launch. They could start manufacturing this year and have 10 million consoles ready for launch.
No console has sold more than 2 million at launch, or more than 10 million the first year, strictly because of shortages. The shortages happen because they launch the console as soon as they can, they're always pressed for time and money. Nintendo isn't pressed for either.
And my theory is that the dock will have extra processing or even a parallel GPU. So they could start manufacturing tablets early and still keep making improvements to the dock for another 6 months prior to launch - hardware, firmware, clock speed, docked-only applications, peripherals, sensor bars or cameras for VR.
Every single Nintendo console has introduced new features that became industry standards. NES was the first D-pad, SNES the first shoulder buttons as well as the 4-button layout that every console still uses. N64 introduced the analog thumbstick as well as rumble. Gamecube introduced the first official wireless controllers.
Wii introduced tilt and motion sensors. The Famicom had the first microphone in the controller which is now standard for online play. And the Switch went beyond the controllers, innovating the entire console. Switch 2 could go further.
They already built VR headtracking into the Wii U tablet - you use it on the Nintendoland park and the VR tour apps. The Switch has a cardboard headset for VR that would have worked exactly the same for Wii U. And that infrared camera on the right joycon is designed as a VR sensor. But Nintendo knew that VR wasn't ready yet, so they didn't go all in. They got ready just in case, but they decided to wait.
They want to wait for the technology, like the 3DS. Would the 3DS be as good if it required glasses? No, so they made it 3D without glasses. Does anyone want to play Switch 2 wearing a big plastic blindfold headset? No.
But would Nintendo release clear AR glasses that don't block your vision and are comfortable for anyone to wear? Maybe. When you look at your Switch 2 dock while you're wearing the glasses, does it create a painting in front of you like in Mario 64 that you step into to start your game? Could be.
My point is that Nintendo always has big ideas, unexpected ideas, literally game-changing ideas. And those ideas are usually so good that all other game companies have to follow. And Nintendo's ideas have never had more time, money, technology, momentum, and popular support.
Nintendo has never waited 8 years between consoles. Never. So all those other changes that revolutionized the industry were accomplished in less time than the amount of time they're spending on the next console.
You can say Wii U was a bad idea, but if the iPad had released a little later, the Wii U would have launched the tablet craze. Maybe people would call every generic tablet a Wiipad instead of an iPad. Apple released iPads that don't use mobile data, so you can only use them on Wifi, which is like being tethered anyway. Plenty of people sat on the sofa and watched Netflix on a tablet, and it just happened that only 10 million of those people were using a Wii U tablet. It could have been 100 million, but the technology moved a little faster than expected.
And even though Mario Kart 8 only sold 8 million for Wii U, 65 million people bought the same game for Switch. So it wasn't entirely the Wii U's fault, since presumably 50 million extra people actually enjoyed the same game when they eventually tried it.
Anyway I'll keep this comment brief and just say the Switch 2 will be huge, unexpected, better than PS5, and potentially the first console to sell 200 million units.
@@customsongmaker I love your optimism, but I don't think the Switch successor is hitting 200 million unless somehow they say it's in the switch family which I don't think they will. I believe it will be the next generation for them. That is a lofty goal!
Wild to think the Switch has hit these numbers without a price drop yet...you love to see a healthy Nintendo right now.
I feel like Zelda games are like, part rpg for sure. It’s like milestone experience almost.
It’s in Zelda’s DNA, or maybe RPGs have Zelda in theirs?
You’re asking the right questions