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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Breaking news! We might have news sometime soon!

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good gods! Already? Could they not have prepped us for this with an announcement like last month?

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It would have killed xmas hardware sales so no

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"Nintendo WILL announce the Switch 2 in March. Everything I'm hearing dating back to Gamescom last year has indicated something was happening in March. That talk has resurfaced in the past few weeks, and it is indicating that the Switch 2 is set for a reveal or an announcement in March."

That's from the same RELIABLE leaker from a year ago and that's just the first one I saw. The amount of leakers who claimed it would get announced over the last year is comically large. I guess if you post this once a week eventually you'll be right. I mean, yeah an announcement seems likely at this point but there's no need to bring Randomguess McGee into the conversation.

[–] SmarfDurden@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Tom Warren from the verge is also saying that it'll be this week, so that gives this leak a lot of credibility imo.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Plans can change in the course of a year. At the time, that probably was their plan, and that it didn't happen doesn't make it a guess. We're hearing this same reveal on the 16th from multiple corroborating sources at this point.

[–] 50MYT@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Nintendo themselves confirmed that the console will be released in 2025.

So half the accurate leaks will be people mapping out when this will likely be and then backwards marketing plans to release and announcements

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe Wilds will be a launch game and Nintendo anticipated the release to capitalise on it? Dunno, just playing devil's advocate.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

You know, the timeline makes sense but I'll leave this here anyway: 🤡

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Y'all gonna buy this thing?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Only if it's jailbreakable

Just to spite Nintendo for shutting down Yuzu and Ryujinx

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You'll probably want an early model then they usually have the most vulnerability

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Modern switches are all jailbreak able through mod chips.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure but that's far less convenient than early switches where you could use a bit of aluminum foil in the controller socket lol

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol wat

Can you please link me to where I can find this in action

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://noirscape.github.io/RCM-Guide/

You need to bridge a few pins in the controller connector. There's several ways to do that as shown in that link. Then you can upload jailbreak software from a PC.

I personally used aluminum foil successfully, then bought an actual jig later.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I did just skim through that but I didn't see why you would want to bridge the connection, what exactly does bridging accomplish? Is it some sort of maintenance mode or something?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Basically.

So the Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 chip to power it, which isn't the only device nor the first that it was used for. The Nvidia Shield TV and Google Pixel C (tablet) used it too. On those devices holding down a certain button at boot would put it in a special mode that let it boot from code sent over USB.

The Switch simply did not have this button, but by shorting those pins you send the same signal.

This is a very low level hardware feature so Nintendo couldn't ever patch it with an update. They had to make new hardware to fix it.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah okay, thanks for taking the time. That's the answer I was after. That's pretty crafty.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lol I used a pencil a few times

[–] PCurd@feddit.uk 9 points 5 months ago

If it’s backwards compatible with digital software then yes, day one. I held off on the Switch for over a year, just long enough to get one without vulnerabilities but not long enough to get the higher efficiencies.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably. I have 2 kids, and I still love Nintendo games. It does depend on a few things so I will wait to see what its capable of. I also don't see myself buying it at release, I'm to old for that FOMO.

[–] 50MYT@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Same here.

Santa will be buying it for Xmas this year no doubt.

Kids will be reminded the hard way that Mario kart skills cross titles.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nope, but there are surely deals that are locked up in this thing's launch, and I've got an unannounced 3D Mario game on my Fantasy Critic roster.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Potentially, but only for a new Smash Bros. (same reason I got the Wii U and Switch)

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Only if I have to for Metroid Prime 4, if I can't play it on Switch or emulate it.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would sooner buy a PS5 lmao

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Going to depend entirely on the specs and launch titles.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm hoping for the virtual boy switch

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

GameCube.

Allegedly the price of switch online will be going up and this is the only reason I can think of

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I'm not expecting an announcement until late March. They're not going to want to commit to a price any time soon. Blame that clown in oompa loompa makeup.

[–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Took them long enough.