Nintendo's NEXT Console is NOT a Switch 2. It's THIS instead!

[@tomazing]

I really hope that you're right. Just a more powerful, bigger switch is not what I want and not what Nintendo would do. I really think that the successor is gonna have similar traits, but really have its own flavor

[@trollympus]

I would like to add that this can easily be optional and make total sense. I really like the idea, it makes complete sense! Out of all the channels that regurgitate bull* you have a much more interesting and yes, realistic perpective. Super excited and hopeful that this is true. So, we could have a switch '2' for a maximum of 450 and the glasses opltionally for max 150. It's good, it isn't going to be mandatory, that would be crazy. But nintendi showing off, flexing their muscle in vr gameplay, yes... They will show everyone how to do it. Honestly, super excited. Your video was a beacon of hope and most importantly, fun for the future

[@TheNerffreak11]

As someone who's made VR games before, scrolling inside VR goggles is the most guaranteed way to make your users puke. VR *has* to be a one-to-one mapping for it to work. Also, porting games to VR is not as difficult as you think. Quest has libraries for both Unreal and Unity that are basically plug and play. Of course, some shaders will break here and there, but nothing that can't be fixed. The most difficult part of VR game development is the game design. How are you going to use physical space and how is the player going to interact with the game world. My background for reference: BSc in Computer Science and Game Technologies, Minor in Game Design, Currently Software Engineer working full time in Unity.

[@iixxion]

That's my entire point: dev teams don't want to reinvent their games to build around the physical space. They aren't going to do that. They want to take their existing games and make them work with the headset. That's what Nintendo is offering here.

[@rhythmrobber]

@@iixxion sounds like you missed their point completely... you were stating that Nintendo solved the motion sickness problem, and I can guarantee you that having a POV that moves irrelative to your physical body is the BEST way to get motion sickness. The next big problem is low resolution and framerate, and there is no way that Nintendo is putting out a handheld device that performs well enough to support high resolution, high framerate VR. Pretty sure they even said it wasn't even going to be as strong as the PS5 - a system that doesn't have perfect VR either. Lastly, there's the issue of cost. IF Nintendo were to do deliver on all this, the cost of all the hardware and lenses, etc would make the new console astronomically expensive. Look at how expensive PSVR or PC VR headsets are, and those are separate from the actual device powering the VR. Your only proof is that you found some patents, but you forget just how many patents Nintendo puts out and ignores. If Nintendo does anything 3D with their console, it almost certainly wouldn't go beyond putting a camera on your TV, and have a mode you can switch to that creates a 3DS-like effect that makes it look like things on your screen have actual depth, or maybe an AR effect where things are projected into your room from the camera. Considering the Yooka-Replaylee announcement with the eyeballs, I think a camera that looks at you and/or glasses are pretty likely - not to mention the Alarmo, which is also detecting your body with sensors, presumably as a "live test" of features that will be in the next console.

[@Jarhead1975]

The switch 2 will be released between March-May. There is a shell of the prototype from December of 2023 and yes many devs have confirmed that it is what it is like. The Wii U game pad is not the switch 1 it can't play anywhere you want unless there is a plug for the Wii U system. It is just a game pad. You can't walk off with the game pad and go to the park and keep playing on the game pad.

[@WinkDaMan07]

I don't think they'd care that much about holiday sales. They know sales are declining. People are still going to buy an OG Switch or Switch OLED for their kids as a discount system so to speak.

[@ChickenScratch]

As much as I love vr, having a whole headset AND an upgraded switch would be really expensive, and being costly will lower mass market appeal. Maybe that's something they would release as an add on later down the line

[@iixxion]

The headset is just a controller with a screen on it. The other VR headsets are expensive because they are all-in-one units. standalone units. and the PSVR is expensive because it's Sony.

[@Xearrik]

This was my idea like 2 or 3 years ago now. I figured the Labo was a test run for their next console gimmick. I also think the Mario Kart AR game was them playing around with an AR gimmick instead of a VR. They also did some AR mobile game stuff. I thought their next console would be something playing around with the AR/VR concepts or something new altogether. So either that was their plan, and they scrapped it. But used all that R&D to make Labo and a few AR games. Or they're still planning on doing it.

[@danwancke9931]

I was really disappointed when I got my switch way back on launch day. I had assumed you could play on the 2 screens like the Wii U. Why would they remove that feature? I still don't understand. I love the idea about going back to the 2 screens and adding the goggles!

[@JunkEntity]

I was going to say a camera for AR, either way this seems pretty plausible! Tech companies desperately want the next generation a-la smart glasses, apple vision etc..

[@JonHill-yj3lm]

I think he's right the yooka game had the two eyes above nintendo in the commercial but I think they will upset alot of gamers that love the switch the way it is

[@tomazing]

Weird that no one else has pointed these patents out from what I've seen

[@pappucharlie]

We need high graphics . Current graphics are shit and feels like I m playing a game on 15 year old hardware .

[@pablomuerta9452]

Hm this might and might not work or sell well entirely. BUT as long as they still have the main function of Switch which plays portable / on TV and have an upgraded hardware + DLSS, then it will sell well still. Why coz nintendo user just wanna play great AAA games in their switch. Yes VR is interesting but not the main attraction for now.

[@loayzc10]

Wii U was the best console Nintendo ever created, way better than the switch. It was just oozing with charm. Pity it did so poorly, everyone I ever showed it to thought is was so cool. If Switch 3 incorporates what made Wii U so amazing, I'm all in.

[@JanderStrahd]

I love the Gamepad, but the system, itself scratched the hell out of my MH3U disc. Half of Plesioth is gone. 😠

[@icanhazgoodgame3845]

Wii U is an oddity for sure and is home to some very unique experience and comfy but switch is superior in nearly every way and most of the Wii U library ported over anyways leaving very little reason to main the system outside of the homebrew scene.

[@icanhazgoodgame3845]

​@@JanderStrahdWii U disc do not hold up very well, even if you take care of them 😢

[@loayzc10]

@@icanhazgoodgame3845 It is not superior in every way. No built in social media, no web browser, can't do handheld/tv splitscreen, and therefore no games that interact between a handheld and the tv (nintendoland), couch co-op was WAY better on WiiU, the store is a laggy mess, worse controllers, not backwards compatible, free online, I mean honestly, besides being a true handheld and higher specs, what makes the switch better?

[@icanhazgoodgame3845]

@@loayzc10 Switch has more and higher quality games. The gamepad mechanic was so under utilized that the Wii U was at best an Wii HD competing against the PS4. Yes Nintendoland is a fun and unique experience but too few system locked games to pull it out of the closet. The OG switch will be viable gaming experience until it physically dies/server shutdown shenanigans.

[@trzarector]

Sounds juicy and I agree. I've been saying in various discussions that VR is the next gaming frontier and I believe Nintendo will follow this. They want a system that is a total differentiator from other platforms and VR is that platform but done as you say in a Nintendo way. People laughed at LABO but that was a total test for not only VR but research ideas for the next system done in a cheap, playful way with cardboard. Quite ingenious actually. Nintendo is not happy to have 'another console' remember they are a toy company at heart and I believe the next system will put them back on that path. As a designer I'm very excited because I love the 'Nintendo difference' and the fact they're prepared to try and possibly fail with new creative ideas. Thats the Nintendo I love. Ahh man you've got me excited with this. I have other ideas in regards to controllers too but hopefully this speculation will come true or something very close to it will!

[@shabangschmagoigal2091]

10:11 They've beefed up old hardware more than once. The Wii was an overclocked Gamecube.

[@FullBattleJacket]

Nobody wants this and Nintendo knows it. Bad prediction IMO.

[@shawnmalone1441]

Virtual boy was so sick when I was kid

[@Maliktevin1643]

So I guess that the eyeballs in the first switch successor trailer was giving a clear hint to what you said there in the video

[@jmcclain8237]

Ohhhhhh K. NES to Super NES to 64 to Gamecube to Wii to Wii U. I'd say those qualify as a natural progression of systems. They were all beefed up versions of their predecessors. Soooooooo.

[@nowonmetube]

Minus the Wii and Wii U

[@jmcclain8237]

@@nowonmetube Not really. Yeah, they had a gimmick but you could still use the wii controller sideways to play some games. Wii U was just an interactive tablet.

[@wallofriogrande]

The Wii and Wii u were actually just incremental upgrades to the GameCube. Wii development started on the GameCube. The Wii is just a beefed version of the GameCube hardware. The Wii U is a beefed up Wii with a tablet gamepad.

[@nowonmetube]

I had the same idea. The Switch 2 itself could be used as the vr screen.

[@forrestfranck7503]

I’m blown away 🤯 and I hope you’re right! Now I’m even more hyped than before! 😂

[@mt_baldwin]

I hope they don't do this, they can't afford it and console gaming in general is too fragile right now for one of the big 3 to fall flat on its face. We gamers like to think we're cutting edge tech guys, but we're not. In fact console and PC gamers, we're the opposite, we're ultra conservative tech guys, we like living in our very well worn tech grooves, grooves that have been worn into deep trenches, and we hate leaving our entrenched positions. The WII-U was soundly rejected for veering too far out of these trenches. VR has been soundly rejected for the same reason despite gaming companies trying for decades to make it a thing. I mean just look at our vocabulary, what is something new to gaming called? A gimmick. Yes Nintendo has only done the straight upgrade from gen to gen once. And if they had any sense of self preservation they'd learn from that and do it again. The NES to SNES was by far (by FAR) their most smooth and successful console generation transition. Every other time they flop and then have to dig themselves out of that hole with a new gen. If they flop now, with the state console gaming is in, it might be the end of Nintendo. Just do the thing that'll make them billions and secure their place and straight power upgrade from the Switch.

[@loayzc10]

Nintendo is not poor.

[@alphagroudon2]

Nintendo was built around gimmicks. The reason the Wii U failed was because they poorly marketed it, making people believe that it was an accessory to the Wii instead of the next generation by heavily focusing on advertising the gamepad. Also, Nintendo does so well not only because of their systems, but because of their games. They manage to make games that are incredibly well made and polished that run smoothly on systems that are leagues weaker than the other systems. Nintendo can push out the weirdest system out and if the games on it follow the same quality as they have been for the Switch, they won’t be facing any problems

[@SIGNALacquired]

Nintendo new console is the the NEXT console .. probably

[@kreed1415]

This just doesn't remotely match up with facts we have. You can currently go and look at the parts Nintendo has manufactured and shipped. It is all public objective information. We literally know all the specs, the size, the form factor etc. We also know it has a dock with a fan. We know it has detachable joycon that are redesigned to match the new size. Trying to predict what Nintendo will do based on their patents is huge waste of time. Anyone that tries to follow Nintendo eventually falls into the trap then quickly learns that 99% of what they patent will never be used. They simply patent everything in case they can use it as legal firepower.

[@iixxion]

Post a link to the specs.

[@haze598]

@@iixxion fingers crossed u are wrong, i have bad eyesight as it is, vr thing is gonna make me blind.

[@nadav13IOY]

Oh man, I think your prediction is spot on, or at least very close to the truth

[@nadav13IOY]

Although I don't think that a VR headset is what I want from this console

[@Indi_51]

nooo duuude, nooooo. I just want a beefed up switch thing so i can play wilds in it (maybe!)

[@icanhazgoodgame3845]

I think the switch 2 will get some version of Wilds. According to internet rumors, Capcom pushed nintendo to on the new system ram specs to help development, the RE engine worked really well on the OH Switch and portable MH is popular in Japan.

[@Indi_51]

@icanhazgoodgame3845 that would be awesome and that would mean I wouldn't have to wait for steam deck successor to play it portably

[@sw33p3rLeet]

I dont mean to jinx anything but, theres 2 MH that come out usually one year apart, alternating between Console versions and Mobile versions. MH and MH freedom, MH2 and MH freedom2, and so on until MH World and MH Rise. So something is coming at least, probably not Wilds though.

[@Indi_51]

@sw33p3rLeet I mean if it do3s release on switch 2 then awesome, if not well, I'll just play it on the pc.

[@shadow-anomoly]

Thanks for taking us on a ride. I can see this happening. VR needs to be done right. Nintendo might actually figure it out.

[@kagemara277]

No! After the Wii Nintendo gave us the 3DS with 3D without glasses! Then PS4 started all VR.

[@Binambik]

It's not gonna happend. Why? This new Nintendo. Iwata died. Shuntaru Furukawa is to conservative to try it.

[@rathalos4783]

real

[@auto54matic]

Couple of interesting points.

[@workdays2]

Thx for warning me, not going to waste my time

[@shayney3765]

yooka-replaylee trailer has those hat eyes on it..

[@rathalos4783]

Nintendo is just the boss. Playstation and Xbox are just not real gamers. They put everything in graphics and texture improvement.... only Nintendo knows how to create gaming.

[@pappucharlie]

Come on man so much content on PlayStation and Xbox . Nintendo is just stuck with Mario . They are number one because of kids . Every one as a child play these kinds of games and when they grow up they for hardcore games

[@montelturner2259]

YUp Nintendo is on the forefront of entertainment for all ages. I play my switch for quality fun games like Mario kart. Six of my friends play. Together. I'll take new tech fun over the race for graphics and violent adult games or sports. WHen I do pky those games I have my xbox.1. I don't play my ps 5. Concentrate on too much graphics and the games are a direct competition to Xbox. .

[@rathalos4783]

why are you so confident in that theory though?

[@glenfoxh]

I am so sorry, yet not sorry to say this. I see way too many people state what all people do and don't want. And they put their foot in their mouth all the time when they do. Seen a self proclaimed story critic stat about a story, "This story is trash, and nobody want to see this kind of junk." Meanwhile, wile he is posting this about the story in question, that has been out for only a month at the time he posted his comment, the story has had over a thousand likes. Let that sink in. Of late, the Vatican has a new anime mascot named Luce (pronounced, Lu-chee), to get the youths of today to look at the church. Many religious types who hate anime, have stated that, "Nobody is going to like this thing, that has noting to do with God." Meanwhile, there is a lot of fan art being made of Luce. And even Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire, a very religious group of people, has stated that he likes this new Luce. Wile one of he colleagues Matt Walsh, had yet to comment on Luce. But everyone is expecting him to bash it big time, because he strait up hates anime, and calls it demonic. So many from the religious stat nobly likes this Luce, nobody asked for this, nobody wants this, and nobody needs this. Meanwhile many other religious types love Luce, and say that it's cute and will do what it was made to do, make religion attractive to the youth that is not even looking at it, but will have a look at Luce, and what it's all about. Let all of that sink in also. So think real hard about what you said, that nobody wants to stand up wile using VR. You so sure about what everybody does and does not want, to make such an open statement as that? O.o Matt Wash had said, VR is the worst tech ever made. VR is only made to help companies to beam advertisements into peoples brains. I am not making that up. He actually said that. >.> If you truly think that nobody wants to stand wile using VR, that makes me think you know ruffly as little about VR as Matt Walsh does. - I have been into VR since the start. Back when Google Cardboard, and Oculus Gear VR was new. And I can tell you, Unless someone is using the PlayStation VR, or playing flight or driving sims, about 80% of VR users are playing VR wile standing. Look at the Quest. That was made to be played wile standing, and so are many of the games made for it. Think, when full body tracking can be used in games, or at least foot tracking, and games such as Blades And Sorcery lets you kick in real life with your real foot as an attack, why would anyone not want to stand to play such an upstanding VR game? You also have such things as VRchat, where full body tracking is used a lot, by those who can afford it. And many of them have that, so they can do tings like make their avatar dance and such for everyone to see. Think about that. Think about all of that. - Aside from that. I have also been predicting that Nintendo's new system will incorporate VR somehow. Been saying it since the start of this year of 2024. And may likely use some VR glasses such as XREAL Air, Rokid Air, RayNeo Air, or VITURE, that mostly already works with the Nintendo Switch right out of the Box. So the tech to make it all work is already there. Nintendo does not have to do much else new. And as you pointed out, just as I had with others, Nintendo did make their LABO VR Headset for the Switch. And had given both Breath Of The Wild and Mario Odyssey usable VR modes that work with the LABO VR Headset. Meaning Nintendo is truly thinking about VR again since the Virtual Boy.

[@ThuderDuck]

We want a high quality switch, that lets us take next gen games from sofa to plane to bus to tv. None of this VR nonsense. I’m not buying this

[@barryklinedinst6233]

Your a frigging genius 😂

[@JanderStrahd]

9:56 New 3DS, too. I was lucky enough to go from a 3DS to the Monster Hunter Generations New 3DS XL. But VR is basically a forced meme, barely any better than it was in the '80s. There's also a limited number of times Nintendo can be the "wild card" success. Was going to suggest it's a four-screen that folds inward like a piece of paper. 😆 "Everyone was using a paper fortune teller to tell what the Switch 2 was going to look like, so we literally made it _a paper fortune teller!"_ Can't emulate *that!* 🙂

[@iixxion]

New 3DS was a hardware revision. It was the same platform as 3ds.

[@DmadPs]

Let me see if I understand your comment, you are saying VR right now it's the same as it was 30 years ago? If that's what you are saying you are very wrong, VR is amazing right now

[@JanderStrahd]

@@iixxion Oh, I see what you mean now. I replayed it twice and was like, "I have no idea what he's talking about." 🤔

[@xXSHADOWxXODELL]

I really hope this is all wrong

[@PureTazr]

Not till 2025 in spring

[@ThuderDuck]

That is not the switch 1, it’s part of the Wii U. Stop talking hyperbole! The switch is its own thing.

[@joshuaarch1089]

WiiU was not a switch. Quit calling it the switch 1. 😆 🤣 😂. Pulling straws at this point aint ya.

[@aliasukvideo]

What a bunch of 💩💩😂

[@ThuderDuck]

Stop calling every handheld a switch! It’s called a switch because you can switch from handheld to TV, none of the other things you call a switch can switch! You are spouting complete garbage.

[@ThuderDuck]

What you are describing would be jarring and worse for motion sickness. This is utter bollocks. You have no idea what you are talking about. If this happens I’ll eat my socks.

[@jdarg4163]

You do know Nintendo are actually working on 2 platforms the Switch 2 and their XR Headset theybare working on with Google and that's what their latest patents are all about and the switch 2 will just be an upgraded Switch with more power that's all all of the innovation will be with the headset as it is said to feature advanced motion sensing technology in it that no other headset has currently and it will also and Nintendo will not be doing VR they will be doing Mixed Reality just like Meta Quest 3 and apple vision pro and its in their patents also bro and they will do that because of motion sickness and their is some cool stuff people are doing with Mixed Reality with old Nintendo games and Nintendo will milk it and re release old games and just take out the backgrounds just like what they are currently doing with Nintendo games on the Quest 3 right now Nintendo will bring their characters into your world no throng you into the characters world as every company Is going that way with Mixed Reality gaming Nintendo patented Nintendogs in Mixed Reality already so that's what Nintendo will do as they see the popularity of the Quest 2, 3 and 3s

[@jdarg4163]

And Nintendos headset is nothing to do with the Switch bro it's it's own headset with its own processor and it doesn't need any additional hardware to run bro so it's it's own platform remember the Nintendo Focus that what the headset is bro it's going to be a XR headset with Google's up and coming Android XR OS running it bro as Raxium is making the Mirco LED screens for the headset and they are a Google company

[@joshuaarch1089]

This dude is a joke. Claims anyone else makes a handheld then they are copying nintendo. Gtfoh

[@mrtea7562]

If you continue to be rude you can go to room and stay there, no ice cream for you Joshua

[@RICHFLAIRJAY]

Bad Joshua

[@yungsamus6662]

Nintendo needs to release a standalone console again. No one cares about handheld gaming bro