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This Week in Games - You Can't Keep Shigeru Miyamoto Down

“The time is finally here for a Switch successor, even though I can say a 'Pro' model actually did exist and certain developers were already working with the dev kit. The next system is also likely to be an iteration rather than a revolution. Nintendo might add some bells and whistles to the device, but it will be similar to the current Switch,” Toto told GamesIndustry.biz. “And because there is Pokémon, and Pokémon is associated with handheld gaming, there is no way on earth Nintendo will drop the portability feature for their next big thing.”

This guy has been screaming about a Switch 2/Switch Pro for years at this point. Yes, a broken clock is right twice a day but its still a broken clock at the end of the day. The fact that Nintendo themselves have repeated themselves that a Switch Pro/Switch 2 wasn't coming out for years because of this constant repeated thing should say something. While yes, a Switch 2 will most likely come out either near the end of this year or next, that's not suprising since it lines up with how Nintendo operates.

I don't see them going full in on the 70 dollar price point, outside of prestiege titles like Zelda and the like. I can't imagine paying 70 + for the next Pokemon when Game Freak can't even get something as basic as Legends/Scarlet and Violet running good while being on the same system as stuff like Xenoblade.

What does Miyamoto even do, though? With a few, rare exceptions, he's only credited as a producer.

The developer mentions that his position as producer requires him to provide whatever might be missing in a team, and that he wouldn’t know which role he’d need to fill until the team starts to work on a project. Miyamoto clarified that the best teams to produce for would be those that didn’t need his input, and that if a team needed his help that would mean the team had problems that needed solving.

MarshalBanana wrote:

What does Miyamoto even do, though? With a few, rare exceptions, he's only credited as a producer.

There's something of an answer extracted from another talk recently:

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The developer mentions that his position as producer requires him to provide whatever might be missing in a team, and that he wouldn’t know which role he’d need to fill until the team starts to work on a project. Miyamoto clarified that the best teams to produce for would be those that didn’t need his input, and that if a team needed his help that would mean the team had problems that needed solving.

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“The time is finally here for a Switch successor, even though I can say a 'Pro' model actually did exist and certain developers were already working with the dev kit. The next system is also likely to be an iteration rather than a revolution. Nintendo might add some bells and whistles to the device, but it will be similar to the current Switch,” Toto told GamesIndustry.biz. “And because there is Pokémon, and Pokémon is associated with handheld gaming, there is no way on earth Nintendo will drop the portability feature for their next big thing.”

This guy has been screaming about a Switch 2/Switch Pro for years at this point. Yes, a broken clock is right twice a day but its still a broken clock at the end of the day. The fact that Nintendo themselves have repeated themselves that a Switch Pro/Switch 2 wasn't coming out for years because of this constant repeated thing should say something. While yes, a Switch 2 will most likely come out either near the end of this year or next, that's not suprising since it lines up with how Nintendo operates.

I don't see them going full in on the 70 dollar price point, outside of prestiege titles like Zelda and the like. I can't imagine paying 70 + for the next Pokemon when Game Freak can't even get something as basic as Legends/Scarlet and Violet running good while being on the same system as stuff like Xenoblade.

no story game in years,

It would be nice if Nintendo would for once make a system that’s just as capable as other gaming systems on the current market. Instead of stuff that’s at least a generation behind and tends to have the worse ports of multi platform stuff.

But I guess they’re the exception to the concept of resting on your laurels/getting complacent.

I don't see them going full in on the 70 dollar price point, outside of prestiege titles like Zelda and the like. I can't imagine paying 70 + for the next Pokemon when Game Freak can't even get something as basic as Legends/Scarlet and Violet running good while being on the same system as stuff like Xenoblade.

People buying Switches don't care that the console has the "worst" port of any given game, they just want Switches and a version of the game they can play on it. John Q. Publics don't spend hours comparing screenshots, hence why Nintendo has sold 132 million Switches.

When you sell a console you can take with you at $350 and it's got the kind of library the Switch has, you're going to get a lot of normies who don't know what a Teraflop is who find themselves buying a product they want. I dunno why Nintendo ignoring bleeding-edge graphics is them being lazy when it's not even part of their design philosophy--and given the way the industry has been going with the hunt for the bleeding-edge of tech leading to bloated development costs and a human bodycount, they might actually be onto something. The Switch doesn't have 4K resolution, but it has Super Mario Wonder, a game made by a team consisting of senior staff that didn't get laid off. A game that was made with the liberty of no deadlines where developers were given time to iterate on ideas in order to make creative levels. If that's "being lazy", we have very different definitions of complacency.

It's one thing when Nintendo doesn't give you what you personally want, but to just call that "lazy" is unfair. It's not someone else's fault when they don't follow the plan you made for them in your head.