Topic: Switch 2 Release Date Predictions

@Grumblevolcano But then there’s also Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. If number 2 is preferred over number 1 in that, then it just leaves if the Switch 2 is revealed after the investor meeting in February or after Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition comes out.

@Grumblevolcano
I've been saying for a while that you can invent a reason why it won't be any week. The only reason I'm not keen on the idea of next week is that Nintendo had control of when DKCR HD released. They could've gone for February, or earlier in January, or some other time. They picked next week. That doesn't mean it can't be next week but it's a good reason for it to be some other time

Certainly overshadowing your own title on a date you picked seems like a better reason than possibly overlapping with some other event that may or may not happen

@skywake Any chance it happens the same day as Microsoft’s own event?

I'm still thinking we get a Direct / Event / Trailer early February. There seems to be a weird narrative that the CES leak is on Nintendo...but it's not. It's entirely on Genki (hence the ninjas.) Switch 2 is possibly the most looked forward to console I can recollect. The idea of getting in first with accessories was obviously too much of a temptation for them. But I do believe the gossip (and reserve the right to be pleasantly surprised if the final console is nothing like lol!). I believe the placeholder software listings. We've seen similar before. I just don't believe it's that simple for Nintendo to simply bring all their plans forward. And I would be very surprised to see a January reveal (which to be fair, Nintendo do like to surprise us...so come on Nintendo lol!)

@GrailUK
The problem with the “they’re moving it forward” theory is that it’s untestable short of Nintendo confirming the thinking behind the timing. If it happens next week for all we know it was always planned for next week. But the same goes the other way. I doubt they would move it out of next week and delay because things are leaking

January always made sense as a possible announcement time. That hasn’t changed

@skywake Exactly. If we get anything next week, it has been planned. Agreed. You can communicate a delay much easier than bringing something forward. Imagine how much work that creates for so many partners and outlets.

All I see from comments is more and more arguments suggesting there is NO good week to announce the Switch 2 because apparently every single week has something that could interfere or be overshadowed.

@skywake
I just said, to me, the weeks of the 20th and 27th feel too late if they are releasing the console in the March-June timeframe. A week is a week. I think it matters.

I take things the way I see them. Sometimes they link up with what everyone else is saying, sometimes they don't.

The Returns port is clearly not immediately important to them given the lack of marketing and the lack of features for the game itself. My hunch is that they view it as an evergreen title that will eventually get them between 1-2 million sales, as they should: It's not something that people are going to rush out and buy, especially casual fans who still buy their games by making a trip to their Gamestop every few months to look at what is new.

The argument that official Switch 2 info next week would take away from the DKC hype to me is laughable because 1: there is no hype and 2: this is a title that Nintendo knows won't be heavy on initial sales, but will instead sell steadily over time, especially to families who hang onto their original Switch for a bit longer even after the new ones comes out.