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Jeff Grubb confirming. It's a 2-step reveal. On the 16th will be almost 100% hardware with little to say about software. It's expected to launch by summer.

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[–] KombatWombat 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its hardware is yet to be announced, yet is somehow already obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It'll probrally rely on DLSS so heavily that input lag will be crazy and image quality terrible. Genuenly I have no idea why they didnt switch to AMD.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

On the 16th will be almost 100% hardware with little to say about software.

Kind of a shame, what I'm most looking forward to is new game announcements. It's been 8 years since Mario Odyssey and I need my 3D Mario fix.

[–] aeronmelon 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What they need is another Super Mario 3D World, that isn’t a port from a previous system. Bowser’s Fury is a half game.

Odyssey is fantastic, but 3D World is a pitch-perfect three-dimensional adaptation of the original platformer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd like a more Mario sunshine/64 style game. The movement mechanics were sublime in sunshine. That itch hasn't been scratched since, even by odyssey, which came closer than the galaxy games.

[–] aeronmelon 2 points 3 days ago

Makes sense, when Sunshine was made the only other 3D Mario was 64, so it used the same formula on a larger and more elaborate scale.

But then something unexpected happened, they made bonus levels that were capsule worlds that looked a lot like classic Mario games. And players wanted more of that so the Galaxys were basically that, fleshed out into full games.

Odyssey is a natural progression of Galaxy’s formula. But 3D World is not a natural progression of Sunshine, its New Super Mario Bros. in 3D.

It would be nice to get more 64/Sunshine-type games.

[–] jacksilver 4 points 3 days ago

If you didn't try it, "Bowser's Fury" was a lot of fun. It's annoyingly packaged with "3D World", although if you haven't played that it's also a good 3D Mario.

3D World + Bowser's Fury

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I want more Animal Crossing 🤞 I'm hoping with it's success for New Horizons that we don't have to wait 12 years again for the next one. A new Mario would be good too though, Odyssey was a lot of fun.

[–] ampersandrew 2 points 4 days ago

This holiday season for that one then, with Mario Kart allegedly coming at launch.

[–] Katana314 4 points 3 days ago

Flagging videogamedunkey to add this prediction to his next planned 2028 video about "the upcoming Switch 2"