Nintendo to Wait Until 2017 to Talk about Switch Games and Hardware Specs - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 October 2016 / 9,528 Views
Nintendo is going to wait until 2017 before talking more about the games that will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, as well as the hardware specifications, Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki.
Nintendo: no more official announcement would come this year on 1) game titles 2) spec details, including region-lock status.
— Takashi Mochizuki (@6d6f636869) October 21, 2016
The company has confirmed the Switch will not be backwards compatible with physical Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games.
The Nintendo Switch launches in March 2017.
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So, what was the point of revealing it just to go silent for 2 and a half more months? Has this officially confirmed by Nintendo?
I dunno MS and Sony announced new versions of their consoles, perhaps Nintendo wanted to do that too.
They really should allow 3rd parties to talk about their NX games, that way the console is still on people's minds, instead of dissapearing until the next Nintendo announcement.
This is a terrible idea. Leaks are far too frequent to try and keep secrets and with the thing being shown, leaks will become levy breaking explosions.
There's nothing to say third parties can't talk about games. Nintendo won't be officially announcing anything themselves, if you are to take that literally; so that doesn't stop others, I think.
3) price? a price would have actually been nice as i would actually pre-order it then. but seeing as the price was not shown i am now waiting... better not be over priced as you can forget my day one purchase Nintendo
They Should release the specs and allow third parties to release information, it seems smart to wait on their own line up to create some last-moment buzz.
One more Christmas of Wii U games. It will be interesting to see if this is also the last Christmas for the 3DS.
Imagine if they do another reveal like this during the Super Bowl. With the launch lineup.
I think Nintendo smells the kill- their aim is to have their announcements have as much impact as possible, not necessarily as soon as possible.
After Christmas then.
That's unfortunate that the games won't be backwards compatible. I guess I was spoiled all of those years of having it with Nintendo. Anyway, I think it's smart to wait to reveal information about newest console. So is this the beginning of the 9th generation?
Meanwhile, they better do some voodoo magic with Nvidia in order for the Switch to at least output X1 level performance when running on the TV!!!
