I'm sure Nintendo will come up with some cool uses for it in Mario Party games, having to trace stuff or something.  I think it could really add to a lot of games, were it not that it's only available when in docked mode.

I can also totally see Nintendo release a set of special slippers that would then tie in to an ice skating game of sorts.

gamingeek said:

I've never seen a console reveal followed by a complete absence of information, following it.


Usually you have interviews and press hands on and videos and game announcements.


Instead radio silence. The only decent thing is Digital Foundrys tech insights, though it's still mostly speculation.

I'm guessing that Nintendo had planned the reveal for April 2nd all along and just showed a small part of the Direct they're preparing to shut up the leakers.  They've probably made it very clear to everyone who hopes to ever release anything on any Nintendo platform again that they can't announce or leak anything before their big reveal bonanza on the 2nd.

robio said:

I do like mouse controls for a lot of traditional PC strategy and sim games. SimCity works better with a mouse. Heroes of might and magic works better with a mouse. It might be kind of cool to have those games on the switch 2.

Would be nice for Civ 7 as well.

I'd forgotten about cross gen games. DF are saying MK9 is probably a cross gen game.


So that's why it doesn't look massively better I guess. The specs have Switch 2 like 8 to 11 times more powerful than Switch 1 in raw power. That doesn't even factor in DLSS, SSD, the RAM amount and bandwidth.

Edge had a good interview with the civ 7 boss. Expect changes. They said they've limited themselves to only changing a third of the game. The new leaders aspect looks positive.

Switch 2 reveal was very basic. Not much to show if you aren't showing the games, we knew it would just be like the switch again, no new gimmick. Doesn't help when the first game you show can be confused for the current Mario kart game. Like GG said, it's weird to do this with zero info, this was all pointless. Just a get off our backs till April 2nd.

Dvader said:

Switch 2 reveal was very basic. Not much to show if you aren't showing the games, we knew it would just be like the switch again, no new gimmick. Doesn't help when the first game you show can be confused for the current Mario kart game. Like GG said, it's weird to do this with zero info, this was all pointless. Just a get off our backs till April 2nd.

When I saw that we won't hear anything else until April I assumed they got the Australian dates wrong and surely what they meant was we'll find out more on February 4th.  Do they really think they can throw up a 2 minute teaser reel and then sit back for 3 months?  It certainly looked like a "Break Glass in Emergency" move just to shut down the leaks.

If I were them I would have sent to the third party publishers "if you announce your game ahead of our Direct, you are dead to us" e-mail.