Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Utnayan said:

Remake. Remake. Remake. These people make original games anymore? How about an original Star fox for switch 2?

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Switch 2 is just the "remake N64 games and make a really big deal about it each time" console at the moment. It's kinda pathetic.

Even more reason not to buy one.

Caeden said:

Let me see Zelda. Then I’ll bother.

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The Ocarina remake really needs to be a full-scope, Demon Souls style remake where the budget and effort exude out of its pores. Not a remaster or a cash-grab. Then the system will have its system-seller.

Also, I really hope they give it the actual Ocarina visual style (only now with HDR and whatnot) and don't give it the washed-out BOTW look where there's basically no contrast/color and you're viewing everything through a dull lens. I'm so sick of that look. I understood it with BOTW because it was a way to get around the technical limitations of the moment by easing up on graphical fidelity, but then they just made it "the style" and brought it back for TOTK and Age of Imprisonment. Even the Switch 2 remaster of BOTW is still the same "viewed through a sandstorm" wash-out visuals. Was hoping for some contrast, color, and visual depth.

Siliconemelons said:

Bet they restart Zelda with “Zelda”


Or, “Zelda, the new one”

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As in, just calling the game Zelda? Or having Zelda be the protagonist? Or both? I'd be down for a game with Zelda as the protag. Echoes of Wisdom doesn't really count and CD-I Zelda's Adventure or whatever sure as hell doesn't count. Zelda was pretty hot in her last 3 iterations (Twilight, Skyward, BOTW), with the hottest probably being the Twilight Princess version. She could use a sword too. No reason not to have that type of Zelda protagonist for a full game.

I also think Nintendo should, at some point, make a system that's just called "Nintendo". When I was a kid, people always referred to the NES as "the Nintendo" so it became shorthand for the system. However, the NES wasn't actually called "the Nintendo".

I made a wishlist for PS6 a while back in that thread. Having the option of a special edition with backwards compatibility, that can play PS1/2/3, would be rad. Or at least just PS2 BC. PS2 is in the wilderness a bit and could desperately use a system up-res'ing its content. The PS3 can cover PS1 and 3 already, while PS2 isn't covered by anything except actually finding a PS2 that still works. Also I'd like a Bloodborne remake from Bluepoint (RIP) which isn't happening so bleh.

Anyway, my wishlist for the next Nintendo system is pretty short and simple: A standard box system, in the aesthetic style of the NES/SNES (can be kind of a combination of the two), with a tech level actually on par with their competition. Just a simple, basic, powerful box system. No gimmicks, no motion controls, just a system with two controllers and current-tier tech. Plays Switch 1+2 games to keep that lineage going. Call it "Nintendo". They could keep the Switch 2 around as their lower-cost portable-focused system that can both play Switch 1+2 games and stream games off of the Nintendo, much the way Sony does now with being able to remote-play your PS5 with their portable screen. If not interested in portability, can just get the Nintendo and be all set.

Caeden said:

I will absolutely fucking buy it for ocarina remake. I dunno. That era suffers to me much like 8bit. SNES was the sweet spot pre-3-D graphically. Here it was probably ps3 or ps4 era. Ps1/N64/ps2/GC are all pretty rough. Not unplayable but they do not look good unless they have some timeless graphical styles to them

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SNES was the sweet spot of 2D yeah. It took 3D until, arguably, either the PS4 or PS5 era to really hit a sweet spot. I'd say Demon Souls PS5 was the first time I really felt like 3D had peaked and reached the level of artistry that could be found in late-stage 2D like Chrono Trigger.

It's very hard for me to go back to the N64, PS1, or PS2 generations now. Their rudimentary, rough 3D and dark/brown visuals are just not pleasant to look at. Even the PS3/360 generation is rough now, but it's the first one that's tolerable to revisit. Kinda like the NES to the PS4/5's SNES.