Kotaku: "The rumor going around earlier this week wasn't really anything new. The console that locks out used games is an anticonsumer bogeyman going back years and though the technology to do it exists, it's yet to come true, for whatever reason. Still, a report this week repeated the same year old rumor about the next Xbox and the reaction from many was angry, indignant, and justified. 'F*** that. I'm not buying.'
To me, it also sounded a little relieved."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
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This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.
I'm excited for a switch 2 however I don't feel it will be coming this year as per the tweet in they are commuting to a reveal in this Japanese financial year in 2025.
Realistically we will get one last holiday season to focus on the switch because it would be madness for Nintendo to go into the holidays where the switch always performs well when they have announced a switch 2.
I'm thinking we see a announcement late Jan 25 personally with a release between March and June depending on when the software is ready and how strong the holday sales were if they need to boost those figures for the next earnings call or not
It should be an interesting year; Sony, Nintendo, and MS all have new Hardware to show.
I wouldn't worry about this.
Media First made up the rumor about PS4 figuring they could get massive amount of hits. Then they made up rumors about the 720, both attempts were mostly ignored other than sony fans defending Sony when the rumor was about PS4 and attacking when the rumor was about 720
And finally it cought on that it was upsetting/setting off trolls and worrying some gamers and turning them off so anti MSFT media and other hatful Sony supporters started heavily spreading the rumor. Even main stream game media wanted in on the action. All this in the hopes of other fanboys would attack/troll/spread lies/smear(basically the same thing that happend in the start of this generation)
The thing is, we WILL buy it if this stuff isn't there. They probably won't "announce it" but the first batch of people that buy a game and can't buy used games will throw a HUGE fit and decline a lot of sales.
My uncle said these rumors were false
Would you have bought a ps3 knowing about online passes?
People adopted, and you will adopt to NO used games, you would find a excuse.