 The Tuesday letters page is all in favour of more remakes, including Final Fantasy 6, as one reader looks forward to Bomb Rush Cyberpunk. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk No guarantees So, it's looking pretty certain that the Switch 2 is going to be released next year, the only question is whether it's in the first half or the second half of 2024 – which seems to be dependent on how many they can make in time. The big question is whether it will be as successful as the Switch. Nintendo has never quite managed two massively successful consoles in a row; no one has except Sony, so I don't think it's a given. In a sense, all the rumours about hardware and power and storage and whatever are kind of irrelevant as it's always just about the games, especially with Nintendo. The Wii U may have been a weird idea but I'm sure it would've been a big hit if it had just had some decent games early on, but it never did. The rumours suggest the Switch 2 won't be that different, physically, to the current model, which seems sensible to me. I would feel a lot more confident about predicting its likely success, though, if we just had some rumours about its games. If it's just a director's cut for Zelda and some experimental stuff like I-2-Switch then I don't think anything's guaranteed. Arnie Counter-programming I actually think releasing Baldur's Gate 3 the same day as Starfield is a good idea, and I'm sure Sony was behind it. A lot of people are sleeping on Baldur's Gate 3, because it's more of a PC game and has been in early access for a while, but Divinity: Original Sin 2 got a lot of 10/10s, including from GC, and everything I've heard about the new game sounds very positive. If it ends up scoring better than Starfield, which is entirely possible, then Sony will have defused their biggest obstacle for a while and all without any exclusivity deals. In fact, the reason Baldur's Gate 3 isn't on){kind=link}
The Tuesday letters page is all in favour of more remakes, including Final Fantasy 6, as one reader looks forward to Bomb Rush Cyberpunk.
To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk
No guaranteesSo, it’s looking pretty certain that the Switch 2 is going to be released next year, the only question is whether it’s in the first half or the second half of 2024 – which seems to be dependent on how many they can make in time. The big question is whether it will be as successful as the Switch. Nintendo has never quite managed two massively successful consoles in a row; no one has except Sony, so I don’t think it’s a given.
In a sense, all the rumours about hardware and power and storage and whatever are kind of irrelevant as it’s always just about the games, especially with Nintendo. The Wii U may have been a weird idea but I’m sure it would’ve been a big hit if it had just had some decent games early on, but it never did.
The rumours suggest the Switch 2 won’t be that different, physically, to the current model, which seems sensible to me. I would feel a lot more confident about predicting its likely success, though, if we just had some rumours about its games. If it’s just a director’s cut for Zelda and some experimental stuff like I-2-Switch then I don’t think anything’s guaranteed.Arnie