I hope that Nintendo has jumped the gun on these frustrating 2 switching leaks

We call it a marketing trick, but the latest Switch 2 leakage has removed the wind from the Switch 2 sails from Nintendo. Announcing the follow -up of one of the most successful keyboards ever appears to be a formal, not a cause of excitement.

Switching story 2 to date

On May 7, 2024, Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa President said that the company will announce Nintendo Switch 2 By March 31, 2025. Despite everything we knew, the 10 -month window can be a coverage of an imminent advertisement, or it could indicate a painful waiting until the last minute. Eight months after this waiting, the torment is real. But not because of the impatience.

There were small drops of great information, such as how The 2 switch will be compatible backWe move Nintendo Switch online from the game simulations. This was good news, as customers did not feel mainly so that customers did not feel the purchase of new 2024 games or subscribe to the company’s online service. He certainly instilled confidence in patients’ masses, even if it is not the announcement of the control unit they want.

Although Switch 2 leaks are continuing for years, the details have become increasingly defined over the past few months. We have seen everything from the new Joy-Con units to Mother’s paintingAnd now the ocean manufacturer Genke games I dropped a detailed display of the control unit This gives us a detailed look at almost everything. Frankly, we may know more about Switch 2 now more than we know from Nintendo when this official announcement comes finally.

Therefore, this is not the impatience of this problem. I am frustrated.

The disclosure key was exciting because we knew something

Part of my bridge comes from wonderful memories of “NX” detection (which was called the key during production). Nintendo had everything to prove it after the gloomy financial failure of Wii U. It was high, it was.

Then, on October 19, 2016, Nintendo was published A badly creeping image of someone wearing a Mario costume overlooking the shower curtain. Raw confusion erupted, with the phrase “reveals NX?” On everyone’s lips. Nintendo knew what they were doing. They dominated the message. The next day, we received the trailer that changed the video game scene.

For 3 minutes and 30 seconds, Nintendo brilliantly offered every way that a new hybrid can work with hand. It was amazing to see all the standard Switch elements disintegrating and again in different configurations. We have shown its power as a single partner, carrying a social axis, and even a sporting force (perhaps a simple transgression, but it was great anyway).

3D Mario The platforms were back. Splatoon He was returning. Skyrim On the Nintendo control unit? This wild open world Zelda The game has not yet played but necessary to? Nintendo was So behind. I felt this because this tsunami of the information appeared in the place where there was nothing before.

What you just described is one of the huge moments in the history of the game. Switch 2 was not that. But after all these years, we remembered these feelings if we saw the key 2 through similar new eyes. This will not happen now.

Nintendo had the opportunity to enjoy this

Thus comes the other part of my frustration: Nintendo is not stupid.

Slowly, the tap has seen leaks to a flood. Obviously, he knows which of these were real, which was not, and he can see the trends heading in the previous direction. Development units were known in the wilderness. I knew that shows like CES were on the direct horizon as Nintendo accessories manufacturers like Genki will be in the presence and want to pay attention between a difficult crowd.

How better is to show the console? I have succeeded, I wrote two articles on this topic.

The possibility was higher than that of the public will see the key 2 before it was properly revealed. These glimpses – realistic or fake – have become through the factory pictures and factory photos, the impression that the audience will get the console for several weeks and months. This has a real long -term effect, and the viral influence of people who see that the switch 2 in the wild will not have the same power to restore them; It is now a common technique.

I think Nintendo is lucky because Genke puts this polished presentation (though The practical model was on the floor of the CES exhibition much more than raw). But I saw that elite disappointment that my first right glimpse was through an advertisement for the shipping pavement and a case with a switching grip, and not as part of a buzz ball with Mario And colleagues

Since Nintendo did not anticipate any of this, this moment of influencing will not happen. There is a non -zero possibility that Switch 2 will feel like ancient news for people about the time when Nintendo reveals.

I’m sure Switch 2 will work well, but there is now more work on Nintendo to do it to make it a basic purchase. I don’t think we are facing another announcement similar to Wii U, but without the moment of crazy noise, many owners of the informal switch may not hear. I hope to be wrong, but it seems that Nintendo has done everything in her power not to set the back for the success he deserves.

The whole thing is about games now

Nintendo will need a huge dose of Super Mario Odysse Moments while detecting 2 switch to replace this lost land. The level of shock to the system from the new game ads that make this thing a must for a variety of fans. The ambiguity around the console has ended long ago, but at least the games have not been leaked (so far.)

This needs to be either exclusive or Ports that were “impossible” to the elderly key. Including cross versions of excitement about PlayStation 5 for years, so while there is room for Switch 2, heavy hunger people should be exclusive to feel that they can only exist on new devices.

You will not care about leaks when we play Super Mario Odysse: Homerus or F-zero: Actual light speed or Mario Cart 9, which will be present instead of F-Zero or Zelda in space or Splatoon 99 (Or, for my vanity, Xenoblade chronicles 4). HECK, even make an unprecedented game and put Game Pass on this Lollipop 1 for a launch collection from which no one can mock.

I am a little ridiculous here, but the important point is that the exciting games that we do not expect or ads that appeal to the fake fans ’rules are what Switch 2 needs to break the minds the way Nintendo wants. Shortly, most people in my life are currently happy to adhere to the key they already have.

Nintendo needs to change it, and even with leaks, games can do this.

Stay tuned at some point in the next three months to get an advantage in which I roll (perhaps) on the Switch 2 advertisement!