We'll end the month with this oft-repeated rumor that's starting to sound like legitimate news... Nintendo is planning a follow-up to the Switch with more power, ho ho ho. See, there was this sitcom starring the guy who plays the astronaut in the Toy Story films, and... aw, forget it. The Red Green Show was better anyway.
Anyway, this news was reported by The Verge and Taiwan's Economic Daily News, which may or may not be a reputable source depending on whether or not you believe Taiwan exists. (No, I'm not over this.) Considering compromised Switch ports of games like The Outer Worlds, everyone is probably eager for a more powerful version of the system, but I personally don't know if I'm ready for a more expensive one. Hell, I'm scraping by with the Switch Lite, a dedicated handheld without the bells and whistles of the original model.
Also, remember that book I wanted to write about home console ports of Neo-Geo games? It's progressing, albeit with all the speed of an arctic glacier. The meat of the book, featuring Super NES, Genesis, TurboDuo, and Sega CD games, is finished, but I also wanted to add chapters about the Nettou series of Game Boy games, the Neo-Geo Pocket, and a special feature on how the Neo-Geo arcade hardware was secretly the champion of cash-strapped gamers in the 1990s. Everyone who grew up in that decade tends to think of the Neo-Geo as the Rolls-Royce of game systems, as magnificent as it is impossible to afford, but it was quite a different story for both arcade owners and their customers. Did you ever see a Neo-Geo game that demanded two quarters for a credit? Yeah, my point exactly.
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