Ok so my prediction of the timeline is that there'll be an official announcement of the console early next year, February Direct perhaps? Would they do a console reveal in a Direct? Release will be holiday 2024, maybe mid-October or so.
Random hope I have for the Nintendo 8: That profiles are a bit more segregated. That is, when you power on the console, you select your profile first thing, and all the screenshots, play time data, etc, are unique to each profile. The one downside would be that it would be harder to share...
Hopefully it uses the same cartridges as the Switch, or at least has a slot for backwards compatibility. I'm also curious as to what sort of gimmick it'll have, since pretty much every Nintendo console N64 onward has had some defining gimmick. I wouldn't be surprised to see them make more of a...