Upgraded Switch model announced: Same price, battery life of 4.5 to 9 hours - Launches in August (Americas, Japan) and September (Others)

[Shiken]

RolStoppable said:

Shiken said:

You see the problem here is that you are cherry picking what facts you want to use for this topic.

Acting like the NES and SNES did not need western 3rd party because most 3rd party devs were from Japan does not exactly qualify as a quality argument.  The fact is, the NES and SNES had the majority of 3rd party support as a whole, which is the real factor.

Also we are not talking about the handheld market, so to throw those in there just to pad the numbers is also not a good way to look at things.  All that does is enable people who try to say, "Switch is only a handheld that connects to the TV, and therefore sales should not be compared to PS or XB."  The fact is that the Switch is a hybrid home console with portable functionality, as that is what it is advertised and sold as.  Furthermore their handhelds have had adequate 3rd party support as a whole, cherry picking western devs is just a way to make it look like they had less than what they did.

So unless you are ready to jump on the bandwagon of either "Nintendo dropped out of consoles" or "with the Switch Lite making the Switch a portable only device, a next gen home console from Nintendo is right around the corner", I suggest you re-evaluate your the data you are briging to the table.

Uh-huh...

Switch is a hybrid because it functions as both a home console and a handheld console. This also means that the software pipelines of Nintendo home consoles and handhelds have been united, so it's only logical to look at the entire history of both Nintendo home consoles and handhelds.

If you are ready to concede that Nintendo handhelds have always had adequate third party support, then it should be obvious that Switch will be fine regardless of what the AAA third party publishers intend to do in the coming years. The biggest advantage that Switch has over Nintendo handhelds is that it has Nintendo's full attention, something that hasn't been the case since the NES.

When someone raises the question if Nintendo can succeed in the absence of AAA third party support, specifically what said support is known as today, then it only makes sense to point out that every successful Nintendo console in history has succeeded without said support.

I have to give credit to the bolded.  Very good point there, and that alongside of stellar 1st party offerings will serve well to keep the Switch going strong regardless of what happens.

My prediction remains the same however for reasons I have previously gone over.  Only time will tell at this point.