I personally see a full 24 months of proper and dedicated support for the console. After that I can envision Nintendo drumming up promotion and hype for the next console and moving most of their primary developers over to working on that. Nintento are notorious for ditching their consoles software support when sales are lukewarm. The N64's first party software line up was almost barren by 2000 only 3-4(European and Japanese respectively) years after it came out and the GCN was released in September 2001. Support for the GCN was even shorter I recall. This is a drastic contrast compared to Sony who released Gran Turismo 6 late 2013 on PS3 months after the PS4 was released. GT6 is a big budget game which had several hundred developers working on it. I still remember the disappointment I felt when Nintendo had noticeably withdrawn their support of the N64. The Dreamcast had come out and the graphics absolutely blew the N64 out of the water, the PS2 was looming with a freight train of hype(DVD playback, backwards compatible, 600 trillion polygons per second(yeh right...) with rumors of Microsoft entering the console business.. Can't really blame them. Same deal wit the GCN but sales were worse and the PS2 had almost a monopoly on the market...
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