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kurasakiichimaru on 20 January 2017
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RolStoppable said:
ClassicGamingWizzz said:

 

What's so funny? NES, SNES, Wii, GB, DS and 3DS all made it to six years.

Barkley said:

I currently don't think the Switch will be especially successful (<50 Million LTD is my guess) though that could certainly change.

I am however interested to know if you think Nintendo will launch any hardware over those Six years at all. Not a direct successor as you state but possibly a dedicated home console/handheld? Though I think either would be a mistake alongside Switch.

I just find it hard to imagine that the Switch functioning as Nintendo's only Home Entertainment System could still be their latest offering in 2023, considering it's specs.

I don't expect anything other than a Switch revision, although I am not sure how that would look like. If the system got smaller, it would need new Joy-cons too.

I don't think specs will matter. The developers Nintendo targeted can all live with these specs for many years. The only developers who insist on better specs are those who work on AAA games and they were deliberatly excluded because their wishes are not compatible with what Switch was supposed to be.

The main problem for switch is convincing people to buy switch when they could easily target as third party as the handheld business is dying while mobile gaming is growing.

They don't have a problem with that but they are solving their home console problem by introducing new problems.

At this point... Nintendo is probably better off as an accessory manufacturer than a console one. They can just sell off those joycons by being add-ons to mobile phones you own but hey let's sell a wii u-tablet again. Sigh.