The Switch is not another Wii U!

[zorg1000]

bdbdbd said:

A_C_E said:

Something tells me Nintendo isn't waiting for the Switch sales to 'pick-up'. We don't know how successful Switch will be and Nintendo isn't just going to cut their revenue sources from videogames in half. I could be completely wrong here but I believe Nintendo would rather have the Switch be successful as well as have a successful dedicated handheld throughout the 9th gen instead of just the Switch.

I don't know what kind of handheld would work as a Switch controller, it was just a stupid idea that randomly popped in my head...

Switch is apparently supposed to be released in different form factors. The point is where the money comes from during the transition. 3DS is already six years old, but because it's the 3DS that's making money for Nintendo, Nintendo needs to sell it and it's games until Switch is able tonreplace 3DS as Nintendo's money making machine. 

zorg1000 said:

No, they have made it clear that they can not effectively support two seperate hardware lines at once and this problem will continue to grow as their devices become more powerful and require larger development teams, times and costs.

Back in 2014, Iwata talked about this and said that going forward they want to create a single, unified platform similar to iOS or Android, where all or most software can be shared across various form factors.

Also, in the last few years they merged the handheld & consoles divisions of software & hardware so there is no longer a handheld software team and a console software team, there is now simply just a software team. Same for the hardware side of things.

I strongly believe going forward Switch will be the only hardware line they support and they will offer different form factors.

Nintendo Switch-tablet style, hybrid device

Switch Lite-smaller, cheaper, portable only device

Switch TV-cheaper, microconsole, TV only device

That's just an example of what we could see and would essentially be the equivelent of Nintendo's versions of iPad, iPod & Apple TV.

There are actually few problems with this: while it appears that this could be Nintendo's long term solution considering hardware, the console generations are needed to be able to sell more games and new hardware. Problem is that eventually the market is flooded with games nobody's making money with, think about the mobile games market.

Then again, Switch may be Nintendo's solution to finally cram Sony out of the market, and then return to normal cycle. If everyone ends up making games on Nintendo's systems, Nintendo does not have a problem with software output, so they could get back to two different devices.

I never said anything about them not releasing new generations of devices, just that with each generation there will be a single family of devices rather than seperate devices with their own seperate libraries.