After the Switch

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Dulfite said:

The Wii U was one of their biggest failures of all time in the gaming industry.

Let's not get carried away.

It was a failure, but nowhere near as big a failure, as say, Virtual Boy, Apple Pippin, Atari Jaguar, Phillips CD-i, etc.

Dulfite said:

curl-6 said:

Personally, I wouldn't mind if they give the Switch a good 7 year lifespan before replacing it, and in that time just make different models like a Mini/Lite/XL/SP/etc.

That way, by the time they do replace it, it can be with something new and innovative to suit the currently unforeseeable market conditions of 2024, not just an iterative upgrade.

Sure, but my point was I think Nintendo has struck an idea (and others on this thread agree) that they shouldn't go away from at least in the next gen. I don't ever want them to go back to JUST being a handheld or JUST being a home console. The Switch is simply too convenient to go back to the old way. "Forget the old way!"

Oh I'm pretty sure they'll never go back to a split console/handheld approach, that would be like going back to SD resolutions or monochrome screens, a regressive step that would just make no sense. The Wii U/3DS gen proved they can no longer properly support a divided userbase, and there's no point in making dedicated portables any more.

My point was more that by 2024 their next system might be something new we can't foresee yet.