| Cerebralbore101 said: They'd be better off, promptly launching the Switch's successor March 03rd of 2022. Same concept, better hardware, and backwards compatible with Switch. But Nintendo won't do that. They have a bad habit of dropping nearly all support for their current console, waiting a year, and then launching a successor. Wii was nearly unsupported for all of 2012, before they launched the Wii U. The Wii U barely got anything from summer 2016 to spring 2017, when the Switch launched. |
I don't think working with Nvidia Tegra was the right decision if they're NOT making it backward compatible; updated compatibility is kind of the point of the Tegra.
I agree that Nintendo is leaving a lot of money on the table by not supporting established bases leading up to new hardware. It would be WAY more financially beneficial if they continued supporting older hardware for at least 3 years after the launch of next-generation hardware and would establish a lot of consumer confidence in upgrading hardware down the road; it would also mean that there's no huge rush to get the killer app out - with Switch, Nintendo NEEDED to get their killer app at launch because their entire fanbase was waiting for the next console - it was make or break. BUT, if that fanbase isn't waiting, and there is instead a multi-year window for them to update, that's a much healthier way to shift between generations; and that's why mobile and PC manufacturers are so successful - you get an iPhone 5S for example, you don't HAVE to upgrade to iPhone 6 the moment it releases or lose all future software support; you're basically getting all new software for 3 years after the iPhone 6 launches, and you can upgrade when you want - and it probably won't be iPhone 6, but 7 or 8.
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