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Miyamotoo on 28 November 2018
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Soundwave said:

Waiting until 2022/2023 will be a disaster. IMO Nintendo knows this 100%, they're not going to wait that long. There is no Game Boy/DS second product line for Nintendo to fall back on if the "console" fails either. It's far too risky to do things that way. The upgrade cycle has to change.

Even look at their software by the end of 2019 Nintendo will have used up Mario 3D, Zelda, Pokemon, Pokemon Lets Go, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, Luigi's Mansion, probably Metroid, Fire Emblem ... they can make sequels to these IP but the hardware boost is going to be nowhere near the same because much of the fanbase will own a Switch already for the pre-existing game. 

With what new IP are they going to sell the Switch with for 2020, 2021, and 2022? It will be a disaster with declining sales every year and no, some little New 3DS style upgrade or even Switch Mini is not going to be enough for Nintendo to maintain a high level of sales. 

Well they they will not wait until 2023/2024. without any revision, New Switch, Switch Pocket, Switch TV, Switch Pro...are all possible revision for current Switch. We most likely receiving first revision next year.

They don't need big hardware boost to maintain good sales with their revisions in any case, hardware strength is not what selling Switch on first place. They will maintain sales with price cuts, revisions and new releases, like they were doing with 3DS for instance (just with big difference that Switch is and it will selling better than 3DS in any case).

 

mZuzek said: 

Edit: also, honestly I hope they don't go 4K. 1080p is absolutely fine enough in my opinion, and by not upgrading the resolution it means you can have better graphics without nearly as much power - never mind the storage issue.

Adoption of 4K TV is getting much faster, and in 5 years 4k will certainly be standard, also upscaled 1080p on 4K TV doesnt look too good. I dont expecting that Switch 2 will have power to push native 4K, but some some higher resolution than 1080p that could upscale much better to 4K (maybe 1440p for docked mode) is very possible.  

 

CaptainExplosion said: 

-Wait until 2022-23 to release it.

-Be 2.5 times more powerful than the Switch

 

Sure Switch 2 would be much stronger than than that, I mean 2-3x more power is possible even now with just Tegra X2 instead of Tegra X1, and who knows how much strong mobile chips we will have in around 5 years.

 

SKMBlake said: 
mZuzek said: 

Eh... the Wii U was nothing like the Wii, not at all. It had the software/hardware backwards compatibility but was overall a much different product. Had a weird new controller no one understood, an incredibly slow OS that was far worse than the Wii's, and was honestly garbage at doing what the Wii did best - local multiplayer.

The Wii was basically a more powerful gamecube with minor changes and the Wii U was basically a more powerful Wii. Wii U even uses Wiimotes to play multiplat games, and can even run Gamecube games. For 3 generations, Nintendo released nearly the same console over and over.

And so was the Gameboy Advance, then the DS and then the 3DS.

So, it is wrong to say "It's Nintendo so it won't happen" cause Nintendo did it several times.

The Wii was basically upgraded GC (its same GC hardware just overclocked with motion controls), but Wii U defintly is not improved Wii, it has improved CPU, much modern GPU, more modern and much more RAM...Wii U is true next gen compared to Wii, same couldnt be said for Wii compared to GC.