trunkswd said:
They need to keep supporting it beyond next year, which I am sure they will. They Wii lacked heavy hitters beyond the first few years. I'd personally like to see a new F-Zero, Metroid Prime 4 and Mario Odyssey 2. BotW 2 is confirmed. |
Personally I'd prefer Galaxy 3 over Odyssey 2, I think it could sell better by differentiating itself.
trunkswd said: You can read the complete Article #3 and Analysis here: Switch vs 3DS – VGChartz Gap Charts – September 2019Switch Vs. 3DS Global: Gap change in latest month: 256,837 - Switch Gap change over last 12 months: 5,080,202 - Switch Total Lead: 6,141,915 – Switch Switch Total Sales: 38,751,874 3DS Total Sales: 32,609,959 |
Switch is well and truly breaking ahead of the 3DS. Hopefully we won't be hearing any more of that "Switch will sell on par with 3DS lifetime" talk.
zorg1000 said:
People talk about Nintendo not having to support 2 platforms anymore but I think alot of them dont realize that in ~2010 Nintendo was developing/publishing titles for 4 seperate platforms at the same time. They were trying to provide DS & Wii with late life support while also trying to get first year software ready for 3DS & Wii U. This caused them to be spread too thin and the transition period saw DS/Wii sales drop hard while 3DS/Wii U both got off to slow starts. The transition to Switch went much smoother as they killed off Wii U early and were able soften droughts by releasing Wii U ports while they kept supporting 3DS as a back up plan if Switch didnt take off. In theory the transition to Switch 2 should go even smoother since it should continue to use the Tegra line of chips making it easy for developers to transition and cross-gen titles should be easy to do. On top of that they wont need to give unnecessary support to a seperate back up plan since the Switch concept will no longer be a high risk proposition. So yeah, Nintendo has to do something foolish to make Switch suffer an early decline or Switch 2 to stall out of the gates. Something along the lines of returning to two or more seperate ecosystems or going with a completely different high risk concept for the next hardware or going with a different chipset making it hard for developers to transition. If they can continue giving strong support to Switch until 2023/2024 then release a Switch 2 in the XBO/PS4 ballpark power range than all should go very smoothly. |
Yeah that's what they should do I reckon, ride Switch until 2023 then release a full-blooded successor that's the same basic thing but a generation more powerful.