Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

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goopy20 said:

After the Wii-U bombed it's amazing that Nintendo was able to come back so hard with the Switch. It probably could have beaten the ps4 this gen if it was launched at the same time as the ps4/Xone. The problem, however, is that next gen is just around the corner. Meaning the specs of the Switch will be even more dated next year and I wonder what kind of impact that will have on its sales and support from 3rd party developers. Nintendo could launch a more powerful next gen Switch, of course, but it will probably take a couple of years before they would be able to get next gen like hardware into a handheld device. 

So what you guys think. Will the Switch still sell like hotcakes when the next gen starts. And if not, should they continue down the path of a handheld device, even though they could only launch it halfway through the ps5/ Scarlett's life cycle?

  

If I were Nintendo, I would launch a Switch Pro in 2021 to extend the life of the current Switch line, and then move on to a backwards-compatible Switch 2/Super Switch halfway through next gen (2023 or 4). 

I honestly feel like developers have to be thinking about making their next round of games highly scale-able with the Switch closing in on 50 million so fast.