curl-6 said:
Nu-13 said:
The switch competes directly with the ps4/xb1 and will compete with ps5/xsx for a short while. The switch doesn't have to worry about the new systems but it's successor does. Again, 6 years isn't cutting short in any way shape or form.
Software support for the switch? Multiplats will mostly end alongside 2022. Only nintendo and small/mid japanese developers will be releasing low/mid budget new games/ports/remakes/remasters for it. But that late life software support will be the same regardless of when the switch 2 comes out.
Hardware sales? At the end of 2022, switch will have sold roughly 90% of it's lifetime numbers. Also, the people buying it at $149-199 (likely bundled with MK8D) won't be the same people buying a brand new $299 system with no game bundled. Once again, the successor release won't change it's late life sales.
To sum it up: The switch loses absolutely nothing wheter it's successor releases in 2022 or later but the switch 2 can lose a lot by releasing late. Of course it can still be a very sucessful system with a 2023 release but it has even more potential by coming in 2022.
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If Switch directly competed with PS/Xbox, it's massive success would've caused sales of those systems to tank. It didn't, because they fill different niches. And Switch is getting hardly any AAA multiplats anyway and they're not what's selling it, so those stopping won't really matter.
They don't lose anything by giving it a longer lifespan.
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Did you even read my post? Of course they are competing but being of different generations limits how many sales can be stolen by either side. Who is talking about AAA multis selling the switch? I'm saying they will be gone after 2022 and the late life support for switch will be the same wheter a successor is out in 2022 or later. They (nintendo) definitely lose by missing the best timing for their new system.
But whatever suits you best. We'll just have to wait and see.
