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Mnementh said:
Soundwave said:

What's the reason the Switch 1 and Switch 2 couldn't co-exist for multiple years?

Switch 2 is probably going to raise the price up to $349.99 to start as that's a more lucrative price position, something like the Switch Lite at least will be like $149.99-$169.99 by then ... they would be serving completely different parts of the market by then.

Nintendo is not going to abandon the upscale $300+ market, that part of the market makes a lot of money and that consumer buys a lot of games, you lose that upper end market to people who aren't 11 years old and eventually get tired of a very dated product to other game platforms if you don't keep your product line fresh. 

I don't know. Then had this ever worked in the past? Different models of the same gen, yes, but two gens coexisting?

A hybrid console has never worked before either, sure I think that could work fine. 

A new 2D Mario for example doesn't need an entire new hardware, you could make a game like that and have it run at 4K or whatever on the Switch 2 and lower resolutions of Switch 1 ... easy peasy.