Switch: a multi-wave console lifecycle (prediction)

[JWeinCom]

bowserthedog said:

JWeinCom said:
It's possible... but there are risks in going that way. Fragmenting your fanbase is a tricky thing. We didn't see very many "New" 3DS games that were successful. Similarly, only a few Game Boy Color games outside of Pokemon were really big. And even Wii games with Motion Plus were hampered by hardware fragmentation.

Unless they've solved this problem, I don't know if that's a good idea. If they can effectively boost the switch through a dock, that may be a way to do it, but as I understand, that's not possible with the hardware.

I don't see fragmentation as a big issue. If the developer is at all worried about fragmentation they can just release a title across all versions of the hardware. However, if its a game that can only run on the newer hardware then they choose whether it is worth it or not to release it on the new hardware only. I just don't see how this is a negative thing. 

History has shown that that developers overwhelmingly choose not to make games for the new version of the hardware, which kind of defeats the purpose.