| Otter said: That's mostly the case which why I specified the level of investment. Most people own a Switch in addition to another platform, but if the Switch was their sole or primary platform Nintendo would see much higher software sales across the board, more investments in their online service and digital purchases. The only thing I think is up in the air is when the tech would be available and at what price, that deserves a separate conversation. Fall 2021 amazing, 2022 perfect, 2023 meh |
Switch has sold over 50 million systems. So if it is still true that most people who have a Switch have another system that likely means that most people who have a PS4 or XBO also have another system. People just like to think of the Switch as the other system for whatever reason so that perspective shapes the idea of Switch being the other system. Nothing about the fact that gamers often buy more than one system in a given generation says the Switch isn't the primary system for a lot of them despite your assumptions. Given how hot the Switch is and especially that the other systems are getting replaced soon it is quite the assumption to assume the Switch isn't the primary console for many of these people.
What is with this obsession of yours of BotW2 being on Switch 2?? There is no reason whatsoever to think that, like literally that is the most bizarre thing to talk about. Switch is in the middle of it's lifecycle, and we know BotW2 should be launching fairly soon on the Switch as it got a trailer 11 months ago and is a direct sequel re-using the map and engine and no doubt many assets and whatnot of BotW which means a much shorter development time. I wouldn't be surprised if they had planned to release it this holiday before the pandemic, and now its likely been pushed back to next year.
Fall 2021 for another Switch revision to compliment the Switch and Switch Lite, sure, a new system hellllll no that would make Nintendo the dumbest business on earth. 2022 definitely way too early still by every measure. They're not gonna launch a new system in a year when their current system is probably still selling around 15 million units. 2023 would be about right as the Switch should be slowing by then but honestly a spring 2024 launch might make even more sense in order to get the Switch 2 as close to the other systems as Nintendo can (waiting on a more powerful chip perhaps) in order to garner more next gen 3rd party multiplats.
I mean, you may as well be arguing that instead of launching the PS4 Pro, Sony should have skipped that and later launched PS5 in 2018 amazing, 2019 perfect, 2020 meh. By your Switch 2 logic of cutting off a system well before it's time, PS4 should have launched a year or two ago and XBox Series should have probably launched like 3 years ago. For some reason you just REALLY want Nintendo to keep following what they did with Wii U, except you don't realize the reason they cut the Wii U off so early was because it was a massive failure, while the Switch is a massive success and in its fourth year its sales are still improving.
