NSW is here to Stay!! It’s Life Will Be Long and No Successor Will Come Before 2025!

[Pyro as Bill]

curl-6 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Nintendo's IPs are too valuable to risk on unproven hardware. Look at N64/WiiU. There's no reason for Nintendo's big dogs to be exclusive to Switch 2 and given the risk it would be foolish to do so. If Switch has X years of life left as a home console, then it has X + 5 years left as a handheld. They can't bet the house on hardware again even if they do have the best hardware gimmick ever invented.

They cannot ride Switch 1 forever, so sooner they later they have to move on to new hardware, and when they do, they need software to sell it.

Kinect and Pokemon are the only things I can think of that have extended a gen.

Mario Kart, NSMB, Smash, Animal Crossing and Zelda (so far) are the only titles that currently have the selling power of Kinect/Pokemon.

They're all either 'last gen' games or games that could have easily run on last gen hardware or 2-gen old hardware at lower res.

So, actually Nintendo could ride Switch 'forever' or for at least 2 gens if they wanted to.