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curl-6 on 09 August 2020
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Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

It's possible to strike a balance where you support a system until it's replacement and also give it's successor a good start; Nintendo just tend not to be very good at striking that balance, the Wii being perhaps the most obvious case in point.

The GBA, GCN, Wii U had far worse late life cycle support than the Wii did. 

And all the successor systems to those machines sold great. 

So really probably what that tells you is late cycle support doesn't mean much really and cutting off support for an older system to ensure better early generation support for the next system has if anything worked well for Nintendo. 

To be honest maybe Microsoft would've been better off doing this too. I think they maybe should have considered ditching the XBox One in 2019 and getting a year headstart over the PS5. 

Sega really, is actually the outlier here and they did extreme things. 

I mean Sony too could've supported the PS2 into 2007 really if they wanted to and pushed PS3 into 2007 ... I don't think it would have helped the PS3 any bit though. 360 would've simply cemented itself a larger lead.

Better support in Wii's late life would've meant more revenue off both hardware and software in 2011-2012 though. Plus it's better for us as consumers to get more support for the hardware we spend good money on.