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curl-6 on 13 August 2020
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yo33331 said:
curl-6 said:

You're forgetting the biggest reason; Animal Crossing, a true killer app which has opened up whole new demographics to the Switch.

It is true that their future release schedule looks bleak, but that could just be due to them being annoyingly secretive rather than genuinely having little left to release on Switch. They'll ride out the rest of this year on the strength of AC and unmet demand alone. It's next year that the lack of games will begin to become a concern, should it not be addressed by then.

And I very much doubt PS5/XSX will have any significant impact on Switch sales, they're such different products that they coexist rather than directly competing, as evidenced by Switch doing the same with PS4/Xbone.

I agree. And yes I forget Animal Crossing, it also boost the boosted sales

As for the next gen well it is coexisting because xbox is very weak and PS4 is in its dead bed. When PS4 was selling stronger at 2017 and 2018, switch was selling just okayish .. with around 150-200K weekly.

So I think they will slow the switch sales. Also other point with the next gen is that the 3rd party games will now be made for not 1 but 2 technicall generations ahead of switch so switch will not be getting so good 3rd party support in the future as it is now like witcher 3 or doom or other PS4/XB1 games.

Switch sales in 2017-2018 weren't suppressed by PS4, it simply hadn't amassed a big library of evergreens yet; as more games arrived, its sales increased. And AAA third party games aren't what is selling Switch so losing those won't matter.