Bloomberg: Multiple Devs Saying Nintendo Asking For 4K Switch Games

[PAOerfulone]

Dulfite said:
So hypothetically if it launches March 2021, that's 4 years into Switch life, and it would be the flag ship device for two years until 2023 when Switch 2 comes?

I have mixed feelings. I don't want Switch 2 sales to be diminished because of buyer fatigue at a bunch of people only having bought a Switch Pro 2 years (or less) prior to that.

Buyer fatigue didn't stop the Switch when the New 3DS came out in February 2015, just 2 years before. The type of people who wait for a hardware revision/upgrade in Year 4 onwards to jump onboard aren't the same type of people who buy the system at launch. And the people who do upgrade are the type of consumers who have no problems spending the money on new hardware in the first place. Assuming this is true, a Switch Pro will have very little effect on Switch 2 sales. Do you see PS4 Pro or Xbox One X sales diminishing PS5 or XSX sales? 

Regardless, I don't think the Switch 2 will launch until 2024. Holiday 2023 at the earliest. The 3DS got 6 years and the Switch is blowing it out of the water and Furukawa has stated that it wants to give the Switch a longer cycle than usual.

So I think the Switch 2 is still a long ways off.

Last edited by PAOerfulone - on 09 September 2020