| Jumpin said: Nintendo just needs to keep building on their platform, rather than clearing it out and rebuilding every generation. Switch 2 should be a Switch 2 should bring Switch 1 gamers and their libraries into the next generation, rather than starting the next generation without them. |
I think they won't do this because they want to sell remastered versions of Switch games on Switch successor
Or the will decided to not release, let's say, Breath of The Wild remaster on Switch 2, to release it along with BOTW 2 as collection on Switch 3 instead. My point is just they are a company that likes to make their games scarce, so people will be more likely to buy it when they re-released that game 10 years in future
Backwards compatibility depreciate their games values or at least decreases the pool of potential buyers. As a consumer it sucks, but that's not much we can do about
About the drop on support in their consoles, I think it's just a matter of human resources. They need to keep a big influx of games to convince people to buy the new hardware. They are not able to keep the support to both hardwares. The point of buying a Nintendo hardware is 70% their exclusives that happens to be mainly first party, if Switch 2 shares the same library of Switch 1 then people will have no reason to buy Switch 2 until Switch 2 gets it's own exclusives in their second or third year of existence
If people delays too much buying their new hardware it can make third party delay their support too, either for ports or for exclusives. I can see Switch 2 suffering from PS3 fate, with a slow start and with good sales by the end of its life, but far behind people's expectations
I'm sure Nintendo will drop completely their own support for Switch 1 by at least a year before Switch 2 release. And I don't think it will hurt Switch sales as much as it did with Wii or DS, because Switch 1 already has a plethora of evergreen titles to hard-carry software and hardware sales, plus seems like 3rd party are really starting to release their own exclusives, specially japanese third parties
I see Switch 1 having a much better 3rd party support late-life than the Wii. First because the user base will very likely end being 40% higher and they aren't buying the switch for an specific game mechanic that 3rd parties aren't interested to develop for
