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Dulfite on 14 January 2021
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Why I think Switch will have a strong second half of its life:

1) Consolidated software teams. While their 3ds teams aren't used to making HD quality AAA games, having those teams work on their own HD games and/or joining already established HD teams will only enable them to produce faster output of games than Wii U.

2) Because they don't have two devices, they can't rely on one remaining relevant while they focus on the next generation. In the past, they could abandon one in order to have a good launch of the next big device, all the while relying on newer games to come out on their other device. They abandoned Wii U for Switch, but relied on 3DS sales in the meantime and kept making games for it. They abandoned Wii to make the Wii U, but relied on DS and eventually 3DS sales. They can't do that now since they have a unified platform, nor does it make business sense to do so. Because of this, I predict that the Switch will, in fact, have some of the best last 2-3 years a console life in Nintendo hardware history and I also predict Switch 2 will have a difficult first year in terms of quantity of quality games unless my below prediction happens.

3) I personally think Nintendo will try to stretch this generation out to at least 7 years before launching Switch 2 because of the unified team. They will need more time to develop year one games for Switch 2 to be successful at launch, so making years 4-6 very good in quantity and making year 7 slow down so they can focus on Switch 2 will help them with that.

4) I don't think Covid-19 is going away. The virus will continue to mutate and vaccines will be worthless in a year (my prediction). Everyone will continue to freak out and self-isolate, making the video game market continue to explode, particularly for Nintendo because their games are quite stress relieving. Because of this, Switch hardware sales will continue to be higher than Nintendo expects and they will decide to make even more software for it, particularly if they go to year 7 without another device.