| Otter said: 3. Related to this, people seem to mainly understand console cycles and motives of companies in terms of units sold, the reality is companies care about $$$$, not units. You can make more money with 2 machines killing it than just one, and they don't have to cannibalize each other. Plenty of long-term Switch owners will be eager to buy new Nintendo hardware in 2023, meanwhile late adopters who are picking a Switch system 6-7 years late are a completely different audience altogether. You cannot treat them as one audience. The Switch OLED omitting any improvements for docked play/specs etc is not a trivial decision imo. It says a lot. |
That never really happened with nintendo though. The longest life after the release of the successor was basically 3DS. Everything else died quickly. And while PS1 and PS2 sold well after the release of the next machine, PS3 and PS4 dropped like stones with weights around their ankles once the next machine hit shelfes.
