Do you plan to buy a Switch OLED model?

[Dulfite]

RolStoppable said:

Dulfite said:

It's been less than a week I think since the announcement? That means I can still celebrate the announcement right? Seriously, the fact that they are releasing such a small increase in features on their next iteration, and the fact that it doesn't have a "New" or "XL" or "Pro" tells me that Nintendo is serious about ending the Switch life and moving unto Switch 2 in 2023 (hopefully March, 6 years later). OLED Switch is very much in line with what their previous final iterations did on older devices, so we should also expect Switch 2 to come out after the typical window (which is roughly 2 years after final iteration of any device). If we got what so many wanted (some 4k Pro, a way more powerful upgrade than Nintendo normally would do), we'd all be ticked off that in 2023 and probably 2024 we are all playing on mostly 2017 technology. Let their "pro" be a slight upgrade for new buyers and the people that always want the best of the best so that we can ALL get a PROPER next gen Nintendo device in 2023 and not 1 or 2 years after.

There is no way Nintendo would have made the Pro so many wanted and not kept it out for 3-4 years as the way to play its games. It would have been way too expensive to build, and all the developers taking advantage of its tech would have not made enough sales off of the limited amount of Switch Pros that would have sold had it only been on the market for 2 years. We'd all be miserable in 2 years time if some of you got what you wanted. Forget the Switch Pro, all about the Switch 2!

I'd like to know more about this typical window. Should be as entertaining as your story about the GC not being a big technological leap over the N64.

First of all, I already acknowledged GC has some amazing technical leaps in posts from the past, I just made the mistake (in that particular post) of finding a Metroid 64 prototype that impressed me, and assumed the GC wasn't that big of a leap forward from there. But then, as I also mentioned in that thread, I discovered that was a fan-made prototype, and I withdrew my perspective that N64 to GC was a less than larger leap forward, which incidentally I had argued it had been prior to that thread. Can we please move on from that topic now?

Regarding iterations and new consoles, some of their iterations were focused on one country, or only released limited quantities, or weren't beefing up the hardware but instead making it smaller with less overall features, or a combination of these. I will be focusing on 4 significant final big iterations below:

	Japanese		Japanese
Final Big Iteration	Release Date	Successor	Release Date	Difference (years)
Gameboy Color	10/1998	GBA	3/2001	2.4
GBA SP	2/2003	DS	12/2004	1.83
DSI XL	10/2009	3ds	2/2011	1.33
New 3ds XL	10/2014	Switch	3/2017	2.42
			Avg.	1.99 years

So, considering OLED is very much like these iterations above, I predict that Switch 2 will launch 2 years (like the average above) after OLED Switch launches, so October 2023. But, if they release it quicker like they did the 3ds after the DSI XL, it could launch as early as February 2023.

Last edited by Dulfite - on 13 July 2021