Report: Nintendo Denies OLED Profit and Any More Iterations

[Mandalore76]

Otter said:

archbrix said:

@bolded:  People really need to take note of this.  Super Mario Bros 3 released five years after the NES launched and went on to become the console's biggest selling stand-alone game of all time - by far.  Unlike with the Wii, Nintendo seems to be doing right by the Switch and its potential to keep selling tons of software by not rushing out a successor.  Still plenty of games to be made for the Switch; especially when the console will still be shipping close to 20m units in 2023 with all of the options Nintendo still has left to make sure that happens.

Nothing is stopping a Switch game released in its 5th year becoming its best selling title. There isn't this binary where either Zelda BOTW2 sells 30m or Nintendo Launches Switch 2 in 2023....End-of-life software tends to perform worse but end of Life software which is on 2 platforms have better legs. Both Zelda games to break sales records for the franchise have been cross-gen. Miles Morales has remained in the UK top 10 for most of the year thanks to being cross-gen and launching alongside a new platform. PS4 software like TLOU2/Ghost/FFVII, still had a great year in 2020 despite the launch of a new platform during the Holiday. 

People are forcing a 2023 release vs 2024 into a make or break thing, its simply not. If one year makes sense, the other can't be far off

Being cross gen didn't net Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild their explosive sales though, being launch games for Nintendo's 2 best selling consoles did.  The reason they weren't Gamecube exclusive or Wii U exclusive were because the system they were designed for was flopping by the time they were ready for release.  If Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword had been held back to release cross gen on N64/Gamecube and Wii/Wii U, it wouldn't have made them suddenly sell 10-20 million copies, and it also wouldn't have suddenly made Gamecube or Wii U successful hardware.