What if the next Nintendo console is not the "Switch 2"?

[mjk45]

victor83fernandes said:

mjk45 said:

I personally believe that outside factors like the impact of Mobile on the handheld sector lead to the Switch rather than the Switch being a result of continuing the innovation concerning the Wii U unless you mean innovation that lead to poor sales.

those changes to the mobile market meant that Nintendo were now faced with a declining handheld market along with weak Wii U sales and while they had the resources to ride out another console with Wii U sales numbers, the down turn in both meant that change had to happen, so a unified approach with the added synergies of having one product in terms of both hardware and software development was the way forward hence the hybrid switch.

Mobile has nothing to do with console sales, mobile is a totally different market.

The switch succeeded because its a 3ds and wiiU successor combined. 3ds + wiiU account for around 94 million sales, which makes sense.

WiiU was also impacted by its name as many people though it was a new controller for the wii, had it been named differently sales would have been much higher.

If the switch was not portable it would not sell even half.

Believe want you want, but you have to be sitting under a rock to believe that Mobile has not impacted the games market, and I already gave reasons to why the Switch was the answer and the 3Ds and Wii U  combined comment is exactly why I mentioned synergies and it being the way to go, the rest of your comment is filled with what if's, meanwhile in the real world most of the casual market had moved to mobile and those headwinds along with the declining portable sales that Nintendo faced forced them to rethink their strategy and abandon their two pillar strategy and create the Switch. it had little to do with continued innovation from the Wii U which was your point.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 23 August 2021