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Zippy6 on 04 November 2021
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RolStoppable said:
Dulfite said:

As a Nintendo guy, I'm absolutely delighted that 2020 appears to be the peak. As much as I love Switch, I want Switch 2 in 2023, a full 6 year cycle later. If Switch 1 kept selling at a higher level then there is a chance they could delay releasing Switch 2, so we'd all be stuck with old hardware for longer.

Long live the 6 year cycle!

As a Nintendo guy, you should ask yourself how many of Nintendo's development teams would have games for new hardware ready in 2023.

cross-gen? They did BOTW with WiiU+Switch, and their next console should be much closer in hardware to Switch than the Switch was to WiiU (in terms of architecture etc) and should be backwards compatible to boot. Software overlap between Switch and Switch 2 makes sense.

There seems little reason to not release Switch 2 versions of their software. After all Switch is full of "Deluxe" WiiU titles padding the lineup so we may even see a lot of that next generation with the Switch successor.

I can see them getting Mario Kart 9 ready for a Holiday 2023 launch as an exclusive, Plus I doubt we're that far away from the successor to Mario Odyssey and unless 2023 was going to be completely barren for Switch 1, they have the opportunity to have a line-up for Switch 2 with cross-gen titles.

Last edited by Zippy6 - on 04 November 2021