Dulfite said: If y'all are right and Switch 2 doesn't come out until 2024 or 2025, that means I will have owned the device for 7-8 years (I always buy at launch), a device that is basically just a more compact Wii U power-wise, and I also owned a Wii U at launch. By 2025 I will have been playing on basically the same level of power games since late 2012, or 13 years. For Nintendo faithful like me, who buy even their most unsuccessful devices, this is a stupidly long wait for a true leap forward. I don't want more games on this level, I want the next level. We aren't going to get better visuals, bigger maps with more detail, faster/no loading times, improved resolution/frame rate, other tech related enhancements, or any other big leap until a successor console comes out. |
I'm also one of the "Nintendo faithful" who got a Wii U, and personally I don't want Switch replaced any time soon.
When I drop the kind of money I did on getting a Switch, I want at least 6 years out of it. It also feels to me like it still has unfulfilled potential games wise, and that it could become my top platform of all time given the chance.
2023 would be fine by me though, I think by 2024 or 2025 I'd be getting pretty antsy too.
Also, not to be nitpicky, but Switch is not two generations behind, as it is not on the same level as PS3 or 360, and is also more capable than Wii U. You wouldn't have seen games like Witcher 3, Luigi's Mansion 3, World War Z, Dying Light, etc on those platforms.