| Torpoleon said: Can't see them releasing a successor in the Spring of a given year because that would almost certainly mean it would be announced before the prior year's holidays. That would hurt that year's holidays. This is basically like what someone else was saying here. They could get away with it with 3DS & Wii U because those systems were barely alive in 2016 (well a little bit more in the 3DS's case and a little bit less in Wii U's case). Plus I'm sure Nintendo would prefer a holiday launch anyways. They probably wanted to release Switch in Holiday 2016 (and could get away with a March 2017 release for the aforementioned reasons). |
I really don't get why they'd prefer a holiday launch. Launches are sold out, even the bombs, at full price with no discounts/bundles. They'd be sacrificing millions in profits by launching at holidays because people expect discounts then. No one expects a discount in March, which was a fantastic time to launch the Switch because they could sell at full price and games at full price for over half a year before discounting. And again, they would sell no more units at holiday than they would at launch because it would be sold out in the first couple months of it's launch regardless of when it releases.
Launch windows are meant to get the hardcore loyalists like me to spend tons of $, holidays are when the loyalists have already bought in and you now have to get the cheapskates/parents/non-loyalists/poor college students to buy in.
