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Farsala said:
Wyrdness said:

Nintendo no longer requires a dedicated handheld to continue moving in the portable market though.

You misunderstand what I am saying. When Switch 2 is announced, Nintendo will struggle to provide big games to the Japanese market during the wait for Switch 2 launch.

Before when the Wii U struggled and the Switch was announced, Nintendo released a bunch of games for the 3DS. When Wii died down, Nintendo had the DS. When the GBA died down, Nintendo had the Wii or Gamecube. Having 2 different console lines kept big games more consistent. Every year had something.

Now I think there will be big peaks followed by big droughts.

Not really getting what you're trying to say here as the big games will be consistent with out two platforms as the is only a single platform to focus on, when the successor to the NS is being readied Nintendo will only need to focus on that platform and would have had titles in preparation for it before hand so as the Switch is phased out the newer platform just continues on the stream of games.

Having two active platforms doesn't deal with droughts it creates them.