(Rumor) Nintendo discarded "Switch Pro"

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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

Slownenberg said:

That's interesting. Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the pandemic killed the idea because they were having a hard enough time just meeting demand on the models they already had. Plus Switch sales went crazy in 2020 and 2021 so they also were probably like well we don't even need a Switch 'Pro' and can just put out a small upgrade which became the OLED.

OP I don't know why you say we would hear something bigger in the next couple months. What would rumor of them scrapping a Switch Pro a while back have to do with any sort of announcement soon? Successor is probably roughly 18 months away so we're probably about a year away from it being announced. And since this rumor is saying a 'Pro' was scrapped obviously that would mean there wouldn't be an announcement on something that is no longer being worked on.

Well, during the Wii U era, we learned about the NX (Switch) long time before release. Maybe some similar speculation will happen.

The Switch era is most definitely not the WiiU era, though.  Announcing that (or even rumoring that) there is a successor to the WiiU on its way would result in almost no sales lost, as the WiiU made most of its sales in its first year and died a slow death the rest of the time.  Unveiling or hinting at a Switch successor (outside the typical PR stuff) in a few months would kill Switch sales for the holiday and could cost them as many as 5-7 million units.  These are delicate times for Nintendo and they will be doing their best to be on their best behavior.  I wouldn't be surprised if we don't start getting any real hints from Nintendo about the Switch 2 until after March 31, 2023.