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Slownenberg on 01 January 2023
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Chrkeller said:
Fight-the-Streets said:

The thing is Nintendo makes a ton of money with outdated hardware, so it makes perfect sense to bring out a revision in 2023. If we look back in history, Nintendo handhelds always had many revisions. Interestingly, it took the home console manufacturers quite some time until they found out that they can make easy money with revisions and special editions. It wasn't really until the 7. Generation (PS3, Xbox 360) that special editions and revisions were implemented in a strategic way too squeeze out more money of a current generation.

OLED and Lite, Nintendo has already done the revisions.  A major update doesn't make sense with the switch 2 likely a year away.  It just isn't happening, there is no major switch revision coming.

Yeah. I mean I think Switch 2 is more like roughly 16-23 months away, but the point stands.

Nintendo COULD have done another revision during Switch's lifespan, but I don't see any reason they would at this point. Switch sales in 2023 are clearly going to slow down to significantly under 20m, and Switch is clearly moving into the late stages of its lifecycle. A successor should come out by end of 2024, and they already have a cheap model and a premium model, and there is no real reason for them to come out with a fourth model when there HW division is probably in the thick of working on a final design for the Switch 2 now.

The only new model that would even make sense at this point would be a Switch Home model which would be very easy to design as it'd just be a Switch console box, and it would be very cheap, certainly under $200, and could potentially bring in some new people to the Switch who don't care about portable. But it's just like it ain't worth it at this point. A Pro doesn't really make sense to put out anymore, it would have made sense in 2021 but not in 2023. Nintendo just needs to focus on completing the Switch library with a final round of great games over the next 12+ months, and then start manufacturing Switch 2 and get launch games ready for sometime later on in 2024.