| HyrulianScrolls said: Dropping this here for everyone forgetting just one year ago Nintendo was still saying switch was still in the middle of its life cycle. Successor is not coming before late 2025 at the very earliest folks. |
The Playstation 2 sold from 1999-2013, a 14 year lifespan. Half way through its cycle is 2007, a year after the Playstation 3's launch.
The Switch will continue to sell after the release of the Switch 2, whether as a heavily discounted console or as a more dedicated handheld side of Nintendo's strategy.
But just because Nintendo has told us something is in the middle, doesn't make it so. And the middle, like let's say of an orange, is quite a bit, so it kind of depends on what you mean by middle if you consider the rind the beginning and end. Marketspeak is marketspeak and corporate PR shouldn't be held up as gospel. You may be correct, but I think sales are a better metric to use for predictions. That's also why I think half of YouTube creators had lost their minds when in 2020 and 2021 so many were calling for the successor to release in 2022 or 2023. It's like these folks don't even bother to visit VGC or look at the data themselves to notice the jaw dropping figures Nintendo was putting down in 2020 and 2021, and even 2022 ended up being a banner year historically speaking for the Switch.
