Saw a news story today that Nintendo is planning on actually increasing production of the Switch this year as chip shortage problems are alleviating.
If they think they can sell more systems (perhaps another year close to 20m) then hopefully they have a bunch of games coming this year to back up that belief (ie 2D Mario, Star Fox?, Prime 4, Prime remake, DK, Z:WW/TP HD, etc). I don't see them needing to increase production unless they've got a lot of stuff in the software pipeline that is close to ready and maybe price cuts on older games as well. Hell, with chip shortages not a problem anymore, presumably that means Switch cost of production is dropping, and they are perhaps actually planning a HW price cut as well.
Anyway, this news is interesting and makes one think Nintendo is perhaps hoping to wait until 2025 to launch a successor, while keeping Switch HW sales solid and SW sales monstrous.
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