| Torpoleon said: @PAOerfulone To be fair, releasing the GBC only a couple of years before GBA didn't stop the GBA from being a big success (that system had its legs cut short due to the PSP releasing, otherwise it probably would've been back to back 100 million sellers). A Switch Pro when TOTK releases and then Switch 2 near the end of 2025 wouldn't be too bad, imo. Also helps that Nintendo has been releasing Switch revisions every 2 years or so thus far. But still, I agree that I can see Nintendo riding out the Switch with a successor launching late 2024 even though I'd prefer Pro in 2023 and a successor in 2025. |
GBC launched in 1998 and the GBA in 2001, so almost three years apart, but beyond that there are a lot of differences. The Game Boy was 12 years old by the time 2001 rolled around and badly in need of a real upgrade. The Game Boy Color also cost $99.
Switch would be problematic if they did something like release a $350-$399 Switch Pro at this point and then tried to sell people on a $399 Switch 2 like two years later and also having an OLED Switch two years prior to the Pro for $350 also.
It would be way too much hardware, it's getting more like Sega territory with Sega CD + 32X + Saturn all being considerably pricey at that.
Honestly the DSi XL probably hurt the 3DS early on too ... 2010 was too late in the game to be releasing a $200 model DS and then ask a lot of people to buy a $250 3DS 12 months later. Certainly it wasn't the only issue, but I don't think it helped that they released a new model DS that was relatively pricey just a year before the 3DS.
You gotta be careful about oversaturating the market with too much hardware especially if the hardware price is expensive.
