Update: Leaker says the new Switch model he teased is next-gen, not a revision, Q1 2024 release

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160rmf said:

haxxiy said:

Why on Earth wouldn't Nintendo want that, though? It means selling more hardware right off the bat.

It's not like their support of outgoing consoles has been stellar in the past (e.g. moving titles midway through development to be exclusive to the successor platform, or just delaying titles to launch alongside it).

Bc it can't be taken as granted that will happen as the way they want to happen. You could have several stock issues or another wii u situation.

Plus you throw away a 100+Million Userbase that could bring more software sales to the table 

The best thing they did in the past that I can give as a comparison to my hypothetical scenario was the Switch in its first years while the 3ds was still getting software support. 

Or like they did when they transitioned from gameboy advance to the Nintendo ds.  They made the ds compatible with gameboy advance games, and even had slots in the ds boxes where you could store gba games.  They truly embraced the previous gen in that move.