killeryoshis said:
Soundwave said:
Furukawa just said though the only reason they even announced the NX was to assure investors/consumers that they were not getting out of the hardware business when announcing their smartphone games. The Switch only had a real marketing campaign of 4 months from product reveal to launch. 3DS/Wii/DS/GameCube are ancient history now, it's clear Nintendo doesn't operate that way anymore. Even with software launches, they barely did any hype building for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom until very late before release. GameCube was announced in May 1999 by the way, released in September 2001, so roughly 2 1/2 years. Nintendo used to announce hardware *3 YEARS* ahead of time in the past, Super NES was announced in 1987 by Mr. Yamauchi, N64 in 1993 (the SNES was barely 2 years old in the US market, lol). Times change. With the advent of social media and Youtube, you just don't need one year to launch a product. PS5 and Switch were both basically unveiled and launched in 6 months with plenty of hype for both. |
While Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 were revealed the same year they were released. They were announced a year before that. Microsoft announced Series X as Project Scarlett at E3 2019.
Sony announced PS5 as "Next-generation Hardware" around April 2019. Reaffirmed it in a financial report. So announced =/= revealed. The switch was announced in 2015 but revealed in October 2016. I expect a new switch announced in 2024. However, I don't see it being revealed until very late 2024 or Early 2025. |
Nah there is no way they wait until 2025. Unlikely there are any heavy hitters left for Switch. The switch is hitting Market saturation. Gotta hit while the iron is still hot. They can reveal it this fall and release it in spring.
