If Nintendo waits a long time for a Switch successor, what do you think will happen?

[Norion]

160rmf said:

Norion said:

The reason is Switch hardware and software sales are declining. It's only gonna sell like 10 million units next year and less software than this year so 2027 is extremely absurd. What makes sense is to release some cross-gen titles for a while to take advantage of the install base and build up the install base of the successor at the same time to get it ready for when they fully drop support for the Switch than for Nintendo to wait so long to release it that they harm their business for no reason. Nintendo supported the 3DS till 2019, it's not like they instantly dropped it the second the Switch came out or waited till they were finished supporting the 3DS to release the Switch cause that would've been a terrible idea.

Definitely, nothing can make more sense than this approach. Nintendo shouldn't be worrying about getting people upgrading to the next switch, heck OLED is just a screen upgrade and it's selling like water in the desert.

So just keep releasing cross Gen games, let the better performance on the next system be the selling point (Unless it's impossible to scale down to a enjoyable version on OG switch, but considering how Nintendo take some time to take its hardware to the fullest, I find very unlikely to get games to blow things in graphical terms right in the beginning).

Yep as long as they don't screw it up the successor could very well become Nintendo's fastest selling system ever in its first couple years due to how strong the Switch brand is. I think it's likely they do what Sony did in the first couple years and have a mixture of cross-gen stuff to take advantage of the install base of the old console and exclusives to push the new hardware before fully committing to it in the third year.