| curl-6 said: A prolonged crossgen period like we've seen with PS4/5 just wouldn't be in Nintendo's interests, the risk of Switch 2 failing to get off the ground would be needlessly high. Sony can count on most of their base being eager to upgrade, Nintendo cannot. |
I’m not sure I believe this theory that PS/XB gamers are willing to upgrade but Nintendo fans aren’t. For example, look at the popularity of the OLED model, you have millions of people willing to upgrade to a more expensive model for a better screen, imagine how many people would upgrade for better graphics/resolution/frame rate.
Switch launch-March 3, 2017
Switch shipments as of Sept 30, 2018-22.86 million (~19 months)
Switch OLED launch-October 8, 2021
Switch OLED shipments as of March 31, 2023-15.02 million (~18 months)
OLED is a more expensive model with a better screen and a couple minor QOL improvements, games don’t perform better on it and it doesn’t have any exclusive games or features yet it’s the most popular sku since it released and is doing pretty well launches aligned compared to the original model.
As long as Switch 2 is a pretty straight forward successor that isn’t way more expensive or focused on some new gimmick that people don’t want (3D screen or Wii U game pad) than I don’t see why cross-gen releases would prevent it from succeeding.
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