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IcaroRibeiro on 27 June 2023
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curl-6 said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

Very likely yes, BOTW was a cross gen launch title after all. Switch also launched with no major Pokemon game, 3DS indeed had a mainline Pokemon schedule to release couple of months before Switch debut

People upgraded regardless

Many of the cross gen titles are titles that started being developed by the original hardware and end being released on the new hardware to increase the library. With Switch 2 being backwards compatible, there are no reasons to not release as many cross gen games as possible

Granted, some games are developed with a vision that cannot be fully executed on old hardware must be left behind. Such games take a bit of time to be developed and we probably aren't seen many of them being release at launch. The safest and most consumer friendly route is to release cords gen titles in the first and second years. On the first 2 years a successful console is likely to be capped by production and stocks anyway

On the third year with a healthier production lines Nintendo can start to unleash many of their very strong exclusives, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, etc 

You're forgetting that there would be no games like BOTW on Switch if it was entirely crossgen with 3DS. Crossgen has limitations.

There's no point in them having an intentionally weak first two years when they can win big from day 1.

I mean, Nintendo is know for having 2D Mario and Pokemon games as major sellers and they aren't exactly know for groundbreaking specs. I'm sure the next Switch 2 Pokemon won't make full use of hardware capabitilies either 

Besides, the only way for them to know how to properly use hardware to make games that take full advantage of the hardware capabitilies is delaying Switch 2 release for so long that every major studio inside Nintendo will have mastered the dev kits and the hardware particularities. Be prepared to Switch 2 not coming before 2027 if only "next gen" experiences is what you expect for the launch year 

Switch having similar specs of Wii U and having teams with stretched development cycle to meet Switch launch made first year pipeline looking next gen "enough"

HD development takes time to be refined so it will surely not happen at Switch 2 launch, considering a big leap in power is a given the true "next gen" games (like Zelda or Monster Hunter) won't be fully there until a couple of years, rest assured of that