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

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

If they make big mistakes that cause Switch 2 to be undesirable than it doesn’t matter if the games are exclusive or not, the device is failing regardless, but if they are cross-gen than at least the software will have a chance to sell to its full potential.

They do have a backup, it’s called Switch, if the successor fails than you can pivot back to Switch and treat the new device as an experiment or a revision and get to work on a new successor. If they abandon Switch 1 and Switch 2 fails than they are really fucked.

Already addressed that; mistakes doesn't mean unsalvageable, see 3DS.

And I literally never said they should abandon Switch immediately. Just that not everything needs to be crossgen.

That example still applies, look at the software sales of key franchises

                3DS              Wii U

Mario Kart-19m vs 52m

Animal Crossing-13 vs 42m

Smash Bros-10m vs 31m

Pokemon-16m vs 26m

3D Mario-13m vs 25m

Mario Party-3m vs 19m

Luigi’s Mansion-6m vs 12m

The list goes on, software on 3DS was held back