| catofellow said: I highly doubt they wait for 2025. Sales are declining. And to the point I was alluding to in my question, too many of their hit franchises have been released recently. |
Ever since the Switch's release year people have been saying they used up all their big guns and they'll have nothing left to release, now we're just moving this conversation to their next console?
Sales have declined, yes, they are still very, very healthy though as they were insanely high. They just released a sequel to a launch title and, on top of the console being the highest selling for the month, it became the fastest selling exclusive of all time. (for comparison God of War and Spider-Man sold 3.1 and 3.3milion first week, while TotK sold 10milion) There is no predicting what games they might have in store that can boost sales. There's also no saying that sales will drop at the same rate next year, maybe they manage to stay flat.
We still have a Peach game, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon HD, Metroid Prime 4, Professor Layton and Fantasy Life as confirmed for 2024 or beyond. They can add a new Kid Icarus Game, F-Zero, New IP, Donkey Kong Original Trilogy Remake, Ring Fit Adventure 2, Nintendo Land 2, Arms 2, New Warriors spin-off, TotK DLC, Pikmin 4 DLC, Mario Wonder DLC, Astral Chain 2, Pokémon Legends:, 2D Zelda (Remake or New), some 3rd Party exclusives, Mainline Pokémon, etc.
The point being they have plenty of options to even fill 2025 with decent games without jeapordising the launch of a new console.
Introduce a new console during holiday 2025, combined with a massive price cut for the Switch and the release of the Nintendo Selects line. Release a new console in march 2026 with full backwards compatibility and improved performance patches for switch games.
They can launch their new console with:
3D Donkey Kong action adventure
new gimmick game to highlight the console/controller capabilities
Mario Kart 9 (or 10/11 if they count Tour and Live)
---------rest of the launch year options---------
3D Mario
Smash Bros
new IP (Monolith)
Paper Mario
Zelda Spin off (Zelda main character, OOT/TP/WW/SS style)
Luigi's Mansion: Ghost Town
Super Mario Maker 3
Fire Emblem
2D Metroid
Pokémon Remaster
Star Fox
Kirby
Yoshi
Now, I'm not saying this is definitely going to happen like this, just that there are other options besides ¨Console sales show decline -> release new console asap¨.
