Wyrdness said:
You yourself are operating from assumed notions as nothing I've said highlights them being unprepared in fact it says the very opposite rather than trying to read between lines that aren't there read what I'm actually putting forward in that they have a huge safety net and no pressure to press on with the type of suggestions people have made not only here but beforehand hence why we're still in 2023 with no successor or any pro model it's not some mystery why as the market situation hasn't required them to Nintendo may work in their own way but this is just them using the additional time to refine what they have planned, people two years ago were even suggesting TOTK would be a cross gen launch title. Switch has it's own MK game it's MK8D porting it was a clear decision to give Switch another killer app early on and to save costs no need for another one hence why they did DLC to differentiate it from the WiiU version, Nintendo are always focused on their next platform as is evident from Switch being announced as NX two years into the life of WiiU then coming out two years later that's how platform holders and R&D operate in order to react to their situation in the market and right now the situation isn't exactly demanding it. Early 2025 itself is not even that far off of a release date. |
in all of your posts you seem to continue to ignore the investor aspect of the equation. yes, as soundwave and i and a few others have both said, the switch is still doing quite well for itself. however, that does not mean it doesn't need to be phased out sooner rather than later.
investors don't look at numbers and go "oh, you're still doing so well for a system in its 7th year!" they would instead think "this is your third year of lowering sales, what're you going to do about it?" the answer to that question is, a successor. that's why generations are a thing. this generation won't be much different as nintendo does not seem to be going the route of releasing a switch pro, instead scrapping it for the OLED and most likely carrying that R&D over to the switch 2.
also, i agree early 2025 is not that far off. in fact, i originally argued that it'd be released in october/holiday of 2024 or Q1 2025. both of these dates basically still lead to the same conclusion, that a successor is needed sooner rather than later. at that point, we're basically fighting semantics if you think holiday 2024 is so much different than Q1 2025 that it doesn't play into what people have been saying.