Will the Switch 2 have some secret sauce? If so, what?

[Norion]

JWeinCom said:

Norion said:

There's probably not much growth potential from the Switch though. It might beat the PS2 and if it doesn't it'll get pretty close so beating that would be extremely difficult regardless of what they do.

There are over one and a half billion more people in the world than there was when the PS2 launched. There are also more regions developed enough for Nintendo to launch a product. And attitudes towards gaming have changed since then. I don't see any reason that 150 million is the max that a console can ever do. 

The vast, vast majority of that over 1.5 billion aren't in NA, Europe or Japan though. It's not the max a console can ever do of course but the portion of console sales those territories take up hasn't changed much in a long time so it's unlikely it's suddenly gonna shift significantly in a short period. For attitudes changing that could potentially help but attitudes won't have changed that much since the launch of the Switch. It's more Nintendo consoles following the Switch's successor that might notably benefit from a shift in these things so the Switch 2's growth potential is primarily gonna be from Europe and you're only looking at another 10-15m at most that could be gained from there.