| HebrewGamer said: Nintendo should focus all their energy on a successful next console launch and not worry about chasing the sales record. The Switch has been a substantially more successful platform than the PS2 ever was. the DVD craze, piracy, and yearly price cuts allowed the PS2 to reach their number while the Switch has sold some 140million without a price cut while selling over a billion in software at full price. All this while coming off the failure of the Wii U and going up against the PS4, PS5, Xbox 1/X/S, mobile gaming, PC gaming, and the Steamdeck. PS2 essentially had the market to themselves. |
Agreed! Wish more people put an * by PS2 sales because of those factors.
Nintendo has always been about the profits. So what's more profitable?
1) Delaying Switch 2 launch (causing it's tech to be more outdated when it does launch, and making it closer to PS6/XS2 launches hurting its backend, potentially) and trying to squeeze every last sale out of Switch 1's life knowing full well software sales drop significantly at this stage in a console's life so you won't make that much out of Switch 1 owners at this stage.
2) Launch the Switch 2 as soon as the software launches are ready, maximizing the window, between the twins releasing their next generation, for sales potential, and let the Switch 1 organically die (make whatever you project it could sell and nothing more).
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