The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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curl-6 said:

I admit I don't know much about how chip production works, but I'm unsure if it's as simple as just taking the current Switch lines and turning them onto making Switch 2 instead.

If it is that simple, then I can see them cutting Switch production off very quickly to get the successor off to the best start possible.

On the other hand, if not all their current lines are capable of making the new chip, then it might make sense to keep churning out a small number of Tegra X1s for another 2-3 years so that they can keep a budget option on the market for lower income consumers.

Remember that there was a year when around 30m Switches were produced and it's now down to under 15m. Production lines get added/removed as a company sees fit, so in light of no component shortages (which is what caused all console manufacturers problems in the early 2020s), your line of thought does not matter. If Nintendo wants to produce ~10m Switch consoles and ~15m successor systems during the first transition year, then they can do just that.

@eldanielfire I read your response and I think we are better off saving ourselves the time of a back and forth regarding scenarios that can happen, because we both acknowledge that are optimistic ones, pessimistic ones and a few inbetween. It would be a discussion focused on which ones are more probable than the others, but that's something to be revisited in a month's time or in four months when we've got updates on Nintendo's shipment data.