Do you predict any company to cover Microsoft's place on console market ?

[Wman1996]

Soundwave said:

Nintendo could move in and make a more traditional or different kind of console as they're already in the space and mainly a game company, but I doubt anyone else bothers. Even in a limited amount shipping 6-8 million more consoles per year probably has some appeal to Nintendo so long as they can continue to share the same library (so no bespoke libraries, it's just Switch 2 content that scales up/down).

The game industry simply isn't attractive enough to the big wig companies like Apple to really bother especially if Microsoft spent a ton of money for not a whole lot of results.

The most I could possibly see as a more traditional console from Nintendo would be Switch 2 Pro/Deluxe as home console-only. Use the same OS and controllers and stuff as Switch 2 but with way better specs. Still, we're not talking PS6-level specs here. PS5 or maybe PS5 Pro specs relatively speaking.

Nintendo splitting platforms again each generation is a crazy gamble. Wii U was a failure; GameCube either was a failure too or close enough to it. N64 underperformed, especially from 2000 onward.