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curl-6 on 07 August 2026
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Norion said:
curl-6 said:

I would argue major releases are significantly less important to a lot of the Switch casual audience as they were to the PS4 audience, who care a lot more about getting blockbuster titles.

Many Switch 1 owners will probably be content to carry on playing the plentiful indie/minor software or their chosen cosy forever game to years to come, not really caring about if major titles keep coming.

That'll be a factor yeah though first party software is way more important to Nintendo platforms than Playstation and the last first party Switch 1 game might've already released. Basically what I'm getting at is I don't think there will still be a significant userbase left 5 years into the Switch 2's life like how the PS4 still has 20 something million people using it every month.

I actually think there's a good chance that a lot of the Switch 1 audience will remain active for years to come; many will of course upgrade, but for a lot of the expanded audience who play cosy games, indies, or just those wedded to a particular forever game like Tomodachi Life or Stardew Valley or what have you, the system is still a viable platform and will remain so long after major software moves on.

It has a very large base and that won't dry up over night, especially when economic factors are leading people to stick with their old consoles for longer and longer in general.