I agree on that price cut, they should absolutely have a price cut before the new systems launch. I hope there's not another pokemon game next year. Every year would just seem ridiculous. I could see two more pokemon games hitting Switch in its lifetime, anything more than that would be total overkill. Pokemon shouldn't be CoD.

BotW 2 is way more likely than another 3D Mario next year. BotW came out before Odyssey and it is using the same world, which means development time should be cut down significantly. BotW 2 next year makes total sense, Mario 3D doesn't. I do think a new Mario 2D series is possible next year. The combo of AC, BotW 2, new Mario 2D series as 3 high potential 10+ million sellers would make it a huge year for Switch in terms of system sellers. Throw in stuff like Bayonetta 3, maybe Metroid Prime Trilogy HD, hopefully porting over Wind Waker HD or maybe a combo pack of Zelda HD games (WW, SS?), and at least one more new console series game (pikmin??) and maybe a portable-only series to boot, and Nintendo could have everything it needs for a bigger year than this year. Of course hopefully it one or two big new third party games as well.

Because unlike with the Wii U, Nintendo has some relatively clear audiences in mind with the Switch. The Switch appeals to kids, families, portable gamers, and Nintendo fans all pretty broadly. It doesn't matter if the Switch is your first game console or your 30th, there's at least something there for you.
Six years into its lifespan and I still don't see any clear audiences for the Xbox One. Virtually no true exclusives, Microsoft IPs that are also available on Windows and aren't particularly well-received, a base console weaker than the PS4, etc.
The Xbox One S All-Digital Edition is baffling to me because it removes the disc drive and still only has 1 TB of storage. Microsoft wants you to build a library of digital games and your storage will be eaten up really quickly.
The Xbox One X is the best way to play multiplats outside of a gaming PC, and there have been some amazing deals on it. This is the closest thing to an actual audience I can see for the Xbox One.
The Xbox One will hit 50 million units, but after the sales of the Xbox 360 there is not much comparison.

Agree, when you have something like Amazon where you can check "real time" sales on an hourly basis (maybe I will start writing articles about that, lol) the Nintendo Switch versions of games almost always outsell the Xbox 1/PS4 version.  3rd party developers can't ignore the power of Switch anymore IMO.

Agreed. I just don't see how they are going to beat a Pokemon release, coupled with the release of a $199 model.

Same arguement that you always here on the otherside.
Theres already alot of zelda games on the system, the crowd thats all for zelda games, probably already jumped in on switch already.

Animal crossing isnt going to make 2020 beat 2019 imo.

Honestly...looking back I don't know or understand how or why Xbox was ever all that popular. It had a huge surge in 2005-2009, but to be honest I genuinely think they got lucky there, by having Sony botch so spectacularly. 

The original Xbox was NOT a successful console, barely selling more than the famously poor-selling Gamecube. It had a few hit franchises but it really didn't have a huge audience. 

The Xbox 360 had a huge start with dozens of amazing exclusives and ideas, capitalizing on Sony's failures and running roughshod on its competition...but once the PS3 picked up, that console proved to sell more than the 360 in the end, resulting in the 360 - Microsoft's best-selling console ever - in last place that generation. And why? They couldn't keep up the pace into the second half of that generation. 

And the Xbone has been a flop since day 1. Poor PR, poor exclusives, then no exclusives due to PC and eventually Switch getting them, and no real place to pick up the slack, with virtually nothing of value on the console (outside of Game Pass) for the last 3 years of this generation. 

Given their history, I predict they'll do well for the first 2-3 years of the next generation but then flop hard as PS5 and Switch continue to dominate. Honestly, they've NEVER been all that successful, with two of their consoles flopping hard despite having a lot of presence in US/UK, and the third having a great start but unable to stick the landing. They're just not good at this. 

Sony had the exact inverse problem, and Nintendo has always been all over the board. Sony's PS1 came out and dominated the incumbent leader (Nintendo), then made records with their followup, the PS2. They dipped and did poorly with the PS3's first half - the same half that Microsoft capitalized on - then came back in the latter half of that generation and once again dominated with the PS4. For comparison's sake, PS's weakest offering (PS3) sold more than Microsoft's best (360).

And since this is a thread comparing Xbox and Nintendo, that's a bit harder given Nintendo's long history and fluctuations. The NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube all had declines in popularity, only to spike in the Wii era and flop again in WiiU. The Switch is back to doing remarkably well (And let's be honest, I think Nintendo does best when they innovate or think outside the box. The same pattern can be seen with the portable lines, with Game Boy, Game Boy Advance decline, then the DS/3DS decline).

I think that a healthy gaming environment has two distinct companies. Sony for the basics, high resolution stuff, HD games, core games, and indies...while Nintendo does all the wacky, out-of-the-box thinking stuff. We have creativity, we have power, we have variety, etc. Microsoft just fails at doing what its competition does. I kinda feel sorry for it, becuase Sony having good competition is good....but they have not had that. 

Man, I sound like an F-word. I just like comparing, though. That, and after buying an Xbox 360 and Xbone and never playing them (I literally spend more time Netflixing and updating firmware on my Xbone than I ever did playing games on it), I'm completely lost as a customer of theirs. Hell, I didn't even bother buying Cuphead on Xbone because I got it on Switch and had it on PC first. Just no reason to have an Xbox. No wonder it flopped in the long run. 

Animal Crossing is popular, but it's not Pokemon. We'll have to see if BOTW2 actually releases. Of course, considering BOTW was the title that launched the Switch, big Zelda fans already are on it. I'm sure it will push some HW, but nothing like during the Switch's launch. I also wouldn't expect a price cut. Nintendo said they are going to sell the Switch for $299 for as long as possible. If 2020 is only 5%-15% down from this year, I doubt they will cut the price. Not with a $199 model already available.

Clearly not as BOTW is still selling Zelda averaged 4m in sales before so clearly the crowd interested in the game are still jumping on board as they're all new players getting the game at this point even with over 14.4m of the NS version sold.

Animal Crossing is more popular than Pokemon in Japan it's currently the most popular series with both the last two games sold 5m in the region while they both sold 10m plus, all major first party games are experiencing new highs on the Switch so AC is very likely to continue that on a similar level, also again with the Zelda fans argument Zelda only averaged 4-5m as a series with BOTW has sold 14.4m on NS so far and is still selling this means the game is selling to newcomers who weren't Zelda fans before this could snowball into a GTA3 like situation where the next game does even better due to success and word of mouth BOTW has even outsold GTA3 and it's total with the WiiU version has outsold Vice City. At this point it's not about Zelda fans BOTW and the new approach has wider appeal.

One comment makes a joke about them being "silenced" and another calls them "dinosaurs".  Maybe you posted in the wrong thread?  Did you not look back over the thread before replying?  That's a surprisingly rookie mistake.