I would like Nintendo to not buy new studios, but form new ones that tackle new ips or revive ips they don't current hab the bandwidth to do so. Will Wario, Kid Icarus, Golden Sun, or similar games sell like Mario, Zelda, or Kirby? No. But they will sell well by basically every other games standard's. They are literally losing money by not making these games with other studios.

Yeah, I think they have everything in hand for making a system way better than what they could come up with at the time Switch was being developed. I believe I'm just afraid they will screw up, mainly said relation with NVidia. And I didn't say they had to release a successor in 2 years, just that they could, and even then the timing would be good for them. Later than that, even better for the company. If they manage to keep the sales curve, with minor dips, for the next three years or so it would be mind-blowing for me (not that I don't think it's possible; just because it would be something somewhat new when Nintendo related) and an even better scenario for their next machine. I hope they can pull it off.

As for the AAAs, I agree that they do not absolutely need them, but those ones do make an impact. Someone said, in this very forum iirc, that Doom was the turning point in the life of the Switch, even more than Zelda, not because of sales potential, attach rate or gameplay possibilities, but because it had shown what was possible on the little machine, and I tend to agree. If they are given 2, 3 or even 4 more years from now to present a successor, I think people will expect something pretty capable visual-wise. I know I will.  :p

^This!

Nintendo's biggest mistake with the Wii was failing to invest all those profits into more game development.

Also, consumers get a better deal when there are more companies vying for their dollar. The more consolidated the games industry becomes, the more a single company can afford to screw over it's consumers. This is why we keep seeing shady practices like MTX rise in games.

In Nintendo's case, they really need studios that can help make their games. Nintendo has so many IPs that they can easily have a studio do the ones they can't or wont make. Metroid is a good example of this. In general, Nintendo should try to grow, to either increase their internal output or have subsidiaries help cover the load. 

Switch 2 can be a potato and it would still sell like hotcakes.

If they made Wii U2 however..

I really hope that is not the case in both accounts lol.

I hope they stick with the hybrid model and honestly hope they call it a Switch 2 so dumbasses aren't confused.

The longer they wait the better switch 2 can be. Look at apple and their M1 chipset for example.

With Nvidia's backing and now owning the ARM CPUs plus DLSS the future looks bright..

Aim to have a 1080p 60fps portable mode (even if it has to be scaled up via DLSS to achieve it) and docked mode can try to close the gap to the other consoles.

Well a bit of both, it is clear that some will never take the risk with making games for Nintendo and games will not make it to the nintendo platforms, buying some IP's studios/expanding etc.  With the Swich they are fine but it would be cocky to think they will be fine in the future without any form of action.

Yeah, I hear ya and agree completely, mainly that the gap should not be so big next time and that the next machine should be a Switch 2. What I'm afraid of is, if the situation is so favorable now, like it was with the NES, the Wii and to some extent the SNES, can they make good of it and NOT screw it? lol