I'm not arguing for BOTW2 to be delayed to line up with the Switch 2 (although that could happen organically :p), simply saying that maximising the profits of such a game shouldn't be a reason to argue against a 2023 successor. Games can release the same year of the new console (or the year before) and still sell a shit tonne of units, and even be boosted by the new hardware. Equally, games can release in absence of new hardware and find themselves with a dwindling or fickle audience, particularly with direct sequels like Mario Galaxy 2 for example.

There is no way they are releasing a OLED model to just move on to a new gen soon. Switch pro will def happen sooner or later.

I will never understand why people keep bringing up emulation like it isn't a horrible thing. Unless you buy the game first, you should never emulate. That deprives studios of earned money, which deprieves workers of earning higher wages, more days off, bonuses, and more coworkers from being hired to offload overtaxing expectations from project leaders. If we want a healthy video game market with many video games for all gamers, then gamers need to invest in video game companies. I wish this website would moderate suggestions of emulation (unless you already purchased the game in some way), but there are simply too many people here content with illegally downloading games to try to stifle it out I fear.

Not just that, but that basic model has almost no memory. PC games aren't optimized and compressed like console games, and most console games aren't done like Nintendo console games. It will require a lot more memory to download games on Steam Deck than on Switch, which means you will need probably minimum of 250, probably 500g MicroSD card, maybe more depending on how many games you want to have permanently on the device. So dock + larger microSD card.

If they release a Pro after OLED, then expect Switch 2 to launch roughly 2 years later, which would, quite simply, suck. I don't want times 2 versions of all their big hitters simply because they are constrained by Switch 1 limitations. I want the next big Mario, the next big Zelda, the next big Mario Kart. I don't want sequels to all those games limited by Switch hardware. They won't seem nearly as fresh or memorable as they would if they were made for Switch 2. As excited as I am by Botw 2, I am far more excited by the Zelda made exclusively for Switch 2. I truly hope SM Odyssey 2 (or whatever the next game is) comes out exclusively on Switch 2. The only games I'm content releasing on the Switch, at this point, are ones that haven't already had versions released so far (Metroid Prime 4, Metroid Dread, Kid Icarus, Star Fox, a new Donkey kong game, etc).

Well Nintendo denies new hardware iterations often, even when they're working on them or at least considering them. Didn't they say this in 2019, only months before the Switch Lite launched?
If we still somehow get a Switch Pro, it won't be this year. Switch OLED is out in October, and they're not gonna release a Switch Pro in November or December after constantly denying it this late into the year.
2021 was one of the last possible years to release a Switch Pro. Even if the Switch 2 doesn't come out until 2024 (which is likely), a mid-gen power upgrade 5 years after the platform launched is pushing it. I don't think that's ever happened. I know some people see the Game Boy Color as that, which took forever. But I still see the Color as a successor to the original Game Boy.

The one thing I will say is that the rumours about the Switch "Pro" got some of the info right. So I wouldn't doubt if the next Switch iteration is based off of Lovelace and has DLSS. Lovelace is suppose to debut late next year so realistically, 2023 should be when Nvidia releases their "mobile variants" of their Lovelace GPUs. Of course, going with Lovelace a few months after it releases feels too cutting edge for Nintendo so I can see them waiting a couple of years after it comes out. So at a minimum, I think that a big hardware revision or more likely, the Switch 2 will be out in or after 2023. And around 2023, the "cross gen period" should be over and it should be full steam ahead with next gen games.