It's not bad, but if you wanted a second half cycle sales booster, probably not the ideal hardware if that is your only focus. OLED screen is great, that screen makes every other Nintendo handheld screen look like total dog shit, but it's kind of limited in how much appeal it can have because it's just (well) a screen. 

My guess is they wanted to do a New 3DS/DSi XL style revision with some upgrades under the hood but Nvidia doesn't offer a off-the-shelf chip that would allow that (you can look at other vendors beside Nintendo that use the Tegra X1 or X2 and see you basically only get what Nvidia gives you, there's not much customization allowed). The New 3DS/DSi XL just used existing parts that weren't made expressly for Nintendo by adding some newer ARM cores and RAM, but the Tegra SoC doesn't allow for that I don't think (you don't see a Tegra X1 or X2 with different CPUs for anyone for example). 

So they just chose to focus on a screen upgrade instead. Hey I wouldn't mind a Switch 4K or something either, but I don't think it's in the cards at this point. It should be launching with Zelda: TOTK or at minimum we should be getting some kind of leaks from devs or manufacturers if something was coming this year (the OLED screen model did leak but they just misunderstood that it wouldn't come with a hardware bump, Switch Lite and Mariko and PS4 Pro and XBox Series X for that matter all leaked well in advance). 

At this point you're better off just leaving things on the table for the proper Switch next-gen successor, the OLED screen itself already feels like a generational upgrade that you'd expect on the next system, why make your job that much harder with the next system. 

It's not just the screen, it's a bigger screen, double internal storage, ethernet port, way better stand, better battery life and better speakers, and with a redesigned better dock.

And we saw in the past that revisions with more power don't necessarily appeal to a wider audience, the DSi didn't had a big impact (it's similar to the boost from the OLED model actually - 17 million after 15 months for the DSi vs 13.6 million for the OLED which had shortages), it sold 41 million after 5 years combined with the DSi XL. And I won't even mention the New 3DS.

Yes, the Switch OLED has other features but I don't think internal storage and ethernet port really push people from "not buying" into the "totally buying this" camp in a big way. I think actually the OLED in general is a decision people make after they've decided they want a Switch. They get to the in store display or get explained the difference and in some cases "hey might as well spend the extra $50 for the better screen", side by side the OLED screen definitely is going to look better than the OG Switch screen when you see it in a store. 

It's hard to know what ultimate impact the DSi XL and New 3DS models had, there could have been higher hardware decline without them. 

But ultimately yeah they're probably not in and of themselves massive hardware drivers, Nintendo didn't really even market or use the improved hardware for much in either case. Without the DSi and New 3DS though it's possible the decline in the 2nd half product cycle you'd see for both would be more pronounced. 

I don't think the OLED helped new comers to buy a Switch, rather having the ones with the 2017 model to upgrade to a newer version. Like the PS4 Pro, which sold 1/5 of the Slim.

At least as of last year, 20% of game sales on the Nintendo Switch are third party. 

Those 20% refer to the revenue that Nintendo collects from third parties (read: royalty fees) in comparison to the revenue they earn from first party game sales. In terms of units, it's roughly a 50% split between first and third party games. But since there about a 100 times more third party games than Nintendo games on Switch, the sales of third parties are divided among many, many more titles. Add that there are only a few third parties who invest heavily into individual titles and it's not surprising that cracking the 1m mark represents a high hurdle.

Don't forget these titled crossing the 1 million mark are the 3rd party titled published by Nintendo, not in genral.

Like Monster Hunter Rise isn't part of it.

Basically, we're talking about Square Enix being too afraid of eating the costs of publishing and localization in the west heh lol.

Calendar year sales for Nintendo Switch's games that have sold over 25 million units

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3.) The XBox 360 did start regularly outselling the Wii once they released Kinect, their take on the Wii concept, which must've been a magical coincidence I guess. Switch and PS4/PS5 are not directly comparable as they're very different types of hardware, one is a home console only the other is a hybrid console with a large part of the appeal being it can function as a portable device. The SNES and Genesis were both stationary home consoles that were directly comparable, to make a relevant comparison to that era, you would need to compare a stationary Nintendo console to a Sony or Microsoft one. If Nintendo released a home console with no portable component, you think they would easily put up 120+ million sales and dominate Sony? Obviously probably not. The competition in stationary consoles is much more fierce, with the Genesis, Sega for at least a few years did a tremendous job marketing it, selling it, and even against all odds pulling a Mario-competitor out of their ass in Sonic. 

People who shit on the SNES for "losing" marketshare to the Genesis don't understand how hard Sega came at them, frankly Microsoft could learn some lessons, they are too passive in competing with Sony, Sega was incredibly in your face about it. 

And then they started making dumb management decisions which killed them. Which is basically to say hardware only goes as far as good management decisions will take it, a hardware concept or spec sheet is only one part of the equation. 

4.) Are you speaking for all Nintendo shareholders now? Some wanted, some wanted that, some wanted 800 other different things. Shareholders being upset when Nintendo's business was falling off a cliff isn't shocking or surprising. Nintendo does what they want to do, but I'd also bet "reaching some arbitrary hardware number so Nintendo fanboys on the internet can have meaningless bragging rights" is not even on their list of priorities, certainly not anywhere close to stock price or shareholders. 

Their current internal focus at this stage is likely the Switch successor, that is what their management has to be most focused on because if they are not making the right decisions on that now (honestly probably before now, going back into last year if not sooner), that is the future of the company and it will impact their business massively in 1-2 years from now.