Considering That Switch 1 is NOT dying Anytime Soon...

[LightyKD]

Exhibit: A
https://www.ign.com/articles/ninten...1-and-rely-on-backwards-compatibility-instead

Exhibit: B
https://www.polygon.com/switch-2-development-kits-nintendo/

Exhibit: C
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ninte...f-third-party-games-on-console.1096328.0.html

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What would you like to see for the last few years? Personally I would like for Nintendo to go back to the old Wii Schedule of having 4 big (full priced) titles for each season with smaller games peppered between. In this case, the 4 big games could be Switch 2 exclusives while the smaller titles would be Switch 1 games that are obviously capable of being played on the new system.

Additionally, I can see a lot of indies capitalizing on the fact that the bigger third parties have moved on to the Switch 2. Smaller studios can start seeing a bigger piece of the sales pie. Outside of Spongebob and Lego Batman, I cant see many family friendly projects going Switch 2 exclusive yet. A lot of those projects don't even get the Nintendo direct fanfare and usually just pop up on shelves. Key example would be, Miraculous Ladybug having two Switch games and neither of them were featured on a Direct. Hell, unless they had commercials on traditional television, I'm sure most of us ran into these games by simply walking into a store.

In any case, the Switch will be around for a bit longer. I wonder how Nintendo and their partners will navigate the next few years.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Exhibit: A
https://www.ign.com/articles/ninten...1-and-rely-on-backwards-compatibility-instead

Exhibit: B
https://www.polygon.com/switch-2-development-kits-nintendo/

Exhibit: C
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ninte...f-third-party-games-on-console.1096328.0.html

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What would you like to see for the last few years? Personally I would like for Nintendo to go back to the old Wii Schedule of having 4 big (full priced) titles for each season with smaller games peppered between. In this case, the 4 big games could be Switch 2 exclusives while the smaller titles would be Switch 1 games that are obviously capable of being played on the new system.

Additionally, I can see a lot of indies capitalizing on the fact that the bigger third parties have moved on to the Switch 2. Smaller studios can start seeing a bigger piece of the sales pie. Outside of Spongebob and Lego Batman, I cant see many family friendly projects going Switch 2 exclusive yet. A lot of those projects don't even get the Nintendo direct fanfare and usually just pop up on shelves. Key example would be, Miraculous Ladybug having two Switch games and neither of them were featured on a Direct. Hell, unless they had commercials on traditional television, I'm sure most of us ran into these games by simply walking into a store.

In any case, the Switch will be around for a bit longer. I wonder how Nintendo and their partners will navigate the next few years.

Well yes this is rather standard for any console that was successful. The PS2 was a very active platform for games until like 2010.

 

[LightyKD]

Well yes this is rather standard for any console that was successful. The PS2 was a very active platform for games until like 2010.

I remember those days. Hell, it was crazy seeing PS2 getting ports of Wii and PSP games. Before that, I believe PS1 lasted almost as long. BUT, that's Sony. They don't mind letting their consoles linger. Nintendo loves to just kill their previous system as soon as the new one is released. N64, GameCube, Wii and especially Wii U were on Nintendo's "new phone who dis?" list. I think 3DS was the only recent console that was able to stay around and even that was only for an extra year. With Switch, this would be the first real time Nintendo will have to deal with an old console sticking around.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

I remember those days. Hell, it was crazy seeing PS2 getting ports of Wii and PSP games. Before that, I believe PS1 lasted almost as long. BUT, that's Sony. They don't mind letting their consoles linger. Nintendo loves to just kill their previous system as soon as the new one is released. N64, GameCube, Wii and especially Wii U were on Nintendo's "new phone who dis?" list. I think 3DS was the only recent console that was able to stay around and even that was only for an extra year. With Switch, this would be the first real time Nintendo will have to deal with an old console sticking around.

It's more that this really only happens with consoles that were a huge scuess. And truthfully the only Nintendo consoles that I think were enough of a sucess were the NES, SNES, Wii, GB/GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, and Switch.

But it's crazy to think that to this day there are lots of games still releasing on the PS4.

 

[Skv0ra]

I remember those days. Hell, it was crazy seeing PS2 getting ports of Wii and PSP games. Before that, I believe PS1 lasted almost as long. BUT, that's Sony. They don't mind letting their consoles linger.

Well, that's the natural effect of releasing a powerhouse with the intent of it lasting a solid half a decade to a decade running all the latest and greatest titles.

I honestly don't see how Switch is staying alive considering new proper games being resource hogs and Switch came out with DoA hardware for its time, let alone almost a decade later. It's almost a devs' grace that it could run things like Kingdom Come 1 & Witcher 3, but did we see Cyberpunk on it, or RDR2? Hell, note how there isn't a single current Need For Speed title on the Switch either. Switch 2, yet again, is DoA with a hefty price tag outside of Japan, and cannot run a single game that came out this year.

 

[BigOnYa]

Well, that's the natural effect of releasing a powerhouse with the intent of it lasting a solid half a decade to a decade running all the latest and greatest titles.

I honestly don't see how Switch is staying alive considering new proper games being resource hogs and Switch came out with DoA hardware for its time, let alone almost a decade later. It's almost a devs' grace that it could run things like Kingdom Come 1 & Witcher 3, but did we see Cyberpunk on it, or RDR2? Hell, note how there isn't a single current Need For Speed title on the Switch either. Switch 2, yet again, is DoA with a hefty price tag outside of Japan, and cannot run a single game that came out this year.

What other handheld gaming systems have come out that can play those titles you mentioned (Cyberpunk, RDR2, NFS) that cost around the same as a Switch1? ($300).
My point is you get what you pay for, and Sw1 has been great for the cheap investment, huge library and lots of ports nobody thought could be running on SW1 to begin with. If you want to play those games you mentioned on a handheld gaming console, you'd need to buy a $800+ system.

 

[Skv0ra]

What other handheld gaming systems have come out that can play those titles you mentioned (Cyberpunk, RDR2, NFS) that cost around the same as a Switch1? ($300)

But thus my point - it wasn't designed nor to compete nor to last with the industry standard on arrival.