Its getting there, this graph is without last FY.
Here is up to date profit (from Installbase.com):
Switch is going to soar past the Wii+DS in revenue, profit, software sales etc
I 100% agree with this. For some reason people have decided the Switch will have a longer than usual lifecycle. It is maybe because of Nintendo's declarations which in history have not been ultimately reliable? Or because of insiders knowledge of an incoming Switch revision but which was mainly fueled by OLED conflation and speculation on a 4-8SM system.
I will ask it again, what tangible info do we have Nintendo will not follow a traditional hardware transition or atleast something akin to the PS5 and PS4 ? Or in other words what tangible info do we have Nintendo will go with only a 4K revision or will support the Switch until 2025-2026 as I have seen some saying? Do we have any tangible info on those?
The tangible evidence we have that Nitnendo will not release a successor type console in the next few years is:
- Nintendo saying Switch is at its mid point of its lifecycle 6 years in (most consoles declare this 3.5 years in)
- Nintendo saying Switch will have an unusually long console lifecycle compared to typical consoles (no successor released in its 5th/6th year on the market)
- Nintendo saying they expect growth in Switch’s 6th year which they admit is unusual since most consoles are in decline by the 6th year
- Nintendo having yet to have a price cut.
- Nintendo having yet to have an upgrade for its handheld console (they almost always do)
Your post is backwards. You should be asking if there is any tangible evidence Nintendo plans on releasing a successor in the next few years. Cause there is no such evidence.
Most portable Nintendo consoles have had around 8 year lifespans or more outside of the GBA , the thing is that people assume the lifespan of a console ends when a new one releases when this isn’t the case at all outside of cases like the Wii U. I dont think Nintendo is lying about Switch lifespan I expect it to be supported until 2025 and maybe even early 2026, that doesn’t mean a new console or revision can’t release before 2024/2025 though.
Nintendo stopped putting software on the Gameboy a year after the GBA release. Nintendo stopped putting software on the GBA a year after the DS release. Nintendo stopped putting software on the DS a year after the 3ds release.
This is how we determine lifespan (along with hardware sales/production)
Nintendo will not stop putting software on the Lite/OLED/hybrid models a year after Drake’s release.
so that's four then
bloomberg, nate, imran, grubb
for the purposes of potential miscommunication or a hoax, the primary sources don't matter because we don't know if they exist
So you are saying Bloomberg is lying about their 11 different developer sources having devkits?
You don't think using CDs or DVDs would have made a meaningful difference in the N64 and GC's sales?
No. Why would you think this?
There's no reason a Nintendo console couldn't help 3rd parties sell.
There are tons of reasons. I listed them.
Again, the only way a Nintendo console can be a 3rd party gaming machine is if Nintendo changed their 1st party games to be similar to Xbox/PlayStation 1st party games. And compete with them to have the best hardware/services to play AAA 3rd party games.
Nintendo will never do these things, for obvious reasons.
Therefore it can never happen.
But it means Nintendo lost the home console wars.
Nintendo makes wayyyy more money than Xbox and PlayStation. Nintendo as a publisher sells wayyyyy more games than Microsoft and PlayStation. (Nintendo sells more games than any publisher)
Nintendo “won”, no matter how you look at it