You missed the point that I was getting at, Nintendo’s biggest issue with the next system is not the PlayStation 5 or the Xbox series, Nintendo’s biggest issue with the Nintendo Switch successor is the Nintendo switch.
It is their biggest enemy and the biggest difficulty in transitioning from one to the other. The 3DS started with a very weak first party at launch despite having a solid amount of third party, that they had to kill two other systems, and another one had to be forcibly be put down because of its rampant piracy to help kick-off the 3DS from the ground. Some Wii games were moved to the 3DS in order to give it life, eg Kid Icarus Uprising.
If Nintendo has a very heavy amount of titles with the Nintendo switch, they will end up having. a lighter amount of titles for the Nintendo switch 2. If they. If they have a lighter amount of titles for the Nintendo switch, they have a heavier amount of titles for the Nintendo Switch 2, but at the detriment of killing the Nintendo switch earlier than expected, and that has its own effect on the successor.
Nintendo‘s biggest hurdle, like I said, is the Nintendo Switch, and how to overcome it in the most balanced way possible. Sony went through this and they’ve managed to do it perfectly and they’re selling much better because the balance the first party from the third-party. They are a third party driven platform so it worked out well with their end. Microsoft, on the other hand has not been having a great success with this, and we see how they have been going it down, not up, Year over Year. Why? Because they literally don’t have anything to give out to their players, that are of note.
Nintendo is very strongly first party driven, the balance is very different from the other two, henceforth: This is a very difficult balancing act, Nintendo is quite literally living in “the biggest enemy is thyself”
This sounds more dramatic than what I want it to, but it’s the issue they will face.
The Nintendo Switch.
A company with 40 years of gaming experience and yet has had hits and misses in the hardware cycles. Over and over.
Nintendo isn’t guaranteed a hit every single time, and that’s because of their own doing.
This makes less sense considering that the forecast is too high if there is new hardware this FY (there is not imo). If they announce it, the switch will tank and they can kiss that PS2 number goodbye.
The number should be about, like, 9-12M, not 15M, if they plan to release anything this year.