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Lately I have heard a lot of people say that Nintendo should ditch the Switch asap and that the next console can't come soon enough so we can get games with a modern quality from them, however I think the next console might have a very relevant period of cross gen releases like the PS5 and Xbox Series did, for a year or 2, the reasons being:
-While many people love to say that basically every Nintendo game has been struggling and they all have been screaming for a Switch 2, that really is not true, some like Pokémon are and others like ToTK, Bayonetta 3 or Xeno 3 while arguably fine could definitely use better hardware, but basically every medium to smaller Nintendo game has been totally fine, some even at 60fps or a rock soild 30fps, some of them and at most could use a higher resolution for people with 4K TV's. Nintendo won't stop releasing those games when the next console comes out, they release these stuff like that every year, so those could probably keep having Switch versions for 1 or 2 years, they really don't need a lot of hardware for the most part. Among these could be most spin offs of any series they want to release.
-Development cycles are long, some Nintendo studios probably have been working on a project since 2019, 2020 or 2021 with pandemic issues in the middle, and in those cases they probably started being made for the regular Switch in mind since the full dev kits for the new console weren't probably finished yet and instead given in the middle/late of the development period, so even if some of those games are in the "bigger" side of Nintendo's development, and maybe a couple of them could be cancelled and moved to the new console all together, they might stil be easily just released for both, just like stuff like GoW Ragnarok, Halo Infinite or FH5 or Forbodden West were on PS5 and Series. Among these games could be definitely the next 1 or 2 Pokémon games, MP4, the next Paper Mario, the next game from Grezzo, the next FE from 3 Houses team or even the next 2D Metroid.
-The Switch has sold a lot so they probably will keep making stuff for it since it's profitable, they kept making exclusives (and a couple of cross gen with Switch games) for the 3DS for 2 years despite that only selling 75M, so it's basically a given the Switch will get as much support as it can.
-And finally and while not super related, regardless if the next console has backwards compatibility or not, I think just like Sony on the PS5, did they might also release some "Definitive Edition" of some late era Switch games, probably the ones that had the most issues.
I see stuff like the next 3D Mario, Mario Kart being exclusives made with the new Switch in mind, but I feel people who want the Switch to just dissapear as soon as the next one comes out will be dissapointed.
-While many people love to say that basically every Nintendo game has been struggling and they all have been screaming for a Switch 2, that really is not true, some like Pokémon are and others like ToTK, Bayonetta 3 or Xeno 3 while arguably fine could definitely use better hardware, but basically every medium to smaller Nintendo game has been totally fine, some even at 60fps or a rock soild 30fps, some of them and at most could use a higher resolution for people with 4K TV's. Nintendo won't stop releasing those games when the next console comes out, they release these stuff like that every year, so those could probably keep having Switch versions for 1 or 2 years, they really don't need a lot of hardware for the most part. Among these could be most spin offs of any series they want to release.
-Development cycles are long, some Nintendo studios probably have been working on a project since 2019, 2020 or 2021 with pandemic issues in the middle, and in those cases they probably started being made for the regular Switch in mind since the full dev kits for the new console weren't probably finished yet and instead given in the middle/late of the development period, so even if some of those games are in the "bigger" side of Nintendo's development, and maybe a couple of them could be cancelled and moved to the new console all together, they might stil be easily just released for both, just like stuff like GoW Ragnarok, Halo Infinite or FH5 or Forbodden West were on PS5 and Series. Among these games could be definitely the next 1 or 2 Pokémon games, MP4, the next Paper Mario, the next game from Grezzo, the next FE from 3 Houses team or even the next 2D Metroid.
-The Switch has sold a lot so they probably will keep making stuff for it since it's profitable, they kept making exclusives (and a couple of cross gen with Switch games) for the 3DS for 2 years despite that only selling 75M, so it's basically a given the Switch will get as much support as it can.
-And finally and while not super related, regardless if the next console has backwards compatibility or not, I think just like Sony on the PS5, did they might also release some "Definitive Edition" of some late era Switch games, probably the ones that had the most issues.
I see stuff like the next 3D Mario, Mario Kart being exclusives made with the new Switch in mind, but I feel people who want the Switch to just dissapear as soon as the next one comes out will be dissapointed.
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