Nintendo President, Shuntaro Furukawa, has spoken to investors after the recent financial results were reported. One of the things that Furukawa mentioned is that the company is aiming for the Nintendo Switch 2 to have a similar lifespan as the original Nintendo Switch system. He says that they aim to do this by building up the system’s user base and growing hardware and software sales over time.
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Not with these prices
I think even with these prices, the Switch 2 is still going to have a long legacy. Maybe not as long as the Switch 1, most likely not selling as well as the Switch 1, but you buy the console for the games, so as long as they’re putting out good games that people want to buy then that’ll get grow it’s staying power. It’ll just be a commodity that people have to invest more money into because of the price, so therefore need to be incentivized more than before. I haven’t picked one up yet because there’s no particular game I really want to play right now, but if a new Smash or good Pokemon game comes out then I’ll have to reevaluate
Switch 3. Calling it.
Switch 3/D
I want to assume this will last until around 2030. I mean people thought the original switch was going to last for like three or fours years, and now it’s almost 10 years old.
That would only be 5 years which to me seems extremely short
This is going to last until 2032. That’s my theory. The Switch 1 was a successful system with sales and it’s getting close on being 10 years old soon.
Then gime oled model and few full games on physical medium 👍 or you dont need mine money??
The Switch outperformed the hardware of the 360 and PS3, and could just barely play PS4/XB1 games with tons of optimization. The Switch 2 is kinda disappointing, in terms of how it runs games, with 30FPS remaining the norm for newer titles like Pragmata and RE9, and we’ve got the PS6 and next-gen Xbox coming soon, likely with 120FPS and much better upscaling making effective 4K image quality the norm. DLSS sucks on Switch 2, and the Switch 2 is really gonna hold future games back.
Really wish they’d gone with an AMD APU instead, something on the level of a Ryzen 7840U would be significantly more capable. 12GB RAM is going to remain a big difficulty, and its IO performance is kinda iffy… Just a total “rock and a hard place” situation, I wish they’d chosen different components. Like, a 1080p 60Hz OLED display would’ve been monumentally better than the 1080p 120Hz LCD one they chose, with loads of ghosting and iffy response times. I got a Steam Deck in 2022, and then a GPD Win Max 2 7840U in 2023, and they’re just a lot more powerful than the Switch 2 and with much cheaper games through Steam. Nintendo has an uphill battle with the hardware they chose, but I guess back-compat makes up for the weaker architecture with the ARM CPU.