I'd be willing to hazard that by March chatter will be brewing quick on the next gen systems. You sum up how Nintendo likely look at things well, though its not willing them to fail more the opposite in willing them not to when they repeatedly and needlessly do. Nintendo likely do look at Switch and think its selling $$$ in hardware and software so everything's fine but it's that short term mentality that's cost them before and helped led to the embarrassment of the WiiU. They're happy not to line up a steady stream of products going forward because they can milk the ones that are out now, then the gravy train stops and they realise they're years out from sorting it out.
It would be a massive, massive shame if Nintendo gets complacent of the Switch's success and yet again find themselves in a position where consumers shift away to other new formats in droves because they feel content starved. It's happened repeatedly and the concern is that the longer they keep quiet on upcoming games by focusing on one or two key releases per year (like Smash/Pokémon Let's Go) the more concern will grow that that's all they're largely working on and people will start to lose interest as happened with the later Wii into WiiU years.
Last year was a good template for them, steady releases of a mix of genres. This year... well, since Odyssey I've still been waiting for them to even reveal a game of significant interest for myself
It would be a massive, massive shame if Nintendo gets complacent of the Switch's success and yet again find themselves in a position where consumers shift away to other new formats in droves because they feel content starved. It's happened repeatedly and the concern is that the longer they keep quiet on upcoming games by focusing on one or two key releases per year (like Smash/Pokémon Let's Go) the more concern will grow that that's all they're largely working on and people will start to lose interest as happened with the later Wii into WiiU years.
Last year was a good template for them, steady releases of a mix of genres. This year... well, since Odyssey I've still been waiting for them to even reveal a game of significant interest for myself
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