MrBean wrote:> Totally agreed; however, when it comes to anything Zelda, logic usually goes out
> the window. Yet, not this time. Hopefully goes to show that the consumers are telling Nintendo it's time for a true upgrade.
Switch is still selling very well, so I doubt it. It'll probably beat the PS5 in April-May, it's still dominating Japan, and it's well over doubling Xbox sales this year globally.
That said I'm confident we'll see something in terms of an upgrade in the next year or so. Hopefully they continue their trend of staying out of the latest console market as their recent attempts have disappointed in market share (Wii U, GC). When they innovate and sacrifice cutting edge graphics they succeed (handheld, Wii, Switch). This allows them to turn games more rapidly, though the Switch is an anomaly as I'm certain they held projects back from the Wii U to release on Switch plus all the Dx content.
I'd be very disappointed if they go back to a console/handheld model, and if it's not backwards compatible. Based on recent history they've been fixing the previous system's fault. Wii U fixed the downgraded graphics of the Wii plus gave better control and online options. The Switch is what the Wii U should have been. So Switch 2.0
should be an enhanced Switch, maybe a little more powerful than a PS4. We'll probably see a better, more expensive NES Online, and I wouldn't be shocked to see backwards compatibility tied to it somehow (hope I'm wrong). The big thing is it will need to be able to handle games made with the current big engines, like UE5, even if the ports are stripped down a bit.