everything that is played by Nintendo with the Switch 2

There are only a few hours left for the official announcement of all the characteristics of the New Switch 2or at least enough to get the idea of ​​what exactly expect from this hybrid console, improved version of the one that has been taking sales lists from all over the world for eight years. We have asked ourselves unansweredalthough one of them is impossible for us to see it answered: what happens if Switch 2 does not work as a Nintendo waiting? Do you have any emergency plan?

Insured success … right? How wasn’t a switch 2 to work? More than 150 million units sold, more than 100,000 million dollars entered by Nintendo guarantee safe success. But Nintendo has some bad experiences with the second parts of his hardware. Of course, this happened with that disaster without palliative that was Wii U, which only sold 14 million consoles compared to 101 of its predecessor. Less loud were the figures of the 3DS, with 76 million, but that pale in front of its precedent: the DS sold approximately double, more than 150 million.

And an extra dictation. While Wii U sank, there was a 3Ds that kept the guy. And while Gamecube (the second greatest failure in the history of Nintendo) made Nintendo think that perhaps compete with Sony and Microsoft was not quite a good idea, Game Boy Color continued with relative dignity the success of the most important laptop of all time. Nintendo has always had a plan B or a laptop that served as a mattress of possible collapses. But the hybrid condition of the Switch It makes it the portable option and, at the same time, of Nintendo desktop. And there is no more.

Video games, the only sector. Let us also keep in mind that Nintendo is a company delivered exclusively to video games, which undoubtedly gives huge joys to the players (their video game catalog is, well, a catalog of video games; not everyone can boast that), but puts the company on the tightrope. It is obvious that if Microsoft can afford deficit experimentsfirefighter ideas and Buy Lost Business Companies It is because Microsoft is not just Xbox. That doesn’t happen to Nintendo.

Reasons to be conservative. Before we know anything about Switch 2, a criticism surveys the launch of this new console: the total immobility about its precedent. Very little power improvement, so it is rumored; some improvement in the control support system; Some sensors that allow joycons to use as mice and whose utility will be allegedly very limited; And now. But it makes sense: Nintendo cannot afford an error because, since the launch of Switch, almost all of the company’s revenue come from the sales of the console, and a failure would disrupt the complete economy of Nintendo. But … Is it counterproductive to go from conservative?

When you don’t innovate enough. Nintendo has the tendency to grab a success and not release it until he squeezes it. For example, with the topic prices: good luck if you want to buy a ‘Mario Kart’ when Nintendo decides to apply a discount. That can ever happen, or at least years after the launch, when the next installment arrives (sometimes not yet). They are the type of maneuvers that, of course, give abundant benefits when they work, but that magnify Nintendo’s image of being a rigid company and with little waist to react to financial setbacks. It is what has a single letter play … and that single letter is now switch 2.

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