Talking Point: Can Nintendo Keep Up The One-Game-A-Month Release Pace On Switch 2?
Keepie uppies.With Switch entering its ninth year on 3rd March 2025, and with over 150 million units sold and more million-selling games than we've had hot dinners, it's hard to remember a time when Nintendo pooling its portable and home console software teams behind a single system felt like a risky move. As Wii U foundered, it was the slow-starting 3DS that kept Nintendo fans' candles burning during The Lean Wii U Years™, so putting all its eggs in one basket felt like a gamble.It wasn't really much of a gamble, all told. Not only did Nintendo's vast cash reserves mean it could weather several generations of flops, but by leaning on its IP and investing heavily in non-gaming areas (merch, movies, and theme parks), not to mention its mobile experiments, the company went and got a whole new bunch of multimedia baskets for its eggs. Switch 2 could be a catastrophic failure but Nintendo's got a long runway; it would multiple catastrophic failures to result in proper Nintendoom.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Keepie uppies.
With Switch entering its ninth year on 3rd March 2025, and with over 150 million units sold and more million-selling games than we've had hot dinners, it's hard to remember a time when Nintendo pooling its portable and home console software teams behind a single system felt like a risky move. As Wii U foundered, it was the slow-starting 3DS that kept Nintendo fans' candles burning during The Lean Wii U Years™, so putting all its eggs in one basket felt like a gamble.
It wasn't really much of a gamble, all told. Not only did Nintendo's vast cash reserves mean it could weather several generations of flops, but by leaning on its IP and investing heavily in non-gaming areas (merch, movies, and theme parks), not to mention its mobile experiments, the company went and got a whole new bunch of multimedia baskets for its eggs. Switch 2 could be a catastrophic failure but Nintendo's got a long runway; it would multiple catastrophic failures to result in proper Nintendoom.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com