[foobar33333]

These emulators are usually useless for piracy until after the console has reached its end of life. People start working on them as soon as possible but they don't work well for years. The switch is almost at the end now and there still isn't an emulator which works very well.

When the competition for emulators is buying a hackable switch and running dumped games natively with 0 bugs or slowdowns. I doubt switch emulators have prevented the sale of a single switch game.

[brundolf]

You may be right about the ramp-up time, though the Switch is only at like 50% of its lifetime and I wouldn't be surprised if the next console is a "Switch 2" or something with backwards-compatibility, given what the other console makers have done

[Jasper_]

The typical lifetime of a Nintendo console is 5 years (N64 was 1996, GameCube was 2001, Wii was 2006, Wii U was 2012 because the Wii was such a smash success, Switch was 2017). The release cycles have been slowing as of recent but we're far more than 50% in.

[brundolf]

They've already announced an enhanced "Switch Pro" and said they hope it "extends the life cycle of the Switch platform for many more years": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/nintendo-...

[blonder]

A rumor != Nintendo announcing a "Switch Pro", your quote was from an analyst, not someone from Nintendo.

[cheschire]

What you say is logical when considering things generically, however I’m struggling to remember a decision that Nintendo ever made that was based on what other console makers have done.

[hawthornio]

A switch with increased pixel density and some other improvements seems almost certain to me.

[isaacimagine]

I mean, after the success of the Wii Nintendo released the Wii 2 *ahem* U.