The Switch isn't an expensive device in the first place, and you can regularly find them on discount from the full price. So while an official price drop would have been nice, it's not a huge deal in this case. The lack of decrease in game pricing over time is a lot more painful, in my opinion. It's also why basically any big Switch title I try and get physical so I can sell it off for most of what I paid for it if I want to. I probably wouldn't buy many Switch games otherwise. Feels bad.
Switch 2 is gonna be successful to a decent degree simply on the back of Switch 1's success, but I think it's gonna be a 3DS vs DS situation, where it ultimately sells less. The novelty is gone, the price will likely be a good chunk higher, there wont be all the excitement of games coming to Switch anymore like there was in early years of Switch as people just consider it normal now, and I think they'll struggle to have the kind of amazing first year of games to kickstart things that Switch had with one of the GOAT games in Breath of the Wild, but also games like Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 rerelease and Xenoblade 2. And because Switch library is so good at this point, Nintendo will really need some big hitter exclusives to get people to want to upgrade.
And of course people's expectations will be higher for Switch 2 first party games on a technical level, so even though they still have lots of studios and close partners, I still think they'll run more into the issues of longer game development times and fair bit higher costs that will thin out the rate of releases somewhat.
Will be very hard for Nintendo to mess up the Switch 2 generation, but I do think there's simply a lower ceiling for success.
