A reader worries that it will no longer make business sense for Xbox and PlayStation to make new consoles after the Nintendo Switch 2.
I’m writing this on Wednesday and, so far, the Switch 2 has not been announced. I feel safe in assuming it won’t have been by the time you read this either. Nintendo said we’d hear something before April though, so at some point relatively soon the boil will be lanced and the first console of the tenth generation of consoles will be revealed.
I’m not going to try and predict what it is or what its games are going to be, because apart from anything that’s irrelevant to the point I’m going to try and make. What we can reasonably assume though, is that the console is going to be more powerful than the first Switch and that means that the games are going to be more expensive to make and will take longer to create.
I’ve …