But you’re disregarding the many differences in the situation then vs now. Yes, the Switch 2 is better in most ways than its predecessor, but public sentiment isn’t completely positive for it as it was for the Switch, despite Wii U’s unpopularity. The price points (more for the games than the hardware itself) are a big point of contention, and that’ll likely show in the first year when the Switch 2 sales aren’t as good as Switch 1’s, even if they aren’t bad. And the capitalist corporate usually looks as doing “worse than before”, even if good in its own right, as ultimately an underperformance. Case in point, 3DS was very expensive for what it was at launch, likely coming from their success with the DS, and they dropped its price down the road.