>>58037375
No, they waited 18 months until stock shortages and the first year of release passed. Nintendo also enforced the leap, shortly after Switch launched, they shuttered their individual home console and portable console hard and software divisions and established a new blended hard and software division with all staff now working as one unit. They had ended the dual-system set-up and wanted all their related studios to similarly start supporting th new system as soon as possible.
I'm pretty sure the SE Pokémon console next year will actually be a Switch 2 Lite and not a full-fat Switch 2 however. Despite /vp/'s habitual hotboxing of their containment space with their own farts to huff constantly, Pokémon is still very much a child-focused franchise and Nintendo are well aware of the market as well. And they always launch a revision model for their systems when a new Pokémon generation launches on a new system, to afford younger players a cheaper option to buy into the series with (or more correctly, their parents to afford to get their offspring in). If you're really bothered about buying a Pokémon-branded S2, gotta ask yourself is it worth it to nerf yourself so hard?