Revitalizing those hanafuda cards that got them their start. Maybe this is the century.

Patent-trolling?

Suing the shit out of some honest-working gamers?

Next console, I assumed

Taxis and hookers

Its called the steam deck

When necessary, more or less. The typical console generation is about seven years. But that's just a reflection of how long a company can get away with making the same machine.

So long as the Switch has no meaningful competition, gets a ton of current games ported, and flies off shelves, Nintendo has very little reason to make it better. Like most consoles - they'd rather shave off features and simplify the hardware to cut costs. These savings are even passed on to the consumer. Nintendo would rather have two customers buying games than get more money for one machine.

The alternative would be a Switch Pro that starts overpriced and gradually drops. It can be genuinely expensive to make and to buy... so long as the Switch Lite is still right there for $200, and runs all the same games well-enough.

And this is assuming they don't go from Switch to some wacky bullshit nobody expects. They are a toy company at heart. They don't want to compete with Valve or Sony or... Android. They crave blue ocean. They want to be the only company that offers [blank].