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How exactly is it late? That implies there was some deadline to meet.That's how ridiculously late Nintendo have left the announcement of Switch 2.
Which announcement? Announcement of the project or official unveiling of the console?They need a significant amount of lead-time from announcement to release in order to get stakeholders on-board and 3rd party support going prior to launch.
Because that’s not what they did at all for the 3DS. They announced it near the end of FY03/2010 and the system released less than a year later.
The system had a suite of third party games to lead with, but a poor first party slate at the time. How do you think these games came to be? They were made in less than a year? Because they certainly didn’t look like rushed jobs.
Devs get briefed privately about future hardware from the platform holder years before the system ever hits the market, key partners to be honest. They are lent property that does not belong to them so which they develop software for.