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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Rumor: Nintendo plans to launch a new Switch SKU in 2020 - UPDATE: Nintendo says no

 

What will the new Switch model be?

Switch 2 4 5.80%
 
Switch Pro 33 47.83%
 
Switch XL 6 8.70%
 
Switch TV 9 13.04%
 
Switch Mini (clamshell) 0 0%
 
Something else 6 8.70%
 
No new SKU in 2020 11 15.94%
 
Total:69
zorg1000 said:
JRPGfan said:

Without the screen and dock, battery? probably possible tbh.
Switch lite is 199$ (without battery + screen), it should be a easy 149$ for a Switch Tv.

Dont forget about the Joy-Cons, the only way Switch TV is $149 is if it comes with no controller.

Severely overestimating the price of a few things.



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Nu-13 said:
zorg1000 said:

Dont forget about the Joy-Cons, the only way Switch TV is $149 is if it comes with no controller.

Severely overestimating the price of a few things.

They sell a pair of Joy Cons for $80, no way they are selling the hardware+Joy Cons for $150.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

zorg1000 said:
Nu-13 said:

Severely overestimating the price of a few things.

They sell a pair of Joy Cons for $80, no way they are selling the hardware+Joy Cons for $150.

At a fat margin of profit.



Nu-13 said:
zorg1000 said:

They sell a pair of Joy Cons for $80, no way they are selling the hardware+Joy Cons for $150.

At a fat margin of profit.

And Nintendo is going to sell Switch TV at a slim profit margin?



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

zorg1000 said:
Nu-13 said:

At a fat margin of profit.

And Nintendo is going to sell Switch TV at a slim profit margin?

They did it with the switch at launch. A hypothetical switch tv could have released last year for $149 already.



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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Most likely it is just a normal Switch with some improvements like longer battery life, a slightly better CPU and improved joy-cons that no longer have the drift problem.

Second most likely is a digital only Switch with a bigger hard drive and improved interface for people who want to go the digital only route.

They already released a normal switch with battery improvement, new soc, new joy cons lol in August 2019 before the switch lite came out.

Why would they re release the same thing again?



If it's Switch TV I hope it has docking capability, preferably for both Lite and standard Switch, so I can get rid of that dreadful OG dock.



BlackBeauty said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Most likely it is just a normal Switch with some improvements like longer battery life, a slightly better CPU and improved joy-cons that no longer have the drift problem.

Second most likely is a digital only Switch with a bigger hard drive and improved interface for people who want to go the digital only route.

They already released a normal switch with battery improvement, new soc, new joy cons lol in August 2019 before the switch lite came out.

Why would they re release the same thing again?

To make gradual improvements.  

There were rumors last year about a "Switch Pro" and all this pro model had were some modest improvements to the base Switch.  I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same thing again.



DonFerrari said:
freebs2 said:

I know, in fact my suggestion was that a Switch VR (potentially) would be a new SKU, not portable but more powerfull. Since the baseline Switch is much weaker compared to a PS4, on Switch you wouldn't need that much horse power in order to achieve higher resolution and better framerates. In other words you wouldn't need a 4 Tflops to run BOTW at twice the resolution and twice the framerate, probably even half of that can do the job.

Well isn't BOTW 30fps? So for same graphical fidelity on VR and 60fps you would need 3x more power probably. But yes 2Tf would be doable if they dropped the graphics a little to achieve 60fps.

Consider that the Switch is currently about 0.4 TFlops while docked. So a 2TF device would be about 5 time in GPU power. If ever the bottleneck for higher framerates would be more related to CPU / ram. 



The_Liquid_Laser said:
BlackBeauty said:

They already released a normal switch with battery improvement, new soc, new joy cons lol in August 2019 before the switch lite came out.

Why would they re release the same thing again?

To make gradual improvements.  

There were rumors last year about a "Switch Pro" and all this pro model had were some modest improvements to the base Switch.  I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same thing again.

Except it wasn't a "Pro", it was just the same original Switch with slight improvements. The Pro rumors turned out to be wrong and instead it was just the original Switch getting small internal improvements.. Companies normally do these types of updates, make a slightly more efficient version, usually reduces their cost too, and just swaps out the older model with the new model, usually no one even noticed cuz it's still the same model. It's not a different retail version, its just a small update to the same thing. A "Pro", or whatever, means a new retail item, with significant enhancements over the original and will cost more than whatever the current original Switch's price is when it comes out.

A "Pro" would probably mean improved game performance, larger screen, perhaps another improvement in battery capacity, larger internal storage, and a few small tweaks to the design to make it look like a new item, coming in at a higher price.

As far as a digital only version, I don't think it is very likely at all. A Switch "Pro" or a Switch Home/TV is far more likely. I doubt a digital only Switch would be very popular. I mean I try to pretty much only buy digital, but even I have 5 physical games now. Taking away a big advantage (physical games) wouldn't save a whole lot of money in the design of the system, and I think consumers would see that as a net negative compared to any price reductions. And it wouldn't be much of a price reduction because a digital only version would need a much larger internal storage.

In the end the Switch lineup will likely be Lite, "Pro", OG (if the Pro doesn't just entirely replace this), and maybe a "Home/TV". Lite and Home would have similar pricing at $200 for the foreseeable future, Pro would be $300 and if OG is still around it'd be $250 but honestly I think the OG would just be discontinued like the original 3DS a while after the Pro hit the market.