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Arkaign said:
It bugs me a little because I really believe the Switch will get basically no serious 3rd party support for major multiplats, it will simply lack the performance to port them without looking awful compared to the competition.

I have zero interest in mobile gaming, so something that is heavily compromised to be a mobile system with money going to the screen/battery/etc is a waste to me.

If there was a set-top version with no screen/battery/etc and the price was cut down to just the component value (hypothetically say this thing is $249, but the BOM % of the thing is half screen/battery), then they could sell this thing for $129 and I'd feel happy buying the 'home' version.

The games that will be big on this thing (Zelda, Mario, etc) would have all run fine on the WiiU anyway, so personally, this thing isn't for me. I'd just be irritated looking at the thing sitting there connected to my TV anyway, when I'd know that the games could look much better if the full cost had gone into an uncompromised standard console rather than a hybrid with a screen that I would literally never look at, and a battery pack I would absolutely never use.

It would be every bit as dumb as buying a laptop instead of a desktop and then NEVER leaving it anywhere but on top of a desk.

I would have zero complaints if they had simply made two versions of it. Home version, and hybrid version. Their choice means I'll never buy one.

Well damn you have a point.

A sub 150 dollar after tax home console with all nintendo games when Pro/Scorpio are 400 and higher would be a hell of a bargin.