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Soundwave on 18 March 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

You will see both and in well under 3 years. 

LCD tech is cheap, the cost difference of a 6.2 inch screen versus a 7.5 inch display is piddly these days. 

6.2 inches is actually quite small for a lot of the things Nintendo wants to do with the system like the "gather around" and even some games having split screen game play (Puyo Tetris, Mario Kart, etc.) on a single display. 

It's not big enough, it's part of the reason 1,2 Switch is so gimped. The screen is not large enough to have multiple people gather around it so they had to design the game to be usable without needing the screen. 

And I'll also go on record again as saying the larger screen Switch will wipe the floor with the smaller Switch model in sales. People who prefer smaller/pocket models are the minority these days and it's been shown again and again (DSi XL >> DSi sales, 3DS XL > 3DS standard sales, New 3DS XL >>> New 3DS, PSP standard >>> smaller PSP Go). Bigger screens is what people want. People who like the smaller sizes are a vocal minority on the internet but they don't translate to real sales, just like with the iPhone there was a vocal group that wanted the old 4-inch iPhone form factor back, well Apple made a version for them and it's selling like hot crap. None of the kids/teenagers want that thing. 

Like wrote, fact is that 6.2 is already huge screen for handheld gaming console and huge difference compared to 3DS XLs 4.9" screen or any previous handheld.

You missing point, point of DS XL or 3DS XL is offer more expensive device in family, and you already have more expensive device in family with current Switch (dont forget that Switch is $300 and most likly we not having price cut this year), but they don't have more affordable Switch, and that will be priorite for Nintendo when 3DS dies, not to have more expansive Switch than current one.

Completely disagree, I am pretty confident we will not see Switch XL in next 3 years and that we definitely seeing Switch Mini/Pocket instead.

Who says a TX2 based Switch would be any more expenisve? 

Nintendo fans have funny ideas about hardware power and how hardware power must cost waaaaay more. That's not how things work. Costs scale over time and new technology replaces old technology. 

If it wasn't then use some common sense here, every new iPhone, which is updated every year and offers usually abou double the performance of the last model would cost twice as more. Except they don't. They usually cost basically the same price. 

So yes, sure, Nintendo could have a Switch in 2018 which is TX2 based and simply replaces the older model at the $299.99 price point. And there could be a cheaper one too at $249.99 (the smaller model with a smaller/lower quality screen) for example. 

Also why can't you have both? Nintendo released both a New 3DS and a New 3DS XL. Apple now releases iPhones in regular and Plus sized models. The reason is consumers *like* choice. Just because you want a smaller, cheaper model doesn't mean you are even in the majority of what people want in a Switch revision (in fact I suspect you are actually in the minority here). But that's ok, because people should have a choice.

And more Switch models is actually only natural because Switch is replacing Nintendo's entire hardware line, I think you are dead wrong if you are saying there's merely going to be only 1 revision in the next 3 years for the Switch and that's all the hardware Nintendo is basically going to have. I doubt it. You will see a lot of Switch models over the years IMO. Part and parcel because by going the hybrid route Nintendo is losing money from their core base that would buy a console and handheld in the past ... one way to recoup that is to have more hardware models for the current Switch and encourage more double dipping hardware purchases.