Nintendo will Release a Mini-Size Switch, Citigroup Predicts

[Soundwave]

zygote said:

Soundwave said:

2DS was a failure overall IMO. Did not do much of anything for 3DS sales.

They can make a Switch Mini too, but I predict it won't sell very well.

People don't get it ... Switch is appealing to those who want a high end experience and real console games on the go. That's the appeal of the hardware. For that you need a large screen and the form factor of the current Switch is desirable.

Bringing the system down into what the 3DS is is not going to make it more appealing.

A larger screen Switch will sell better than a "mini Switch". 

That may be one appeal in the current Switch popularity, while not the only one.  The point with making a mini Switch would not be to combat that appeal, but to accommodate for a 3DS replacement that is viable to the existing handheld developers as well as to the younger players who would drive the sales.  If they were to bring those into the Switch fold, then the Switch library would explode as well as sales and in turn even more titles, and so on and so forth, in a cycle that would ride the system's life and possibly carry into the next few generations.  It is a needed step in the transition.  Who knows where the potential will end with Switch, but it must be taken advantage of while it's cultural and commercial definition is being established.

Here's the thing with that though -- kids prefer tablets to the 3DS. 

Go take a 3DS and a tablet and get a bunch of kids and see which one they want more, odds are more will be fighting over the tablet. 

Kids like the bigger screen themselves too. 3DS has been getting spanked by tablets for a while now, every time I'm in an airport I see literally like 10-15 kids with a tablet versus the very rare one with a 3DS. It isn't even a contest anymore. 

So the tablet like form factor of the Switch may be more desirable even to kids. Wouldn't surprise me at all.