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Soundwave on 16 April 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

There are plenty of reasons for a bigger screen. The current Switch is pretty hard to play 2 player games on largely due to its small screen size.

A version with a bigger screen is going to happen, I have no doubt about it. And I would bet it will pretty quickly become the best selling version too. 

You can take a ruler and measure it right now on the current Switch even, you can see they could increase the screen size to 7.4 inches roughly without even increasing the size of the system. 

Its not that hard, and actual current Switch is already big for handheld.

I have doubts about bigger version of Switch, I don't say it won't happen at all, but I don't see point for it. I dont it will sell well either, nobody really needs handheld that's bigger than 6.2", even here people saying that they would buyed smaller Switch not bigger.

 

Soundwave said:

You'll see two new Switch models next year IMO, both using the 14nm Tegra X2, one will have double the battery life of the current Switch and it will eventually phase out the current base model.

These models IMO are already finished inside Nintendo's R&D or almost already finished and they're just tinkering with them now. 

Hardly we will have two new Switch models next year, too early.

You're thinking of everything through the prisim of the handheld gamer. You guys are quite frankly a small and shrinking market. 

Even kids don't like smaller screens. 

The Switch is having success because it's doing something different from the 3DS ... and wisely so. In a world of free/low budget gaming being the reddest ocean, Switch justifies the concept of a portable game machine in the smartphone world by offering a console-type experience. 

3DS is the worst selling Nintendo portable in their history. Lets not forget that either. Changes needed to be made.

What you have wrong IMO is the thinking that Switch is "wrong" for being too big and all that. You're wrong IMO. The Switch is suceeding precisely because of those differences. It's a different product and a different product is needed for a different world, and we are in a different world thanks to smartphones/tablets. The DS design was right for the world of 2006 ... it's not anymore though, Switch is more attuned to the consumer world of today.