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Slownenberg on 16 April 2017
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

You missing point, Switch already has huge screen for handheld and already has higher price point, so there is no need for even bigger screen or higher price, but there is definitely need for smaller and cheaper version. OG 3DS had small screen, so it made sense to release device with bigger screen not smaller, but situation with Switch is opposite. Also you need to realise that Nintendo when 3DS dies will not have lower price point ($150-200), so they will definitely need cheaper version of Switch, not more expensive one than current.

There is no side by side comparision, like I wrote, not everyone are willing to pay $250-300 for Switch, not everyone needs TV mode, some people want smaller and more practical Switch with lower price point.

Switch Mini/Pocket can have Joycon support also.

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, a larger screen version is practically already baked into the current design. 

The appeal of the system is it's a *portable console* that allows for bigger experiences than what people are accustomed to, not a 3DS-2. If it was a 3DS-2, it would be selling far worse right now IMO. 

Bolded part -> Exactly!

I don't think we'll ever see a physically larger version of the switch, but I definitely see a premium model which retain the $299 price tag as the original switch gets a price reduction. This would be for people that don't mind paying just a little bit more for the best experience. And when talking about gamers that's a lot of people! Nintendo can extend the screen into the dead space currently on the system, resulting in a significantly larger screen without making the system any larger. Add to that a much bigger hard-drive and some extra batteries in there by maybe making the premium model a bit thicker.

The Switch is a portable that is a bit too big to cram into your pocket, so people will already be used to putting it in a bag when they're on the go. A premium model with bigger screen but same w/h dimensions and a bit more depth for batteries would just be the exact same experience.

Now it would also be ideal to get a true pocket version at a sub-$200 price, but I don't see them getting rid of the joycons for it so they could only shrink its width and depth, but I dunno maybe that would be enough to allow it to reasonably fit into to pocket. Though I guess if they demand that all games have to work perfectly well with a standard controller setup, then they could make a Switch pocket that has no joycons, thus easily being able to hit that sub-$200 price and really being able to make a pocket version, and you could still have a cable to hook it up to the dock or tv or whatever and play at home using a joycon grip or the pro controller, so it would still technically be able to "switch". Now that I think about it, a joycon-less pocket switch that can still be played as a console is feasible and would really get it down into handheld price territory, so wouldn't be suprised to see something like that release in 2019. 2018 is probably too soon.