potato_hamster said:
Soundwave said:
Why would you do that? Accept different cartridges for the sake of locking out people from software? Lets get this straight first off -- Splatoon not being available to 3DS owners to play (65 million of them) is not a good thing. It doesn't make Nintendo more money.
Imagine if 3/4 of McDonalds could not serve french fries, that's not a good thing for McDonalds.
More likely what Nintendo would actually do is introduce a higher end Switch in 3 years time or so, something that has a higher-end Tegra X3 and can occupy the $300 price point. The current Switch will be die-shrunk down to 16nm or 10nm, as be incorporated into various lower price models (ie: $229 basic, $179.99 Switch Mini, $149.99 Switch Home, etc). 2DS/3DS is phased out entirely by those models. Software is cross compatible between all Switch devices.
That's far more likely. You want your software library to have access to the widest consumer base.
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That's far more sensible, consumer friendly and reasonable, I agree .
But this is Nintendo we're talking about.
They have a long, long history of making some awful, anti-consumer decisions in the past, and some horrible business decisions to boot. I'm not sure why everyone expects them to act reasonable and sensible now. I'm not saying Nintendo should do this, I'm just saying that Nintendo is out of touch and boneheaded enough to do this.
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They can do kinda that, but in much more logical way.
Instead of having an unneccessary new platform, what I think is more likely is they will keep the high price/low price model they have now. Right now it's Switch being the premium/expensive device at $300 and they are keeping the 2DS/3DS as the cheap model.
I think they'll just keep that setup, but what will happen is a more powerful Switch with a future Tegra processor will come out in a few years to occupy the premium/expensive slot, and the current Switch will go through redesigns/die shrinks to have models in the cheaper tier. 2DS/3DS then is completely phased out.
The market will accept this because they accept faster hardware revisions on portable centric devices like tablets, so that will just make sense to consumers.
