| bonzobanana said: Don't split the userbase. Switch just needs a more compact design with a longer battery life. Performance level is fine for what it is and the type of games it will get. Saying that if they decide to act on their VR patent and produce a 1080p screen version that is a little more powerful purely for VR games and slips into a visor I'd be happy with that as long as it remains the same for standard Switch games. Although with its 1080p screen it will play Switch games in docked performance mode while portable of course if you are happy to sacrifice the battery runtime. That's the great thing about the Switch in the fact the upgrade path is easy, docked performance mode becomes portable mode. What I hope they don't do though is a higher performance docked mode than the standard Switch. |
Has PS4 Pro "split the userbase"?
Nope.
It's not 1994 anymore, times have changed, the way consumers look at different models is very different from the industry that was 20-30 years ago (which is funny because you have a bunch of teens/20 somethings here who try to talk definitively about that era when the truth is they were in their diapers then or not even born yet).
The Switch is not the GB/DS/3DS either. People need to stop thinking about it as such. The biggest reason it's succeeding is because Nintendo was smart and realized releasing a "DS3" that was a typical Nintendo portable would not work. Why? Because people on this board still do not understand how much of an impact mobile/tablet gaming has had on the lower portion of the market. If Nintendo did that they would not sell even 3DS numbers.
You have to give people a "wow" experience with a portable game machine now if you're going to get them to pay big money, otherwise I mean "bite size" gaming ... who cares. For too many people it's like "why should I pay $50 a a game for that when I can just have fun with these free games?".
You gotta give people console type experiences now in a portable. It's the only way to give portable gaming value in a world where low end mobile games have eaten everyone else's lunch.
