If Sony makes a "Playstation Switch" could it succeed?

[EricHiggin]

HoangNhatAnh said:

EricHiggin said:

If someone wants to spend $250 or whatever the price is on 512GB card, that's their own decision. Buying 2X 256GB cards, especially on sale, would be cheaper than a 512GB and would also give you two separate storage devices. Best graphics they can be is what I said, meaning downgraded to whatever level is necessary to be portable and have a worthwhile battery life based on whatever tech they may end up using. With PS4 getting many smaller indie games, I don't see why the portable wouldn't get them, and why they wouldn't increase with a PS portable on the market. Vita also has plenty of smaller file size games for it, and they may not be compressed quite as well as Nin games but they are still small, and their level of graphics and quality is of course up to the user to decide if it's worth the purchase. Do I want them to constantly be switching between cards? Well that's up to them again, and your the one who said all digital won't work because portable gamers and gamers in general really want physical games, which means bringing them with you on the go and constantly swapping them out if you want to play another. I'm not sure why it was a good thing the other day, and a bad thing today for some reason. Being a PS Plus subscriber, you also would have access to cheaper online store games to begin with, plus your member discount, plus sales, and there are plenty of online sales, so the extra cost of the card ends up the same if not cheaper than buying games on a cart for $50 to $100 each, that is set in stone for good and has no room for extra content on it.

How much a 64GB or higher cart will cost is also a question. Right now Nin won't use them because they are too expensive and Nin/the pubs aren't ok with having to eat the extra cost and don't want to add it to the cost for the consumer. Which is also holding back games they could have now if they just left the decision up to the customer on whether to pay a little more to have access to those bigger games. When Switch offers more storage in larger carts, or micro SD becomes cheaper, or they launch a newer Switch model with more internal storage etc, that will be a good thing and I hope they do, because storage and battery are lacking and holding Switch back some and they could really benefit from a newer model. Their sales are going so well right now though, I don't know if they will feel the need to upgrade so soon. If a PS portable hit the market though, it could potentially mean an upgraded Switch, sooner than later, and for a reasonable price as well, which would be a good thing.

At the moment, none third party is willing to use 32GB cart for Switch, let alone 64GB, that is developers's choice, not Nintendo so ok or not is meaningless if no one use them. Your portable is digital only so it is necessary for several micro sd cards for both AAA, DLCs and indies. Switch at least use cartridge that can fit 16GB game and use cards for multiplayer. Outside Nintendo games, none buy Nintendo system for Western AAA online multiplayer games so no need for many cards, one 256GB card can be enough. Finally, your handheld will come out next year or even 2020, you would think Nintendo won't release a new Switch with stronger chip at that time when Xavier - X3 came out this year already. 3 years later, it will be a lot cheaper

The pubs/devs, however you want to describe them, aren't willing to use larger carts, which means Switch isn't getting their games. What is wrong with charging more for the game due to a larger cart with higher price? If that's such a problem, Switch will always have to wait for third party games. If this price factor is also such a big issue that third parties don't think the games will sell that way, then selling them digitally online for much cheaper, so a PS portable user can download the game and either leave it on the internal storage, or transfer it to their $50 to $250 micro SD card, which will hold up to 5 AAA or 100 indie games, seems like a much better idea, and much better value for your money. No one buys Nin systems for third party games? I've read that quite a few people have bought into Switch with the promise of third party game support, considering that was part of their main message initially showing off NBA and Skyrim at launch. You say Ryzen is too power hungry at 15w and won't last more than an hour compared to X1, yet Xavier specs were just officially announced days ago to use 30w. The lowest power new Tegra available is X2 which isn't all that more capable than X1 and also consumes 7.5w-15w. Is the new Switch going to be way stronger but only have a half hour battery life, or only slightly stronger but with the same battery life?