Pemalite said:
Nuvendil said:
A Switch that doesn't Switch wouldn't be like a 2DS. It would be like a 3DS with one screen.
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No. It wouldn't. 3DS games are designed to take full use of the dual-screens.
The Switch games are designed to leverage the mobile features or "switch" into a TV mode, thus the support has already been baked from day one to make a "Switch TV" completely and utterly viable, it will just operate in a "docked" mode 24/7.
Nuvendil said:
No it doesn't *have* to fit flush. And the screen could be bigger.
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Glad we agree.
Nuvendil said:
It would look ugly and clunky and make dock significantly larger
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How would you know? Have you seen one in person?
How would it make the Dock larger?
Don't just throw out assertions like they are fact without anything to back them up.
Nuvendil said:
reducd the practicality of portability
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Yeah. Not everyone gives a shit about Portability though.
Some people just want to lay in bed and play their gaming device, not climb Mount Everest with one.
Nuvendil said:
necessitate a whole new line of game cases
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Why would the games need new cases? You aren't even making sense now.
It will still run the same Switch games.
Nuvendil said:
and make the unit less comfortable to hold in handheld but you *could*.
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Or it could make it more comfortable, the size of your hands are NOT representative of everyone elses.
Nuvendil said:
Or they could stick to the current form factor and focus on eliminating bezels and upping resolution.
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Or not.
Nuvendil said:
And dropping that slot reduced manufacturing costs. What you propose would do the *opposite*.
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And yet, still contradicts your prior point. - You are just trying to move the Goal Posts on this aspect.
Well. Those Goal Posts still haven't moved, try again.
Nuvendil said:
And my point was they have the whole Switch brand firmly built around one, single principle: it can switch between handheld and home console. |
And the 3DS line was built firmly around one single principle: It can do 3D.
But that didn't stop Nintendo from releasing a re-branded variation called the 2DS did it? Exactly.
Nuvendil said:
I doubt they will deviate from that and looking at current sales it seems foolish to do so. |
Are you making an assertion that sales would somehow decrease if Nintendo released a variation of the Switch that focuses on a different demographic with different/needs/wants/desires alongside the current Switch?
Because that would be an irrational statement unless you have evidence to backup your assertion?
Nuvendil said:
I'm just pointing out that they are unlikely to happen.
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Whether they are likely to happen or not is ultimately irrelevant and thus inconsequential.
I was merely talking in Hypothetical's and what *I* want, not what you want.
Barkley said:
When they have trouble with supply? No, now is not the time to increase demand or increase the number of models.
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Depends on where they are supply constrained.
For example... With a Switch TV they can throw a cheap mechanical hard drive into the unit... So if the mobile Switch is held back by NAND production, the Switch TV wouldn't be.. So Nintendo can sell more hardware overall.
Kwaidd said:
Anyone who is pining for a "Switch Lite" or a "Switch TV" is plain and simple missing the whole point of what Switch is and why Nintendo made it.
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Actually. You are missing the point. A Switch TV is what I want.
It doesn't matter if it happens or not. It's simply what I want.
If Nintendo doesn't offer me what I want, then they don't get a sale, it's really that simple.
I have wanted a Switch TV since the Switch wasn't rumored as the mobile NX, that desire hasn't changed in the last few years.
Kwaidd said:
Basically what you guys are asking for is a totally different (2nd) Nintendo console..
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No. It is a variation of the current console, which Nintendo has done constantly over the last several mobile generations.
Kwaidd said:
and if Nintendo ever decides to deliver that type of product again, it can't be "Switch".
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Then change the name. The 2DS wasn't called the 3DS you know for obvious reasons.
Kwaidd said:
Switch was purposefully designed and made to be exactly what it is, a hybrid console.
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And because it's a "hybrid" it can be used exclusively mobile or exclusively stationary, thus Nintendo could release variations of either later on that caters to both as the functionality has been baked from the very beginning for games to take advantage of both.
Kwaidd said:
There is no reason for them to deviate from this, and I don't see Nintendo going back to a standard box console for a couple generations, if ever
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Nintendo wouldn't be deviating though, the current Switch model doesn't stop being released onto the market because there are variations in the platform.
They are just offering more choices for more people.
Choice is not a bad thing you know, there should be more of it.
Kwaidd said:
Switch doesn't need additional form factors to cater to different people, when one unit covers everyone.
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It doesn't cater to me though.
A 6.2" 720P display is garbage in 2018.
Kwaidd said:
All new skus would do is provide a healthy dose of unnecessary consumer confusion, and for what purpose?
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People coped fine when you had heaps of DS and 3DS SKU's. Thus making your assertion baseless.
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