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potato_hamster on 03 July 2018
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zorg1000 said:
potato_hamster said:

Has Nintendo ever made a 3DS with just one screen? While it is true that they did made a "2DS" they never made a "3S", did they? And did you just compare making an ever bigger Switch with making a non-clamshell version as if the two are equivalent.

How does this bad false equivalent refute my point in any way? Where did I even imply it was a guarantee?

2DS technically only has one screen.

Its not a false equivelent, you are questioning why people think its possible for a revision to get rid of its "schtick" or to change the form factor, both of which are things that literally just happened with their last handheld.

I never said anything about you stating something was gauranteed, what are you talking about?

Ohh, yes. The fact that only one screen is lying under that faceplate  in the 2DS is incredibly relevant to the point I'm making. That one screen is acting as two for all intents and purposes. It's functionally the same as two screens. Let's move on from this "nitpick" shall we?

It is a false equivalence. I don't think the 3DS's "schtick" was its 3D functionality. In fact, I don't believe it had one at all, at least not nearly the degree in which near everything including the marketing was geared around playing the Switch in a bunch of different configurations. There were many 3DS games who never took advantage of the feature at all. That's not the same with the Switch. In fact there's games that use the joycons exclusively (1-2 Switch, LABO, etc.). Are there 3DS games that are incompatible with the 2DS because the 2DS lacks 3D? I don't believe so. So how is it the same?

So let's get down to the brass tax. If you change the size of the Switch, you have two choices - remove joycon compatibility, or change the size of the joycons. I've already argued why I don't think Nintendo would remove joycon compatibility, so let's talk about the logistics of having multiple sizes of Joycons. That's almost definitely not happening, not only because existing users would have incompatible accessories, but educating users on which joycons to buy and forcing stores to stock two different sets of controllers is probably a harder sell than the whole Wii/Wii U naming confusion debacle. I don't think Nintendo is going down that road either. I don't think they want to muddy those waters.

Sure you'll probably see a "New Switch" that runs docked mode in handheld mode, has a better battery life, and maybe has a sligjhtly larger screen and a smaller bezel that fits in the same form factor, and I'd say that's probably about the end of it. Maybe they'd make a clamshell version? Who knows. But I would bet against a performance dock, and I'd bet against changing the size of the switch or removing joycon support. I just don't see Nintendo doing it. But that's just me.