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curl-6 on 01 December 2018
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Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

Thing is, third parties have proven time and time again that even when Nintendo offers hardware that can support their games, most of them will choose not to take the opportunity. We already see this with the current Switch, with plenty of games that could be viably brought over skipping the platform.

There's no way a revision that represents only a subset of the install base is going to change that.

How many times has Nintendo really offered hardware that could support modern games? After the GameCube (which got a fair bit of 3rd party support), you had Wii U, which flopped market wise because fickle casuals didn't want to buy game consoles anymore, but even that still had IP like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed on it. 

Switch is really the first time that Nintendo's had a successful game product that has market demographics that fall in line with the types of games many developers make (ie: not soccer moms or kids mainly interested in dance/fitness games). 

Again it's not about having 500000 third party games and suddenly competing with Sony/MS, a Switch Pro can eventually become the main Switch that's sold and that can offer the ability for a few devs to offer up some of the more popular games in the industry if they wish. And Nintendo gets a higher end premium model that they can maintain a higher price point for ($300-$350) which is lucrative from a business end point. 

The only people who "lose" are those tiny minority on internet message boards who will cry about a new setup different from the 1980s way of doing things, and even they, the moment they see Resident Evil 2 Remake or Kingdom Hearts 3 or Elder Scrolls VI running on a Switch model will probably abruptly swallow their pride and go "oh cool, now that I see that, I want one". That allows happens. Describe a hybrid console here 3 years ago and half the board would cry bloody murder and say "no way! I want a distinct Nintendo console and portable, that's how its always been!", then show them the trailer for it and 5 minutes later "hey, you know this actually looks pretty neat, I'm buying one". 

The Switch is modern hardware capable of running many third party games, and it's still missing out on plenty it could viably handle. A Switch Pro won't suddenly get an avalanche of third party games like RE2R , KH3, or ES6, just like the current Switch is still missing RE7, GTA5, Overwatch, Spyro Reignited, etc.