Japan Sales Week 51 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 17-23, 2018

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tak13 said:

curl-6 said:

While hardware revisions for the NS are so obvious and advisable a move as to be basically a foregone conclusion unless Nintendo's run by monkeys, if you're holding out hope for a purely portable version, you may be disappointed as that would rather defeat the central premise of the "Switch". Altering the size of the unit too much would disrupt compatibility with the dock and Joycons.

No, I want a hybrid NS lite with optional dock/controller, switch that can't switch is not a switch.

However, in order NS lite to cost 199$, joycons must be ditched, each add 45$ to the price, and I don't feel confident that this will happen.

What do you propose or theorize? 

Considering Nintendo has released games like Pokemon Let's Go, Super Mario Party, Labo, and even third parties like Square Enix with The World Ends With You, ditching the joy cons is not an option. This aint even a case like the 2DS not having 3D, since 3D was only optional for both gamers and developers. The Joy-Cons are a massive part of the Switch to the point that they are need for some games in docked mode. 

And I doubt a Switch Lite is gonna cost 200 dollars more like 250 instead, if anything the dock would likely go before the joycons to make 200 dollars since it isn't as important as the joy cons.