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Amnesia on 03 January 2019
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zorg1000 said:
drinkandswim said:

I think the Lite version (which I assume there will be) could just be a slight increase with longer battery life and a better screen. The Pro version which I expect by early 2020 needs to be a significant difference and at least run Xbox One/PS4 quality games with near the same specs. Switch will need to be able to get downgraded versions of triple AAA titles to stay competitive when Next Gen arrives. 

That plan will not work, 3rd parties will not port their AAA games to a single sku that has a fraction of the install base of the overall platform. Games will either run on all skus or none.

I don't think it is a real issue if Switch can't receive ports of new games post 2018.

First : Panic Button and Nintendo seems to still improve their optimisation, we should have still a bunch of new Nintendo AAA and ports from the range 2015-2018 which run decently. Doom Ethernal is a 2019 new entry, let's see how this one run and let's see if Nintendo produced a graphical miracle with Metroid P4.

Second : if my theory is right, the switch being the "8th gen refresh" which replaces the Wii U, they could put on the market a new console much more powerfull (=PS4 Pro specs), around 2021 so their complete 8th gen would have lasted 9 years. With the new open world Pokemon, and a new Zelda pushing more the existing motor used in Breath of the Wild, they can still hold on with strong games until 2021 without suffering the power gap with PS5 and Scarlet.