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potato_hamster on 01 February 2019
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RolStoppable said:
potato_hamster said:

Ahh so you think Nintendo is going to go back and add handheld mode support to all games that require Joy con use. Are they going to force third parties to do the same?


And to be clear, you think Nintendo has no problem with the idea of offering a device that doesn't fully support Switch's primary accessories out of the box (as they cannot be charged) and requires an additional accessory in order to charge them? You also think that Nintendo has no problem offering a "Switch" that could not be used with an existing Nintendo Switch dock. Is that correct? Lastly, do you think Nintendo choosing the name "Switch" was a poor choice if they intended on creating a model that, by its very nature, doesn't actually "switch" play modes at all?

There are hardly any games besides Super Mario Party that require Joy-Cons. There's 1-2-Switch, Snipperclips and... If you know of more, list them.

Like I said before, this hypothetical Switch SKU would be bought primarily by people who don't intend to use the SKU with a TV to begin with. That's why the points you are trying to make come across as nonsensical. You continue to insist that optional purchases for TV usage would be a major problem, but in practical terms the customers would simply not buy those optional things because they never needed them in the first place. For games it will be the same; you look at it as a major problem, but in reality hardly anyone will care that a few games that they were likely never interested in can't be played.

Your last question doesn't make any sense, because I've said it a few times already that this SKU can switch play modes. That's why I've talked about optional purchases. But again, the vast majority of customers wouldn't make those optional purchases because they would buy Switch Mini because they don't need all features of the standard Switch. It's not a problem at all if Switch Mini doesn't dock out of the box when the same household already has a Switch that does that; such a household is unlikely to buy a second regular Switch, but a cheaper Switch Mini is an appealing product. If such a household would then want to play games on TV, they'd use their regular Switch.

It's not nonsensical just because you say so.

A portable, joycon-less Switch is, by its very nature, not a Switch. It's a subset of a Switch. I don't believe Nintendo will make that since its play-mode versatility is the Switch's biggest selling point, and as much as you want to downplay it, it would confuse the consumer market about the Switch. "You know all those things the Switch does in every commercial and ad we've put out  in the past two years? This new portable Switch does hardly any of it unless you spend far more than you're saving on the cost of a regular Switch".

I just don't think Nintendo would do that. You can think it's obvious Nintendo would all you want, but at the end of the day, you're basing it on your feelings as much as I am which means I am no less credible than you about it. So please, stop acting like I'm being ridiculous just because you don't like my argument.