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potato_hamster on 01 February 2019
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RolStoppable said:
potato_hamster said:

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.

That's like saying that the dockless Switch that Nintendo sells through its online store in Japan is not a Switch. It's so farfetched that the market would be confused by a regular Switch SKU and a Mini SKU, because it's easy to determine for each customer which SKU they should buy. It's a simple question of if they put any value into using the console with a TV; that's all they need to know to pick the right SKU for them. Advertisement for the Switch Mini could show a family playing a regular Switch, followed by a family member leaving the house with a Mini while the rest is playing the regular Switch; the entire concept and distinction of a Mini isn't hard to convey.

You didn't name any other games that require Joy-Cons, so I suppose you realized how overexaggerated that point of yours was.


It's not like saying that a dock less Switch is not a Switch as it's still compatible with a Switch dock. It can still be used like any other Switch. A mini Switch wouldn't be compatible with Joycons, and wouldn't be compatible with a dock. It would require new/additional accessories to be compatible with both. It is incompatible with existing joycons because it would not be able to charge additional joycons. It is incompatible with the dock because it would not be able to be removed from the dock due to the way it was designed. It seems strange to me that Nintendo would have the foresight to know that they planned on making a portable, joycon-less, dockless Switch mini within a few years of launch but not have the foresight to design the joy cons or dock that would be compatible with it. It just doesn't seem like a very Nintendo thing to do if you ask me.

As for market confusion, this is the same market that in general thought the Wii U was a tablet accessory for the Wii. So, I think you are overestimating the markets education and thought process behind game consoles, and overestimating how easy concepts are to convey. If Nintendo had tremendous difficulty conveying to the general public that the Wii U wasn't even the same console as the Wii, how confident can you possibly be that conveying the idea of "this portable Switch doesn't do any of that Switch stuff" is going to be easily accepted by the general public?

I didn't name any other games that require Joy-Cons because it doesn't have any relevance to my point. But again, you insist to adopt the concept that one's refusal to address a point is a tacit agreement that your point is correct. Stop trolling users with this silliness. If you're more interested in "winning" than you are in actually having a conversation, then I'm not interested in engaging with you.