Upgraded Switch model announced: Same price, battery life of 4.5 to 9 hours - Launches in August (Americas, Japan) and September (Others)

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RolStoppable said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
It's not really a "Switch Pro" like the PS4 Pro. It's more like a "new Switch" like the "new 3DS". In other words this is the same type handheld strategy that Nintendo has always used.

The "Switch Pro" idea was there to fool all of the people who thought a "Wii HD" was going to come out just a couple of years after the Wii's release.

This isn't even on the magnitude of DS to DS Lite. It's a very minor change because the console still looks the same and the only noteworthy difference is longer battery life.

The "Switch Pro" idea is the result of people believing that Nintendo will follow Sony and Microsoft, and willfully ignoring the explicit statement of the original rumor that what is in the works is not a Pro model. Perhaps some people just used "Pro" because it's short and has a nice ring to it, but eventually virtually everyone was convinced that there is an actual Pro in the works.

I agree.  The "Switch Pro" narrative is essentially the same as the "Wii HD" narrative that went around during the Wii's lifetime.  People kept insisting that Wii needed better visuals to compete.  Obviously it didn't.  Switch also doesn't need better visuals to compete.  Switch isn't getting a visual upgrade until it releases it's true successor around 2023 or so.  It's the same old story and people still fall for it.