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Soundwave on 17 July 2019
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
RolStoppable said:

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.

In hindsight, I bet Nintendo would have released a "Wii HD", not doing so was a mistake seeing as how Wii sales started to decline badly year over year after 2009. 

And don't give me "well there were no games!", there were plenty, Mario Galaxy 2, Zelda: Skyward Sword, Just Dance series taking off, Guitar Hero, DKC, GoldenEye, S&P, Kirby, Xenoblade, not to mention NSMBU and Wii Sports Resort should have been long tail sellers capable of carrying hardware sales for a few years. 

Waiting until 2012 to release the Wii successor was clearly way too long and by then brand momentum had fizzled out. Granted that was probably going to happen to some extent anyway with motion gaming being a fad, but Wii HD around holiday 2009/1st half 2010 probably would've served Nintendo a hell of a lot better than waiting until freaking fall 2012 when no one gave a crap about anything Wii related anymore.