Global Hardware 14 September 2019 (PS4 Tops 100M)

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Ganoncrotch said:

It's always nice to have a 3 line attack post about how someone posts nonsense.... which then contains 5 mistakes. Impressive in a way.

Regarding the "content" of your post though, you talk about the good points about the Switch Lite, that is to say it is cheaper than the regular Switch, however it is cheaper at a cost of fair number of features and components that the base model comes with, Smaller screen, No Docking, No native support for full sized USB devices, far smaller battery capacity, no stand for tabletop play / youtube viewing etc. The Lite is cheap... for a reason, that reason is the things it cannot do which the base unit can do.

Just think about a game like Smash Ultimate on the Switch Lite, sure... you get the game on a cheaper machine, but you've got an amazing 8 player local gaming experience on a system which is handheld only, also if you wanna connect GC controllers to the Switch Lite you're going to need to power one half of the GC controller adapter from a different USB device as the Switch even with a USB-C OTG adapter only has 1 USB-C connector, so you couldn't even use the GC pad while the system was charging after you bought a stand to hold it in place for tabletop play.

So aye, cheap, for a reason... actually for a whole lot of reasons.

Here's the thing, though.

Aside from the smaller battery capacity, (which really isn't that much smaller than the revised Switch model's capacity), kids (their parents) and dedicated handheld gamers, the two audiences that the Lite model was made to specifically cater towards and Nintendo's bread and butter, are not going to give two shits about any of those missing features.

There was no such thing as tabletop play before the Switch, so without it, it's just a matter of going back to what worked before; The screen is around the same length and width as the 3DS in its entirety; Smash 3DS players did just fine playing that version of the game in handheld only, they're going to be just fine playing on the Switch Lite, hardly any people will feel too bad that they can't play one game with one specific control scheme just because the system is unable to support it and the people who still play Smash Bros. with a GameCube controller are a very, VERY minor portion of the audience anyways; And who buys a Nintendo handheld to watch YouTube? 

The Lite model is cheap for a lot of reasons, and for those two audiences, it's cheap for the right reasons.