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Sarkar on 11 October 2019
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SpokenTruth said:
Sarkar said:

Think of all the people who broke and lost their switch and will pick up another one. That happens with handhelds all the time. There’s a reason why the top 15 platforms by attach rate are all home consoles and then you finally get the DS with its measly 5 attach rate. That reason is that same people buy handhelds multiple times, usually with each revision as it means a price reduction.

It's like you didn't even read what I wrote at all.  So let's go over it.

1). Handhelds have a lower attach rate because they are often bought for individuals rather than a whole house like home consoles are.

2). I just told you that revisions tend to add functionality.  PS4 Pro, DS Lite, etc...  Very few revisions reduce functionality (2DS).  Switch Lite is a functionally reductive revision.  Current owners are not the big sales draw.  Do you own a Switch?  Are you going to replace it with a Switch Lite?  I'm not.  Why would I?

3). Broken and lost consoles.  That's your argument?  I guess these people (very tiny fragment of ownership) never had a choice to buy a new Switch until now, huh?  Guess they ALL already owned Smash Bros Ultimate, huh?

I’ve seen a ton of people who’d been saying they wanted a lighter handheld only version over the last couple years. And handhelds are like phones, you have them on you, they drop they break they get left somewhere on a bus or a plane, etc. that shit happens all the time. You have no idea what you’re talking about and you’ll see the attach rate for NS come to a crawl. On the other hand they’ve also released pretty much all their big selling IPs on Switch already with Animal Crossing the only one left to go so maybe it’ll be the hardware sales that will come to a crawl instead.