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Soundwave on 06 January 2020
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Slownenberg said:
Soundwave said:

Why? $15 battery pak for OG Switch owners is a pretty fucking low bar to ask for if it opens the system up to having a dramatically better library as Nintendo's IP library dries up a bit (can't sustain sales just with the same 7 or 8 IP over and over again). Every Switch owner would benefit. 

Because the marketing behind it is terrible. Hey everyone who owns a Switch, you can't play new Switch games unless you buy and lug around a battery pack on the back of your Switch. Why? Just cuz we wanted to accommodate people who would pay more and don't care about the tens of millions who already bought it.

In no world will people be expected to buy a battery pack simply in order to be able to play new games.

Nintendo is not gonna try to splinter the game base between different versions of the Switch with some cheap crap like this. Switch Pro would just runs games more smoothly or at higher res, with the original switch or lite being the target to develop against.

Also why can't Nintendo sustain sales?? I don't see any problem with this. A bunch of franchises or series haven't even come out yet (2d mario, AC, metroid, bayonetta, multiple portable franchises, just to name a few). And some second Switch versions of franchises will sell huge (another pokemon, another botw, another mario 3d, etc) There's a lot more than 7 or 8 IPs.

Switch owners will absolutely not benefit from Nintendo playing cheap tricks with its userbase and splintering the games between different versions of the same system.

I mean even the new Switch model (the red box one) wouldn't even need the battery pak, it would simply just default back to the original battery life old Switch models have. 

If doing something like that could open the door to games like Resident Evil Remake 2 + 3, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Red Dead Redemption 2 (listed by a retailer for Switch), Kingdom Hearts 3, etc. that would add a lot of value to the library of the system for what ... $15 for some people? 

That's pretty fucking good trade off if you ask me. And if you don't like any of those games, even simpler ... you don't need to bother. Stick with the Nintendo games + indies. Easy peasy. 

Something like that would probably fairly dramatically improve the kind of software library Switch could offer in the coming years and extend the life cycle of the system for sure.