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Ck1x on 06 January 2020
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Slownenberg said:
Soundwave said:

If they were to do a "Switch Pro" with better specs, the way they could get around the issue of splintered userbase is to do this

Pro Switch Specs:

393 GFLOPS undocked (which is the current Switch's docked performance)
800 GFLOPS docked (new higher performance mode for TV)

So old Switch models can't run these games, right? Well not neccessarily.

You can run these games on the older Switch models, but only the 393 GFLOP profile version of the game would run. This isn't impossible, it would just necessitate a battery pak when you are playing portably.

But this is really not a big deal, one can buy a 4500 MaH battery bank for $15, Nintendo could even offer an official one.

This way, games would run across all models, but the Pro model would be getting the better docked home performance is all.

Homebrewers on Switch are able to to get the undocked Switch to run at docked speed ... the system is fine, it doesn't overheat or anything. They're doing stuff like getting The Witcher 3 running at 60 fps undocked. It's just you lose battery life and that could be fairly easily augmented because batteries are dirt cheap and widely available. 

No. that ain't gonna happen. There is no reason for Nintendo to try to confuse the market. A pro version of the Switch I'm sure would have better specs but not by like double, and not to make it so you could only play games when the OG Switch is plugged in. That sounds horrendous. A pro Switch should just deliver a premium experience, which means games that run slow don't run slow anymore, or games that would run at say 720p or 900p docked get to run in 1080p docked instead. Something like that.

I think a premium experience of the Switch would be:

More performance to make games run smoother or higher res (no splintering userbase)

Larger screen the eliminates the dead space in the current model

More disk space

more scratch resistant screen, maybe better kickstand

bluetooth so you can use wireless headphones

The above things seem like something that would be worth coming out with a premium version of the Switch for $50 more than OG Switch, and maybe even eventually eliminating the original, like 3DS did, so that Nintendo keeps the higher price point into the future, and the Lite remains the low price point, so people who want to "Switch" have to get the most expensive but better (than the original) version. Even if off the bat this new version made less profit than the original, they could market it as a better Switch as so keep the price high for longer and therefore make more profit long term.

Did people say all of this before PS4 Pro and XboxOne X?

For some reason it seems as though we act like iterative hardware is some new uncharted waters. So if a Switch Pro is coming out soon and say it's theoretically on par with base PS4, do we expect that next-gen consoles will come and developers will magically forget 150+ million PS4 and Xbox owners? Both of these systems will still receive some kind of crossover support just like generation before them for a couple of years.

People aren't even looking at this from the other perspective. What if the Switch Pro launches (way more powerful than current model) and starts getting lots of other AAA 3rd party games day and date with PS5 and Series X because of better parity. That could bode much better for the current Switch systems out there, because there are clearly plenty of port house studios that would definitely stay extra busy porting the OG Switch version, even if its 3-6 months later(which is already pretty much happening with current Switch versions).