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Slownenberg on 07 January 2020
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Soundwave said:
Slownenberg said:

This post doesn't follow the argument you're attempting to make.

None of the things you just mentioned have anything to do with splintering a user base and forcing people to buy and carry around battery packs to play certain games. None of the things you listed break systems ability to play the games released for those systems, or force them to buy peripherals to play games.

I am quite sure Nintendo will release a Pro model of the Switch. But that's not what you have been pushing. You've been pushing battery packs and creating two different game libraries for the same system. I think you must work for the battery pack industry, otherwise your obsession with this makes no sense.

It would really only be OG Switch users. Even the new model Switch the one that's out now could accomodate higher performance undocked with no battery extension needed, the battery life would simply go back in line with the old Switch. 

I mean for $15 if you could suddenly access a lot of PS4/XB1 content that was previously locked out, I would say that's a pretty substantial win, imagine PS4/XB1 owners had the option of a $15 plug in device that let them play a bunch of PS5/XB2 tier games all of the sudden ... you think they'd be upset? 

No fucking way, lol, a lot of people would be over the moon if given that option. That's highway robbery in favor of the consumer and it would dramatically extend the lifecycle of the PS4/XB1 if something like that were possible. 

Once again, I don't know what makes you think the better battery version of the Switch is equivalent to a double-powered Switch but would just run out of battery sooner. The better battery Switch is the same OG Switch with better battery life. A theoretical much more powerful Switch would have as little in common with either of the OG Switch models.

And again, you're just assuming a flood of PS4/XB1 games would come to Switch, and that normal Switch's could play them when docked or with a battery pack.

You're also still somehow for some reason who knows why not seeing how the marketing and optics of telling owners they can't play new games unless they buy peripherals is god awful. Switch is a Switch is a Switch. You know what battery packs do? They increase battery capacity. They aren't for playing more powerful games or dividing a game library in two.

I'll say it again: imagine a phone company said you can't use some apps unless you have the phone running on a battery pack. Nobody would think that makes any sense and the company would get a ton of crap for it. Because it doesn't make any sense!

You're making a whole lot of assumptions on what would happen if a much more powerful Switch launched and ignoring the obvious flaws simply to play PS4/Xb1 games on a Switch (but again, only certain Switch's!).

Confusing customers and owners, making strange random requirement forcing people to pick up peripherals to play games that don't require peripherals, and splintering the game library and the userbase are not things that people would be over the moon about, they are not things that would dramatically extend the lifecycle of anything, and it would certainly not be highway robbery in favor of the customer but the exact opposite.