| Soundwave said: The standard existing Switch is pretty much a "premium" model. It's $300 and has a very sizable screen, it's not like it's some rinky dink budget product. The battery life on the new Switches is already back up to being more than enough for any reasonable, you're living some kind of charmed life if you can somehow play 5 hours+ of video games away from home every day. They may as well release a model with a larger screen that eats into the fat bezels, and call that the i/New model but realistically you're not going to light the world on fire with something like that late into 2021. |
Apparently you've never paid attention to Nintendo portables before. Nintendo always releases different versions of their portables. So far we only have one extra version, the Lite. It would be downright shocking if Nintendo didn't release a premium Switch. The standard Switch is not a premium version, because by definition its the standard version! No Nintendo portable has ever been some "rinky dink budget project", and yet with every single system multiple version come out. I don't know why you would expect Nintendo to suddenly change their business model from what has always worked for them, but you will be mistaken if you think they aren't gonna update the Switch in any way.
Also. LOTS of people talk about the large dead space on the sides of the screen. It's weird you say they can't do anything with the screen when that is like literally the most mentioned upgrade people talk about wanting from a new Switch model. Not to mention the fact that they could upgrade the screen itself to a better screen in addition to just making it bigger. There's multiple other upgrades they could do as well: slightly more performant chipset, more storage, more battery, bluetooth, etc.
Did you ever notice how the lots of people buy the Switch Lite. It sold over 5 million in its first 100 days on the market. Just like that, plenty of people would upgrade to a premium version of the Switch, and plenty more people would chose a premium version of the Switch for let's say like $50 or so more than the original. As the Switch gets older people expect to no longer have to pay $300 for it, but I bet most people who makes a decent amount of money would chose a premium version still at $300 over what then becomes the inferior original version at like $250 or whatever. There's a reason this has always been Nintendo's business plan: it works! I doubt you are going to change their mind with your "original Switch is already premium" argument.
Last edited by Slownenberg - on 05 May 2020
