How Would You Feel If Switch 2 Went Back To Fold Out Design (DS/3DS)?

[Slownenberg]

Soundwave said:

Slownenberg said:
That'd make me much less interested. Sounds like that design wouldn't allow for joy cons. And therefore also would make you have to buy a stand alone pair of joy cons or a pro controller just to play on the TV. Basically you'd have to buy extra stuff to actually make it hybrid. That's a non-starter for me. Also the hinge is something that can break. Nope, I vastly prefer the Switch's current design to a clamshell design. Never did like how the DS, 3DS looked and doing it on a hybrid would present some real difficulties as just described.

I want the Switch 2 to pretty much be the exact same form factor as the Switch, though if they can figure out how to make the joy con slightly larger without making the system too large that would be perfect. Everything else can stay the exact same. If they want to add a couple millimeters to the thickness to pack in some extra battery that's perfectly fine. Other than the joycons being very small when you flip it sideways to play with just one, I think the form factor on the Switch is already basically perfect.

They would still have to have Joycons with the system I think, because you need a controller to be able to play games once the system is docked at home. So it could include two Joycons that attach together into a controller base for a home controller as they do now and you could take them along on the road to share with friends. And they could in that sense make them slightly larger or shaped differently for better comfort. 

You would need them also for VR. 

Sounds convoluted. Why would they choose a form factor that made them have to ship an extra controller just to be able to play it on the TV when they already solved that problem with the Switch.

Basically, this is just a bad idea. You're taking what they learned from making the Switch and going backwards.

Rolstoppable pointed out plenty of flaws, as have I. Nintendo would have to make a series of bad decisions all just to accommodate a clamshell design. When instead they could just do the simple thing that works and doesn't involve a host of bad compromises by just sticking to the Switch design.