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Mandalore76 on 06 May 2021
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numberwang said:
curl-6 said:

The fact that it's "30 million Switches" and not "20 million Switches and 10 million of Switch's successor" should make it pretty clear we shouldn't expect a generational leap. With Nintendo unable to meet demand for the base Switch at $300 USD even after 4 years with no price cut, they're probably figuring that they can get away with selling a midgen refresh with a better screen, a performance boost, more storage, and 4K upscaling when docked for $400.

Don't pretend that you can understand nuances of corporate Japanese language to decipher a distinction between units and successors.

That supposed incremental hardware update would be a farcical for $399 compared to market benchmarks. We will see if we end up with a New3DS situation (big fail, too late in the life cycle, not enough for the money) or some real upgrade worth its asking price. There is no 4K DLSS upscaling without deep integration into engines, so don't expect advanced upscaling for existing games. It is a strange idea to create an all new chipset with DLSS, a feature that is not backward compatible, just as a mid gen stopgap. That "Pro" better have some long legs and not getting replaced in two years like the Xbox One X was.

Was it a BIG fail though if it added over 15 million sales (as of March 2019) to the 3DS family?

numberwang said:

You have to distance yourself from the affection for a piece of plastic. I don't own any modern console and don't care about some classification. I hope you realize the contradiction between a) it's just a mid gen refresh for $399 and b) it's an all new powerful device and thus worth its alleged high price.

The New3DS was just $220 to give some perspective of how much $399 would be for a simple mid gen refresh handheld. Even a true Switch2 for $399 sounds expensive to me. I can see Nintendo fans justifying it by saying: well now it's technically not a new handheld so we can put it into the same irrelevant internet category, good thing we paid a lot for little. I hope N will offer some true generational upgrade if $399 is true because you don't want to spend that money for a stopgap.

The PS4 Pro was a stopgap system, and it cost $399.  The XBox One X was a stopgap system, and it cost $499.