Nintendo Forever

[psychicscubadiver]

Slownenberg said:

psychicscubadiver said:

The issue with this is that having to change out the screen or chipset would alienate the average consumer unless you could somehow make it super simple where they just pop in and out. But with a design like that I doubt the build quality would be very robust, which would be a terrible idea for a system meant to be used on the go. And if the consumer doesn't do it themselves then do they pay a fee for Nintendo to do it? Does Nintendo eat the cost of doing it for free whenever someone upgrades? Plus, if Nintendo is doing the upgrade then it would require mailing in your Switch and waiting to get it back, which costs both money and time.
It's a neat idea, but it seems very impractical especially since most people don't mind having generations.

Sorry if I didn't make that clear, but yeah by modular I of course meant something you simply snap/slide into and out of place. And of course you would only be switching the parts out once every few years when you update a piece, so build quality wouldn't be a problem as you'd literally only be using each connection (connecting or disconnecting) at most a handful of times. The only connection being used often would be the joycons....but that's already the case today with the Switch, the other connections on this hypothetical system would be getting used like less than a hundredth of that amount of time.

So there ya go, your reasons for it being very impractical are already solved by the initial idea. :)

Okay... but *how* do you make a screen and chipset easily modular without sacrificing a robust build that can survive being used on the go?
It's easy to say an idea is not impractical if you handwave away the difficult part of building it.