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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

I'm not an analyst, but I could have also sais that. I mean, how can Nintendo revolutionize the Switch? It's already a console that's both portable and can connect to the TV, with detachable controllers to play as you wish. Where else can Nintendo go from there?

Better, more powerful hardware, hopefully better controllers and a bigger battery life are things that are almost guaranteed to be present. A bigger but not better (we know it won't be OLED) screen is also very likely, but other than that, I don't know what else could Nintendo do... but I don't have enough imagination to design new products or ways to play games, so who knows.

The only things I could come up with was fitting the console with a USB4/OCuLink port and launch a powered dock with an external GPU down the line, or make the body of the console as small as possible to make it able to turn into a VR headset with an add-on. Both options seem rather unlikely.

*Edit* I forgot about the price of the games: I'm sure third party games will be $70, but Nintendo may keep their own games at current prices during the first couple of years, only raising them later on.

Yeah, when I saw the headline, I was thinking "No shit, Sherlock!"

What I fear however is that the difference between handheld and docked will be bigger next time. Otherwise the battery life would probably be worse, as Nintendo can't make it much heavier than the Switch already is to accomodate for children's hands and strength, as batteries and potentially stronger cooling would weigh down the console too much.

I still expect it to be quite a bit heavier than the Switch, but at ~400g compared to 300g (OG Switch) to 320g (Switch OLED) and 669g (Steam Deck), it still wouldn't be too hefty for children but could accomodate some more power and cooling.

I'm not sure there will be a bigger difference this time around between handheld and docked mode than what was present with the current console, but it will depend a lot of the resolution of the screen. If it stays at 720p or maybe 800p, then my guess is that Nintendo will use the extra power in docked mode for rendering at higher resolution and DLSS, with maybe a few extra effects... tho I doubt the console will be powerful enough for RT.

Weight and size, well, Nintendo has been doing handhelds for decades. They know a thing or two about what's comfortable or not, and they usually get it right.