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Soundwave on 18 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

For free? Which Nintendo are you talking about? Was Wind Waker HD on Wii U a "free" upgrade for those who had the GameCube version? They likely will charge people a patch fee at least to get performance increases on Switch 2. 

At best maybe they will give it to you a "free patch" but you have to buy a Switch 2 to get that. Which is in itself 100% enough of a reason to not use that feature on the Switch if you don't need to. That gives another big reason for Switch 1 owners to have to upgrade to a Switch 2, if you want to enjoy those games in 4K/60 fps whatever, you have to buy a Switch 2. If they had gone ahead and released a Switch Pro it would have muddied that whole idea. 

The overclocked Mariko Switch has perfectly acceptable battery life of 3-4 hours too, it's been tested over and over again. This was good enough for the launch Switch, and it's perfectly acceptable battery life today. 

This is the reason i won't buy a switch cause i do believe what you are saying they are most anti consumer company and i expect switch to be gimped as well with 8nm and extremely under clocked c so nintendo can do the same in the future lol. it doesn't matter just count on Nintendo to release  weak official hardware like the switch. 

It's neither here nor there. 

COVID was a freak event that entirely changed the world and for Switch's product cycle, radically altered it. They probably figured to protect against a Wii-like 2nd half of the product cycle collapse they would need a Pro model, that was the initial plan circa 2017/2018. It just turned out by very random happenstance that it actually wasn't needed. 

Switch 2 is unlikely to have that same thing happen for it, so Switch 2 will have to likely have an actual Switch 2 Pro next time. You're not going to have an artificial massive boost for 2+ years with almost no major software released like the Switch did. Even the PS4/XB1 didn't really benefit much from COVID because it came too late in those product cycles, Switch was at the perfect age (only 3 years old) to make massive hay with it. It's like the difference between winning the lottery at age 30 instead of 75 ... at age 30 you can do a lot more with that windfall.