| IcaroRibeiro said: Having a 35% less expensive version is by no means questionable, Nintendo wanted to target additional purchases and Lite satisfied this premisse. A Switch TV serves the same purpose. You don't need to drive the sales to extreme extents to be a useful revision 3DS had 6 versions, every version addressed some issue a small group of customers have with the main 3DS. Permalite issue with Switch is he doesn't use it handheld, and by the numbers Nintendo provided that is an audience for home-console only Switch. In this sense OLED Switch is a much more useless revision, because it doesn't address any concern but it was still released anyway and it worked for both new owners and people looking for a second Switch In this sense, there would be nothing to lose in creating a stationary Switch 2 line. Would it make Switch 2 sales growth significantly? Probably not, but any more 5 million units sold are still money to be made |
3DS versions all had the same core feature that is a poor comparison if Nintendo released a version with out a touch screen then maybe, Permalite no offence to him is not the primary target audience they've cultivated for this era he want's a more traditional Nintendo home console those days are gone hence why Nintendo never bothered with a TV version for the first Switch, the platform's identity is clear you can use it as a portable only or home only platform but it's core concept is bringing these together which is reflected in the marketing and features. OLED improves visual fidelity on the portable side thinking that is useless highlights a lack of understanding of the products appeal as a whole as it improves the overall concept instead of chopping parts of it out.
35% cheaper comes with removing part of the platform's concept identity which also runs counter to the current marketing plus this isn't like 3DS where all versions retain the core concept which runs the risk of consumer confusion, end of the day I find both the Lite as well as any prospect of a TV version pointless because I'm not convince in the long run that the platform would fair any different with out these skus.
