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Norion on 11 May 2025
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Wyrdness said:
Conina said:

The core concept and main purpose of the Switch 1 + Switch 2 is 

  • to sell games (both first party and third party games)
  • to give a good experience as a platform
  • to have the same development platform for handheld gaming and tv gaming instead of splitting development teams

The core concept of the Switch 1 + Switch 2 is NOT to force people into using both modes (handheld mode and TV mode), when they are only interested into one of these modes.

So why not offer a "Switch 2 lite" for "handheld only" gamers and a "Switch 2 home" for "TV only gamers" additionally to the normal Switch 2 for people interested in both modes? All three groups can play the same games (in the mode they prefer), nobody is paying for hardware features they'll never use.... instead they can use the saved money in buying Switch2-software.

Guess how you sell games and achieve all what you said by executing an appealing concept which the Switch does with its hybrid format, key point which I highlighted earlier would players who aren't usually enticed by first party titles bothered if they couldn't play the games they like on the go after all they'd likely have a PS4/Xbox/PC as well, the concept alone is what sold a number of multiplatform titles. Guess what also you're not forced to use what you don't need, some people don't really game online maybe we should make a version with out online functions to cater to them as well after all they're being forced right? Come off it, the selling point is the mode the standard platform is sold on hence why the vast majority of sales a good 87% going by numbers people have given are the hybrid model and lite is likely is more for the intent to get multiple units in a household quicker than cater to portable only gamers.

Are you really equating the cost of making a device online capable with the cost of the various components needed to make something work as a mobile device? There would obviously be no point of such a model cause people can just not use the online functionality and one that lacked that wouldn't be notably cheaper.