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curl-6 on 17 October 2025
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HoloDust said:
curl-6 said:

If they added a better screen, better battery, etc the cost would rise.

It's not an enthusiast device, it's a mass market product that needs to be affordable.

I get why they didn't go with OLED, since they wanted VRR (I think only Legion Go 2 has both, HDR OLED and VRR), though I would prefer fixed frame rate OLED. like in Switch 1 revision, over VRR LCD with lot of smearing that's in current Switch 2.

As for battery - 8000mAh would cost them $5 ($10 at most) more. And that would give 3 hours under full load. So if we're talking about cheeping out, this is the case of it.

One thing may cost $10 more, but it all adds up and the system is already significantly more expensive than Switch 1.

It would be nice to have more battery life or an OLED screen, true, but there were already complaints about the price as is, I can see why they prioritized affordability, especially given people have less disposable income now than they did for most of Switch 1's life.