But it's actually addressed in my original pitch that you clearly didn't read. I just returned what you served my way.

Yeah, it's an option. Kinda like how Some developers sold PS3/PS4/Vita copies of the game all together in one package, but some chose to sell all of those copies seperately.  If developers choose to sell the copies seperately, you'll still happily buy to copies.

Everyone arguing with Potato Hamster -- The Thread.

I have a 720p portable version of MK8D and a 1080p home version and you think I'll buy an extra 540p portable version for my new non-Switch portable? Lol, why?

Your whole argument is Nintendo fans are dumb enough to buy the 'same' game multiple times, therefore greedy Nintendo should take advantage of this by making a non-switch portable. Now you're talking about combo packs where you get both versions which nullifies your own dumb argument.

You are free to name other games that requires two separate Joycons in sense 1, 2 Switch is doing, that wouldn't work with built in controls. System is 3, 4 months old and has around 70 games released (including Indies) and only one game is doing what 1, 2 Switch is doing, and actually we have one game that could be played just in handheld mode. ARMS is one of most heavily motion controlled game Nintendo ever release but also have option to play it without motion controls. Like wrote, Nintendo already done similar thing with New 3DS and DSi, where some game could not be played on base 3DS or DS. Nintendo never before released hybrid console, or never before did not merged their home console and handheld divisions, so saying that Nintendo never done something like that before is very weak argument because with Switch they are obviously doing plenty of things they never didnt done before. Buy time Switch Mini/Pocket is out Switch platform will already have plenty of great games, few games like 1, 2 Switch that wouldn't work on Switch Mini/Pocket dont change when 99% games will work, same like few games won't be working in docked mode.

No isn't, I stand behind what I wrote, most logical and most likely, or even almost certain.

Basically.

Do(did) you also own a 1080p home version for your Wii U? I bet you did! Imagine what that means.... hmm... it's like you bought multiple copies of the same game. But that's besides the point. I said that knowing their hardcore userbase will buy multiple copies of the same game was one of many reasons why Nintendo might do it. It's certainly not the only reason, nor the main reason to make a 3DS successor, and I've never said it was. But let's keep the straw man train rolling! Choo Choo!

Soundwave, I wish this thread just was everyone arguing against me. this whole thread is essentially everyone arguing against things they either thought I said but never, or arguing against hyperbolic versions of my arguments they've created in their minds. 80% of the things people claim I said in this thread has never been said by me.

Reading. Comprehension. Is. Not. Your. Forte. I addressed this in the original pitch, and multiple people are acting like I haven't. Why am I not surprised?

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe wasn't on the WiiU. Even if it was, what's wrong with rebuying it if you no longer have/use the WiiU? Or you want a portable version? You're suggesting 'hardcore' Nintendo fans would buy 2 copies of the exact same game, to be used in the exact same way, for 2 (or more?) systems existing side by side. 

Do you think people who bought more than one DS bought all their games a second or third time?

Ohh I'm sorry, just make "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Portable" with a new outfit for each character, and it's a day one buy for you. Let's not kid ourselves here Bill.

Yeah long term the "two seperate portables" wouldn't work. Two Nintendo platforms only work long term if the "console" is a home ONLY device. Nintendo's never simulatenously had *long term* success with two seperate home consoles or two seperate portable game machines. 

Another portable Nintendo platform has extremely limited appeal. Yes Switch is more expensive, bigger, less battery life now, but all those issues can be addressed simply with time and a die shrink to 16nm. So your whole theory "yeah but it's not a handheld" goes down the toilet in about 18 months when Nintendo will likely start releasing Tegra X2 variants of the Switch and the price is $50-$80 cheaper than it is now.

The "Nintendo fans will buy it, Nintendo fans buy anything" logic doesn't hold either, many Nintendo fans opt not to buy 2 Nintendo hardware pieces. The Wii/DS were successful but the Wii had a lightining-in-the-bottle motion control fad that the DS didn't to drive sales for about 4 years. 

Most Nintendo fans did NOT own both the GameCube and GBA (as evidence that 80% of GBA owners did not buy a GCN). Same thing is true of Wii U and 3DS, most Nintendo fans said "nope" to Wii U.