I’d really hate it if they went back to traditional console. 90% of my switch playtime is in handheld.
99% of my play is docked and I don’t like that half the cost of my console went into making it portable rather than faster.
I hardly use it docked and I hate that half the cost of my console went into making it faster and not more portable /s
The portability is the whole reason it has games for it.
Another low powered home console wouldn’t have sold anywhere near enough to justify ports or exclusive games. The entire interest cycle in the console was exclusively a product of being a handheld that could play expansive games.
Assuming any of this is legit:
Is it possible that the “Switch 2” has a hybrid version like the Switch, a handheld version like the Switch Lite, and a home console version? (Or even just hybrid and home console versions, with a handheld to come later?)
These could all run the same software with very similar hardware, but the home console would either be cheaper or offer higher resolutions and/or framerates than the docked hybrid console.
Customers might get confused, but this is arguably more straightforward than the current lineup.
The downside is that developers would need to handle 3 different configurations (handheld, docked, and home).
The downside is that developers would need to handle 3 different configurations (handheld, docked, and home).
No publisher wants to put the resources into this for absolutely no gain on their part. They’ll target the easiest, cheapest and fastest method to get a game working and then leave it at that.
