What is this? Did anyone say “Switch Pro”? Oooh, “New Nintendo Switch”, hi !? A more powerful variant with 4K resolution Deep Learning Super Sampling? 60 frames per second? Carbon fiber style? Swiss Army Switch? …
It wasn’t long after the Switch was released in 2017 that rumors about a hardware overhaul started circulating. Say it, someone has proposed it, and while we’ve done our best to follow our noses and document a credible falsehood about a potentially revised potential model of Nintendo’s handheld hybrid, order wild speculation from theories based on evidence when Nintendo is so full of surprises.
The launch of the Switch Lite only by hand in 2019 shed light on rumors of the SoC review, but even that surprised some viewers. A switch that doesn’t change !? This is the stupidest idea in history. Oh wait …
Of course Nintendo has done it something in process, however, either a ‘Pro’ Switch or a ‘New Nintendo Switch’. The current console has surpassed several legacy systems in terms of sales and even surpasses the powerful Wii at the time of writing, and Nintendo will want to keep up that pace.
But will we see a new model this year? Well, analysts seem to think so, but some of them predicted an updated version two years ago. As for the NL team, opinion is divided. Below are some of the points we’ve been discussing, and at the bottom is a survey: We’d love to hear your thoughts.
So let’s take a look at the pros and cons of (Switch) for a possible Switch hardware review sometime in 2021. Let’s start with the arguments against …
No way!
Opinions of us believe, quite reasonably, that the impetus to introduce a new Switch model this year is not there, while the normal version is sold for the number of trucks. Simply put, Nintendo doesn’t need a new console to generate interest and anything does published would probably cannibalize sales of the current model.
It’s a millennial dilemma for successful hardware makers: when is the best time to sacrifice the golden goose and invest in the future?
if the “old” model is still sold as hot cakes, there is no reason to launch a colorful cake on the market
Given last year’s events, it’s likely that any of Nintendo’s plans would have been rolled back several months ago, if not for production issues, by re-evaluating the release schedule after an unforeseen boost. sales driven by a blockchain. Yes, business is booming and a new console (at least more powerful) really needs one or two new games to show it off; a Zelda or a Metroid Prime 4, for example. If they are not ready yet and if the “old” model continues to be sold as hot cakes, there is no reason to launch a repertoire on the market.
On the subject of these switches coming out of store shelves right now, it’s possible that all those millions of people who grabbed a new console (maybe a showy Monster Hunter or that Red Mario Blue Super Mario number) won’t they would be too happy if a month later there was a bright new variety they could have bought.
No, even if Nintendo originally planned to launch a new Switch this year, there’s no chance they risk breaking the sales momentum they have right now.
Alternatively …
Yeah yeah!
As we’ve seen with Nintendo’s decade-long hardware review history, a modest upgrade can do wonders by offering tweaks and enhancements that offer avid fans a chance to buy something new (sometimes several times) without even leaving a base of highly earned customers. buying yours Animal crosses and yours Mario Kart 8s. It is this thinking that has created the “families” of Nintendo DS and 3DS systems, and we have already had the first incorporation into the Switch dynasty with Switch Lite.
a modest upgrade can do wonders by offering tweaks and improvements that offer avid fans the opportunity to buy something new (sometimes several times) without leaving a heavily earned customer base.
If we look back at the 3DS timeline specifically, the XL variant arrived about eighteen months after the original and the New 3DS was launched just over three and a half years later. Switch was released in March 2017, Switch Lite arrived eighteen months later in September 2019 and the original console will turn four in a couple of months. Obviously, we don’t compare quite the same here thanks to Switch’s hybrid nature, but it’s hard to argue that the prized launch models picked up by early adopters seem a bit tired and doggy. The original model is due to a fir tree and is more complete than a “silent” internal overhaul.
And as for not wanting to kill the momentum of the current model, Nintendo has been in the game long enough to know it hits while the iron is hot. Turn the flames up, give people a second to catch their breath, and then hit the dial until eleven. You have to keep that ball rolling! Let go because everything goes very well and dandy is not the way to keep the growth of the video game … game.
Hot plates, rolling balls: all aboard the Mixed Metaphor Express: the next stop, Switch Pro. You see, we’ve thrown a train in there now.
And who exactly are these millions of new Switch owners who will be crazy if a new model comes along? This is how the cookie of the half-step console is broken, we fear; the same goes for any iterative update in the tech world. For Nintendo fans, yes, of couse it would be disappointing to spend money on a console just for a new model to appear a matter of weeks later, but those fans who would have bought a Switch a long time ago and will probably be winning a Pro model. No self-respecting Apple fan would buy a new iPhone in late August, right? Early adopters are hungry for the new flavor and casual gamers will happily play the original or Lite variants.
Yes, mark our words, sometime this year (in October or November, we’d bet) there will be a new Switch on the blog. Probably.
© NintendoFor the record, Nintendo has stated that it has no plans to release a new Switch model “soon,” although this time last year they specified that no new model would be released “in 2020”. Given the caution they have with this type of language, it is not a fact to deduce that they have something planned for the second half of the year. That’s not “soon,” is it?
Either way, it follows from all the rampant rumors that there is a hunger for a mid-cycle upgrade. Last year we asked you what features you would like to see in a “Pro” switch and, out of a total of almost 20,000 votes, a “more powerful CPU” (followed by an “increased resolution” was at the top of the list. “and” a thinner “) bevel around the screen). The desire is there, then; Nintendo just needs to figure out how to take advantage of fans ’hunger for something new in a way that is additive to their current sales momentum.
That, and you will need a sweet name. “Pro”, “New” – they are already over. How about “Nintendo Switch Up”? “Turn on”? “Changing” …
Quickly, let’s vote before it gets worse:
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