Nintendo: 'We Have No Plans to Launch a New Nintendo Switch Model During 2020' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2020 / 2,515 Views
Nintendo announced during their latest financial results briefing has no plans to release a new Nintendo Switch model in 2020.
"Regarding Nintendo Switch, we believe that it is important to continue to communicate the appeal of both Nintendo Switch systems and expand the installed base," said Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa. "Please note that we have no plans to launch a new Nintendo Switch model during 2020."
The original Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017, while the handheld-only version, the Switch Lite, launched in September 2019.
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That's good to hear. I'm no fan of mid generational upgrades.
I'm not a fan of mid generational upgrades either, but I think a Pro model would help sales assuming it released at $300 and the OG Switch dropped to $225 or $250 with Lite down to $150.
But then again maybe just the price cut would help sales equally. It would be nice to see BOTW 2 drop with an upgraded Switch though.
i think that's fair. Switch pro, XL or whatever it is makes more sense next year imo. i still expect sales this year to be flat or slighly up, and next year it'll have a nice hold.
I am looking forward to the Switch 2. But only if they shed the paradigm of starting everything over again from scratch. It’s a terribly outdated business practice that cell phones stopped doing over a decade ago and PCs stopped doing over 30 years ago. I like that Nintendo has a medium and architecture that now has a very long term future, and is scalable. Time to change their generation paradigm. As well, I think having three different pillars to the Switch platform (Lite, TV, and Mainline) would be best: Smart device manufacturers (with TV microconsoles, phones, pods, and tablets) have done it for years, PC (with desktops, tablets, and notebooks) for decades.
I’ll note that I am not a fan of the “pro” idea at all. It’s bad branding as it makes the update seem unimportant. But I do agree with not abandoning Switch 1 when Switch 2 comes out: keep releasing the same games on it with lower end assets.
If it must come to it, console gamers aren’t too stupid to understand minimum requirements for software that simply needs the upgraded hardware. But I think it’s simply better to mandate software to be created with lower end versions for the old hardware for at least 2 years after new gen launches; 4 would be better.
I doubt we’ll see a true upgrade until it’s proper successor.
LIES!
Did Nin not say something quite similar shortly before announcing Switch Lite?
That should put all those annoying rumours to an end.
Nintendo really makes the worse hardware. I'm done with them. Sold everything. PC and Xbox only until Nintendo gets their head out of their .... Releasing the Switch Lite and intentionally sabotaging it so you can't connect it to the TV (so we have to pay $400 CAD for a $50 Roku to play Nintendo games) was the last straw for me last year.
