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[GoldenEye98]

I think it could be done for cheaper than a Lite model right now because it wouldn't require a die shrink. Yeah it would need a Pro Controller.... but no joycons, screen, battery....

 

[Mr Moose]

A Switchless Switch, like the Lite but in reverse.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Again with the "TV-only model" idea? They didn't do it for Switch, doubt they will do it for Switch 2.

 

[Deerock71]

If one thinks about, they're cutting back from unprecedented production numbers for a launch system, so no.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Google and Apple app store. Put your super expensive games on the real mobile device.

 

[Haint]

The screen is Chinese ewaste they found in a 10 year old garbage bin in Shenzhen and the battery is smaller than your Grandma's $20 Tracfone from Wallgreens, how much do you think removing them is actually going to save?

 

[Moses85]

 

[PauloRoberto]

No. Everyone (except blind Nintendo zealots) know that Switch 2 lacks a TRUE system selller, so it's just a matter of releasing a GOOD Zelda or 3D Mario game, if we are being honest (ill DARE to say that Mario Kar world wasn't the smash hit Nintendo expected).

 

[Boy bawang]

They don't need more hardware. Hardware is fine for the price. They need more games. It's bonkers that we have no Mario, no Zelda, no smash announced or shown at this point

 

[HRK69]

No. Everyone (except blind Nintendo acolytes) knows that Switch lacks a TRUE system selller, so it's just a matter of releasing a GOOD Zelda or 3D Mario game, if we are being honest (ill DARE to say that Mario Kar world wasn't the smash hit Nintendo expected).

Lmfao

 

[Trogdor1123]

I wish, but no

 

[IDKFA]

I think it could be done for cheaper than a Lite model right now because it wouldn't require a die shrink. Yeah it would need a Pro Controller.... but no joycons, screen, battery....

I doubt Nintendo would ever consider a TV only Switch 2. The main selling point of the Switch is its portability. A Lite 2 is probably on the cards with how successful the OG lite was.

I think a bigger issue for Nintendo is the cost of their software and their dumb variable pricing model. That's putting people off. The console is priced fine as it is.

They also need a big "system seller" game this year.

 

[apple_of_enlightenment]

Yep, they're on course:

Lower production numbers -> TV only model -> doomed

 

[Zacfoldor]

No but it will likely make them offer a cheaper handheld only model.

 

[Baemono]

Is this 2018 again ?

 

[GoldenEye98]

I doubt Nintendo would ever consider a TV only Switch 2. The main selling point of the Switch is its portability. A Lite 2 is probably on the cards with how successful the OG lite was.

I think a bigger issue for Nintendo is the cost of their software and their dumb variable pricing model. That's putting people off. The console is priced fine as it is.

They also need a big "system seller" game this year.

I agree that the main marketing point is the portability but I also know that there is a certain segment of people only use these things docked anyway.

If they are able to offer it a lower entry point it may boost sales(espically outside Japan). It's not like they would be abandoning the Switch 2 platform. Just offering a different device.

 

[HYDE]

Sign me up if it takes cartridges still, I don't play mine as a portable.

 

[Deerock71]

Yep, they're on course:

Lower production numbers -> TV only model -> doomed

 

[IDKFA]

I agree that the main marketing point is the portability but I also know that there is a certain segment of people only use these things docked anyway.

If they are able to offer it a lower entry point it may boost sales(espically outside Japan). It's not like they would be abandoning the Switch 2 platform. Just offering a different device.

Understood, but from Nintendo's point of view that might mean ditching the Lite 2. I doubt they would make the normal Switch 2, the Lite 2 and a dock only version, and to be honest I think the Lite 2 would be more of a money maker than a dock only version.

 

[Banjo64]

Nah. Think they stick with the same MO.

I think a Switch 2 Lite at £299/$349 sells gang busters considering what every other gaming machine is going for.

 

[MisterXDTV]

Actually the opposite:

They will make a Switch 2 Lite that can't be docked to the TV

 

[boo]

So a Switch 2 TV? Well, they do need a system at a lower price point, especially if they have to raise the price of the main system further. And such a version will probably be the one that they can price the lowest.

 

[Emedan]

This will never happen

 

[Xellos]

I think it makes a lot of sense to offer cheaper models (TV or Lite) alongside the standard hybrid model. I think Switch 2 is worth $450 but not everyone can afford $450. Options are good.

TV-only model would make a fantastic micro console. Nintendo could even do a Famicom-like design where the joycons rest/charge on the top of the unit.

 

[GoldenEye98]

Understood, but from Nintendo's point of view that might mean ditching the Lite 2. I doubt they would make the normal Switch 2, the Lite 2 and a dock only version, and to be honest I think the Lite 2 would be more of a money maker than a dock only version.

Lite model is gonna require a more advanced chip node. TV model wouldn't...

 

[Three]

I think it could be done for cheaper than a Lite model right now because it wouldn't require a die shrink. Yeah it would need a Pro Controller.... but no joycons, screen, battery....

My take on this:

Not really, legacy portables could be plugged into a TV too. The Switch Lite (no TV support) accounts for 25M switch sales aswell. People just have a hard time admitting that Switch attracted the majority of the 3DS audience and merged the two, and Nintendo lost the home console race with Wii U. If Nintendo wanted to enter the home market they could offer a cheaper Switch without a screen but even they know that it wouldn't be that popular as a home console. They relied on that 3DS audience moving on to the next portable and merged development cost because it was over for them in the home console space.

 

[VGA-Games]

No.

 

[Codeblew]

I don't want a portable or hybrid. I would be interested even if it wasn't that much cheaper.

 

[cireza]

They need to have a Lite model that parents will buy for their kids, so something smaller and less expensive. That's the next thing I see them doing. Bundle it with whatever Pokemon game releases next.

 

[IDKFA]

lite model is gonna require a more advanced chip node. TV model wouldn't...

True, but the lite would be a better seller internationally than the dock only version.