A new version of the Switch was just announced
It focuses on handheld play and is not able to dock like the original
What are your thoughts?

A new Switch model was inevitable by now, so I'm glad to see that Nintendo's announcing one.

edit: GUYS IT'S GOT A D-PAD ON IT

CatsUnited wrote:

A new Switch model was inevitable by now, so I'm glad to see that Nintendo's announcing one.

edit: GUYS IT'S GOT A D-PAD ON IT

I was trying to think if that would feel weird now, but I can still go on my 3Ds and it seems normal

My original Switch is still da best.

PrincessPandaLover wrote:

My original Switch is still da best.

I didn’t care about getting the lite at all until I saw the sword and shield version

I found out about this from some fan account on social media, I actually thought it was a joke.
I can't believe it's real, I honestly feel ‘meh’ about this, I don't care if I get the Lite or not.

I really like the looks of this. If I'm still interested in Switch games, I may consider getting one for myself in the future. It looks like a wonderful handheld way to play Switch games!

I'm going to miss the individual direction buttons, though — not sure that I prefer the D-pad.

PrincessPandaLover wrote:

My original Switch is still da best.

yeah man because you know you can switch between dock and handheld and having joycons on and joycons off you know like their entire adveristing campaign when the switch was first a thing

I…don't actually know why we need this. The original is pretty good at handheld (that's basically all I use mine for, but the multiplayer aspects are still a nice bonus.) This is a Switch without the…switching.

Personally, I'm not a fan. It's just a Switch without all the features it was advertised for, making it a normal handheld. Labo is pretty much dead on Nintendo Switch Lite, excluding VR, since the Joycons don't come off, making the Switch unable to fit into the slot where it needs to go. You can't even play tabletop, the stand has been removed.

It’s basically a really big 2DS that can play Splatoon 2.

A Spla2DS?

sowut123 wrote:

Personally, I'm not a fan. It's just a Switch without all the features it was advertised for, making it a normal handheld. Labo is pretty much dead on Nintendo Switch Lite, excluding VR, since the Joycons don't come off, making the Switch unable to fit into the slot where it needs to go. You can't even play tabletop, the stand has been removed.

I think it's more ment for people that can't afford a regular Switch…

I'm personally not interested since I have a Switch, but it's nice that Nintendo has a more affordable option out there!
I have a NS Lite studio if you're interested

It's funny to see Nintendo, after years of creating smaller-scale handhelds that generally improved upon the original make a Nintendo Switch without…y'know…the main selling point, one that was big enough to get slapped onto the name.

Let's compare.

The GameBoy Pocket increased the battery life and cleaned up the screen of the original GameBoy.
The DS Lite had a more sensible layout than the original DS.
The Switch Lite removes features.

And the worst part about the Switch lite is that when the Switch+ (or whatever it's called) comes around, it's probably gonna lack all these necessary features, too.

The GameBoy Color was modeled after the GameBoy Pocket.
The DSi was modeled after the DS Lite.

Who benefits from this model? The people who already own a Switch, who are just gonna walk past the system because their Switch has the exact same processing power, more features, and the ability to play all the games that the Lite can? The people who don't already own a Switch, who probably want the extra features of the full Switch, and would rather pay $300 for a fully-featured Switch than $270 for a cut-down “Switch” and a pair of Joy-Cons, because either way you get more features for just an extra thirty bucks? Or Nintendo, who has a myriad of unsold systems on their hands that nobody will buy?
The only group it truly benefits is the small handful of collectors. Nintendrew, Kevin Kenson, Nathaniel Bandy, all those guys. The people who have an infinite amount of Switches already in their rooms, only one of which gets played often enough to warrant having. They only have those systems so that they can say that they have each and every type of Nintendo system.

Oh, and Plainrock124. He will probably get a lot of requests to smash one of those things.

SuperDoom wrote:

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And the worst part about the Switch lite is that when the Switch+ (or whatever it's called) comes around, it's probably gonna lack all these necessary features, too.

The Switch Lite has made me consider that there may soon enough, be a fully console version of the Switch, since the Switch Lite is portable only (although that does go against all the marketing of the original Switch)

SuperDoom wrote:

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Who benefits from this model? The people who already own a Switch, who are just gonna walk past the system because their Switch has the exact same processing power, more features, and the ability to play all the games that the Lite can? The people who don't already own a Switch, who probably want the extra features of the full Switch, and would rather pay $300 for a fully-featured Switch than $270 for a cut-down “Switch” and a pair of Joy-Cons, because either way you get more features for just an extra thirty bucks? Or Nintendo, who has a myriad of unsold systems on their hands that nobody will buy?

There's a $100 price gap (going from Nintendo's website) - $300 for the Switch, $200 for the Switch Lite

SuperDoom wrote:

The only group it truly benefits is the small handful of collectors. Nintendrew, Kevin Kenson, Nathaniel Bandy, all those guys. The people who have an infinite amount of Switches already in their rooms, only one of which gets played often enough to warrant having. They only have those systems so that they can say that they have each and every type of Nintendo system.

To quote one of my boys on Discord:

Just ordered my yellow one next week I'm ordering the Pokemon one

so yeah add him too into that list of youtubers

CatsUnited wrote:

SuperDoom wrote:

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Who benefits from this model? The people who already own a Switch, who are just gonna walk past the system because their Switch has the exact same processing power, more features, and the ability to play all the games that the Lite can? The people who don't already own a Switch, who probably want the extra features of the full Switch, and would rather pay $300 for a fully-featured Switch than $270 for a cut-down “Switch” and a pair of Joy-Cons, because either way you get more features for just an extra thirty bucks? Or Nintendo, who has a myriad of unsold systems on their hands that nobody will buy?

There's a $100 price gap (going from Nintendo's website) - $300 for the Switch, $200 for the Switch Lite

And a pair of Joy-Cons, because motion controls and rumble are important for some games (like, gees, I don't know, Super Mario Odyssey?!).
Also, in that original post, I said a pair of Joy-Cons would cost an extra seventy bucks. I was wrong; they cost eighty.

Does the Switch Lite have the same processing power as the regular Switch or did they reduce the system's power when they reduced the size?

The only advantage I see over a regular Switch besides the lower price is the longer battery life, but the regular Switch's battery life isn't really that bad in my opinion.

SuperDoom wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

SuperDoom wrote:

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Who benefits from this model? The people who already own a Switch, who are just gonna walk past the system because their Switch has the exact same processing power, more features, and the ability to play all the games that the Lite can? The people who don't already own a Switch, who probably want the extra features of the full Switch, and would rather pay $300 for a fully-featured Switch than $270 for a cut-down “Switch” and a pair of Joy-Cons, because either way you get more features for just an extra thirty bucks? Or Nintendo, who has a myriad of unsold systems on their hands that nobody will buy?

There's a $100 price gap (going from Nintendo's website) - $300 for the Switch, $200 for the Switch Lite

And a pair of Joy-Cons, because motion controls and rumble are important for some games (like, gees, I don't know, Super Mario Odyssey?!).
Also, in that original post, I said a pair of Joy-Cons would cost an extra seventy bucks. I was wrong; they cost eighty.

Okay, you said a cut down Switch and a pair of joycons. True.
I think the Switch Lite is to the Switch like the original 2DS was to the 3DS - they removed a lot of features and cut many corners so they could make the console as cheap as possible while still having the same technical specs as it's better counterpart. The 2DS removed the 3D and the clamshell design, which was one of the main selling points of the 3DS originally, and the Switch Lite removed the ability to “switch”, which was one of the main selling points of the Switch originally.

Spycapt54 wrote:

Does the Switch Lite have the same processing power as the regular Switch or did they reduce the system's power when they reduced the size?

The only advantage I see over a regular Switch besides the lower price is the longer battery life, but the regular Switch's battery life isn't really that bad in my opinion.

It has the same processing power. I stated a reason on my post above.

CatsUnited wrote:

Spycapt54 wrote:

Does the Switch Lite have the same processing power as the regular Switch or did they reduce the system's power when they reduced the size?

The only advantage I see over a regular Switch besides the lower price is the longer battery life, but the regular Switch's battery life isn't really that bad in my opinion.

It has the same processing power. I stated a reason on my post above.

OK

CatsUnited wrote:

SuperDoom wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

SuperDoom wrote:

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Who benefits from this model? The people who already own a Switch, who are just gonna walk past the system because their Switch has the exact same processing power, more features, and the ability to play all the games that the Lite can? The people who don't already own a Switch, who probably want the extra features of the full Switch, and would rather pay $300 for a fully-featured Switch than $270 for a cut-down “Switch” and a pair of Joy-Cons, because either way you get more features for just an extra thirty bucks? Or Nintendo, who has a myriad of unsold systems on their hands that nobody will buy?

There's a $100 price gap (going from Nintendo's website) - $300 for the Switch, $200 for the Switch Lite

And a pair of Joy-Cons, because motion controls and rumble are important for some games (like, gees, I don't know, Super Mario Odyssey?!).
Also, in that original post, I said a pair of Joy-Cons would cost an extra seventy bucks. I was wrong; they cost eighty.

Okay, you said a cut down Switch and a pair of joycons. True.
I think the Switch Lite is to the Switch like the original 2DS was to the 3DS - they removed a lot of features and cut many corners so they could make the console as cheap as possible while still having the same technical specs as it's better counterpart. The 2DS removed the 3D and the clamshell design, which was one of the main selling points of the 3DS originally, and the Switch Lite removed the ability to “switch”, which was one of the main selling points of the Switch originally.

At least the 2DS didn't have “3D” in the title like the 3DS did. The Switch Lite's name is false advertising.