there's a lot more too that I can't believe. At this point, the vita which came out about a decade ago can do more.
When playing handheld, it has a headphone jack. When playing as a console it has the same bluetooth audio that sony and MS put into their consoles (that is, none).
Snooze you lose.
It was at the time of my post. Sorry.
Sony & MS gaming devices aren't portable... That's peoples gripe. I'm sure all of Sony & MS portable devices in the last 10 years (Phones, PSP Go, Vita, Tablets, Laptops) have all had Bluetooth. There is no defending the lack of it in the Switch.
This is just them getting ahead of the eventual time when the original Switch screen supply dries up. The extra storage is just to justify the extra $50. Surely that additional cost will go away when this becomes the main model.
only thing switch has currently caught the vita in is sales
As vita and pstv owner with most of the retail games before the limited print companies went crazy... the Switch has FAR surpassed the library of the vita and has long since been able to run games beyond anything the vita could push. Plus the vita's library itself has been getting eaten away by ports to newer systems similar to the WiiU. Not comparing the Vita library to the WiiU... Vita wins without question. But, there aren't many truly great games that are vita exclusive anymore... and a lot of the niche japanese stuff that made the system so special has moved over to the Switch and PS4... or atleast PC.
well I'd hope the switch could run games better, it came out like 6 years after. The vita can till this day still run more apps. A normal built in voice chat, can send messages, better media device, u.i (imo) even 3g (LOL) which reminds me, the vita probably has better online play than the switch. The switch is mostly ports itself. Here we are a decade later and the switch finally has a better screen than the og vita(barely) Yeah the memory prices for vita were absurd(if Nintendo did it I bet people wouldn't care tho) I'm not a Nintendo hater, I have a switch but we have to be honest here.
I still have my PSP to component video cable. Played GoW: Chains of Olympus on it, I think.
The PSPGo took that all to the next level as you could dock it and it had PS3 controller support. Such a cool little system. I completely wrote it off when it came out but when it was disappearing from the market and was cheap I snagged a refurbished one from GS. Later I got the dock and extra cables. Having built in memory so I didn't need yet another proprietary memory card (M2) was great.
You underestimate the number of people that love to complain about the switch right now... even without proprietary memory cards. I'm sure we'd have a lot more people complaining about them had Nintendo made such a decision. Thank goodness they focus on games and game systems and had a legacy of using standard memory cards starting with the Wii.
so I'm a salty switch user now. Lol ok.
Nobody's stopping you from being salty, but they're not making you buy the systems either.
Dont know why you would think this. I mean yes at some point (although hasn’t happened in almost 5 years) there will be a price drop. But when they burn through their $299 v2 models I don’t think they are just going to drop this to 299. If switches continue to sell at the pace they’ve been selling, why would they?
I think it makes sense... the V2 switch probably is just barely profitable at $300. So sell the better screen version for $50 more which will help them sell through whatever supply (and parts) are left of the V2 models... then drop the V2 and if they can't get the parts and if the V3 models are profitable at $300 then drop the price to $300. But a lot of this depends on manufacturing, parts being available, and other related costs to getting the systems on store shelves. If they can ride out the part shortages with this V3 model... then they don't have to drop the V2 models.
This would be true in a typical market, but right now costs are so inflated that graphics cards from 4 years ago are selling for a higher price (not from scalpers) than they were when they launched 4 or 5 years ago. And that's if you can find them in stock. I'm sure Nintendo has lots of deals in place, but just because something is older right now does not necessarily mean it's all that much cheaper.
Launching a “premium” version of an existing product at the same price as the existing model doesn’t make much sense. It would force Nintendo to drop the price on the standard Switch, which would then put pressure on the perceived value of the Switch Lite.
DS to the DS Lite is a better comparison as it was slimmer, brighter, and more light weight. Not a 1:1 comparison, but close enough.
I knew between the two of us we'd get a good comparison to this switch v3 situation.
Probably not as significant as that… I have both GBA SP models and both Vita models. The GBA SP difference is far greater.On the flip side... AGS-001 vs AGS-101 for those that actually use it portable and never "docked" it with a gamecube!
But it isn’t a premium product, it’s a cheap cash in. And I absolutely think they should have marketed this as a replacement; and if that means slashing the price of the previous model, good. The Switch is aging fast and needs a price cut.
The price didn't increase for the 101's. I'm glad back then I had my launch arctic white GBA with an Afterburner frontlight installed and resisted the original SP's. When the 101's came out "Now with brigther backlit screen" on the box... I bought two of them. Now that was an upgrade. But those were the dark days of Nintendo handhelds... when my friends and I researched frontlight tech and were making deals to get sample lights to test out possible fixes. One of my friends at the time was behind the Afterburner. No more relying on external lights like the wormlight... these color systems needed something better!On the flip side... AGS-001 vs AGS-101 for those that actually use it portable and never "docked" it with a gamecube!
jesus the worm light. Now that takes me back. I used that on the gba even though you aren't supposed to hahaha. At least until I got the clamshell light for it. That was a smart one which probably later lead to the sp and such.
Demand for the original Switch isn’t dropping … it may seem like it’s aging fast for us as CAGs, but for the average parent or kid that’s buying a Switch, the original is still in high demand. Think how long the 3DS shambled on before they finally killed it.
The demand for the Switch is what allows Nintendo to make a greedy cash grab like this model, it doesn’t excuse it. The fact is that the tech is old, R&D costs are four years behind it, and while the CPU/GPU costs may not be dropping, the rest of the components absolutely are.
They also dropped the 3DS price by over 30% in the first few months.
That’s exactly the issue, Nintendo wants people to think this is a premium product in order to help them justify the higher cost, but a slightly nicer screen, an extra 32GB of storage, and a prettier piece of cardboard don’t actually substantially improve the consumer experience. And OLED technology isn’t that premium anymore, either, especially not a seven inch, 720p screen. It’s not like development of the technology has stalled, so there are still premium examples; but you’re fooling yourself if you think Nintendo is going to be installing the nicest screens available. They’re doubtlessly going to be using one of the cheaper halfway decent options available.
And I’m still waiting for them to do that.
Whey in the world would they do a price cut?? Sales every year have INCREASED year over year including so far this year. Without a price cut. Doesn’t matter if it is 20 years old. If it’s selling more than it did a year ago why would you drop the price? Out of the kindness of your heart? This makes absolutely no sense. Price cuts are almost always to increase lagging sales.
Didn’t the DS, which cost significantly less than the Switch, outsell the Switch in its fourth year on the market?
