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Well, provided the rumors are true, I'd definitely consider getting the "Switch Mini". I'm generally a handheld-only person and this system sounds more right for me.
I think this thread was targeted at people who don't have Switches.
I expect the Switch Mini to be a budget Switch that is tailored specifically for the handheld market. As such I don't expect it to be more powerful then the current Switch.My only concern ever would be if the new(?) Switch would have better performance rate in Sword and Shield. Might be wrong, but many players cited the difference of lag input between old and new 3DS when the Sun/Moon Demo launched in '16.
Ridiculously disappointing to hear and explains why we didn't get a BotW tier game.I expect the Switch Mini to be a budget Switch that is tailored specifically for the handheld market. As such I don't expect it to be more powerful then the current Switch.
I also expect that the Switch Mini will be the Switch model that Game Freak optimises for. The reason Game Freak utilised the power of the New 3DS was that it was a handheld device. Game Freak like to build Pokemon for handheld devices and so with Pokemon Sun they built their game for the most powerful handheld. I don't anticipate that changing this year, which means they'll be building for the Switch mini.
Ridiculously disappointing to hear and explains why we didn't get a BotW tier game.
This is gonna sound drastic to say but I'm starting to wonder we can even trust GameFreak to get us to that next level of gaming for Pokémon. I know people always say GF is small but why don't they expand then? It's starting to get a bit ridiculous imoI don’t know about that since the lower-than-expected quality of the games is more likely due to Game Freak’s inexperience with the home console. I would assume that a “Switch Mini” could handle basically the same kind of power as the regular Switch, just having a smaller screen probably.
This is gonna sound drastic to say but I'm starting to wonder we can even trust GameFreak to get us to that next level of gaming for Pokémon. I know people always say GF is small but why don't they expand then? It's starting to get a bit ridiculous imo
I expect the Switch Mini to be a budget Switch that is tailored specifically for the handheld market. As such I don't expect it to be more powerful then the current Switch.
I also expect that the Switch Mini will be the Switch model that Game Freak optimises for. The reason Game Freak utilised the power of the New 3DS was that it was a handheld device. Game Freak like to build Pokemon for handheld devices and so with Pokemon Sun they built their game for the most powerful handheld. I don't anticipate that changing this year, which means they'll be building for the Switch mini.
Ridiculously disappointing to hear and explains why we didn't get a BotW tier game.
This is gonna sound drastic to say but I'm starting to wonder we can even trust GameFreak to get us to that next level of gaming for Pokémon. I know people always say GF is small but why don't they expand then? It's starting to get a bit ridiculous imo
Some people are just upset that Sword & Shield isn't a massive BOTW-style open world game even though we were never promised one to begin with.What precisely are we railing against here?
Pokémon could never work as a BOTW type game. You’d get access to powerful Legendaries way too early and break the game.Some people are just upset that Sword & Shield isn't a massive BOTW-style open world game even though we were never promised one to begin with.
Some people are just upset that Sword & Shield isn't a massive BOTW-style open world game even though we were never promised one to begin with.
People were just being very optimistic and I don't think that the Switch Mini will decrease the Switch's hardware capabilities. I believe that it will just be a smaller Switch made for people who prefer handheld gaming so that they can make a dedicated handheld console without having to split the software library between two consoles.That was never on the table, it’s questionable as to whether it would really work, and it’s strange to tie that to rumored hardware revisions which one imagines aren’t going to decrease the capability of the Switch at any rate.
I expect the Switch Mini to be a budget Switch that is tailored specifically for the handheld market. As such I don't expect it to be more powerful then the current Switch.
I also expect that the Switch Mini will be the Switch model that Game Freak optimises for. The reason Game Freak utilised the power of the New 3DS was that it was a handheld device. Game Freak like to build Pokemon for handheld devices and so with Pokemon Sun they built their game for the most powerful handheld. I don't anticipate that changing this year, which means they'll be building for the Switch mini.
It could possibly mean that SS has less functionality in docked mode than LGPE, especially considering that the Switch Mini would most likely be permanently in handheld mode.Neither SM nor USUM were enhanced for N3DS. They were optimized, and launched, for the regular 3DS yet the performance differences varied in Demo, especially in Totem Hakamo-o battle. Mind you, the lag input itself wasn't a huge deal breaker for old 3DS owners to consider a change.
How would we expect an optimized game for Switch Mini specifically, if you claim its power wouldn't surpass the current Switch? If it'd be tailored for Switch Pro, then I would have understood.