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But the portal on its own does nothing. Similar with the wii-u controller. It just made the base console more expensive.

This idea would be it's own console that you can play on the TV. But it also gives a second life to the millions of switches already out their.

The switch on its own works, the console on its own works. Put them together and you have a next gen switch for a fraction of the price of a new next gen switch 2.

Make it the size of a Amazon cube, Style it like a GameCube, make it back compatible with existing switch games and controllers, and charge €200 and it would sell millions.

The switch had its own space at launch. Handhelds had kinda dropped off the scene so it could be unique.

But now it's much more crowded. The Steam Deck has changed that landscape.

Even the switch itself is still selling well.

They risk pulling a Wii-u and releasing a console that is more expensive and less powerful than the competition out there and people can't justify it.

A lot of the improvement to VR screen is entirely down to phone screen improvements, but there you can get a screen of ever improving quality at multiple price points as there are phones at multiple price points with those screens with a market size that dwarfs the scale of practically everything within consumer end products.

For the bending screen that's such a limited market that's only targeting the super high-end of phones so you've not got the broad span of price points. Nintendo will have scale but it's not the same as all phones ever.

There's huge potential for the new OLED printing method, and we could see bending screen on more devices but until then they'll never have the scale for it for a Switch 2.

The could have the switch stream to/from the dock. Like the Wii U, in reverse. So the dock just receives and displays the upper screen and the switch does all the processing and is the lower screen and the controller for these dual screen games.

Anyway. It's fun to speculate. And wonder if Nintendo will play it safe. Always interesting to see what they do with hardware.

New Days Gone ? I'm in 😃

I never said it was new. I said it would be a great way to make use of the 135 million Switches that people already own by using those existing Switches as the handheld screen for the new console rather than making a new more powerful & more expensive dedicated handheld.

Much the same way you felt like it was a good idea to have the more powerful PC do the processing and stream to the less powerful PC.

Not sure why it works for PC games for you, but not for Nintendo games.

Yeah but like the Steam Deck is a "hand-held PC", this is a "TV Unit PC" rather than a "Desktop PC".

They tried it before with the Steam Box, but the mistake they made then was outsourcing it to third parties. They are doing it all in-house this time and basing it on the Deck's proton set-up so it works out of the box with the controllers.

It is more so for the wireless VR headset. It needs the high-frequency Wi-Fi for that. But will also work to stream to the Deck.

They want all three pieces of their hardware to be symbiotic. You don't need all of them, but if you do have more than one they add a benefit to each other.

This unit gives you the power. The Deck gives you portability for that power, and the headset gives you VR. And they own the digital software market. All bases are covered.