lol, it's pretty funny how people came up with the concept of "switch pro", speculated and talked to death about it for a year, people said i'll play so and so game when i pick up my switch pro, but now are like "where's the switch pro?". the rumors exactly fit what's happening here. the old tegra X1 is getting discontinued, a slightly enhanced revision of the SoC is being used in the switch lite as well this "shadow" revision that'll just silenty replace the current switch and give it better battery life and maybe more storage.
anyone who's disappointed only has themselves to blame for just assuming a switch pro that's going to massively enhance game performance (or even crazier, open doors for ports that were previously impossible, ignoring the fact that those still had to run on base switch) is just an inevitable thing that's going to happen this or next year.
Agreed on that last part. This is what everyone who has been paying attention has been expecting from the "pro".
However, the part about silently replacing...
why are people assuming this thing will "launch"? just like they once changed the system without making any big deal out of it (the fixed the hardware vulnerability) in june of last year, i think this will just replace the current system that's on the shelves slowly without any hoopla or previous announcement, and they'll just refer to it as "late-2019 switch" in tech specifications and stuff.
A few points:
1) Emily said it will release in two colors. That already requires some sort of announcement ("Switch 2019" is what I'm betting on)
2) Even if it did not have new colors the device would have one or more of the following, if it uses the same SoC as the Lite:
a) Substantially increased battery life
b) Noticeably better performance in portable mode
c) A smaller battery
And Nintendo would very likely need/want to announce those features and differentiate the product in some way, so that consumers aren't participating in a lottery for the quality of their Switch. Even if the OG Switch is discontinued it will be on store shelves for a very long time along with this new model. There will have to be some form of differentiation.
i just want a revised Switch (not lite/pro). better battery, more efficient CPU, more RAM, less bezel.
i say not Pro because I think that'll be model that just plugs into the wall + TV.
This one will have either better battery life, more efficient processors, or a combination of both. Probably the same bezel and same amount of RAM but RAM amount has never been an issue for Switch games, unlike RAM bandwidth which might change.