No, it's ability to switch between the two is what gives it its identity and place in the market.
The Gamecube didn't have a huge blockbuster title like BOTW to drive sales like the Switch did and you're ignoring a huge factor of what would make a non-portable Switch so attractive: the price.
Last week I would have said yes. However, my wife wanted to watch Grey's anatomy on the TV, and since I'm a REAL man, I said "hell no woman!" and I took my manly ass to the bedroom to play super Mario.
I didn't do any of that.. I watched Grey's anatomy with my wife and let my daughter play Mario in portable mode while I glared at her.... :(
Portable mode is awesome
1.) Do we know the manufacturing costs of the joy cons vs. the pro controller?Sure, but it makes little sense to have a non-portable Switch with Joy-cons. If the point of this new version is to sell at a cheaper price you include a Pro Controller. It's cheaper and easier to charge.
Would this console only version still have rails to attach the Joy-con to for charging, a separate charging station, or charging Joy-con grip?
It's just a so much simpler to include the Pro Controller. That logo would look strange on that SKU.
Melee is the only game in that list that could be considered a launch title and it didn't even release on launch. It was cheap, but like you said, the industry wasn't favorable at all for the Gamecube. The Switch is already a huge success. A non-portable version would ride on that success and appeal to an even larger market with minimal cost for Nintendo.The GameCube had Meele, Wind Waker, Sunshine and Resident Evil 4- the best game ever made- exclusive for several months and had *many* price cuts:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1943247.stm
It was cheap as chips. It had other problems, problems that a hypothetical Switch TV only wouldn't have (going up against the best selling console ever and being perceived as a childish product in the time where the industry had a big stigma on that sorta thing) but regardless you I can't believe I'm having this debate after reading through months during the NX days of how Nintendo couldn't even sell traditional handhelds anymore never mind consoles. We shouldn't need to go over this *again*.
I would like a better dock where I'm not worried about scratching the screen.
It would be an objectively inferior machine, so I'd hope most respondents on a video game enthusiast site would vote no. It wouldn't be for us. It would be so that a version of the console could be as dirt cheap as possible. The touchscreen and battery would go, and hopefully that, along with a price drop on parts thanks to the volume of Switches in general, could bring it sub $200, perhaps even more. That's the appeal of the thing. If they could make it cheap enough for a Switch to be an expensive impulse instead of an investment, it absolutely is worth putting to market.
Constantly people who wanna push for only handheld or only tv switch are getting silly. It is called Switch for a reason and it is the main selling point and it is a huge success. It ain't happening. Don't hold your breath. Save up money instead, get one and see why it is great for yourself.
The point is that a non-portable version of a console was already received well, relatively speaking, so scale that up to the Switch's popularity and you can see why it would work. As for confusion in the market, I honestly don't agree with you at all. Unless Nintendo really messes up with the marketing, I don't think people are going to buy the wrong product by mistake.
1.) Do we know the manufacturing costs of the joy cons vs. the pro controller?
2.) 1 2 Switch, Arms, and Mario Odyssey have been developed with the detached joy-cons as first priority over all inputs, to the point that playing these games any other way will rob you of certain features. These games make up the grand majority of first-party Switch only software Nintendo has made for the platform, and I think that it's reasonable to assume that Kirby and Yoshi will follow suit. Nintendo values the joycons as a visual brand (they're the fucking logo of the Switch) and as something to market towards the casual demographic by offering them what the Wiimote did in the past. If there's a console-only version of the Switch, they are going to include the joy-cons.
While true, I'm not exactly sure what the point you're trying to make is or how exactly it's relevant to what I said.A reminder that the PSTV was a massive bomb that very quickly was on sale for $20 because nobody would pay full price for it. And this is taking into account the Vita wasn't very successful in the first place and stores probably took that into account when ordering stock
The Pro Controller costs $70, not $60.We know MSRP for Joy cons is $40 a piece, $70 together. The Pro is $60. I have no idea how that translates to manufacturing costs, but clearly Joy-cons cost more. You want to bring costs down, you include only a Pro.