Why go back to LCD after releasing an OLED for the Switch, surely it’s better to make this one OLED rather than releasing it with LCD and then making an OLED later down the road
Because the number of people who won’t buy it because of the LCD screen is smaller than the number of additional people who will buy it if it’s $X cheaper at launch.
Yeah, you need a balance when launching new hardware. Most people, specially Nintendo players, don’t care about OLED vs LCD that much. So, cheaper > OLED.
That being said, I am not trusting any rumours, or even checking them out, so don’t know what the article says, but if they do go with LCD, this could be the reason.
The rumor basically claims the dev kits have an LCD screen, it could be subject to change, but developers need to know how their games will look like on the screen, so if it’s true the kits have this screen, then the console most likely will have it too.
Makes sense. But I am not trusting any dev kit rumours or specs yet either. 😀
If the console is to be 99% of the time attached to the living room tv, the inbuded screen matters almost zero.
That’s how I use mine. Only time it leaves the dock is when I have to change a tiny microscopic game wafer and hope to God I don’t drop the thing.
I use my switch in portable mode near exclusively, 1080p SDR (and usually the games run at way lower than that) are not pretty on a 65” 4K hdr OLED tv. I think most people buy the switch because of the portable experience and rarely use it on a tv unless playing Mario party or something like that.
It is all probably planned, so you buy it again for the OLED model
I wonder about the processor. The one in the switch was basically obsolete when shipped. I just hope they start with something fast this time if we’re gonna be stuck with it for 8 years.
Yeah, don’t get your hopes up. Heat dissipation and battery life aren’t going to be your friends on this one.
Sony did the same with the later Vita models.
No OLED, no purchase. No way they are doing this, I would be shocked.
Eh, it’ll be totally sold out for two years, they’ll get their sales and then the oled model in 2026 will get them even more. This is nintendo. They do this.
I hope they do two versions at launch, a cheaper LCD one and a more expensive OLED one. That would make the most sense I think