 Today we have something interesting happening in the world of I guess speculation predictions the world of Nintendo switch is being kind of turned on its head thanks to a group known as city group and city group is an Like a professional analytical group that tries to project what things are gonna happen in the future And they're correct on a lot of aspects and they base it on insider information and what and what they're hearing from people they know And it was reported on by Bloomberg. So, you know another pretty well-respected publication and Essentially it says this that although the Nintendo switch can be used as a handheld device We think smaller children could struggle to use it comfortably in that format due to its size and weight wrote the analyst Accordingly, we think Nintendo will launch a lighter dedicated handheld version of switch possibly possibly to be called the switch mini and It goes on to say that essentially unlike the current Nintendo switch. This would be just a dedicated Handheld it would be smaller and it would not work with a dock. You would not be able to look it up to your TV It's literally just a portable the controllers on it would not be detachable as an example Which they feel like is just a benefit of using it with the dock now On the surface this might not seem like such a bad idea Nintendo switch is pretty big for a portable system. Yes, it's better if you take off the controllers But reality is how many of us are really taking off the joy cons when we take this thing portable not a lot Right because that's how you're gonna play you're gonna attach the joy cons to the side Especially, you know because it might even help increase the battery life of the Nintendo switch itself I don't know but There's a thread on neogaf about the the speculation surrounding the Nintendo switch mini and Here's kind of the breakdown of it that that makes it feel appealing at a consumer level as for starters You could have a sub $200 price point for the system. You wouldn't have the dock included You know, you would have the full joy cons So here's what they say it could have a four to five inch display You could have a full d-pad no dock included no joy cons included It's compact. It could be compatible with a dock Potentially compatible with the dock now. It is notable that if it is significantly smaller It's not gonna fit in the dock, right? I'm looking at a picture comparison now that I'll throw up in the video and there's no way in heck that device At that size would fit in the dock because the buttons and the nubs and everything we get in the way And the thing is is that the city group is saying that it shouldn't be compatible with the dock anyway So even though this infograph says it could be compatible with the dock Let's just be honest This device as it looks right here would not work with the dock and they said it could be compatible with joy cons Obviously if it's a switch you can have more than just one set of joy cons hooked up to a switch So you could have you know all the peripherals like the the pro controller stuff that work with the current switch would Obviously work with the switch mini. You just would not have the ability to play it on a TV now the idea here is obviously to create a more affordable more kid-friendly version of the switch and We're gonna throw up a picture of some different colors yours and people are mocked up and even a size comparison Compared to the PlayStation Vita, which was a pretty beefy system in its own right for a portable device now There is two sides to a story here for starters calling this a switch mini is stupid to me because The whole concept of the switch is the ability to Switch if you get rid of the switching ability, you can't really call it a switch, right? But if you can't play it on your TV and on the go, then it's not a switch It's just a handheld device. It's a 3ds successor but you can also understand the logic that the switch isn't portable enough and That's interesting I suppose but again, the switch is portable enough for most people especially adults obviously they're talking about children here and you know If you have a case right like I have the breath of the wild special edition case and If you bring that with us throw it in your backpack your switch is gonna be just fine So it's still portable. You're just not putting it in your pocket, right? It's not a game boy. It's not a game boy pocket It's not something that you would just you know Quickly and easily to shove in your pocket and walk away with but that's okay. I don't know that any device that has actual Joysticks on it is something I want to shove in my pocket anyways Nintendo switch mini would still have actual joysticks and That's not something that you should shove in a pocket just being honest You're gonna jam it. You're gonna potentially break the sticks not worth the risk So they're still not gonna put this in their pocket. They're still gonna have to put it in their backpacks I I just don't see the switch mini as something that actually needs to exist now I understand the cheaper price point But it's they're gonna have the same tech right and if you look at the breakdowns of the Nintendo switch There isn't a lot of room inside of that tablet right they have it pretty well filled up with the heat pipes and The GPU and I don't know how they're gonna fit that with the fan and everything into a smaller version By 2019 that doesn't mean that they can't obviously there could be new processes There's already new processes for the X1 so they could potentially make it smaller Maybe make a new version. That's X2, but it's like down clock So it matches the original Nintendo switch specs I don't know, but I can see how this could be a possible. I could see a market for it I could also see why it's a completely stupid idea To me. It's kind of like when they called the Wii U what it was a Wii U sounded like a peripheral for the Wii and Nintendo switch mini there sounds like always a smaller Nintendo switch So yeah, but it doesn't come with the dock, but I can still use it with the dock I have right no Like no, you can't that that's that whole point this To to get rid of the main function that makes this thing a switch baffles me now that doesn't mean they shouldn't come up with something and I don't know what that something should be because I could see having a smaller device for kids that plays the same games as The Nintendo switch so you can just pop those cartridges in there and it works But I just don't know how you can call it in a Nintendo switch And I don't know how marketing wise you could call it something else look Oh, this is say a 40 s or this is because you want to get rid of the DS or the single screen, you know this is the new Game Boy and Be like, yeah, what games is the Game Boy play Nintendo switch games? That I mean that's confusing marketing, you know experience as well. So You know, I guess I have to go my gut reaction the Nintendo switch mini shouldn't exist and it's a stupid idea But I could see some merits behind it why it might be appealing to children Especially trying to get that cheaper price point just like they did with the 2ds. I can see why yeah You take away the 3d that you know, it is what it is with kids You know little kids can't have 3d anyways So it made sense in this case I don't know if I see a logical point to it When you got physical to city got physical sticks like that You're not something it's not something sticking in your pocket anyways And if you're not sticking in your pocket I think the Nintendo switch as is it's already going to be just as portable as Nintendo switch mini is making the Nintendo switch mini completely pointless beyond getting a cheaper system out on the market Plus, you know, it is going to be hard to necessarily make games that are designed for joy cons because every consumer has them and then have the mini art on the market that Doesn't have joy cons and all of a sudden these games that need the joy cons say it like a snipper clips That functionality is gone the ability to plop the system down and take take the two off and have two different people playing That's gone like you lose too much functionality. I think with the Nintendo switch mini That's why I think city group is way off base with their projection There's gonna be Nintendo switch mini now I can see why 2019 Nintendo is talking about a Nintendo switch to you know if they start treating this like a smartphone market They can be like hey look, you know, Nintendo switch games are all gonna be compatible with Nintendo switch to and we're just gonna keep making iterations like that kind of like the other console makers have done with the Xbox one s The Xbox Scorpio the PlayStation 4 Pro Even the PlayStation slim, although that's not really much of a improvement over the original PlayStation 4 I just think that the mini is not the direction We're gonna see we're gonna see more iterative consoles and Nintendo has really hit something here They found a market with switch right now, and I think if you take away that main functionality of it You split up your market you end up not catering to as many consumers as you want You end up confusing the marketplace and Nintendo already did this with Wii U. I don't see them making that same mistake twice Anyways, this is Nathanian Ruffle Jans from Nintendo Prime signing out