TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.
I feel like they meant to make this their switch pro, but the parts shortages probably meant they had to delay much longer than they liked. So as a result, I think they decided to make it a successor instead?
While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.
NES>SNES
N64>GameCube
GB>GBA
DS>3DS
With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.
TBF, doing the same thing a second time but better is not Nintendo’s MO. Theres usually either a new gimmick or form factor, or it’s just a refresh of equivalent hardware. The New 3DS was an outlier in that respect.
I feel like they meant to make this their switch pro, but the parts shortages probably meant they had to delay much longer than they liked. So as a result, I think they decided to make it a successor instead?
Though I wonder what the hardware is like?
While they do like to mix things up on occasion they have there fair share of consoles that feel like iterations on a theme.
With official announcements of a Switch successor including continuing software compatibility it seemed likely that it would keep the general form factor.
With the ds it was even more.
DS->DS Lite>DSi->3DS->2DS->New 3DS/2DS
N64 -> GCN is a stretch to me, but Wii -> WiiU isn’t
Branding aside, the GameCube had:
These feel like vestigial N64 features
Edit: and three shoulder/trigger buttons!
Okay, actually now that you bring all that up, yeah! The controller is very different looking but functionally, even the C stick/C buttons are similar