RUMOR: Nintendo Developing Handheld-Only Switch Mini?

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The Nintendo Switch is a hot commodity and has exceeded sales expectations across the board. Bloomberg has published speculation by analysts that a new variation of the home console could remove the docking feature and solely be a handheld gaming device.

Citigroup Inc. […] expect the Kyoto-based company to release a smaller version of the Switch in the fiscal year through March 2019, according to analysts including Minami Munakata, Kota Ezawa and Alicia Yap. — Via Bloomberg

Interesting speculation which may mean a lot for Pokémon fans if a main franchise title does indeed end up on the Nintendo Switch.

If there were a handheld-only version though, would it defeat the purpose of the “Switch”? Weigh in below!

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4,142 thoughts on “RUMOR: Nintendo Developing Handheld-Only Switch Mini?”

  1. I tried to draw BotW Zelda today but messed up the eyes and accidentally erased the whole surrounding area and I was upset because I had like perfect shading and I screwed it up

    Also I got sick from eating nothing but sour patch kids…

    So what have your failures been today?

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    • Same old same old but you’ve got me hankering for them sour patch kids

      Alrernate them with some ice cream and inhale ultimate pity party appetisers! 😀

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    • oh where to begin….
      woke up with a headache and a stiff neck (which i still have)
      a bunch of morning losses on showdown, splatoon and that one FUCKING KARTOS LEVEL IN YOOKA-LAYLEE
      Wow is losing its luster again and Yooka-Laylee is boiling down to annoying scraps of collectibles that i cannot find unless i printed a map and by hand and
      i had a fight with my mother when we had to go shopping for new pants which ripped do to my acidic bodily functions which is always a pain because clothes are expensive as fuck for a individual of my dimensions
      i really want to stop playing yookalaylee and play Banjo Tooie because i can’t find these last dang quills
      and i had to shell out 30 bucks to gas up my car which is not good since i’m strapped for cash since i’m not making enough money from my crappy job

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  3. Last random question of the day: sour, sweet, salty, bitter, or umami? Which of the five tastes do you most enjoy?

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  4. Ooh, something I actually want to talk about. Here we go. . .
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    First off, yes. Removing the docking feature negates the entire point of a switch. Otherwise it’s a vita/gba style handheld with detachable controllers. It’s not a switch anymore. At least not what it was meant to be. But then again, they did take the 3D out of the 3DS. Though that seems much less important to the identity of the system. Plus they can’t make it much more “mini” at this point, it still has to have al the parts inside. It seems dumb to remove the docking feature when it doesn’t take much, honestly. So no, it won’t happen IMO. If it does, I wouldn’t be objected to it as much as I would a direct 3DS successor, but it just seems stupid and pointless to me.

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        • Sounds like it’d look kinda silly tbh, for the whipping to be effective at all the poor thing would probably have tassels on its ears

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          • Not really, those are ‘wisps’ of hair and to be substantially heavy enough to hurt at all they’d probably droop and make it look like the crazy cat lady got creative with the tassels her cats have ripped off the curtains

          • I happen to like those dark felines, which we only have three of

            Liepard is a serious, sleek design and is purple, yellow and pink. It’s a utility Mon really. Persian is blue, silly and set up to be a set up special attacker. Incineroar is a boisterous design capturing the personal or a wrestler with that of a cat, and is meant to be a physical tank. Absol and Umbreon could be included but both have aspects of other animals and are also unique in terms of design and stat/move spread

  6. Well positives for me getting my newesr animation on its way its

    A Pokémon egg that then hatches to Pichu then evolves to Pikachu then finally at the end turns to Raichu

    I call it “The Pika Cycle” thoughts?

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  8. Well I found a blue horse… I want it
    I went to tame it… I couldn’t catch up to it
    I decide to shield slide to it
    It kicks me off…
    Wow

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  9. Today was one of the most stressful, tiring, and exciting days of my life. Post funny Pokémon pictures so I don’t lose my mind.

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    • I think part of SM’s problem is there isn’t enough variety based on location. I don’t like the idea that I have to be on top of Lanakila and can only wear shorts and a tshirt

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  22. Shit this is the second time i missed the new archer, at least tomorrow morning a new episode of Pokemon will be up,

    my buttocks grow numb from uncomfortable desk chair after a marathon of Invader Zim (Including a script reading of lost unproduced episodes)
    so i guess it is sleepy time, and i’ll have sweet dreams of impending doom
    Night you pathetic filth monkeys!!!

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    • According to Ash’s boat that appeared in anime Ash playing pokemon sun don’t mind I was joking …….But still I wish he get that but I can’t see it .

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