What The HELL Is Going On With The Switch PRO?
631So much was said about the vaunted, fabled Switch Pro - a mid-life update for the Switch that would modernize the tech thoroughly, and allow the platform to remain competitive on a hardware level with everything else for a few more years while Nintendo worked away on the Switch 2. There were reports, leaks, discussions on the pricing and the presumed hardware capabilities, and what that might indicate for how Nintendo approaches hardware going forward, and even discussion on third party support for this thing.
So, where did it all go wrong? Now that we've had time to reflect on the new Switch revision coming this year - which isn't a Switch Pro or anything even resembling that, and is instead just a very minor refresh, more along the lines of a PS4 Slim than a PS4 Pro, an Xbox One S than an Xbox One X - we've more or less made our peace with the Switch OLED being what it is. In isolation, it's an inoffensive and innocuous refresh, addressing some common complaints with the system - the kickstand quality, the lack of the ethernet port, increasing screen size and quality - but doing very little beyond the bare minimum. But within the context of the years of reporting on the impending Switch Pro, which this decidedly isn't, we have to ask - what the hell happened here? How was there so much smoke with barely any fire?