it Was assumed that 2016 would be the year in which the modular devices would be out of fashion. Phones like the Project Ara of Google, the LG G5 and the Moto Z promised to allow you to update your phone, simply through the exchange of new parts. The Thunderbolt port 3 Intel had prepared the way to convert a thin laptop into a powerful PC for gaming as well just connect an external graphics port.
But several companies have already dropped out or limited their plans, modular devices, assuming that in reality we don’t want what they have to sell to us. The Project Ara was eliminated, while several of its key members moved to Facebook. LG has completely renounced the phones modular, stating to CNET that the clients (and the carriers) were not interested in the idea. And no one has managed to still make a external graphics port affordable and widely compatible for the laptops equipped with Thunderbolt.
(Motorola seems to follow the wind in its sails with the Bike Mods, promising 12 new modular accessories each year, but a leak suggests that the upcoming Moto X, the company may not have this feature).
The controls Nintendo Joy-With slide into the sides of the console Switch, and perhaps other devices to do the same with the passage of time.
Photo of GIF done by Sean Hollister/CNETWhat does this all have to do with the new Nintendo console Switch? That could be our last and best chance to prove that people really do want a modular device… or it could be your coup de grace.
The Nintendo Switch system is a laptop game that uses parts modular to transform themselves. Add a couple of knobs and you can use it as a gamepad, or despréndelos to use them as motion controllers wireless. Place the tablet in a port to connect it to your tv like a game console complete, and unites the two knobs small to a gamepad larger than charging the batteries at the same time. Wonderful, isn’t it?
while all this might sound like an idea quite novel, in fact it looks much like the tablet Nvidia Shield in 2014, or to the tablet Razer Edge in 2013, each of which lets you buy a gamepad, a port and optional cables that you could use in addition with a television.
This is the key difference: the Nintendo Switch comes with everything you need in the same box.
This is all that will come in the box.
Photo of Nintendounlike most gadgets popular (including all that I mentioned before), you do not need to buy the parts separately. For$ 300, comes with everything you need to transform the Switch in each of its different modalities. The smartest thing Nintendo could have done, and a little bit of a surprise considering that Nintendo is the same company that ceased to include adapters of power in their handheld devices more recent.
Include all assumed that Nintendo does not have to worry about that really are going to purchase any of the modular parts, decide how to promote them or to supply shops with those products. (Only you will need to buy spare parts or extra modules to your friends).
this Means that the game developers can create games to make the Switch without worrying that they are going to be able to transform the console in the correct mode, unlike the software of, say, the old Wii Balance Board that came with Wii Fit) or peripheral MotionPlus.
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Playing with the Switch, the quirky Nintendo’s console [photos]
Go, perhaps even mean that the developers of accessories can build fascinating modular accessories for the Switch, knowing that the owners will already know how to swap pieces in their consoles.
Neither affects the fact that the Switch is a Nintendo product, which (unlike basically any other modular products listed above) will be widely known and recognized around the world.
Basically, it is the ambassador that perfect modular devices. But that is a double-edged sword: if the Switch fails, it will be considered the best example of how people don’t want devices with parts that they take out.
If Nintendo does not operate on the idea of modules with the Switch, I doubt that someone else is able to do so.
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