It's still possible as there are reasons and benefits for consumers, but it has to be a financial benefit for Nintendo for it to ever see the life of day (business comes first).

Performance
A Pro-Switch wouldn't be a huge change from the current models, it would be more about quality of life improvements. The performance would be anywhere from a minor clock improvement (about 5% - 10% performance boost) to at best using the Tegra X2, which would would be around 40% - 50% more performance depending on the clock speeds. This would allow more games with unstable framerates to run better (Breath of the Wild, and I assume a Pro version would launch for the sequel), allow more games to to run at 1080p docked instead of 900p, and maybe add anti-aliasing to games that were already at 1080p. So nothing huge per say, but improvements nonetheless.

Tegra X1++ (Fabrication Node) vs Tegra X2
If they go with the higher clock speed instead of going with Tegra X2, it's because more than likely they moved the system to an even small fabrication node, and the benefit with this over going with the X2, is that while you get a smaller performance boost in comparison, you do get the benefit of better power consumption meaning better battery life in handheld mode and for the Switch Lite.

Other improvements
From there other quality of life improvements would be better bluetooth support, better thumbpads, a more durable and better placed kickstand, OLED display, Ethernet port on the dock, more RAM for app support (Netflix, Hulu, etc...), bigger battery capacity, and a few other little things here and there like 64GB / 128GB of storage minimum.

But again, it's all about money, and it more than likely cost Nintendo only $150 max to make the Switch at this point and adding these features means cutting into their profits unless they raise the price. They're making around $50 per Switch lite sold, and around $120 per original, so it won't happen until there is a need, such as Zelda BotW2 being more techincally demanding, or sales slowing down.

@Riku07

If it's a handheld-hybrid again, there's no way, the technology just won't be there for a 10w device to match PS4 Pro levels of performance, or even base PS4 performance at a $300 price.

For those performance levels Nintendo would have to make a home console, and at $300 they could easily exceed that with a Zen 2 CPU, and a 20CU - 24CU console (20CU PS4 Pro, 24CU XBO-X). The problem is Nintendo's home consoles have declined every generation excluding Wii (I consider Switch a handheld-hybrid), and Nintendo builds hardware to make a profit off of it almost the entire generation, which means they'd either price themselves to close to Series S / PS5 / Series X to warrant a purchase for most gamers, or the gimp the hardware and then lose a lot of 3rd party parity and still be within $100 of Series S and maybe PS5 with a price drop.

Honestly, something like this would be ideal:
6-Core/12-thread
22CU (5.07 TF), 18CU if they want to squeeze to the $299 budget
8GB GDDR6
$299 - $349

This gives them the performance they need to not be left behind by PS5 and Series X, while also being much cheaper

GTA5, Watchdogs, Batman Arkham Series, Dying Light, yada, yada, yada, I could go on for days...just saying I’d love to have a much broader library that I could enjoy on the go. The better the switch the better and broader the ports we can get. I’d love a better switch.

@FlavorLav01 - first off, everyone has GTA V, do you really need it on the Switch? And considering the Wii U had Watch Dogs there is no reason why the first 2 wouldn't be able to run. The funny thing is, the Switch gets a fair number of 3rd party releases and then people like you complain about getting them because they are older. Now here you are coming up with a list of older games that should be there. Which is it?

I’ve never called the switch a port machine. Besides Mario Aces and Luigi’s mansion, ports are all I play on switch! And it still needs more 3rd party support not less. All I was saying is I’d like a fuller library of 3rd party games to play on the go. What is wrong with that?

“ All I was saying is I’d like a fuller library of 3rd party games to play on the go. What is wrong with that?”

There is nothing wrong with wanting more games. But you do realize that the Switch is not powerful enough to run some third party games right? They are trying their best to get more games, and if it wasn’t for the Coronavirus situation, games like The Outer Worlds, Doom Eternal, and a couple of other third party games would have already been released on the Switch.

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Being passionate about the games is fine. The plastic boxes... not so much.

Passionate is one thing. But fans went full retard

Darth

You need some kind of plastic box to play them games.. and people tend to choose the best one. Console wars allows games and consoles to reach new heights.

S2killinit u just as bad

We're all naughty here

@Ironmike
I’m not as relentless as some on here. In fact, I only respond in kind and I got pulled into this site after seeing how some commenters were always rushing in to be the first comment and detail conversations in favor of their box. Now that their console of choice is doing badly, they preach kumbaya. Just saying.

I had both but I preferred the Genesis for the sports games and I liked Sega's 6 button controller better for fighting games. That D pad was a godsend to pull off Street Fighter moves!

I switched to Sony day 1.

Anast, no one would've ever thought that about you. Totally surprising news/s

The Steamdeck has currently sold around 3 million worldwide. A handheld Xbox would be lucky to double that. As others have suggested, there IS no handheld war. Nintendo owns it.

"that's saddest statement I read in here"

Your not very self aware. I get it.

The xbox as a console is a shadow of what it was during the 360 era. IF the term war offends you then I guess that you lean towards the green brand.. Just a guess mind you.. Regardless, the brand has been mismanaged for way too long and that's a key factor as to why the gappage as increased yoy between it and its closest rival.

If the PSP's 80 million isn't a success, then what is the 3DS' 75 million?