| disolitude said: It's funny how everyone on this site thinks that every product is out there in order to dominate the market. Much like the Microsoft Surface this thing is just a halo device for their Tegra SoC and will be probably updated yearly with new chipsets. The point for this thing is to raise awareness on the Tegra capabilities and to get more OEM's and developers on board and to optimize for their chipset. I think that it offers a unique enough feature set to warrant the $349 price tag. I'd buy a PS Vita in a flash if it had fully unlocked android and was able to stream PC games smoothly. |
Your counterpoint raises two questions in my mind:
1. How the hell are the sputtering sales of this device — that you and I already know is niche, at best — going to inspire the confidence of OEMs and developers? Your comparison to Surface isn't doing any favours, as PC OEMs seem pretty upset with Windows 8/RT right now.
2. As a consumer, why should I consider subsidizing what is effectively a $350 Tegra ad? A consumer product is supposed to be courting me, not potential business partners.
If you're right, and NVIDIA's basically selling dev kits, they should probably make that clear so they aren't messing with the expectations of consumers. Otherwise, they look like they're deliberately exploiting consumers to get to their real clients, OEMs, rather than simply being clueless about what consumers actually want. NVIDIA needs to decide who their real customer is.
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