Soundwave on 18 January 2015
| superchunk said: The benefit to Nintendo keeping a very low powered system is that they can put the entirety of the WiiU on a single chip in their next system. Meaning, that for a very low cost per console, (probably sub-$50) they can keep full backwards compatibility. Based on the other consoles selling for $350 to $400 without much resistance, Nintendo could put a machine out without a gamepad-like device (but compatible with one) that hits a significant power jump and the WiiU chip relatively easily. |
I doubt they will do that. Just because the chip is "low horsepower" doesn't mean it's cheap to make. That's one of Nintendo's issues, they use weird, propietary designs and components (like an IBM PowerPC CPU, tech that no one else in the world really uses anymore) that makes their components more expensive.
That's also one of the reasons the Wii U is very difficult to drop the price on.
