zorg1000 on 25 July 2015
| Soundwave said: If they strictly wanted to go for performance, they could likely get a 500-700 GFLOP system on chip for the handheld. And a 2 TFLOP+ chip for the home console. You can walk into a store today and buy a Radeon R9 280 which is a GPU part a good deal more powerful than the PS4 for $250 or so if you shop around, but you have to remember that's with retail/manufacturing mark up, Nintendo would likely pay maybe 1/3 the price you do buying in millions and also assuming a launch that is a year out from now. But we know Nintendo is not fixated just on horsepower, the 3DS did have even close to the best CPU/GPU it could have for a $250 launch price, neither did the Wii U for a $350 launch price, nor did the Wii for $250. They could have gotten more powerful components for all of those systems if it was a priority for them. |
I don't think either of those are realistic for a $200 price tag.
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