New Nintendo Patent For Portable NX (?)

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twintail said:

Miyamotoo said:

Of Course it will ad costs of physical buttons and sticks and space, but at end handheld could cost less than this phone because it doesn't need one 13MP rear and 5MP front cameras, doesnt need GPS, doesnt need call function, LTE, doesnt need 1080p display, doesnt need Octa-core 2GHz CPU..

I think I can use phone as gauge for dedicated handheld device because of hardware, display, CPU, RAM, battery...Nintendo will probably use lots of those things that are use on phones on handheld.

HTC Evo 4G was $200 but on 2 year contract. Specs of this phone are basically specs of flagship models from 2013. that had price around $600.

 

Soundwave said:

Plastic buttons cost pennies ... it's not like they're some rare component. 

The phone form factor actually likely costs more, Nintendo uses cheap ass plastic, phones often times use higher end plastic, glass, and metals. 

The 3DS had a large cost because of the 3D screen that was new technology for that time and Nintendo overcharged by $50 hoping that people would go crazy over the gimmick and fork over money hand over fist. My guess is its production cost was more like $185 or so for that time, so they were making a fat profit at $250, but had to take a loss once they dropped it to $169.99. 

 

The issue is that you arent taking into account the context of how Xiami can actually sell their phones at those prices, whereas every other smartphone provider cannot afford such low prices.

Its all very well to assume that you can use phones as gauge, but when the only example you can actually cite is but one single company, then your argument begins to fall short.  One of the major reasons why that Xiaomi phone is so cheap is because they sell the phones through their own webstore, and only through their webstore. That is a ton of different costs they can offset because they dont need to bother with staff management, distribution , retailer costs etc. They also dont do traditional marketting and instead just rely on social media. Another chunk of money that does not need to be weighted into the final pricing of the device.

Is Nintendo only going to sell the NX via their own online distribtuion? Of course not. Tons of added costs there that will be factored into its price.

is Nintendo going to not bother doing any marketing only rely on social media? Of course not. Again, tons of added costs. 

 

There are lots of things that go into determining the final price of a product. Thinking you can just look at 1 given product (and an anamoly at that) and assume that the price of different parts is all that determines the price of a product, means you are missing the bigger picture. 

The prices of mobile tech are plummeting because of the rapid improvement/intense competetion of the smartphone/tablet business. A 1280x720 display used to be pretty nice and high end ... today it's the bottom of the barrell. RAM is cheap. Even the cutting edge processors are cheap.

The display is going to be the main cost of any portable device, if Nintendo can save costs there, plus not needing any of the phone/GPS/baseband processors), or high end cameras, that and things like metal/gorilla glass are the chief cost components of a smartphone/tablet. 

I see 8-inch tablets with higher resolution displays that even better GPUs than the Vita, with more RAM, and a higher capacity battery for cheaper than a New 3DS XL.