| Tachikoma said: Two things i'm going to say. If Nintendo used "top of the line" CPU/GPU you would be looking at a minimum $600 console, which would clearly not fly at retail so Nintendo would be eating a massive loss for every console sold, likely higher than any previous console in history in order to hit such spec at an inviting price, at the same time in the very post the user goes on to give himself multiple get-out clauses, such as "not yet finalized" and "and quite possibly faster than whatever Sony and Microsoft have in store." the latter one being rather silly given that it suggests that Sony and Microsofts consoles arent even out yet, when they are. No matter how much of a Nintendo fan people are, I would advise them to consider this clickbait fantasy to avoid dissapointment/ridicule in the future. Also OP, he doesn't claim NX has a Skylake i7, he claims one of the SDK demos "crunches so many numbers" that it cannot hit 60fps even on a Skylake i7 and "nearly top of the line" GPU. So he is essentially claiming that NX software requires hardware even MORE powerful than the latest CPU/GPU, which in itself should be setting off yours, and everyone elses red flags with ease. |
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Even allowing for custom chipsets and economy of scale, you're not going to see comparable performance to a $1,000-1,500 gaming PC build today in a $399 or less console even two years from now.
Nintendo's business model has reliably been based upon making profit on each unit sold from debut; they're not going to be making the equivalent of 2006's $823 BoM PS3 sold at a loss for an MSRP of $599 in 2017 or whenver the NX debuts.
