| globalisateur said: If true, 300$ would be way too expensive compared to current PS4 (~350$ with Battlefront currently) and XB1 (~330$ not counting constant deals or free game) prices |
How do you know? You don't know anything about the NX home console and you are already saying it's a failure at $300 no matter what? Was PS4 a failure at $399 2 years ago?
I am not saying the NX would include any of these features but if it included HDMI 2.0 port for 4K HDTVs, had a 4K BluRay player, had the ability to play all NX portable and NX home games and had hardware 50% more powerful than PS4, had free online gaming, would it be too expensive for $300? That's the point -- you have 0 information on the NX and already concluded that at $300 it's too expensive. Only a brand-biased consumer tied to one console would conclude something like that without seeing what the NX has to offer. Do I know if the NX will be successful or more powerful than PS4? Absolutely not, but I am not shutting the console down like Patcheter or some of ou simply if it costs more than $300.
NV's Shield TV console is $200 but who is buying it? Price alone doesn't sell consoles, overall value or peceived value does.
| globalisateur said: People can already buy tablets for ~100$ or less. Not sure they'll want a new tablet, even from Nintendo, costing 300$ (without deals / promotion). If that's the price of the Nintendo NX obviously. We'll see. |
Who said anything about the NX home console being a tablet?
| globalisateur said: Lol some people still think the Nintendo NX will be more powerful (or even having comparable specs) than PS4? |
One of the biggest issues of the Wii U was lack of overall value, not price. What does that mean? It means that unless you love/want to play mainly 1st party Nintendo games, the console isn't great for anything else, not 3rd party games, not media playback, not online gaming in 3rd party games, etc.
How do you get major 3rd parties like Activision or Ubisoft to even start thinking about making games for the NX? You need to ensure 3rd party cross-platform ports are as cheap as possible. What does that entail? It means ideally you need to have a similar CPU+GPU architecture (x86 APU) and the console needs to be able to play XB1/PS4 ports without much effort (think $1-2 million porting cost). The way to achieve this is to target hardware to meet XB1's level at minimum. The problem is the NX will be competing with XB2/PS5 during some time if Nintendo will give it a 5-year-life cycle. For that reason, they could theoretically try to beat PS4. If the NX home console cannot even reach parity with XB1, it will fail no matter the price because 3rd parties never made many ports for the Wii U and that alone killed the console for most gamers. NX must have strong 3rd party support or it'll fail before it has a chance to get off the ground and unfortunately for Nintendo, getting bare minimum hardware spec is a requirement for 3rd parties to do quick and cheap ports.
