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Kennel83 on 12 January 2016
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Soundwave said:
Kennel83 said:
Soundwave said:

 

3 TFLOPS is as powerful as a PS4 + XBox One combined. It would have the best 3rd party ports for two years at least, enough time for Nintendo build a comfortable userbase in their ecosystem. 

Once you have those people in, you simply offer an easy upgrade path for people who really want 4K graphics (a lot of people won't even have a 4K TV) later on. 

Like I said NX should not be a single console or any single device. It's a platform. Like STEAM. Your library simply just goes with you when ever you choose to get a better hardware setup (same thing happens with iPhone or Android). 

 

The only problem I see about this is, would it be cheap? I honestly have no idea. If it's cheap then I don't see why they wouldn't do it. But I'm expecting xbox one levels of power. Hope it's more powerful though.

It could be affordable. 

"Cheap" is a different thing, and I think people need to differniate here between "cheap" (as in largely junky, crap hardware) and "affordable" (as in what the SNES, GameCube, N64, etc. were, powerful yet affordable). 

I think people need to understand too that just like with soft drinks, chocolate bars, and virtually every other consumer product known to man, inflation happens. 

The Super Nintendo was $199.99 at launch, that's equivalent to $350 today, so really the PS4 is basically what the SNES used to be. 

Also I say let the portable NX be the affordable/budget option. The console should be aimed at a different. Why have two hardware devices aimed at the same exact audience? NX should be a platform and then they should able to make different hardware models aimed at different audiences. 

 

Well, I have no problem with NX console being 350€, I just meant cheap because it seems to me that Nintendo is likely going for a budget price this time. If it was as powerful or more than a ps4 I will buy it for that price.

And yeah, now that you say it, snes was very expensive back in the day, mostly its games, which were like 70€ 20 years ago, crazy! I'm really happy with Nintendo prices these days haha.