shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, I really do think that is what NX will use, a custom ARM + Polaris 11 APU. Priced at $300 it would be cheaper than the more powerful PS4K, and the same price as PS4 after it's likely Holiday price cut. It might even be priced at $250, which would be huge for Nintendo, offering more power than PS4 for less money. I have to wonder about the NX handheld though. If the handheld is using an Nvidia Tegra chip as is rumored, I wonder how hard it would be to port games between the Nvidia based handheld and the AMD based console. Both will presumably use ARM CPU's, which would make the process easier, but how hard would the differences between AMD and Nvidia GPU's make porting I wonder. Hopefully it won't be too hard, because a shared handheld/console game library could be huge for NX, downscaling the console games to run at 540p-720p on the handheld, and upscaling the handheld games to run at 1080p on the console. |
There is no way Nintendo can hit the $250-$300 price target with those specs while having far worse economies of scale than SONY.
People here seriously underestimate how much volume affects specs. Considering Nintendo postponed NX launch to March 2017, I'm guessing they aren't very confident about their next console, meaning they will place far less orders from suppliers than SONY is. Nintendo would need to buy specs half as strong as the PS4 to even get the $400-$500 pricepoint without taking a loss.
