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Thebard on 01 June 2016
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shikamaru317 said:
bunchanumbers said:
Hmm. If NX is using Polaris 11, I wonder what kind of price range we'll be looking at? If they can get performance above PS4 at $199 I think they would hit a really nice sweet spot.

Well, the 460 is less than $140 at retail, which means Nintendo could likely get a custom APU (CPU+GPU) using a Polaris 11 derived GPU for less than $140 since they'd be buying in bulk. I think Nintendo could definitely hit $250 if they wanted to, maybe less. The main concern is the controller, if it has a screen again it will raise the price some.

Some very little.

Mr.GameCrazy said:
Soundwave said:

$399.99 will be easy. 

This is cheaper than the 7850-7870 GPUs that the PS4/XB1 used for their time (7870 was $350 when it launched in mid-2012). 

To be honest looking at that Polaris 11 price, Nintendo really dun fucked up by not using that chip (it seems). $130 retail for a 2.5 TFLOP GPU at under 50 watts?

Any confirmation of that or is it just a rumor?

This is soundwave we're talking, he just assumes any BS "rumour" that fits his agenda is true.

bunchanumbers said:
shikamaru317 said:

Well, the 460 is less than $140 at retail, which means Nintendo could likely get a custom APU (CPU+GPU) using a Polaris 11 derived GPU for less than $140 since they'd be buying in bulk. I think Nintendo could definitely hit $250 if they wanted to, maybe less. The main concern is the controller, if it has a screen again it will raise the price some.

I think that $249 needs to be the absolute ceiling for NX pricing. Hopefully they don't go overboard with the controller concept.

You think wrong.

se7en7thre3 said:
The timing is perfect... the tech, price point, the sacred tdp, really no excuses for Ninty. Polaris 11 is perfect for the NX home console.

There is no NX home console. NX is a home console, period. Also, polaris 11 isn't perfect for it, it's the absolute minimum we can expect. Polaris 10 makes a lot more sense or maybe even a customized version that uses 75-80W and thus perform in between polaris 10 and 11.