| superchunk said:
I will concede that I am potentially very wrong in the excitement for a console that has portable and home qualities. As we've seen in other hybrid devices such as laptops that can become tablets (or tablets with docking to become laptops), they are not flying off shelves. Add that to the perception that a portable is automatically one type of low-end gaming performance with phones being the dirt-bottom of that bar, it very well may mean that an NX with obvious portable qualities gets treated as automatically inferior for gaming. I personally disagree with that attitude as I see it as a home console with portable features. (yes I'm obviously assuming eurogamer and my op are right on what NX is) As far as price... I don't think I pitched an expensive device with high price. 3DS has sold very well at $200 (XL). In fact, its done so well Nintendo stopped selling the $140 model and only focused on the XL size. Well, they do have the 2DS at $100, but that is a barebones device that also doesn't sell as well as the 3DSXL. I think if NX is at $200 to $250 (completely reasonable prices for the tech being discussed), it will be fine. Then if the home docking bay is $100 with a controller and HDD plus ports for ext. HDDs, HDMI and some sort of CPU/GPU that can scale up its capabilities on TV... that is a great value. Though keeping it at $100 with all that will be hard... maybe. |
Ah so we actually agree then, if they can do all of that for $250 or idealy $200 then of course they should go for it, though it just seems unlikely to me. Price is pretty much my only concern at this point as there's clearly a market for Nintendo games, but that market doesn't like paying much.
