| Soundwave said: The main cost of the iPad Pro is that monstrous super high resolution 12.9 inch display though. The actual A9X doesn't cost that much. That and Apple likes huge margins on their products of several hundred dollars. Nintendo could use a much cheaper 720p res and smaller screen. The Wii U tablet in physical volume is actually bigger than an iPad Pro I think, the iPad Pro is huge, but it's razor thin, a Nintendo "tablet" will have to be thicker for comfortable gaming sessions so that's a bonus there. Batteries are fairly cheap too, a 10,000 MaH battery can be had for dirt cheap even at retail, the manufacturing cost of them is maybe like $5-$8 a pop. Memory is one area Nintendo I think will splurge on though. They are a bit anal retentive about memory, I think after the N64, which used a memory type they hated, they've focused more on that aspect. Gonna have to spend on memory. The Tegra SoC though I bet they are getting for a steal. $50-$70 for the main chip, $40-$50 for a 7-8-inch low res LCD + touch panel, $30-$50 for your memory, $50 for misc (WiFi, motherboard), $10-$12 for a small pool of flash RAM (32GB?), $8-$10 for your battery, also no need for super high quality cameras, Nintendo could go for cheap there ($2-$3 total), etc. |
If Nintendo goes for a 720P screen, then they don't need more bandwidth.
I would prefer a 1440P screen, but they aren't cheap, my Phone has a 1440P screen, so does my computer, it's the minimum for me these days, but I tend to be on the fussier side of the fence. :P
And the reason why the iPad has such bandwidth isn't limited to just the resolution either, the SoC for instance doesn't have any L3 cache, so bandwidth becomes a larger importance.
As for battery's... You have battery's and then you have battery's. Nintendo can't just pick any random cheap battery, we don't wan't devices catching on fire or exploding, they have a degree of quality they need to ensure.
Besides, space, usually larger capacity battery's need more space, The NX isn't going to have the same amount of space as an iPad 12.9".
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