Luke888 said:
Sorry, the ideal part would be the 199$ handheld, the docking station Imho should be at least 200/250$ , Nintendo really doesn't want to make a console that costs more than 200$ at launch after what happended with the 3DS. |
Nintendo needs to break that distinction, the NX is not a rinky dinky little cute handheld.
It will be a tablet sized device most likely (a Tegra simply would melt the inside of a 3DS XL even). It will be able to play games on the television and on the tablet. It may even run Android apps.
This is a new product category guys, this is not 3DS-2.
Even for 3DS, I would expect a "3DS Tablet" to cost at least $250. Anyone who sees the NX and thinks it should be $199.99 (the same price as a 3DS XL) is being ridiculous IMO.
The PSP launched very successfully at $250 too ... 3DS and Vita both had issues because they aren't smart devices and launched in the era of the smart device, I think this is going to be the big change from Nintendo -- NX will be a smart device (as in it will be able to run Android apps, maybe just the Nintendo approved ones, but apps none the less). Both 3DS and Vita quite frankly also had poor launch lineups.
Even the original DS struggled for a while, people don't remember that now but it was being outsold by the PSP which was double the price almost for a lot of 2005 until they started to break through with expanded audience games like Brain Training and Nintendogs and released the DS Lite with New Super Mario Bros. that's when the system finally really took off in North America/Europe but by then it was almost 1 1/2 years old.
In fact the DS sales were a bit too sluggish that Nintendo actually had to drop the price of it by August 2005 to from $149.99 to $129.99. Not a big cut, but sales weren't exactly lighting the world on fire in the West for the DS.
That just goes to show ... it's hard to sell any device when you don't have a good library, even the DS, the best selling portable ever had a slow-ish start.
