NX Buyers: 1080P Or Better Detail 720P?

[Soundwave]

curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

This is the same company that took a system that was $99 already for three years, moderately overclocked it and sold it for $250 with a different plastic controller when you could get an XBox 360 for $299.99. 

My guess is $269.99. $100 more than the vanilla small 3DS for a full blown tablet device that can also double as a micro-console is fair. 

This time I do think Nintendo will actually have a very good launch lineup and even a post-launch big title to ensure reasonable sales. 

Nintendo can be dense, but after getting fucked up the rear end by both the 3DS and Wii U launches, I think they've finally learned their lesson. 

That kind of lightning doesn't strike twice. The market today is vastly different than it was in 2006. If NX cannot offer competitive specs and software support to PS4/X1, then they need to make it significantly cheaper to compensate. They can't go head to head with MS/Sony in pricing, that's a red ocean and they're the smaller fish.

It's not going to have PS4/X1 level specs, there is no mobile chip on the planet capable of that. Tegra X2 is about as good as it gets, that's bleeding edge for mobile tech and that gets you 625 GFLOPS, even with the Nvidia/AMD disparity in FLOP-age (lol), that only brings you up to about 812 GFLOPS or so. 

Not bad, probably good enough to have some PS4/X1 ports if the developer is willing to reduce some effects and keep the res at 720p while running off wall power.

$269.99 is still relatively cheap for a tablet ... an iPad Mini with only 16GB of storage costs a whopping $399.99 and doesn't play console games. If I'm a parent on a budget I know which one I'd rather get my kids if they asked for one or the other. 

They aren't competing with Sony/MS, not unless Sony/MS have a gaming tablet, making the NX portable is basically Nintendo's way of getting out of that whole pissing match entirely. There is no PS4 vs. XBox One vs. NX.