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curl-6 on 25 August 2016
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Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

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.

$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. 

The only people who would buy such a system for close to the same price as a PS4/X1 are diehard Nintendo fanatics and the Japanese. Unless it has all of the additional functionality of a tablet, (which it won't) it won't be seen as a viable alternative to an iPad.