TheLastStarFighter said:
Arkaign said:
And what evidence do you have for this? At this point in the timeline, it's REALLY hard to keep secrets in the semiconductor industry because so much is involved in contracts, fabs, etc. All indications are that this is a Tegra system with a mobile focus.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nintendo-nx-release-date-rumours-news-and-specs
And then you have established markets in place where people are heavily invested in either Sony's or Microsoft's online infrastructure and ecosystems. Nintendo's market has been really tight in home consoles since the rapid decline of the Wii post-2010. How on earth would they expect to sell a system at $449 unless they were going to be in the vein of PS4 Pro / Scorpio performance AND 3rd party support?
It just doesn't make any sense.
Do you have ANY evidence that this price is accurate? Because we have TONS of examples of 'placeholder' pricing going back generations, but no evidence AFAIK that NX is going to be a powerful system that will sell for a notable premium in the face of $299 PS4s/X1S, and $399 PS4P.
I mean, maybe you mean the gimmick portion of NX will make it expensive like WiiU was? If anything, that's worse IMHO. WiiU at $199 on launch without a tablet would probably have sold much better than it did at $349. Disastrous mistake. At $449 if it's another weak console with some gimmick hardware, it's going to bomb like something we haven't seen since the 32X. At that price it needs very high performance and full support by EA/Activision/Ubisoft/etc.
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Your post contradicts itself, becuase you sate it's hard to keep secrets in the semiconductor industry because of contracts, etc, but then reference the "leak" which is basically based on someone supposedly seeing a dev kit using a Tegra X1. None of the various leaks have referenced anything to do with manufacturing or design wins. We do know that AMD has a console design win they've yet to show. We know ERogers stated that Link would be female and we know Eurogamer leaked that 3DS would use NVidia. They can keep trying until they get it right I suppose.
You shouldn't take the supposed leaks thus far as fact at all. The system is going to be very different than what has been "leaked".
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What do you think now?
We still don't know price, but we now know that the leaks were seemingly VERY accurate. Tablet/mobile focus, which ties in exactly with the Tegra leaks. The dock is said not to accelerate anything, so the size of the tablet and TDP for battery size/heat means this is in no legitimate way powerful enough to be a serious multiplat contender with perhaps even PS4/OG X1, let alone PS4P/X1S.
If it's $199, it could hit. More than that, and it's nearly suicidal.
