Soundwave said:
I don't think it'll be that expensive. Even the Shield Console was $199.99 (the no HDD config) and that will be almost 2 years old by the time Switch launches. A cheap 6-inch 720p LCD is maybe $50 tops, a battery $10. I think it'll be $249.99 launch price. But price is not everything. 3DS is what? $79.99 at the lowest and it won't even get to the GBA's total even with double a 6 year cycle almost instead of 3 years. I'm skeptical it's all that "customized" either. Probably a Tegra X2 tweaked for game performance and larger L2/L3 cache to help offset low bandwidth from LPDDR4 RAM. |
poor comparison between the 3DS and the GBA though, the standard popular version of 3DS still is going for like 180$ I'm pretty sure, and the GBA was 100$ or under for almost its ENTIRE run
in terms of gross $ amount the 3DS has probably surpassed the GBA dramatically in terms of the amount of cash generated simply from hardware sales. the 2DS sales are a very small fraction of total 3DS sales, Nintendo seemed to give up a while ago on it given how poor its done (at least in the West). I actually am uncertain if I've ever seen someone in the wild using a 2DS. 3DS's regularly though
people do need to consider that this will A) be by far the most powerful dedicated handheld system yet and B) will have multi function abilities with the home TV docking situation.
To expect this to launch at possibly like 50/60$ over where the 3DS has been its entire lifetime is pretty absurd. A safe bet for the Switch release price will be 299$, in fact I'd be willing to bet that's where it lands. and perfectly reasonable in my eyes. Bear in mind the Wii U has been at like 300$ its entire lifetime and the Switch appears to potentially hold a LOT more value
