| mountaindewslave said: 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 |
Comparing price/value to Wii U is dubious because the Wii U was an UTTER failure at that price/value.
Simply doing marginally better is not a viable plan there.
To make maximum benefit of combined handheld/console market, Nintendo wants to maximize sales,
not milk the smaller portion of the market that is absolutely smitten by the hybrid concept,
they also want to appeal to those for whom only one use-case will be realistically used 99% of the time.
Soundwave said:
I'm skeptical it's all that "customized" either. |
Swapping out the GPU component for new generation GPU cores is the most notable customization noted so far.
Tweaks like you suggest are plausible, we could see specific cores tweaked for purpose e.g. A57 for OS? But GPU seems biggest IMHO.
