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potato_hamster on 22 December 2016
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Pemalite said:
zorg1000 said:

Sorry man but you gotta dumb it down for me a bit.

Just in simple terms, could those smartphones run a game like BotW with acceptable performance & batterly life?

Also isnt the S7 Edge like $700? 

Yes. It could run it. There is zero technical reason why.

And yes, it is that expensive. But the cost of the Switch doesn't magically double if you took the GPU out of Galaxy and dropped it into the Switch.
There is so much more in the Galaxy that drives the price up.

I don't always agree with you, but often times it's because you know more about the subject than I do, and you love to poke holes in my oversimplifications.

But this time, I couldn't agree with you more. Another thing that might want to be noted is that the markup on the price of smartphones is absolutely astounding. Apparently the Bill of Materials for the Galaxy S7 is $255, wheras the BOM for the Xbox One S is $324. Yet, MS charges $300-350 for the Xbox One S, and Samsung can get away with a $670 MSRP for the Galaxy S7. With this in mind, it's really not fair to consider the cost of the smartphone when considering the cost of the technology within it. There certainly doesn't appear to be any reason why the components of the Galaxy S7 are too expensive for Nintendo to utilize.