UnderstatedCornHole on 14 January 2017
| Cloudman said: I do agree that they're being greedy with things like the accessories, but I don't agree with comparing the switch to the PS4 price and bundle now. It'd make more sense to compare it to the PS4 and XBO when they 1st launched, which PS4 was 399 with no game, and XBO was... 499 only at the time? I don't think any game either. And then with paid online, that's being going on since XBL. Sure you get more for paying for the service, but they're still asking you for extra money on something that used to be free. So yeah, nothing new here... The accessories though, yeah, too much. They all need to be lowered. |
No, it makes sense to compare the prices as the PS4 and XB1 are NOW. They've gone down in price due to cost cutting from increased chip yields, die shrinks as all hardware does. Forget that though, the Switch hardware is a joke, it's been made to cut costs to the maximum at the expense of performance. The PS4 and moreso the XB1 are hardly power houses on the GPU front, the Switch is an abomination and a very bad joke on that front.
There comes a point of diminishing returns when you cut costs this much. They could have spent just a tiny bit more on the hardware and had a hell of a lot more performance. But no, Nintendo have effectively churned out something more weedy than a budget smartphone.
