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Dulfite on 15 January 2017
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vivster said:
Dulfite said:

What's that?  brand new system costs as much as bundles of systems that have been out for years?

And you are surprised? When the ps3 launched, the base price of the device was $500-600. And that was back years ago. Inflation would put that at $600-700 now days.

New devices = no fancy bundles in order to get as much boost profit as possible off people like me that are early buyers that don't need the big fat incentives. 

At least in the past new consoles tried to justify their price by more powerful hardware than the cheaper 3 year old devices.

Um, this thing makes its predecessors, The Wii U and particuparly the 3ds, look like a joke. The screen quality is considerably better than any touchscreen Nintendo has made before, it can do, apparently, 1080p on the screen itself according to Nintendo a couple nights ago (contrary to what Digital Foundry said). It has a LOT more internal storage than the 3ds and has a LOT more room for future proofing with up to 2 TB micro sd cards room (MORE than probably triple what anyone would need on a Nintendo device). The interface is much improved, it only takes seconds to boot games up (the powerful ones at that), I would imagine the internet capabilities will be a lot better and I'd think with paid online that servers won't get shut down shortly after launch like Devil's Third. It has like smallest motion control devices I've ever seen (light, convenient) and from what I've heard they are about as 1:1 as you can get right now, unlike the wii motes or even wii motion plus which were massive by comparison and waggle toys more than anything.