| SmileyAja said: First of all no Tegra X2 exists, while Xavier and the P1 to a lesser extent are touted for cars, the X1 was a safe bet for the use case. Not to mention it's the same old Shield with a new controller and remote, and a software update. The only change on the console is the removal of the SD card slot. Again, for Nintendo even now and down the line Pascal is more economically viable and far better suited for their use case, and the Foxconn leak (which got everything right except 4G which was actually part of the unreleased dev kit and 1080p screen which he based off the fact that it wasn't upscaling to 1080p as the system was being benchmarked docked and he went off this, just like he speculated about the A73 cores because of the ARM_v8 architecture which doesn't imply A73s) also says Pascal. Game Informer also says Pascal even though that was 99.9 % definetly not insider info. Pascal is better and cheaper for both Nintendo and nVidia in every way. |
You are just helping me prove my point. My point is that there is no reason that it should cost as much as it does. Now if they are using pascal which will also mean at most a16nm fab process then that means it should even cost them less to aquire their chips than if they were using the older (larger) 20nm process.
I am not talking about nor do i care about the power of the system, I am talking about its price. The whole thing is overpriced to me and i really cant see what about it justifies that $300 price point.
I mean just look at the dock for crying out loud, yh yh i know sold seperately its probably marked up to all hell and back but that thing cant possibly cost more than $20 for nintendo to make. Hell lets give it $30. The switch has no disc drive, no internal HDD, a 720p LCD screen (thats probably not even IPS), 32GB of flash storage (mind you you can get a 64GB USB flash drive on amazon for $15 so it probably cost ninty no more than $5 for that 32GB of flash storage) The joycon controllers cant cost them more than $30 total, maybe another $10 for its grip.
