| Cerebralbore101 said: The difference is that the Wii was $150 cheaper than the competition and came with a pack in game. This time around the Switch costs just as much as the other systems, and doesn't come with a free game. After you factor in a free Uncharted 4, the PS4 is $240. So Nintendo is asking $300 for old outdated tech, when Sony and MS are asking $240 for current gen tech. |
Actually the tech in the Switch is far from old and outdated. It's much newer than both the PS4s and the Xones tech. It's just not stronger. But the architechture is more modern and mobile to boot.
If there's one complaint you actually can't really level at Nintendo with the Switch, it's the outdated tech one. Especially in comparison to the PS4 and Xone. The Tegra X1 released in 2015 compared to the Ps4 and Xone 2013 architectures. The tegra in the Switch is custom, too and might be based of the newer pascal even. We don't know yet.
It's very possibly the strongest mobile machine released to date and they couldn't really make it much stronger without gimping battery life completely. The fact that pretty much the strongest handheld possible right now is also a pretty mediocre homeconsole is unfortunate, but there's nothing Nintendo realistically could have done about that without scrapping the Switch idea entirely.
Now if you complain about overpriced accessories, I'm with you.
