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Helloplite on 07 March 2017
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bonzobanana said:
NATO said:

I'm a hardware engineer, so as someone that has taken apart the dock, dumped both the SPI flashes and fiddled around with the code, I can say that while the dock isn't worth the $90 retail pricetag, it's still at least a $50 chunk of the cost alone.

SPI flashes are located either side of the HDMI connector, other side of the board has an arm serial wire debug testpoint for dumping the MXIC ic, too, i've delved into all of the readable data in great detail, so i'm extremely familiar with what the dock does, how it does it, the BOM for such a device, and the bottom line, which is seemingly infinitely more than you, with your "if you think it's worth $90 this convosations over" stuff.

But hey, what do I know?, hell you even went as far as to pull the old "you don't even have one" nonsense, what do you think this is?

There's nothing on that circuit board of value. It probably costs less than $1 to make. The Raspberry pi zero is made in the uk which is very expensive to manufacture compared to China by a long way and retails at £4 including more performance than a wii or 3DS. In that price is VAT, profit for the raspberry pi foundation, profit for reseller and maybe other costs. The only reason Nintendo is charging $90 is because Nintendo thinks they can. It could profitably be sold for £20 I'm sure if they wanted to even allowing for the psu. We may even find that third parties produce a cheap compatible dock at a fraction of the price as I'm not sure there is any proprietory hardware there at all. Nintendo charges what the market will bear which is not related to manufacturing cost as much as people think. I suspect from Nintendo's perspective they believe by charging $90 seperately they have added perceived value to the Switch as a package plus they make a ton of money for those who want to use a Switch in two rooms. My android tablet was £69.99 with a 10.1" 1280x720 ips screen, octocore cpu beyond the cpu performance of Switch by a long way but only 2GB memory, 16GB storage and a gpu of about 50 gflops where as Nintendo will be charging £80 for a plastic box with a psu in the UK.  You remove the dock from the Switch box and it would probably only reduce the console price by $20.

LOL. Are you seriously suggesting your £70 tablet sport superior hardware to the Switch? Post the specs now and the link to buy it from. Asinine claims need strong proof.