SpokenTruth said:
Soundwave said:
It's a dev kit, it's not a consumer product to begin with period, so it's limited quanitities either way. Trying to figure out the cost of a chip from a dev kit is quite simply a fool's errand.
A 3DS dev kit costs several thousand dollars, obviously the consumer 3DS does not cost several thousand dollars. A Vita dev kit was over $2000, and Sony was hailing that as very cheap for developers. Wii U dev kit is $5000.
The Jetson X1, which has the Tegra X1 for example is still available too (this is the chip that's supposedly in the current Switch) .... for $499.99 (they dropped the price by $100). By that logic, a Switch should cost like $650-$700 ... $500 for the Tegra + $99 for the Joycons + $50+ for the LCD and battery.
A Tegra X1 successor was inevitable, the the Tegra X1 (20nm) is a two year old chip, that's fairly dated in mobile chip terms.
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Not the same thing. A video game development kit comes with more than just the hardware (which is typically a high end version of the consumer model plus all the peripherals and some testing gear). You also get development and debugging software plus access to a bunch of libraries and more. Certain licensing is also included in that cost.
The Jetson TX2 is just hardware, a quick start guide and a safety booklet.
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So is the Jetson TX1 ... and it's $500 (formerly $600).
So if you're trying to extrapolate a price based on the Jetson prices, you're not going to get anywhere. The Switch should cost like $650 by that logic, and the Shield Android Console should been $600 two years ago, not $199.99.
