Switch Revisions Are Basically Already Possible

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Miyamotoo said:

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No they can't. 

The components you're describing there don't amount to $100 ... cables ... really? 

Doesn't matter how grossly Nintendo wants to overprice for a dock ... we know for a fact that thing is basically a fat hunk of plastic with a tiny chip board. The supply maker is going to laugh in their face if they go to their suppliers and say "cut off $100 on the cost here, because we're losing this dock please". Yeah that's not how real life works. 

It won't be $100 difference, to get to $100 Nintendo is going to have to either lose money on the hardware or cut off their profit margin, a bunch of plastic and a couple of cables is not getting you to a 100 bucks. 

Offcourse they can.

Like I wrote, not just cables, Joy Cons, Dock, smaller device means less materials, point that want work in dock mode means less parts in Switch itself, Joy Cons Strips, smaller package..

Realite is that you can achive price point that you aiming, and we already know that lotsa stuff could be cut from current Switch model, so they can defiantly cut price of $100 for smaller Switch for just handehdl play. And that price difrence totaly make sense, not $50.

At end situation is very simple and obvious, current Switch already has more higher price point and screen is already big, so there any need for making actually even more price Switch with even more bigger screen, but definitely there is need to release smaller, chepar Switch just for handheld play when 3DS dies, and that will effectively replace 3DS/3DSXL segment on market.

No it can't, lol, some of your reasoning isn't even logical. "Smaller device = automatically cheaper" ... uh what? You still need the same processor, the same RAM, etc. etc.

Beyond the pricing issue, there's also the physical thermal issue, that 20nm chip consumes what it does ... and there's no changing that. You could have the fan blow more air but that fan doesn't magically operate for free, you then need more battery to power the fan, and even then in a smaller enclosure heat is likely to build up quickly. That could be quite dangerous quite honestly, 20nm chips that have the processing power of a Tegra X1 are not designed to be in form factors that small, to get that chip into even a design as small as the Switch currently is likely was a engineering feat in and of itself.

That's why Nvidia has no phone vendors willing to use the Tegra X1 chip ... it runs way too hot for most smartphones and even smaller tablets. 

These things are not as simple as you are making them out to be. 

Nintendo doesn't magically get to tell their suppliers to shave off $100 either when the components you're describing simply do not add up to $100. That dock does not cost more than $10 to make ... JoyCon straps c'mon that's maybe a $1 in real world manufacturing cost. They'd save closer to $50 altogether ... and for $50 less, really how many people are going to be willing to buy a model with a smaller screen, no TV out, one that likely is louder because of consant fan usage, no Joycons just to save $50, it's a very gimped model. It would be the PSP Go of Switch models.