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numberwang on 06 May 2021
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curl-6 said:
numberwang said:

You have to distance yourself from the affection for a piece of plastic. I don't own any modern console and don't care about some classification. I hope you realize the contradiction between a) it's just a mid gen refresh for $399 and b) it's an all new powerful device and thus worth its alleged high price.

The New3DS was just $220 to give some perspective of how much $399 would be for a simple mid gen refresh handheld. Even a true Switch2 for $399 sounds expensive to me. I can see Nintendo fans justifying it by saying: well now it's technically not a new handheld so we can put it into the same irrelevant internet category, good thing we paid a lot for little. I hope N will offer some true generational upgrade if $399 is true because you don't want to spend that money for a stopgap.

As I've said though, the base Switch is still flying off shelves at $300 after 4 years. Despite it still not having had a price cut, even when many said it was overpriced at launch, (myself among them) Nintendo can't keep up with demand.

In that context, I can easily see them pricing a mid-gen "New Nintendo Switch" with a better and bigger screen, more storage, 4K upscaling, and a performance buff at $400. PS4 Pro and Xbox One X both cost what, $100-$200 more than the base model? Nintendo loves those sweet profit margins and people will run out and buy it on masse even if its not sporting a generational boost in graphics, just like the ran out in droves in 2017 to buy a system with less graphics power than a base Xbox One.

The consumers the Switch is targeting aren't looking for the latest in high end graphics technology.

Nintendo buyers are too cozy towards Nintendo (and reap respective negative results). The "Pro" would arrive 4.5 years after the launch of the Switch, which is more typical for a complete cycle of Nintendo hardware, same goes for the alleged high price. For comparison, Sony released their PS4Pro just after 3 years, excellent timing. Would you spend $399 for an incremental update so you can spend that money again in maybe less than 2 years for a true successor and would you feel tricked afterwards? I hope it's not another XBOX One X (too late, too expensive, aborted after 3 years, not forward compatible).