Nintendo cuts the base Switch's price in Europe

[JackHandy]

curl-6 said:

JackHandy said:

I wold disagree with you first point. Although, to be fair, I don't really know the profit margins of the current Switch model, I think it's safe to say that the tech of the Gamecube was far more substantial in the year 2003 than the tech inside the Switch is in 2021. After all, even in 2017, the Switch was basically a last generation machine under the hood. Remember, when Gamecube came out, it was far more powerful than PS2 and in some ways, even more powerful the original Xbox which was so far ahead of its time, that Microsoft never turned a dime.

Switch is actually pretty substantial tech for when it came out; the Tegra X1 was a cutting edge mobile chip when it came out in 2015, and remained one of the best available at the time Switch was put together.

Gamecube was amazing tech for its time, true, but because of the time it takes between when a console's hardware is designed and when it hits shelves, its core technology too was a couple of years old by the time in landed in people's homes. 

Switch is pretty much on par with Gamecube in terms of how up to date its hardware was for its time.

I don't see how. The Gamecube was pretty much the most powerful console on the planet when it came out. The Switch was a gen behind. I could see the form-factor argument, but still. How much could that have played into the overhead? By the time Switch came out, even its screen tech was ancient.

Regardless, it would be interesting to get the raw data here and see exactly what the profit margins were (are) between the two.