| Manlytears said: If true, this is gonna be a expesive boy. Likely $449-499, no way Nintendo is making It $399 and taking a loss. I think It's fake. |
All the rumors so far seem a bit exaggerated. No way Nintendo is putting out a system that sells for higher than $399. That'd just be a terrible business decisions for them.
In this rumor it seems obvious the screen size and the storage size are too large.
RAM might be right or might be slightly too large. I'd say absolutely minimum they go is 8gb RAM but I think 10-12gb is definitely possible.
Realize that if its a 7inch screen, not an 8inch screen, then we're probably just talking the same screen as the (soon to be 7 year old Switch has), just 0.8in larger. That's gonna be cheap. Also Switch launched at $300 with plenty of profit presumably 7.5 years before Switch 2 will launch and it has 4gb RAM, with that amount of time passed its not unreasonable in terms of cost to expect 10-12gb RAM keeping it in line with technology improvements from a $300 Switch. And the 512gb storage is very obviously false, 128gb is probably the most likely amount and 7.5 years to move from 32gb on Switch to 128gb is probably in like with technology gains over that time.
So if we make reasonable estimates that some of these things are exaggerated we still get a system that's basically as powerful as the rumor suggests, but cheaper than the rumor would suggest. This realistic system is definitely at very most $399. And if its a bit less powerful than the rumors suggest it's probably doable in the $350 price range.
Comparing a likely next gen system to the decade old PS4, a PS4-level spec'd Switch 2 with DLSS 3+ to basically give it PS4 Pro / Xbox 1 X level capabilities, same now likely extremely cheap screen as the now very old Switch, and increases in-line with tech gains over the years for RAM and storage....nothing about that suggests an overly expensive system over $400. Depending on the choices made that could land anywhere from $350 - $400.
