How Will be Switch 2 Performance Wise?

[Biggerboat1]

Otter said:

Biggerboat1 said:

Just to circle back to this, a Series S retails for $299.99, you don't think a S2 Home could come in lower than this? Surely the CPU/GPU/PSU would all cost more in the Series S?

This is before considering the scale of economy advantage that Switch 2 will have over Series S. Nintendo will be buying it's component in vastly larger quantities than MS is with Series S & can negotiate better prices accordingly.

Series S is an aggressively priced system that was said to have a lower profit margin (none at launch) that they would make up through it being purely digital & gamepass. I don't think you can compare the costs of the chips as one is vastly more modern then the other and optimised to operate at a fraction of the power consumption. Weaker doesn't mean cheaper.

Is it vastly more modern? Isn't S2 based on a cut-down 3050 mobile which came out in 2021 & reportedly is build on a long-in-the tooth Samsung 8nm process (which is actually 10nm)? Series S GPU is built on 7nm I believe...

And again, Nintendo will be able to drive costs down due to higher volume relative to Series S.

At 70-80 bucks a game & their own online service offering I'm pretty sure that Nintendo will make more profit in software per console than MS does with Series S via digital/GP.