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Otter on 11 April 2025
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Biggerboat1 said:
Otter said:

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.

The main to take from that point is not to assume Series S has large profit margins, thats what Nintendo has managed for the last 8 years and I don't think they want to throw it away to unless they feel they need to (3DS' fiasco)