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Biggerboat1 on 31 July 2025
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zorg1000 said:
Biggerboat1 said:

Can you point me to where someone said that 'they can add an OLED screen, more RAM, 3nm chip with 50% more performance all for like $30'?

Or is this another strawman? 

Companies are free to charge whatever they want, and consumers are free to criticise them for it. Just because apple can charge silly money for extra ram or larger SSD doesn't mean that we can't call them out. 

It's hyperbole but you should be able to understand his point. There are people who claim Switch 2 is weak but it's about as powerful as anyone should reasonably expect from a portable device at its price range.

If you suggest socialized healthcare and I say that you want communism is that hyperbole?

Amongst other things he said;

Then there's a secondary type of poster that thinks Nintendo is out to screw them and they can secretly add an OLED screen, more RAM, 3nm chip with 50% more performance all for like $30 more but they chose not to. This is completely unreasonable too. For $450 in this day and age, the Switch 2 is even for 2025 about as good as you can get. There's no one out here offering dirt cheap hardware, this idea is outdated and stuck in the 90s and 2000s when companies would sometimes even take losses on hardware. No one is going to do that going forward for a myriad of reasons.

Apart from being totally incorrect (no-one has taken a loss on hardware since the 2000s, eh, sorry what???), as far as I can see, in the recent history of this thread, nobody has suggested all of those improvements for $30, or even close. If I suggest a bigger battery to drive the screen properly & potentially allow for better VRR implementation and longer battery life, is the above just hyperbole or a complete strawman?

Too many people living in lalaland in threads like this still thinking they're living in 2005.

He failed to provide any examples of who this applied to, so it's hard to take him seriously. Ultimately his entire remit seems to be to scold anyone who has any opinion that doesn't fawn over Switch 2 & Nintendo, it's just fanboyism.

Also, I guess we can start referring to Japan as lalaland as they're seemingly currently enjoying Swicth 2 sold at a loss...