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Soundwave on 31 July 2025
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Biggerboat1 said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah considering they had to keep prices down and that Nvidia stuff doesn't come cheap, cutting edge tech wasn't realistically an option.

Sure, they could've made it a premium monster like the ROG Ally X or something, but then it would be too expensive for most of their userbase.

Considering a lot of people expected it to be basically a PS4 when docked, the outcome's not bad at all.

To be clear, I don't think the outcome of S2 is bad either, but I do think they could have improved in certain areas without breaking the viability of the product & price.

I can't remember a single suggestion within the last couple of months that would have driven the price up to anywhere near the ROG Ally X...

Isn't the point of a forum to reply directly to other posters points rather than to those of the dumbest poster you've seen elsewhere on the internet?

I'm sure there are some numpties out there that want PS5 Pro performance out of a handheld at sub-$500 but why would we, the posters on this thread, on this forum care?

Because that has been the tenor of the discussion here for like a year+. People constantly trying to downplay the system as we were getting news over the past 12-14 months non-stop and sniping at anyone who would suggest the hardware might actually (gasp!) be fairly decent. The non-stop down talking of leaks that turned out to actually be legitimate was also tiresome. 

The "Nintendo Expert" brigade in particular who actually don't know shit about Nintendo's history and think they know everything because they remember the Wii and DS (whoopity doo) look especially stupid now. 

There are different hardware priorities and different hardware eras at Nintendo, in the Yamauchi era they made very good console hardware for like 20 freaking years, but these "Nintendo experts" apparently forgot all about that. The NES/Famicom was waaaaay better hardware than the Sega SG-1000 which launched the same day as the Famicom in Japan. The Super NES was better than the Genesis and Turbo Grafx 16. The N64 was more powerful hardware than the PS1 with the unfortunate lack of a CD drive holding it back. The GameCube was better hardware than the PS2. In the Wii/DS/Wii U/3DS era they chased a more casual audience, yes, but that was reflective of the market situation of that time. It's also obvious that era is also over and Nintendo is in a new era with entirely different people at the head of the company now.

Last edited by Soundwave - on 31 July 2025