Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[Chrkeller]

Soundwave said:

Chrkeller said:

Lol, your actual prediction was $500+, with $600 being in play.  The rest of us were around $400, and the S2 is $450...  pretty spot on.  

As for 1536 cuda cores, jesus man, that isn't high end.  That is below a 2050 which launched five years ago.  The 5050 is 2560 cuda cores.  Not a fair comparison because it is desktop versus mobile, but I am rocking over 16,000 cude cores.  I don't get why 1536, which is below mobile GPUs from 2020 is such a shock. 

and if you compare fps and resolution of cross gen games with the ps4 and switch 2...  pretty much exactly the same, with the ps4 pro beating out the S2.   

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And don't get me wrong, DK Bananza is a fantastic game, but it is 1080p with fps issues.  The S2 wasn't the 4k machine you made it out to be, it just flatly isn't.  

The system is $500 ... so? Especially the model that virtually everyone is paying for 99% of people are spending $500 on Switch 2. I was right on that, I was right that it wasn't going to be cheap because there is some serious hardware under the hood, a budget device would be far less ambitious in the specs. 

1536 CUDA Ampere blows the shit out of a PS4. That also was obvious if you weren't blinded by bias. There's no surprise to me that it's getting PS5-only games with no fuss even early in the product cycle. 

I said it then too specs of that caliber would be a game changer especially for big Japanese developers, they would have to seriously look at putting all their big ticket console IP on the Switch like the next Final Fantasy and Resident Evil and yes I even said Monster Hunter Wilds. And what happened? Bang, bang, and bang, even when people said "no way is Square-Enix gonna hold back the Final Fantasy mainline games for Nintendo!". Final Fantasy VII Remake Part III already confirmed for Switch 2 ... boom just like that. Resident Evil 9 ... confirmed for Switch 2. Now we find out even MH Wilds is apparently coming.

The Christmas day leaker guy who put who slightly altered images of the system (to protect his ass) also deserves some damn props in hindsight. Virtually everything that guy/gal said turned out to be correct. 

Umm...  it is $450...  WTF?  The FACT you are lying about the price end this conversation on my side.  You aren't even trying to hide your crazy anymore.