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JRPGfan 2 days ago
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
JRPGfan said:

1) A controller is alot cheaper and simpler to design than Joycons.
2) No battery, No speakers, No screen, No dock,... simple 1 piece of plastic casing design.

I bet you, you save ALOT more doing a home console, than doing a switch lite.
I expect the pieces you cut out, to make up like half of the switch total costs in terms of BoM.
So that would be more than $50-100.

You are underestimating how much, the hybrid design is costing.

Right now, a stock Switch 2, is 499$ in the US.

I bet you a small compact simple home console version of a Switch 2, could be sold for 250$.
If nintendo wanted to make one.

Let's see, what an be removed...

The screen for sure, the batteries in the 3 parts too. Then there's the magnetic attachments for the joycons. But pretty much everything else in the joycons is also in a controller, and if it's wireless, it also needs a battery, so you can't cut the batteries from the joycons as cost then either.

Next and most obviously, the dock, though the extra connections in the dock must then be moved into the console. Still, that's gonna be a nice cust-cutting feature.

The console can then be much smaller, but I don't think it can become as small as in the picture below as I fear it needs a bigger PCB. Either way, I believe the cost-cutting from just he reduced size to be minimal. At least the Kickstand can be saved...

All in all, I tally those up to about $120. So yeah, that thing would still cost $399, and if the memory and storage prices keep increasing, probably even more.

Supposedly the estimated for the Screen on the Switch 2, is around $25-40 (that was at release, inflation ect).
Also the battery inside a Switch 2 and the joycons, are much more costly than ones needed for like a "pro controller".
Not to mention a pro controller is probably cheaper than joycons+ controller grip.

Why would a home console need a kickstand? that would be saved as well.

I'm thinking closer to 200$, total maybe.
There is something to be said for smaller units and shipping costs, less parts, ect ect.
It will all add up.