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What will Nintendo do to compete in price with the 250$ PS4?

Sacrifice power. 18 30.51%
 
Replace the disc drive fo... 2 3.39%
 
Replace the disc drive fo... 1 1.69%
 
Take a loss and hope for the NX to sell. 15 25.42%
 
Make the console as small... 2 3.39%
 
Give 100 free masterballs... 12 20.34%
 
Other solutions. 9 15.25%
 
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Darwinianevolution on 15 September 2015
TheWPCTraveler said:
Make the platform as powerful and as cheap as possible and hope Sony takes the bait.
Desperately make your system as attractive as possible to third-parties, like cutting your share of the revenue from third-party sales to well below that of PS (they're more or less a first-party software juggernaut, anyway, so any lost revenue would be most likely negligible)
Hope the gimmick works.

But, ultimately, pull off a bid to make Sony release a PS5 by 2018.
Nintendo needs to make Sony burn through its cash haul, and fast. Nintendo can't burn through its cash forever.

I don't think the power race between hardware manufacturers can continue forever. The bigger and more complex games become, more time, resources and people will take to make (I know there are ways to cheapen the production, but time and human resources aren't infinite). If third parties can't release enough AAA games per year to make the investment worth it, some might go to the other extreme and start releasing dozens upon dozens of small cheap mobile and PC games. Sony won't be on a hurry to jump to the next gen the way Nintendo is, so their hardware will be there for a long time.



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Miyamotoo on 15 September 2015
Darwinianevolution said:

... another NX thread.

It's no secret that Nintendo plans to unveil a new console, and they want it as soon as possible to replace the WiiU and possibly the 3DS too. THat will make it compete with a PS4, that will not only be at the peek of the 8th gen, both in hardware sales and in software library, but also will be at a price of 250$ or less. How can Nintendo compete in price with the PS4? Will it sacrifice power to make it cheap, make it cartridge or digital only, take a huge loss to push the console...

PS4 get price cut around $50 in Japan, so that means around $50 for West, so new price will be $350, at end of next year we could see another $50 price cut so that leaves to minimum price of $300 at end of 2016. not $250 or less.

This PS4 price cut was expected and it will not affect in any way for developing and pricing NX. Nintendo is very aware that PS4 will have price around $300 at end of 2016. and Xbox One price around $250-300, and I don't think they will aim for higher price than competition.

Also if PS4 will have $300 price at end of next year there is no reason that Nintendo can't have console with similar power at same or even lower price, but I think they will go for less power, without optical disk and around $250 price tag.



Roronaa_chan on 15 September 2015
Miyamotoo said:
Darwinianevolution said:

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PS4 get price cut around $50 in Japan, so that means around $50 for West, so new price will be $350, at end of next year we could see another $50 price cut so that leaves to minimum price of $300 at end of 2016. not $250 or less.

 


What he's talking about is that the price cut brings the PS4 down to the currency exchange equivalent of 250 dollars in Japan.



Aeolus451 on 15 September 2015

It can't compete directly with playstation home consoles saleswise/market share when sony is on the ball. I'm sure whether NX is a home console or handheld, it's fanbase will buy it but I doubt that many gamers would buy it if it's a home console especially with this gen being at it's peak (game library) about the time NX will release.



Aerys on 15 September 2015

NX has no chance, unless its a home console/handheld at the same time



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JRPGfan on 15 September 2015
Darwinianevolution said:

... another NX thread.

It's no secret that Nintendo plans to unveil a new console, and they want it as soon as possible to replace the WiiU and possibly the 3DS too. THat will make it compete with a PS4, that will not only be at the peek of the 8th gen, both in hardware sales and in software library, but also will be at a price of 250$ or less. How can Nintendo compete in price with the PS4? Will it sacrifice power to make it cheap, make it cartridge or digital only, take a huge loss to push the console...


no idea... probably not well.

If nintendo spends 100$ on a gamepad for each console sale again with the NX, and aim for a 300$ price tag,.... yeah things wont go well.

They will end up with a weaker console than the ps4.



Darwinianevolution on 15 September 2015
Aerys said:
NX has no chance, unless its a home console/handheld at the same time

I really hope it's the Fusion idea.



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Slarvax on 15 September 2015

Can we make a petition for no NX threads until a formal announcement? All this guessing is just confusing and misleading.



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PotentHerbs on 15 September 2015

They would definitely have to take a loss on hardware.



Carl on 15 September 2015
Kresnik said:

I'm hoping this is not going to turn into a repeat of "It has Mario, Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest in launch period.  How can it NOT succeed?"

(I know you said consistent releases, it just gave me a shudder of deja vu).


Well, any competant leadership at Nintendo would hopefully realise what exactly made the Wii U tank after release.

They cannot afford to have a barren release schedule. Hopefully they realise that.