I agree.  $300 would even be pushing it.  If Nintendo is serious about the NS succeeding, it should sell at $250 for a base model and $300 for a bundle; that price should tempt the kids and casuals that Nintendo obviously wants to court again.  If the rumors are true and Nintendo got a bargain for the nvidia chips, then that should be doable.

Common Luke... it isnt more powerfull than a PS4....

Chances are its like 1/3rd (in memory bandwidth + compute performance & with less memory/storage space).

It shouldnt sell at the same price as a PS4, if Nintendo want to sell alot of these units to the nintendo home console crowd.

299$ is the max Nintendo can justify selling this for.... any more and consumers wont buy it in the quantities they want to sell.

You expect it to cost $250? It will cost at least $300 at launch, and $350 isn't unlikely. But the Switch is a home console and a handheld, it is a lot more powerful than a 3DS. It will have AAA games at launch I expect. Zelda, Mario, Skyrim, Call of Duty, New IPs etc. So yes it could work for Switch. Depends a lot on marketing I think. And if it's too expensive, they can do as they did with 3DS and make a quick price drop, worked pretty well last time ;)

Anyway, launching in Marts might not be a bad idea, it might help the holiday sales, since people might have tried the Switch when the holidays arrives, and therefore put it on their wishing lists.

Yes 249$ is what I expect.

300 at launch? maybe.

350$ is unlikely... sales will be crappy if Nintendo does that. 

Imagine the PS4pro gets a price cut, and you standing in the store....  Both are 349$  (ps4pro vs Nswitch)

PS4pro has ~10 times the power, 1TB HDD, Blu-ray, plays games at 1080p x2 upscaled to 4k.

Nintendo Switch, is portable has 540p-720p games upscaled to 1080p. Maybe 64 GB SD card in storage, no blu-ray drive.

Unless you need the portable part, your getting a PS4pro. 

349$ is a price Nintendo cant afford to sell this at, it would sink them sales wise.

I'm going to guess $269.99 actually for the price.

why ? we just know it uses a Tegra custom chip, we don't know any specifics, as far as we know that custom Tegra Chip could be 10 times more powerfull than a regular Tegra Chip. it's pointless to talk about this until we don't get more info about the specs...

If the NS has some proper tablet or android functions (like regular apps and such), then it might get away with 350. But i'm thinking 300 range max.

It's also a question if nintendo will sell seperate bundles for dock and console. Maybe the core console without a game for 199 could be possible.

Definitely will IMO

This product is aimed for young adults, the GBA kids that are now grown up. On top of that the other hardcore fans, who will be there at launch.. The tax return point mentioned earlier, is also valid. I've said this before, but I think late March is the perfect time for nintendo to launch, because

1. no competition (holiday deals from competition. etc)
2. time is reduced until the next holiday/less pressure to fill out calendar yr with games.

3DS had sw shortage due to teams dedicated for Wii U hd development, and shouldn't have that problem now. Scale of games won't be much larger than Wii U HD titles, which dev teams now have 4 yrs of experience.

Nintendo seems locked & loaded for Switch.

Also, $299 today , is equal to $270 in '11. 3DS was $250 in '11. Switch is a more powerful than usual nintendo portable (also marketed as home, to attract the wii U-serbase), so its fair to expect a price jump, IMO barebones unit for $299.

Q1 is strong for video game industry, Q2 would be stupid.

Price and games, that's all there is to it. My opinion since the announcement trailer has been Switch is a $249 console and if Nintendo needs to go higher then $299 is the absolute max. Higher than that and Switch will die against PS4/X1.

Launch lineup needs to be strong, like ridiculously strong.

Super Mario S (3D)
Super Mario Maker
Mario Kart 8
Splatoon
BotW
Smash Bros.

That's for first party and hopefully Pokemon Sun/Moon too. Nintendo really needs the big hitters from the very start.

edit: Ported games are important since Nintendo can sell those at a cheaper price right from the start, further decreasing the cost of entry.

Theres a Dev on Anandtech that claims its 1/3rd of a PS4 in performance.

Also think about it... look how small&thin that Case unit the hardware is in.

You cant have a 100watt usage in a tablet.

Even if they are more power effecient, they arnt that much more power effecient.

Theres a limit to how powerfull a tablet can be, and not melt, and run dry of battery super fast.

This is also probably why Its not getting Mass Effect Andromeda.

It either cannot run it well enough (because its too weak) (or doesnt have support for the engine its made in)

Or it would have to run at such a small resolution that it wouldnt stack up to the competition, and thus sell badly on the Switch.