They cant price this at that level and expect huge sales.

PS4 & XB1 will eat it for breakfast as a homeconsole, if they launch it at that price, and the others are cheaper & 4-5 times as powerfull.

Anything higher than 199$ and their betting their consoles future on people that mainly want it as a handheld, and are okay with 300$ pricetags for such.

It needs to be 199$... nintendo dont need another Wii U in terms of sales.

That's exactly what I'm going to do. In fact, I'm not sure about the time, because I may wait for "Switch Selects" deals fase.

Is this gonna be Swiitch or Swiiutch?

Current rumors say $250 for standard sku and $300 for sku that includes a game, more storage & 4G.

Don't pay too much attention to rumors, they are rumors after all, just wait for the event and the official info.

Too bad for you man! Don't worry I'll buy 2 and enjoy them for you!

I'll see. I know Nintendo makes great games, but I can't throw money at every console.
Personally, their DRM handling of Super Mario Run is terrible and as a Wii U owner, I can say I'm starting to feel a bit burned by all the game cancellations.

Sorry, but you were being highly delusional. We know officially that it was a Tegra for quite a bit of time. Even the future Pascal Tegra won't top the Xbox One. The Tegra X1, even with the full clock as used on the Shield TV, couldn't come even remotely close to it.

I'm a bit disapointed since I expected at least Shield TV performance when docked. I'm more worried now in how devs will deal with the massive power gap between the two Switch modes. It's more on par with base PS4 vs Pro, but in that case the base model already deals with decent settings at 900-1080p, so its big bro just ups the game to 1440p-4K. For Switch, the big bro will already suffer to run PS4-level games at 720p. Anyway, it wouldn't get 3rd party support even if it had a 10 Tflops GPU and costed 2 grand. At least this gives me a bit of hope in seeing it retailing for US$ 175 (dockless) and that would be a huge deal.

In the end, that pretty much kills that "hybrid" BS. It's a handheld with a TV out. It's not like this is bad at all, I was seeing it as a handheld, the rest is just extra stuff to make it more interesting.

Why would be $199 when New 3DS XL is still selling solid at that price!? Switch is not just handheld or just home console, its both in one out of box, you even controllers for local multiplayer out of box. Saying that Switch has to have price like New 3DS XL doesnt make sense, Switch has much higher value than New 3DS XL in any case.

Nintendo make disguesting amounts of profits on hardware.

They could probably sell the New 3DS XL at 99$ and still make profit of it, guess their pocketing 100$+ on each sale of New 3DS XL.

Im not sure thats going to work with the Switch.

299$ seems to much for this.

*edit:

I said the same about the PS4 slim.

When it launched at 299$, I was saying "damn this should have launched at 249$".

Look what happend, sales where slow.

Then christmas comes and they lower price to 249$ and sales go crazy.