No I definitely agree with you that the price will be higher than the current Switch. But this generation has proven to Nintendo that they don’t need top of the line hardware to be immensely successful. That was something Satoru Iwata discovered when he first became president of Nintendo and that led to the Wii and that philosophy has continued to the Switch. I think $399 will be the sweet spot Nintendo will be aiming for. It will allow for somewhere around the range between a base PS4 and PS4 Pro, which even for a handheld would be pretty incredible. 

That was something Gunpei Yokoi discovered with the original Gameboy actually.

Me saying hold my beer to Sony and this video with me playing on my 15 years old 399$ PS3 FAT unit on the good old spiderman games such as shattered dimensions and last of us original release from 2013 in 720p on my 4K 50 inch TV and enjoying it very much (yes even my PS4 is no more, since I sold it, there is no bigger library than the PS3&360 one, and I already finished the PS4 one).

PS5 Pro saying to the PS3's 599$ 2006 price "hold my beer". PS3 at least could backed it up. PS5 can't. PS3 at that time yes it was expensive, and not for anyone but at least had more and better games at it's launch years than whole of the PS5 gen, had full backward native compatibility, had free online, and you really got the next gen graphics, so it's price was with reasons for it. And let's not forget the then relevant new tech - Bluray player. PS5 has none of these things and the thing with what they try to sell it is game from 2020 on the PS4. To put PS3 in the same situation it had to had no backwat compatibility in 2006, had almost no games only 2 till 2010, and show game GTA Vice city from 2002 on it's 2006 E3, running in 720p. (even then the resolution difference was there, where now anything above 2K is hardly noticable let alone 4k and 8k)

In a contrary to that I will just write down the 180 degrees opposite case for the best console generation - PS3&360.

Controllers that lasted forever and yes, even their charge time beloved by many - Dualshock 3 and the 360 wireless one which became favorite one for milions of players.

Free online play, and only 60$ for the XBL, in a time when there were no microtransactions, and the online was really fun.

Pricecut on every 12 months. Yes, literally. Go take a look at the time period between 2006 and 2012. (and yes I put the 360 in this too, it was not only for PS3).

Not only disc drive but even freeking memory cards, adapters, and compatibility for almost everything.

Really exclusives games that did not come to PC. Yes even those for 360 (almost all of them).

Custom hardware where you could see graphics improvements pretty much every year till the end of the gen.

And lastly but not least, a ridiculious prices for the then last gen console in that time period in case you are broke and can't afford more than 299$ (199$ later) for the bare minimum of next gen console that was XBOX360 Core/Arcade - 99$ PS2, with plenty of good games to play.

Different times. I think you know the answers to these questions. 

Better economic situation during PS4Pro. First time Sony doing a mid-gen refresh like this. Digital gaming is bigger piece of the pie now. 

Doesn't pro require a different disc drive? Is this scalpers? Or are there that many physical or die people out there?

I know this isn't a Switch thread but Nintendo has an opportunity.  The ps5 hasn't had a price cut, the pro is expensive as crap...  if they can go super aggressive on S2 pricing it could catch wild fire.

Yup. Bought the Gamecube at launch. Thing was $199.99. lol

Software lineup has been awful this generation, especially with Naughty. 

But I think diminishing returns is a console problem.  Lighting, particles, volumetric and fps huge jumps are there but consoles are focus on resolution and not effects.  I think 1440p is the sweet spot, but honestly 1080p + effects looks amazing.  Sony needs to drop resolution as a focal point.  Resolution is diminishing returns.  

Edit

I've said many times before and people might tired of hearing it.  But on my 55 inch OLED, I can't tell the difference between 1440p and 4k.  I can't.  Take 1440p and add DLSS...  there just isn't a difference.  There is a reason 1440p monitors are super popular in the PC world.  It feels like PC gamers figured out a long time ago 4k is a waste of resources, unless someone has a 85+ inch screen.  

$700
No stand.
No Disc Drive.
No Games.
No Extra controller.
No shame.