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How much do you think the Switch successor will cost? (USD)

How much do you think the Switch successor will cost? (USD)


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ManaByte

Banned
It'll be $299 and relatively at PS4 levels of power but using DLSS upscaling. You're not getting a handheld $399 PS5.
 

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
I think $400 is what they will target to hit in order to set it where mom and dad will buy for the kids.
 

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
$399 seems reasonable. I doubt they'll go for max graphics.
 

Woopah

Member
The thing needs to be capable of outputting decent looking 4k, so performance similar to a ROG Ally is required. With a NVME & 16GB RAM
DLSS will fix a little, but it's not a free feature, Nvidia will make Nintendo pay for every feature on the CPU.

I think 499 is the bare minimum if they want to compete with a custom SoC. But it's Nintendo, so they might slap a Tegra X2 innit and call it a day.
It's using a customised SoC called T239. We know that from the Nvidia leak and some shipping data.
 

Fbh

Gold Member
My guess is $350-399 with and LCD screen and around or slightly above base ps4 performance but faster storage and maybe some nvidia upscaling tech in there.
Nintendo isn't going to aim for top of the line tech nor is going to try to compete with Ps5 (not to mention pro) in terms of raw power and performance. They'll probably also want to keep the price reasonably low so it remains an affordable gif for kids and more casual players. Grandma can't afford to buy little Timmy an $800 handheld console for Christmas.
 
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cireza

Member
Good luck playing the 150GB of Rebirth or the 500GB of COD on that 128GB device, haha, I hope they do a 1TB option.
When you use a cartridge, you don't need to install games. You read directly from it.

People have been lobotomized by the shitty practices that became a standard. Installing games was never necessary... Neither are 50 GB updates every month.
 
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Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I’m gonna guess it’ll be $399. It’d be great if it were $350, though.

It would suck if it was more than $400, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility.
 
Should've allowed us to pick two options OP ;)

I think they'll have two SKUs; one at $349 that'll gimp the internal storage massively (probably just 32 GB) that'll be for people mainly playing physical cart games, and the other at $449 with the rumored 256 GB internal storage.

However, I think Nintendo could get a bit more "clever" between the two SKUs and make the lower-cost one with a lower-resolution screen and maybe less connection ports, etc. to hit $299, saving the higher-quality screen for the $449 SKU. So they could do something like:

SKU 1: $299, lower-resolution screen, lower WiFi (WiFi 5 or 6), lower expandable storage bandwidth, 32 GB internal storage. Comes with no dock. Basically the Switch Lite type model.

SKU 2: $449, higher-resolution screen, newer WiFi (WiFi 6 or 7), higher expandable storage bandwidth, 256 GB internal storage. Comes with a dock. Basically the "standard" model.

(If the lower-end SKU uses the same screen, I could see it being $349 instead)

Meanwhile the included dock in SKU 2 would be a "regular" dock and mainly intended for charging & ethernet support. They'll sell a more performance-orientated dock separately (allowing docked Switch 2 to run at peak performance as necessary).

...also for the poll I accidentally chose $499 but right after that I figured they'd go for $449 instead at the high end.
 
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Minsc

Gold Member
When you use a cartridge, you don't need to install games. You read directly from it.

People have been lobotomized by the shitty practices that became a standard. Installing games was never necessary... Neither are 50 GB updates every month.

Yeah, they aren't putting Rebirth or COD on a cartridge, speaking of which, what sizes do they make these days anyway? I doubt they have 512GB or 1TB cartridges that operate at 6GB/s or whatever speed you need for the loading to be invisible.
 

Minsc

Gold Member
Hell even Pinball FX is 40GB, that would instantly fill a 64GB Switch 2, that's a fucking joke. Shit better start at 256GB/512GB.
 

Minsc

Gold Member
Will be $700 when you add decent storage and controller.

Should still work with existing Switch controllers I'd hope, though I rarely use them.

Storage will be an issue. Running modern PS5 games on the Deck that expect a 6GB/sec SSD off an SD card that goes at 100MB/s is yucky.
 

Mokujin

Member
399 but I could see them doing 449 due these past years inflation and recent yen movements.

I'm more concerned of the rumors of Swicht 2 being a larger form factor due the old 8nm Samsung SoC, as I think the current Switch size is perfect. This could be a potentialy larger mass appeal burden.
 
399 but might push it to 499 with the crazy pricing of the Pro, hope not though. And I hope we'll get a huge dark fantasy Zelda game on it next year or the year after.
 

snapdragon

Member
I would think it will be $499

The reason people are shocked by the PS5 pro price is because they're not paying attention to the cost of silicon. All chips have increased and the BOM for a handheld system with decent amount of ram, OLED screen etc etc - it's not going to be $399.

I suspect the reason Nintendo pushed back the launch (widely rumoured to be this year) was because the price of components would have meant a very high price. Also they won't take a loss on the unit - those days are gone. Next gen everyone will try to at least break even on the console.

PS5 Pro is not priced that high (just) because Sony want to gouge their customers, it's priced that high because the input costs (+ shipping + manufacturing + marketing etc) have all massively increased in the last 5 years. Nintendo are not immune to the cost of components, energy etc
yeah I'm afraid you're right
 

StueyDuck

Member
It's hard to gage when we don't know what it is, rumors have been all over the place. Some saying it's like a handheld ps5/series X (I doubt) and some saying it's more inline with the deck but will some added dlss from Nvidia chips.

If they are going for high-end then I can easily see 499.

If they gonna do classic Nintendo and come in with a gen old hardware then 399.
 

PeteBull

Member
Ninny will charge their fanatics premium just as much as sony charging theirs with the pr0, will it be 500 or 600€ i dunno but its a corpo, they will charge as much as they know they can get away with, just like sony did.
 

SweetTooth

Gold Member
Look at what handheld technology was released 10 years ago, base your pricing on that + 100% margin. Thats the Nintendo model

An Nvidia processor from 2015 + sprinkled with some 2018 tech+ low end CPU

1080p LCD/ hopefully Oled from 2017

Cheap Toy like construction with whatever gimmick added.

Total manufacturing cost: $155
Switch 2 price: $299
 

navii

My fantasy is that my girlfriend was actually a young high school girl.
Whatever the price will be, it will seem like a bargain compared to the PS5 PRO price.
 

Martin701

Neo Member
It's mostly about families, Kids and beeing a secondary console for those playstation gamers.

So my best guess would be 450 max
 

Ceadeus

Member
More importantly, let's hope they don't make NSO service more expensive. If so, significantly improve by at least giving up the friend code system and having a much better eShop and HEY REOPEN MIIVERSE HELLOOO
 

Robb

Gold Member
It's hard to gage when we don't know what it is, rumors have been all over the place. Some saying it's like a handheld ps5/series X (I doubt) and some saying it's more inline with the deck but will some added dlss from Nvidia chips.

If they are going for high-end then I can easily see 499.

If they gonna do classic Nintendo and come in with a gen old hardware then 399.

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Woopah

Member
Should've allowed us to pick two options OP ;)

I think they'll have two SKUs; one at $349 that'll gimp the internal storage massively (probably just 32 GB) that'll be for people mainly playing physical cart games, and the other at $449 with the rumored 256 GB internal storage.

However, I think Nintendo could get a bit more "clever" between the two SKUs and make the lower-cost one with a lower-resolution screen and maybe less connection ports, etc. to hit $299, saving the higher-quality screen for the $449 SKU. So they could do something like:

SKU 1: $299, lower-resolution screen, lower WiFi (WiFi 5 or 6), lower expandable storage bandwidth, 32 GB internal storage. Comes with no dock. Basically the Switch Lite type model.

SKU 2: $449, higher-resolution screen, newer WiFi (WiFi 6 or 7), higher expandable storage bandwidth, 256 GB internal storage. Comes with a dock. Basically the "standard" model.

(If the lower-end SKU uses the same screen, I could see it being $349 instead)

Meanwhile the included dock in SKU 2 would be a "regular" dock and mainly intended for charging & ethernet support. They'll sell a more performance-orientated dock separately (allowing docked Switch 2 to run at peak performance as necessary).

...also for the poll I accidentally chose $499 but right after that I figured they'd go for $449 instead at the high end.
I don't see anyway the Switch 2 is priced the same or less than the Switch OLED.
Will it be another massive meltdown here when the Switch is $399? lol.
Why would there be a meltdown when that's the expected price?
 

hemo memo

You can't die before your death
I mean Somy fucked it up with everyone now. Depends on how the PS5 Pro sells I guess. Everyone will be looking how ridiculous you could push your core consumer into paying.
 

Emedan

Member
Why don't people understand that the laws of thermodynamics doesn't allow something to be super high end and viably portable? Who want's a portable device with battery time of 15 minutes?
 

00_Zer0

Member
They are going to have to try for the $399.99 mark. That price sounds about right in the times we live in today. Then come up with a plan to release an OLED version in the future for maybe $449.00. Good thing I'm not a handheld player so OLED isn't as important to me, but for those who love portable Nintendo will hopefully release an OLED version in the future.
 
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