06-16-2025, 12:48 PM
There sure is a price premium for Nvidia hardware but it's well worth it.
Wii / Wii U were cheap but also felt cheap, Switch was kind of in between Nintendo and Nvidia. Now it's a full on premium product.
There was probably a 4GB, no (software based) backward compatibility, lower clockspeeds / no dock fan, no magnetic/mouse joy cons, cheaper plastic option that would've shaved $100 from the price and $5 - $10 from the software but I'm glad they went for the optimal configuration. One of the few Nintendo products where I don't think "It's good but I wish they would've put in some more RAM, better GPU or a faster OS".
They made the right choice with the screen too I think, no OLED but VRR and 120hz. I'm quite surprised they put that in. Overall I think it's a nice screen and they can easily release an OLED model later.
Wii / Wii U were cheap but also felt cheap, Switch was kind of in between Nintendo and Nvidia. Now it's a full on premium product.
There was probably a 4GB, no (software based) backward compatibility, lower clockspeeds / no dock fan, no magnetic/mouse joy cons, cheaper plastic option that would've shaved $100 from the price and $5 - $10 from the software but I'm glad they went for the optimal configuration. One of the few Nintendo products where I don't think "It's good but I wish they would've put in some more RAM, better GPU or a faster OS".
They made the right choice with the screen too I think, no OLED but VRR and 120hz. I'm quite surprised they put that in. Overall I think it's a nice screen and they can easily release an OLED model later.
3 users liked this post: