▲ 350 ▼ Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 3 months ago by simple@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world 82 comments fedilink hide all child comments A $50 increase in the US. Further increases rolling out in Japan, Europe, and Canada.
[–] garretble@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child) That was never Nintendo, to be fair. They’ve never really played that game like Sony and MS did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago Exactly, their hardware was usually always off the shelf parts making them cheap to make. Nes? Custom 6503. Gameboy? Custom z90 with a off the shelf dmg screen. The gba ? Its carts can be made of like 4 different type of rom.chips depending on what was cheapest and sram also came in different flavours through its life time. Gamecube/wii/wiiu? Sure was a ppc that was already designed. Switch? Same nvidia x1 that was inside some tablets and the nvidia shield. Its what nintendo does and the engineering needed for it is on a different level imo permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago Exactly, their hardware was usually always off the shelf parts making them cheap to make. Nes? Custom 6503. Gameboy? Custom z90 with a off the shelf dmg screen. The gba ? Its carts can be made of like 4 different type of rom.chips depending on what was cheapest and sram also came in different flavours through its life time. Gamecube/wii/wiiu? Sure was a ppc that was already designed. Switch? Same nvidia x1 that was inside some tablets and the nvidia shield. Its what nintendo does and the engineering needed for it is on a different level imo permalink fedilink source parent