Will The Nintendo Switch (Nintendo NX) Sell? My Thoughts

Not long ago Nintendo finally took the lid of the Nintendo NX, now known as the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo has also recently stated the expect to ship 2 million units in March (The same month it's expect to be release).

But what of my thoughts? Will Nintendo be able to sell that many units? Will the Nintendo Switch be successful?

With so many developers supporting the Nintendo Switch, first signs are good, even with the device most likely being around the capabilities of the PS4 and Xbox One. The reason I think is because the device is also a portable, which means people out and about will be able to glance over and see what people are playing. This is a very reliable source of advertising for games that the developers won't have to pay for. This encourages developers to want to make more games for the system and in turn more games for gamers to play.

The portable aspect is a major point of the Nintendo Switch as Nintendo is pretty big in the portable gaming market and has been since the launch of the Gameboy in 1989, although they now compete with mobile games.

Well I could just keep rambling on but the point is that I do believe the Nintendo Switch will sell really well.

Nintendo Switch Specs Leaked

Twitter user NWPlayer123 recently leaked the specs of the Nintendo Switch dev kit, here are my thoughts.

This is supposedly the specs on the devkit, pushing some power, enough to run anything you throw at it pic.twitter.com/dpjYczeAWE

— Nintendo Knob (@NWPlayer123) October 20, 2016

Rumour: Nvidia Involved With The Nintendo NX? Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 & GTX 1080 Graphics Cards Coming Soon.

Well this is interesting, I recently came across a rumor that says that Nvidia the makers of some of the best gaming graphics cards may be working with Nintendo on the NX. I also heard recently that Nvidia is also releasing some new GTX 1070 & GTX 1080 graphics cards soon. Although I doubt these would be used in the upcoming Nintendo console. Although a downgraded version of these could be possible.

Should Nintendo NX Have Multiple Versions Or An Expansion? Nintendo NX HD & 4K

Recently I've been thinking that maybe the NX should have multiple versions for the market or even a expansion? One Idea I had was that the portable version be able to attach to the home console version to up the power of the device and allow perfect 4K at home, but I have to soot that one down as designing games for that to work would be more work then most companies would like to do, so it's down to multiple versions.

5 Things The Nintendo NX Needs To Sell

With the newest Nintendo console less than a year away (hopefully), I've decided to now list a few hopes for the upcoming console.

Nintendo Predictions for 2016

It's about time I got around to making a list of predictions for my favorite company.

#1
The NX Console Will Be 4K

I've talked about this a few times before and even went and made a whole post on if a 4K console would even be possible (read here) by making a PC equivalent.

#2
Sakurai Can't Stay Away From Smash

3 Nintendo NX Launch Titles I Would Like To Have Happen

3 Nintendo NX Launch Titles I Would Like To Have Happen

A new video game console needs a few great titles at launch in order to start off well, so here are a few titles I would like to see on release day.

Super Mario Galaxy 3

The Super Mario Galaxy games have been some of the best platform games on the Wii, and I would like to see the games make a comeback with a third installment to the series.

 

 

 

 

Bayonetta 3

With Bayonetta having to highly scored games under it's belt and having won the Smash Ballot, it would only be natural for PlatinumGamesor or any developer to make another game in the series. This reminds me that I still have to finish playing the other two entries on my Youtube channel.

Zelda Wii U

Yes the upcoming Wii U Zelda game should pull a Twilight Princess and be released for the Nintendo NX as well. With the release being so close to the launch of the NX I think it would be a great idea that would bring more people to the next console while letting others transfer when they are ready.
Read my full article about it here.

Will The Nintendo NX Be 4K? Is 4K Home Video Game Systems Possible?

With Nintendo's next console on the horizon (if the Nintendo NX is a home console), would it be capable of 4K gaming? Well I can't build a home console but I can build a PC equivalent so that is what I did. Please keep in mind that this is a PC equivalent and not an actual video game console.

To build it I looked up part on the website Newegg.com, but also keep in mind the parts I list will be at retail price and Nintendo would actually buy them at wholesale price and I have to keep in mind that a profit need to be made from this as well. Finally the core parts will have to be modified to make a more dedicated system than a PC is otherwise I would not be able to get the full power of the parts.

Let's start off with the core components of the home console.

$69.99 AMD Athlon X4 860K Kaveri Quad-Core 3.7 GHz Desktop Processor
$34.99 (after rebate) MSI GeForce GT 720, 1GB 64-Bit Graphics Card
$32.99 Klevv Fit 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
$49.99 MSI A68HM-E33 V2 FM2+ AMD A68H 4 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
$19.95 Seagate DB35 Series 7200.3 ST3320820SCE 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive
$10.08 LOGISYS Computer PS480D 480W ATX12V Power Supply
$17.99 (after rebate) XION Gaming Series XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Next I'll list other important parts but these one are not as specifice as above as they can be more easily switch with other parts.
$5 HDMI 4K
$16.19 PCI 8 Channel 8CH 7.1 Sound Card

Other parts
$7 for a cartridge reader, this is the estimated cost I came up with based on the price of internal SD card readers. I went for a card reader instead of a disk drive because of the possible leak that the device won't have a disk drive.
$50 for one controller, either a Wii Motion Plus with Nunchuk or a Classic Controller.

This brings us to an amount of $314.17


You may have noticed that I didn't list an operating system, well since this is not for an actual PC it will not need the programs of such. Also I have no way of knowing just how much an operating system for a PC would be but I think it would be much less since video game consoles are dedicated systems and do not require the ability of a PC.

Next we got to figure out what we are going to sell are console at, and to do this I will look at the Wii U and 3DS. Keep in mind that these are estimates I found online.
$228 To build a Wii U selling at $299 https://filmgamesetc.com/2013/03/how-much-does-each-wii-u-console-cost-nintendo/
$101 To build a 3DS selling at #249 http://kotaku.com/5785605/so-how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-a-nintendo-3ds
So we are looking at an additional $70 to $150

Estimated retail total comes to $384 to $460


I must say again that the parts I listed are priced at retail and not whole sale that Nintendo would buy the parts at. So the price will be much less then what I just put down. So let's just do an estimate of $10 off most of the parts and say that comes to about $60 to $100 off the above total retail price.

This brings us to a final estimated cost for a 4K Nintendo console at retail to cost between
$284 to $400


Finally, for a PC the 4K Gaming may not work so well. I think it wouldn't even be possible to get a smooth 30fps on a PC. However a video game console is a more dedicated system which will allow the full use of the parts for gaming. With this in mind I believe a smooth 30fps would be easy, but 60fps is another story. Also I do not know how the games would look, how many particles it could render at once, how many polygons, how many physics it could handle. This is the stuff that I can not say.