I mean... I’m taking the refutation with a grain of salt too, but the fact that they actually commented on it is very out of the ordinary. I think this means Nintendo is actually being pretty transparent. It doesn’t rule out that the OLED is more profitable, but it may not be quite as profitable as cited by Bloomberg.

how stupid and gullible are gamers that nintendo has literally announced an upgraded model of the switch and people are still shrieking about a switch pro? dumbfucks, its coming out in october. god.

Again, that’s behavior, not character.

I didn’t judge character. I made observations of behavior.

Honestly, after 2 years of constant Switch Pro “leaks” and reports by the likes of Forbes and Bloomberg, all turning out to be false, what they say will continue to hold little to no value for me in the future.

Analysts make unsubstantiated claim.
Nintendo makes equally unsubstantiated refutation.
Nothing plus nothing should equal nothing.
And yet, here you are, siding with one side over the other, over nothing.

I think you’re exaggerating just a bit here. 2017 estimates put them around 10 thousand dollars a day, and that’s if you consider “making money” to be equal to “generating revenue”. Even if you account for that estimate being an underestimate and growth over the last 3 years, they’re nowhere near even a million a day…

I got mine 3 years ago during BF for $350 after tax. I was already paying about $100 more than the lowest end 4K model.

If that CRT still runs, someone’ll want it for retro gaming - especially as they’re getting progressively rarer.

This. I literally got a fairly decent 4k tv for under $400 last year. They aren’t super expensive anymore

This 100%, 4K would not be well-utilized by the majority of Switch games, but improved performance at this point would be hugely impactful for me considering the wombo combo of unstable frame rates and long load times. It is killing my desire to buy anything on Switch anymore.

I think you misunderstand what it means for a product to be mainstream. It means the product is in the growth/maturity stage where companies can target their product to the masses. It’s more about the make up of the sales.

4K TVs are niche? Lol

Looks like I should have simply shut up

4K TV has been mainstream for over 7 years now and starting to enter end of product life. You can now get a 4K TV at the same price if not cheaper than a 1080p TV. At this point, most people have replaced their old 1080p with 4K.

You’re argument that 4k isn’t standard would have held up 5 years ago. 4k is standard on just about every TV today. I love Nintendo but people have got to stop defending their poor decisions.  This is just Nintendo just behind on the times like always.

Not true at all. I’ve worked at several electronic retail stores, and it’s very hard to find a 1080p or less tv outside of online ordering. The vast majority of tv’s now are 4k, and they’re highly affordable depending on what you want. Now 8k is a niche market right now, but definitely not 4k.

Yeah, I agree with this. One of the main reasons I was hoping for a Switch Pro wasn’t necessarily 4k output, but the technical strength to make 1080p @30fps the stable benchmark across the board, with possibility for 60fps depending on the game. The Switch, in its current state, has trouble running current-gen games…

I don’t think this is true at all. Pretty much every new TV these days is 4K. You get 4K TVs for a few hundred bucks. They’re already to the point of basically being commodities. We’re not in the early 2010s anymore - 4K is ubiquitous.

It doesn’t need 4k but when even first party games can’t even do 1080p 30fps, maybe a little boost just to get stable framerate would have been really appreciated.

I’m still sour that a remaster of a Wii game (not WiiU, a Wii game) is still only 720p docked with an unstable framerate. (yes I’m talking about Xenoblade…