I know I'm late to this one, but what a smooth brained hot take when that was posted. There was zero indication it would fail, even at the higher price, and the original unit is still trucking along successfully even with a price increase which was surprising. It's anything but a failed system, both of them. Nintendo has this magical sweet spot that just works for them where now on this new one it has well enough power to pull off a true modern looking level of quality and even on the go, largely with DLSS pulling some lovely resolution enhancement tricks to help too. I think with the economy as it is and has been since before the NS2 hit, and now with the idiotic drainage of memory and processors with the AI bs ramping up, they're raking it in because they've maintained quality, haven't jacked up the price on the unit itself either, and it has its library plus the free boost in power to a massive amount of the originals too in its favor. Couple that with the disgusting prices the other guys come up to, including that what $900 PS5 pro it went up to and they look like the discount alternative that makes sense.
