A slow cooker ? <| sep |> From the rumors floating around , Switch is gonna cost 250300 $ tops . I don ' t think people will mind buying a newer , upgraded version every 23 years . And it ' s not like the older version wouldn ' t be able to run games made post release of upgraded version . Consider iPhones for example . If you bought let ' s say iPhone 6 , it doesn ' t make much sense to buy 6 s . You ' d rather buy 7 or maybe the one after that when your 6 starts to show its age . Only in the case of switch , the period between successive upgrades would be 23 years I hope . So if you only buy alternate upgrades , you ' ll buy a new one every 45 years . 250300 $ every 45 years is acceptable . Edit My opinion is based on my belief that nintendo , like microsoft is gonna skip the console generations route . Therefore , not only will backwards compatibility stop being an issue moving forward , it will also facilitate forward compatibility to some extent . Edit 2 And yes , I believe the switch won ' t have backwards compatibility with both 3 ds and wii systems . That let ' s nintendo sell mini versions of their legacy consoles sometime down the line .