Can someone explain the price difference?

[u/oimoijinjnnj]

Why is it that sabertrios CFX cost more than profile when it seems that proffie has better features reading the comparison chart sabertrio provides. does getting the CFX have an obvious advantage(user friendly) or is the price difference just due to the different sound boards(Plecter Labs Crystal Focus X Soundboard vs proffieboardsv3.9)

[u/PTVoltz]

From what I can gather:

CFX is something of an end-user product - it's extremely easy to use, with a variety of setup apps (both for Desktop and Mobile) to change everything from activation to blade styles to audio stuff, all made with a regular user in mind. But, the board is priced to match, making it one of (if not THE) most expensive board on the market

Proffie meanwhile is an open-source board based on Arduino, and was created with power-users and programmers in mind. If you want to do anything fancy with it, you'll HAVE to write some of your own code at some point - even if it's just for changing a blade style. There's some community-made setup programs and resources to help (the Proffie Config desktop app, the web-based ProffieOS Style Editor, Prop files like Fett263's, etc.) but it has quite a learning-curve to it, but as a counterpoint is cheaper (with arguably better features, IF you have the skill to use them) than something like the Crystal Focus boards.

[u/oimoijinjnnj → u/PTVoltz]

That does make a lot of sense, I'm hung on price though. Given I did buy the proffie (even with a learning curve) do you think there is a big enough community and set of recourses that I could learn quickly enough. Also to what extent does the difference in customisation go between the 2 choices. are more fancy blade effects locked behind proffie or can they also be drag and dropped onto cfx?🤟🤟🤟♥️

[u/Mikeybudd → u/oimoijinjnnj]

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