Leynos said:
Few will be realistic in thsi thread when it comes to power. I bet some want a Pro level portable system. That aint going to happen not at a price point Nintendo is happy with.
I know realistically by 2022 even an affordable system power-wise will be about base PS4, but it will have more modern feature sets. With it possibly being based on Ampere chips. BC would be tough but I would hope Nintendo finds a hardware way to make it fully BC. I think since Nintendo cares so deeply about lighting that they will find some way to get 1 or 2 RTX cores in there. Possible. Won't be as advanced as PC cards or other consoles of course. 8GB of ram and one again Nintendo keeps the UI pretty basic leaving about 6-7GB free for devs. That's not that far behind PS5/XBSXwith 13GB free. Currently, I believe Switch has 3.5 GB free for games which was not far behind a base PS4 5GB free. Switch 2 is roughly 2 Teraflops. Now, what it does offer new besides more power. Nvidia Ampere chip releases in 2020 and it becomes pretty cheap in 2 years after that with revised models for Nintendo much like X1 was 2 years old but revised. 900P screen or 1080P if possible battery wise.
Ability to message friends on the base system. Built-in mic on the pro controller and system. Headphone port on the pro controller. Paddles on the pro controller. Nothing as advanced an Elite controller but look at Power A 3rd party Switch controllers. That's done cheaply enough. Keep the cart slot. Have the dock have some foam padding to protect the screen.
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Is the switch only as powerful as a ps3? Hell no.
Leynos said:
It's technically possible but the battery life would be a few minutes. Unless Nvidia can have a chip 4nm or less in a couple of years and extremely cheap. People are not getting a 4-5 teraflop portable at a $300 price point and a 6-7 hour battery life. It just doesn't seem very realistic. Nintendo has a contract with Nvidia for 20 years which is about the same as they had with AMD. |
The switch started with a 3-4 hour battery. Systems don't have flops, gpus have and that is just one part of them. And as stated previously, an nvidea gpu from 2021 will only need 3 tflops to match or get close to the PERFORMANCE of x1x's gpu.
