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Soundwave on 30 January 2014
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HoloDust said:
Soundwave said:

The other thing that I think could be possible is the concept of a "stackable" chipset ... meaning the handheld and "home dock" could connect together and share hardware resources. Wired connections like Thunderbolt are incredibly fast these days.

I think something (combined HH + home dock) in the range of a

Quad-Core ARM CPU (becomes an 8-core CPU when linked)
Dual-Core SGX PowerVR Series 6 (200 GFLOP approx, 400+ GFLOP when "linked")
2GB RAM (becomes 4GB RAM when linked)

I think they can go higher than that...Tegra K1 (clocked at 950MHz) has 365 GFLOPS, about the same texture fill rate as X360, though less bandwidth.

How long would the battery life last though in the handheld version? 400+ GFLOPS I think is a plenty for Nintendo. Plus the PowerVR chip is probably cheaper (it's the same one Apple uses in the iPhone/iPad, just at x2, but they probably could get it for dirt cheap).