How powerful will Nintendo's next-gen handheld/console be?

[VanceIX]

Soundwave said:

VanceIX said:

The Tegra Shield has in no way come close to the PS3 or 360 in real-life performance. The CPU is just a standard tablet CPU, meaning that it doesn't have the computational power of the PS3 or 360. The GPU is great, but when the CPU is the bottleneck, that doesn't really matter.

The Tegra Shield can't handle a game like TLOU or Halo 4.

Well lets take into account Nintendo is probably still 2 tech generations of CPU/GPU away from launching their device (spring/summer 2016?). 

And lets also lower the resolution demands down to 960x540 for games with PS3/Wii U level fidelity ... I think you start to get pretty damn close. 

If you are going to lower the resolution to qHD, what's the point of even comparing it to the PS3/360? qHD looks bland compared to 720p/1080p on mobile devices. 

And there's absolutely no chance in hell Nintendo uses a brand-new, modern chip for their game console. What you are seeing now is probably the most Nintendo will spend. They won't be using Kepler K3 GPUs or Snapdragon 1000 CPUs (or whatever is the 2016 chipset), unless they plan on selling the system at $299+ (at which point it will promptly crash and burn).