Nvidia's Shield Console -- A Hint At Nintendo's Fusion Future?

[Soundwave]

zorg1000 said:

Soundwave said:

Here are some graphic demos of the New Shield in motion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0Q06q4V6A

Borderlands prequel, Crysis 3, Doom 3, and an impressive looking Talos Principal.

Keep in mind this is a MOBILE chip running in a $200 consumer kit sold at a hefty profit.

Yeah I think Wii U ports are going to be doable with mobile tech ... who knows maybe even some PS4 downscaled versions might even be possible.

Look at how tiny the chip is as well:

You could easily take tech like this and put three of these into a very small box and get really impressive performance. 

So do u think Nintendo's next devices will use AMD "Skybridge"? I'm no tech expert but from what I understand, it will share both an ARM & x86 architecture on a single motherboard. If that's the case, wouldn't it be really easy for such devices to recieve mobile ports along with console ports assuming that Nintendo's next devices are able to support the popular engines like Unity/Unreal 4? That alone would likely help out alot with 3rd party support on top of the stronger 1st party output Nintendo will have with a unified approach.

I don't think they will use x86 at all. But these demos show that Unreal 4 runs fine on the Tegra X1 with just ARM cores. ARM is super common these days, cheap, power efficient, and Nintendo already uses them, so they just make sense. 

I think if Nintendo goes with a little more power it will be more to get Square-Enix to give them a version of Dragon Quest XI actually. If DQ is going to PS4 they probably want Fusion to be powerful enough that it can also run DQXI (I think the series will go multiplat like Final Fantasy has). 

Beyond that though I don't think Nintendo will put too much thought into what Western devs want (for better or worse). I think their play with Fusion is that they can support it mostly on their own if need be, but they will still want (even need) to dominate in Japan.