Materia-Blade said:
"Even if it is a handheld by 2016, mobile tech will have caught up to the Wii U making a NX version of this Zelda game more than possible." NO. "The Apple A9 processor that's probably coming at the end of this year will probably exceed the PS3/360 level consoles. " That means it would be expensive as hell and still quite bellow wii u, wich further proves the above "NO" |
Actually no, it doesn't mean it's "expensive as hell".
The Tegra X1 (a mobile chip) is releasing next month in a $199.99 console with 3GB RAM, and that's basically a Wii U level performer in a mobile form factor.
And that's a device sold at a fat profit margin too, Nvidia does not sell anything at a loss (this is partly why they are locked out console contracts, they're not willing to sell their GPUs to MS/Sony/Nintendo as cheaply as AMD does).
So we're already approaching this level of tech in consumer products today, by late 2016 (say 18 months from now), 300-500 GFLOPS performance from a mobile chip will be the norm and certainly not out of Nintendo's reach.
