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shikamaru317 said:
HyrulianScrolls said:
How could the console be much or any more powerful than Wii U and how could it be an effective handheld from a battery standpoint? If they have some true genius masterminds that can figure those two things out, then fine I guess. But I don't see a fusion console that doesn't sacrifice power on the console side and durability on the portable side being a reality. Both the console and portable aspects take hits. It's like combining both to make both inferior products. I think it would be a huge fail, and this time they wouldn't have a successful portable market to fall back on like the 3DS.

I'm thinking a custom AMD Carrizo-L (low power) based APU for the handheld and a custom AMD Carrizo based APU for the console. I could be wrong here, but I'm thinking they'd be able to get between 200-300 gflops (360/PS3 equivalent) for $200-250 with a 4 hour battery life (while gaming) for the handheld and 900-1000 gflops for $250-300 for the console. That's assuming a launch between Q4 2016 and Q2 2017. The Carrizo APU would allow easy porting between the NX console, PS4, XB1 and PC.

Yup that would be more than doable. 

Apple A9 processor likely launching this fall will probably punch well in excess of 250 GFLOPS too. The A10 (iPhone 7 in 2016?) will probably be well over 350 GFLOPS.