Darwinianevolution said:
Well, people said that about the Wii motion controlls as well. With the moble technology evolving as fast as it does, we could really be surprised with the power of the next handheld. |
Mobile performance still has to respect the laws of physics and some basic computing rules like Moore's Law. The best mobile tech in 2015 is Tegra X1 and even that's a stretch because it's only available in a micro console and not in a tablet. It isn't on par with PS360 yet, but fairly close. The most powerful SoC used on a tablet is Tegra K1. It is less powerfull than X1. They have beefy GPUs but lack memory bandwidth and specially CPU power.
From Moore's Law, we would need 2/1.5 years to double the processing power, with the memory bandwidth increasing slowly because there is the memory wall. With consoles consumption around 150W and mobile limited to 10W we have a 15X difference that puts a 6-8 years gap in power between these devices, aligned with the comparisons between Tegra X1 and the 8 year old tech on PS360. Wii U uses a 2009 GPU with some custom improvements so we could consider it a 2010 level GPU. That means that they will probably have a tablet ready SoC that's similar in power only in 2018.
