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bunchanumbers on 24 May 2015
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curl-6 said:
bunchanumbers said:
curl-6 said:

But NX could also have a different power balance, like Wii U; more capable overall, but less in certain areas.

NX might have more RAM and a better CPU, but slightly less GPU compute units. Or a better GPU/CPU but less RAM.

Unless you mean it's significantly more powerful in every single area. That I personally don't see happening.

The only thing that I could see NX lacking would be RAM. Nintendo historically has had low ram in their systems. Otherwise spec wise, both of the twins should be easily within the reach of NX.

I don't expect NX to have a GPU that's better than the one in the PS4.

Nintendo tend to fall short of the strongest part of its last gen competitor, even if it's more capable overall; Wii U has a weaker CPU than PS3/360, Wii had a less flexible GPU than the original Xbox, 3DS has a lower resolution than the PSP. Continuing this pattern I expect NX to fall short of PS4 in at least one of its two strongest areas; GPU and RAM.

Oddly enough I'm thinking that the gpu will be its biggest strength, unless they find a way to include HBM in NX. This is assuming that AMD is the chip maker and that they are going with the next gen APU that AMD was talking about. Of course its all speculation, but If NX is what AMD is saying it is, then I think it should be pretty good.