BlueFalcon said:
Where are you getting 15X faster than the Vita estimate? I am going to put it bluntly -> Even if Apple designed a CPU/GPU 100X faster than PS4/XB1's or what Intel/AMD can do on the desktop for PC gaming, it means squat because without a proper eco-system, 1st party support and anyone interested in any serious gaming on an Apple device, it's all marketing gimmick. I never once picked up my iPad and iPhone thinking OMG I want to engage in 2-3 hours of serious gaming. Those devices are good for little kids of casual adult gamers, that's it. As far as the NX goes, it's too hard to say what it will have but the key to the NX is not horsepower but 3rd party support and unique gaming experiences. Either way, the graphics performance of the worst 2015 AMD GPU is so far ahead of A9/A9X, Apple isn't even on the map. GTX750Ti currently retails for $100 (which means this entire package can probably be purchased directly for $50-60 maximum!): If the NX can't even match the horsepower of XB1/PS4 graphically, Nintendo are really clueless about hardware design and they will get steamrolled as their NX console will end up as a stop-gap between PS4/XB1 and PS5/XB2. Also, to prove my point, NV Shield TV had a major market lead over anything with its Kepler graphics but no one gives a damn. That thing barely sells. Fact is, gaming is a lot more than simply raw horsepower. This should be obvious by now since if horsepower was the ONLY thing that mattered, consoles would never even exist and we'd all be gaming solely on PCs. |
A Vita is the same chip as the Apple A5X, which was 32 GFLOPS. The A9X is 450+ GFLOPS supposedly. It's probably even more powerful than that due to modern architectural changes. It also crushes the Vita for memory bandwidth.
I'm talking about a portable device here too. The home brother companion or whatever can have a much higher roof due to not being restricted to 7-9 watts max.
A portable that could run XB1 graphics and then seamlessly continue the game at home on the console/dock/whatever on the TV is an interesting hardware concept.
I don't really have any delusions of grandeur of Nintendo becoming a third party powerhouse, but in this scenario I think they would at minimum get *a lot* of Japanese support, not just the OK support the 3DS gets, but there's a lot of Japanese games I think that would be on Nintendo portable if it actually had the horsepower to run said games -- talking about the Kingdom Hearts IIIs, Final Fantasy VII Remakes, Metal Gear Solid Vs, Resident Evil 7s of the world.
Maybe that's why Square-Enix has commited to Dragon Quest XI on NX, because that's what the hardware concept is. It seems like with modern tech it would be possible.
