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Soundwave on 29 September 2015
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Miyamotoo said:
TheWPCTraveler said:

Potential problems:

- Multitasking support. 2GB RAM means 1GB available to devs, a la Wii U. Increase it by one gigabyte further and then we'll talk.

- Physical controls. That'll not only make the bezels truly massive, that'll also limit space available.

- Processor: Let me guess, that's from MediaTek? Listen, I doubt that it actually runs at that speed for battery life, and I also doubt it's not one of those big.LITTLE processors where there are four cores that run fast and four cores that run slow for battery life optimization. And, well, GPU? CPU is only one part of the chipset.

Even if all eight cores ran at the same time, I doubt that devs will really he able to optimize for the hardware. That and HEAT PROBLEMS.

- Margins: Xiaomi makes cash off a hardware ecosystem, accessories and such, as far as I know. Nintendo doesn't, as such they'll probably need great margins on their hardware.

-We are talking about gaming handheld here. 3DS has 128MB RAM, Vita 512MB, Wii U 2GB RAM. 2GB of RAM is more than enough for gaming handheld.

-Offcourse that will have physical controls, I dont see any problem with that.

-Probably runs at that speed if there is need for that speed. I dont think Nintendo will use Octa Core at 2GHz for handheld but point is that's pretty impressive CPU for price of phone.

 

Nintendo always had good profit on hardware itself (till this gen), not to mention consoles accessories. My point is that pretty strong hardwar i available for only $150 so Nintedo could make also solid handheld for similar price. But Nintendo will probably go for 4 cores around 1.5GHz, 2GB Ram, 540-720p display..


Keep in mind that's a phone. Meaning a large chunk of its hardware budget is going to the baseband processor (the "cellular phone" part of the device). 

That's something Nintendo obviously won't need. Likely they don't need a 1080P screen either. Or 13MP cameras. 

I think Nintendo could demolish the hardware specs on that device, but yeah the rate at which mobile components are dropping in price is really something.