| 97alexk said: As all these NX news, should maybe taken lightly, but one Dev who got an NX dev kit thinks the NX has a Corei7 Skylake, watch the link to get more info :) NOTE: Don't keep your expecations too high for an all powerful console. I will believe when i see it |
No that isn't what was said, it was this:
"One software demo included with the kit crunches so many polygons that it’s currently impossible to run at 60fps using a current-generation Intel (we’re assuming a Core i7 Skylake) CPU and a nearly top-of-the-line graphics card…"
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Someone is assuming that the polygon pushing performance of that software demo was beyond a Skylake i7 and a GPU that s nearly top of the line, bare in mind this is the Dev Kit, not the actual console. Also I've read that the Dev Kit is software based (http://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-begins-distributing-software-kit-for-new-nx-platform-1444996588), not a physical hardware one, so developers are using their own hardware and running the Nintendo NX's software dev kit on that, which probably means it's Nintendo's testing ground for what's possible with their development tools that they have written right now, all experimentation until they settle on exactly what the specs for the platform will end up being.
An I7 6700k costs around $370, a GTX 980 is about $500, so we're talking almost $900 for the GPU and CPU alone, well over a grand for the final build and with more power consumption than PS3 or 360 when they were released years ago.
Even half that level of performance and taking into consideration that Nintendo wouldn't pay that much for parts NX would cost well over PS4's launch price, most likely in the ballpark of $500.
AMD have been linked to making another console's SOC, which is most likely Nintendo's NX.
Ultimately this article doesn't really tell people anything about NX's level of performance, the only thing this shows us is that Nintendo are playing around with tools for the new platform and seeing what developers can do with this level of hardware developers already had in their hands.
NX won't be even remotely close to an I7 or a high end Nvidia graphics card or even a high end AMD one.
Even if Nintendo were shooting for a higher end machine than the competition to be seen as competition for Sony and Microsoft again, they still wouldn't want to release a machine that costs a fortune to buy, nor would they want to have a platform the size of a tower PC. I doubt Nintendo would be interested in a system even as big as PS4, maybe 2/3rds of that in size, whatever that TDP allows in performance, within a reasonably priced package to keep Nintendo's tech accessible to a wide range of gamers.
