Nintendo NX very likely will have AMD x86 chip, possible 14/16nm

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bowserthedog said:

JEMC said:

bowserthedog said:

JEMC said:
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Now, am I going to say that Nintendo will use those chips? Of course not! There were SoC more powerful than WiiU long before it launched and Nintendo didn't use them back then, so no one can say what Nintendo will do.

But if I had to bet, I'd bet on one of these chips rather than on a Zen+Artic Islands GPU.

I just don't think you can look the wiiu and say what Nintendo did at that time and then suggest this will guide what Nintendo does with NX.  There are a couple of things to keep in mind here.  The first is that what Nintendo did with the Wiiu didn't end up working. So for that reason alone you wouldn't look to the wiiu as guidance for nx predictions. #2 is that the new Nintendo President didn't agree with the Wiiu strategy and has since been promoted to being the president.

To your first point, I agree that this time Nintendo can (and maybe should) do thing differently, but they have never, ever, used new parts or components. Ever since the NES they have used tried and tested components (that also happened to be cheap enough). So yes, while Nintendo could use one of those SoC, it would be very, very surprising if they went with components so new that they could be the first to use.

And to your second point, Kimishima has only been president for a couple of months at most. Most of the design and planning for NX was long done before we became the president and could do anything to change it. And if he has really changed something, that will have delayed the launch of NX.

That's a good point about Kimishima and I understand these plans were in place already.  But I'm more saying that the fact they chose him after opposing the wiiu tells me that he would be the best choice to follow through on a new plan and a new way of doing things and some of the new direction of nx may very well have come from him to begin with.

Maybe his correct criticism about Wii U allowed him to give some hindsight of what happened and why, and that led to him having some influence in how NX was designed. That would, at the same time, put him as the best candidate to take over the steps of Iwata.

Or maybe his influence will only be restricted to the marketing teams and how they will show (and sell) the console(s).

Time will tell.