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

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JEMC said:

Pavolink said:

JEMC said:

Both Zen and Excavator (the CPU inside the SoC) are x86 (more exactly they are x86-64, as they are 64bit chips like all the chips made in the last +5 years), and both Artic Islands and GCN are also common and as easy to program as you can get.

Another thing that doesn't have to do with the hardware, is if developers will be able to port PS4/X1 games to NX easily, and the answer is that it will be as easy or as hard as the publishers want (they always find new and surprising reasons to not develop for Nintendo consoles).

Well, but at least there are less technical issues, like cartridge, minidiscs, no HD (modern), or PowerPC/underpowered console.

Remember when they said that they weren't developing for Wii because they had to find a way to use the Wiimote? Or how they said that they weren't developing for Wii U because they wanted to find ways to use the Gamepad capacities and screen? I don't need much imagination to guess what they will say once the NX is/are revealed when they are asked if they will develop for it/them.

This is a personal opinion, but I believe that third parties will only develop for NX if it is more powerful than PS4/X1. Powerful enough to run unoptimized code from either the PS4 or X1 versions of their game.

I have to ask, would third parties support nintendo if the NX was ultra powerful?

Would Nintendo games really need that much power ?

The whole notion that NX has to be much stronger or even a little stronger than PS4/X1 is just so stupid. Consumers cannot tell or even care about the power between the X1 and PS4. Let me ask this. If its stronger or even as strong what are the games going to look like? Like PC? Thats not a really big jump, theres nothing they can really do in the power area other than at least match PS4/X1. Thats all they have to do.