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[Soundwave]

Einsam_Delphin said:

Soundwave said:

It doesn't really have to fit in your pocket. It could be a new type of hardware form factor, people have no problem taking tablets everywhere with them anyway.

I don't think it would be $400 either, people underestimate how powerful new mobile chips are and how cheap they are. The top of the line Apple A9X in the iPad Pro which pumps out like 500 GFLOPS costs about $40 to mass produce/unit. If Nintendo is using a cheaper-ish screen (1280x720 resolution say), they could easy get a monstrously powerful "portable console". 

 

Eh I guess so on the portability thing, but as for cost, why didn't the XB1/PS4 use those chips then? There must be more to it than that.

The types of chips available today simply weren't available 3-4 years ago, 14nm/16nm manufacturing process wasn't even possible back then. 

The massive competetion in the mobile phone/tablet business has also lead to a rapid acceleration in the quality of mobile chips.