SWITCH Rumor Round-up

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JustBeingReal said:
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The console business isn't going to hinder the PC market for graphics cards, CPUs or SOCs/APUs that AMD will sell themselves, because the two audiences are not in competition with each other. Console and Handheld gamers aren't PC customers really, they're their own thing and by targeting the dedicated gaming console/handheld business AMD increases their own sales. It actually makes perfect sense to provide products for this area of the market.

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This is all speculation anyway right now, I was just bringing one of the rumors to the thread and explaining how it could work in reality.

Maybe I haven't explained it as well as I could (I'm having a headache so bear with me).

What I meant with "hinder their PC business for Nintendo" wasn't that NX and PC would compete in the market, but that shifting their limited 14nm production to satisfy Nintendo's needs instead of focusing on their own desktop and laptop parts would give them less money... and they aren't in a situation where they can afford that.

But I agree that it's all speculation from our side. That's the "fun" side of not knowing what's going on .

Personally, and leaving the CPU aside because I don't even know if they'll go with x86 or ARM (or keep with PowerPC), I'd be very, very surprised if Nintendo goes with something newer/better than Tonga, the chip inside R9 285/R9 380. Maybe, just maybe, they'll go with the XT version of the 380X, but I doubt it.