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Soundwave on 17 June 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

I doubt NX will even be able to run PS4 games in 1080P. Probably more like souped up Wii U tier games will run in 1080P with added effects. PS4/XB1 ports probably at 720p, I don't think Nintendo really cares about that. 

Take the new Zelda, double the pixels (that takes you from 720p-1080p), bump the frame rate to a rock solid 30 fps at least (the current build has some drops), add some higher resolution textures, more detailed foliage thanks to an added poly count, better lighting/shader effects ... and that's probably NX. 

Which wouldn't be *that* bad honestly. If you let the whole "Nintendo must be the market leader and have third parties!" dream die, that would be pretty good. 

I expecting power somewhere between XB1 and PS4, in best case little above PS4 power.

That is enough for 1080p/60fps for Nintendo games, and at least 900p for 3rd party games. I relly dont see NX will be less poferfule than XB1 in any case and we know XB1 have some 720p and some 1080p games, but most of XB1 games are 900p.

I also think Nintendo will care this time about 3rd party, I dont think they will again want to have worst looking and worst running 3rd party games, they know they need 3rd party.

I'm expecting 1 TFLOP + 4GB RAM for the console @ 20 watts power consumption, which then means the portable can be scaled to 250 GFLOPS @ 5 watts (1/4th exactly). That wouldn't be so bad. 

Though part of me is saying it will be even lower than that, which stings. I really, really hope they don't go fucking totally bat shit crazy and do the Wii again by just upclocking the Wii U chip very moderately. 

You never know with Nintendo.