| Airaku said: I will laugh my ass off if the NX matches the Neo and Nintendo uses that extra power to push polycount. Sony and Microsoft will likely need to make some "exclusive" games like the N3DS does in order to look as impressive. Not to mention some third parties might want to take advantage of the NX. Sure it can be a port of the other version, but exclusives would undoubtly be higher fidelity. Of course this won't be happening, but it would be funny if it was. Hell, if it was 4.5 teraflops and a better CPU using Polaris or Zen then it would be a beast in comparison to the Scorpio and Neo. The Jaguar is kind of crappy and the 14nm would be cheaper, more powerful, and energy efficient. Imagine Breath of the Wild with significantly better physics and dynamic weather and onscreen objects. Sure, GPUs do most of that now. Granted, and Zen and Polaris might be "out there" if the Nvidia Pascal rumors are true, which I doubt. If Nvidia is providing Nintendo with GPU's. They likely will be giving them good GPU's at a massive discount. With their optimization being a little crappy on PC right now. This would give them the much needed boost with developers so games will once again run better on Nvidia GPU's. |
I would get your expectations in check. First of all, I think the console makers are sticking with AMD. They offer better GPUs for the price and haven't screwed over any of the Big 3 like nVidia has.
2nd, Nintendo has already said they aren't trying to compete in specs. And really they can't if they are trying to push a fusion console by including a handheld/controller in every box. I wouldn't expect anything over 2 Tflops, personally. And if rumors are true, it'll be closer to 1.5 Tflops.
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I definitely believe Sony would have upped the clock to push their GPU to 5.5 Tflops, since it was rumored the 4.1 Tflops was only due to them underclocking it. However, there is NO WAY they are pushing a $599 price. That would kill the Neo right away. That may be the price MS is going to try and push, but I fully believe the max Sony is going to go is $449-499.
