Leaker (Rumor): NX Is Modular, Upgradable, Uses Tegra X1 Successor

[Pemalite]

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

Nintendo needs to keep their tech "SIMPLE". - Being modular flies in the face of that.

They aren't targeting high-end enthusiast gamers here who know what a RAM is... Keep it simple. Make it fast. Let the games shine and all at a fantastic price and they are onto a winner.

Enough with the gimmicks which really add nothing to the experience.

I don't wan't Nintendo to use Tegra... At all. Even it's successor. Yuck.

I don't understand your disgust for Tegra when it's practically the perfect use case for Nintendo since their very power consumption limited in small form factor scenarios and Nvidia has a good recent engineering trackrecord for pushing high perf/watt efficiency ...

AMD hardly even competes in ultra low powered devices and heck, ARM (these guys also design GPUs too) or Qualcomm would make far more sense than AMD ... 

x86 doesn't make much sense either when it's got a noticeable instruction decoder logic overhead that sucks up quite a bit of juice and I know AMD has an ARM license but I doubt the end results will be even as good as the dedicated ARM microarchitecture designers are like those from ARM, Apple, or Qualcomm ...

It's not that I don't like Tegra. It's that I don't want Tegra in a console. :P
We already had Tegra with the Ouya.

If Nintendo goes Tegra, then chances are they will miss out on allot of ports and that will turn me off completely from Nintendo's next console.
The Wii U has proven that tons of exclusives do not always shift hardware.

Still, if they can pull it off, all the power to Nintendo... But there is a reason why I haven't owned a Nintendo console in multiple generations.

With that said... ARM is preferable over PowerPC from a support standpoint, Android has pretty mature API's and hardware support these days, all things considered and has a massive casual-based audience with games to suit.