Pemalite said:
Soundwave said:
- Android apps are in. If you are an Android developer all you have to do is submit your app for approval to Nintendo and enable NX control modes (if needed). Easy, peasy. Nintendo gets a 30% cut of all revenue (same as Apple or Google take on iOS/Android devices).
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Do you have evidence to back that up? Like, straight from the horses mouth?
Or is that your own idea that you are trying to peddle?
Soundwave said:
Straight from Nvidia's latest financial briefing (going on right now) ...
Pascal is twice as energy efficient as Maxwell.
Could be even more than that as I'm not sure that includes the benefits a Tegra would get from a 16nm shrink. |
There is only a marginal difference between 20nm that Tegra X1 was built on and 16nm FinFet.
Pascal being twice as energy efficient is a very dubious claim that we cannot actually substantiate untill Tegra "X2" drops using Pascal.
nVidia may be referencing the improvements it managed to glean from shifting from the Desktop 28nm maxwell to 16nm FinFet Pascal, which AMD also saw similar efficiency gains, rather than gains from the architecture improvements itself. Again. Not representative of Tegra.
Unless you can provide a quote from nVidia's financial briefing that contradicts that?
Soundwave said:
- 1TFLOP custom Tegra N1 processor (16nm FinFET+), automatically downclocks to 400 GFLOPS in battery powered mode. Has a small pool of high speed RAM, 6GB LPDDR4 as main RAM. 1GB runs OS, 5GB for games. |
Such a memory set-up isn't going to happen. And there is a technical (Performance) and cost reason for that.
Also using Flops as some kind of "baseline" for performance is silly, wish people on this forum would stop abusing it.
Do you even understand what kind of Tflop you are even talking about?
Soundwave said:
- Comes with a Home Dock, which is basically just a plastic dock with HDMI connectors, a few USB ports, a HDD bay, and most importantly a fan inside. When docked it actively cools the NX to allow it to run at full power mode (1 TFLOP). |
Proof? Or just repeating past personal ideas?
Soundwave said:
- On the road the idea is for it to be a party machine that people gather around and can play together or a really kick ass top of the line gaming tablet that can play Android games with phyiscal controls, Virtual Console games, and of course "real" console/NX games. |
Don't bet on the OS being opened up allowing for a full compliment of the entire Android ecosystem.
You also have zero idea if the device is going to be "Top of the line". - For one, you don't even know what kind of screen it will have, how much or what type of memory, how fast the storage solution is. etc'.
And Tegra typically does not have the fastest CPU on the market either, Denver 2 will likely not change that much.
The device will be bulkier and heavier thanks to the physical controls. I have a gamepad tablet. It can be cumbersome to use as a regular tablet.
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I was stating MY opinion that if they are designing a hybrid then they should COMMIT fully to the idea, which is to making something that is a true hybrid (as in can function reasonably as a console AND portable device). But that would be my personal approach in designing such a machine, I don't see the point of pursuing this idea if you're just going to half-ass it.
I never said that was what Nintendo would do.
I think this idea has potential, but whether Nintendo chooses to actually create something that takes advantage of said potential is an open question that no one can answer right now except Nintendo themselves.
As always with Nintendo it's a question of what they want, not a question of what is possible. Wii U certainly could have been far more powerful even using 2011/2012 technology, they are the ones that chose a gimped hardware approach.
If the NX hardware sucks then so be it. I won't be happy about it, but I'll move on and play the games, because at the end of the day that's what's important.
