Werix357 on 12 August 2016
| Soundwave said: Pros/cons have been state above but I'll just list the biggest con - Who's going to buy a Nintendo "brother" console to a portable? The DS, 3DS, and GBA all outsold their console counterparts but huge margins, now imagine the DS/3DS/GBA were all powerful enough to actually handle Wii/Wii U/GCN ports in their day reasonably well and could play all the same games. The console sales would be even lower. Even if the console has "better graphics", that's about the only thing it'll have. IMO a Nintendo "console" in this setup would sell about Wii U levels. My personal feeling is Nintendo needs to may hay with this portable console setup, it's unique, BUT they need to still give it enough power to credibly be a console. To that end, I think they should put a very, very high end mobile chip into the chasis. Mobile chips, even the highest end ones are tiny anyway, so that's not an issue. I'm talking a chip that's like 800 GFLOP-1 TFLOP+. PowerVR already has one called the GT7900 which they were hoping to find a vendor for in a "cheap" micro-console. Nvidia has the Tegra line. The problem with this stuff is its wonderful technology, but no one really needs that much power from a mobile chip, so no one uses this tech. But that's why Nintendo will be able to score this type of chip for cheap because they have great bargaining position. Now of course that chip can't run at full tilt in battery/portable mode, so it downclocks/shuts down cores automatically when it senses it is in "battery mode". The system will ship with a "base unit/home dock" which basically just houses a fan (and maybe a bay for a HDD). In "docked mode" the base unit/dock doesn't actually give the NX any extra power, it just provides active cooling for the NX unit so it can now unlock all its cores and run at full speed for TV play. So voila. 350-400 GFLOP for "portable" mode, 800 GF-1 TFLOP for "home mode". One device. Simple. |
Yesah i think you hit the nail on head there.
